ASIA/PAKISTAN: Christian girls victims of forced conversions to Islam, rapes and forced marriages

And the world says nothing, does nothing; indeed, it encourages this scourge, this pox on humanity.

Will someone protect my daughters… British Pakistani Christian Association

My heart has been torn asunder after reading some devastating news that Christian Girls are being kidnapped, raped and forcibly married by powerful Muslim landlords and gangs.

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Two very revealing stories have described the despicable nature of the acts of debauchery that must have created  great fear and sadness throughout our unprotected communities.

One article posted on Agencia Fides a Catholic blog described several extreme incidents:

ASIA/PAKISTAN – Christian girls, victims of forced conversions to Islam, rapes and forced marriages

Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – In Pakistan forced conversions to Islam, rapes and forced marriages are on the rise. The victims are mostly Hindu and Christian girls, belonging to religious minorities, complain Fides local sources. This has been a worrying phenomenon for the Church in Pakistan for some time and that the Church is trying to address, looking for the cooperation of institutions but it is an uphill battle. “The Christian girls are the weakest and most vulnerable, because their communities are poor, defenceless and marginalized, therefore easily exposed to harassment and threats. Often they do not even have the courage to denounce the violence,” says a sister to Fides. The sister hides and assists the girls who have managed to escape. “But the trend is worrying: There are hundreds of cases a year registered and those that come to light are only a fraction,” she says. In a society that tolerates discrimination of religious minorities, especially of women, the dominant religion and related social position are used to impose tyranny.

A report sent to Fides by the Centre for Legal Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS), which takes care of legal assistance for Christians who are discriminated against and persecuted in Pakistan, confirms this issue, reporting some terrible cases that occur mainly in province of Punjab.

Sidra Bibi, 14 year old Christian in the district of Sheikhupura in Punjab, is the daughter of a worker in the cotton industry. A Muslim from the village had his eye on her and began to molest her, and eventually abducted and raped her before threatening her with death. Physically and psychologically abused, the girl became pregnant. She managed to escape from her tormentor and is now back, in a state of exhaustion, with her family. Police have refused to accept her complaint and now the CLAAS lawyers are handling the case.
Tina Barkat, 28 year old Christian, was approached by a Muslim friend who, after being friends with her for several months, asked her to convert to Islam. Her family began to read her verses of the Koran, kidnapped and threatened her, and then gave her in marriage to a Muslim family member. The lawyers have a current action to dissolve the marriage.
The same fate has befallen Samina Ayub, Christian, aged 17, who lives with her family near Lahore. Kidnapped by a Muslim, she was forcibly converted to Islam, and renamed Fatima Bibi and was forced to marry in the Muslim rite. Her family reported the abduction but police have not prosecuted those responsible. The case remains unsolved and the family calls for the mobilisation of civil society to save Samina.
Shazia Bibi, a 19 year old Christian from Gujranwala, in Punjab, worked as a maid in the house of a Muslim woman, the owner of a grocery store. The Muslim boy from the shop was in love with Shazia. In agreement with the owner, they held a conversion and forced her into marriage. The plan was successful but now, thanks to Shazia's family the case has ended up in court.
Also, two other Christian girls, Uzma Bibi, 15 years old, from Gulberg, and Saira Bibi, 20, a nurse from Lahore, were taken by force by Muslim neighbours, converted to Islam and then forced to marry in the Islamic rite. The families of the girls, shocked, have reclaimed their daughters and the cases are currently before the High Court of Lahore, represented by lawyers provided by CLAAS. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 13/4/2011)

Watson Gill described another ordeal in which two girls were abducted from a place called Jhang.

Watson Gill (Amsterdam)

Any hope for the return home of the two Christian girls kidnapped by a group of Muslims? .two Christian sisters Rubecca Masih and Saima Masih kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam. both sisters was on way to home when vehicle occupied by Muhammad Waseem and his five friends pulled them up grabbing them and threw them in and sped off. Muhammad Waseem marry with Saima Masih the day after her kidnaping. This kidnapping took place in Jhang .Most Muslims are redical in this area. For Islam, if woman marries a Muslim, she embraces the religious faith of her husband as a direct consequence.

In Pakistan forced conversions to Islam, rapes and forced marriages are on the rise. The victims are mostly Hindu and Christian girls, belonging to religious minorities

I myself am the father of three daughters one is 7 years old, the next is 3 and our youngest is only 9 months. Stories of child abduction and rape in the UK have made Juliet and I very cautious parents. We drive our children to school and we know it has a safe environment at all other times we are with them and keep them close. I thank God for the safety we have her in the UK, moments like these create a sincere and strong focus on the privileged life we have in this country.

However, imagine the situation Christians face in Pakistan! Schools are a magnet for the kidnappers, the sexually depraved and religious extremists bent of the conversion of innocent children. If a kidnap takes place a corrupt Police force provides no assistance and may often be involved in the illicit activity? Even when the kidnapper is known the abductor has significant enough influence and power to subvert justice (think of Shazia Bashir RIP).

Can you imagine being the father of a daughter subjected to such violence and immorality and being unable to stop it happening? Only recently women were bared naked in Public while their husbands and other men in their family were beaten before them:

Women beaten and made publicly nude while their men were beaten with sticks

These incidents continue despite the international attention on Pakistan and sometimes working for the BPCA can seem a futile process. But if we and other humanitarian groups go silent then what hope will remain for the weak and helpless Christians and other minorities of Pakistan.

We ask you to pray for groups for global humanitarian causes, especially protection for the workers who are subjected to threat and bullying as a consequence of their employment. May God keep them safe and strengthen their resolve we need them.

We also call for you prayer focusing on the persecuted church globally, atrocities like these create low morale, great depression and severe anxiety. Pray for peace, justice and hope to be introduced to all beleaguered people.

UPDATE: D'oh: Pakistan's government is failing to protect the country's religious minorities, a new report says.

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Bohemond1096

12 years ago

Why is any of this surprising? Look at the country’s full name – THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN. The name “Pakistan” itself is derived from an acronym of the areas of that country, of which “Pak” means “LAND OF THE PURE” in Urdu and Persian/Iranian. THEY ARE A PURELY ISLAMIC COUNTRY. Despite what they may say to the West, they will never see themselves as anything less than “pure” islamists.

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ivan the yid from bradford

12 years ago

Quote ‘We drive our children to school and we know it has a safe environment at all other times we are with them and keep them close. I thank God for the safety we have her in the UK, moments like these create a sincere and strong focus on the privileged life we have in this country.’
What part of the UK do you live in and what a wonderfull school you have found for your children ? Is it a state school or independent ? I have written on this web-blog dozens of times before about the grooming of white girls at school gates in Bradford & Keighley and the failures of the authorities to act. It is not just me, the former Old Labour MP for Keighley, A Cryer, reported the same facts. Cryer was deselected by Labour under local Muslim pressure and replaced with a candidate who wasn’t even from West Yorks ! The Tories won the seat last year. Their candidate, Kris Hopkins, curried favour with the Pakis to get their vote. He is chairman of Open Madrassa Network, a pressure group to get state funding for Islamic Faith schools. He was even joint co-chairman of a parliamentary all party group researching ‘Islamophobia’ but resigned the position when he found the group providing secretarial/research services for the group was an Islamic extremist front !!
Under UK school rules you have to get school permission to take a child out of school during term time. If you take a child out of school (even with permission) for more than a certain period of time (think it is six weeks) the child is ‘truant’, the parent can be prosecuted and they have to re-apply for their school place. Girls in Bradford/Kly regularly disappear to Pakistan for 3-6 months. Reasons include : ‘They were getting too Westernized’, ‘They were speaking English at home’ ‘They are getting ready for marriage’. Bradford education denies there are long term absentees among the teenage school kids and there have been no prosecutions of Muslims families. White households have been prosecuted for taking their kids out of school for a week without permission.
Finally a non Islamic example to show how bad the police are getting. A woman in Braintree Essex had problems with her violent ex-partner and father of one of her children. She had a court order barring him from approaching her but he continued to harass her. She reported him on numerous occasions to the police, including breach of the court order, and he was also reported by her neighbours. No action was taken – police said ‘was cann’t do anything unless he harms you ‘! She was due in court to apply for custody of her child but the night before he shot her and her daughter. The TV cameras at the scene even show neighbours shouting abuse at the police about their failure to do their duty. To verify view :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8560538/Essex-shooting-father-had-been-on-polices-radar-for-two-years.html

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Mathilda

12 years ago

The police know the pakis won’t be shy of rioting if they don’t get their way in everything. Also, interfering in ‘minority’ behaviour leaves them open to whiny liberals calling them racist.

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Walter Sieruk

12 years ago

“As long as men read and believe the Quran, women will be a despised, second class citizens.”
Robert Spencer THE POLITCALLY INCORRECT GUID TO ISLAM p. 77.

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Walter Sieruk

12 years ago

Islam is a religion of misogyny. For example, in the book by Ayaan Hirsi ali INFIDEL on page 296 it reads “Every society that is still in grip of Islam oppresses women and also lags behind in devlopment…Societies that respect the rights of women and their freedom are wealthy and peaceful.”

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Mac-101

12 years ago

Can their be any doubt that those liberals, who support the Muslims and their disgustin Mohammad approved actions in conjunction with the Commies, Socialist, Women Libbers, Gay groups are not just different divisions of Satins Army!

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Xavier823

12 years ago

The silence coming from the major Christian religious leaders and churches is deafening. That Christian men are not violently protecting Christian women is disgraceful.

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Jim Baxter

12 years ago

The Only GOD does not force anyone to do His will.
It is a choice for each of Earth’s Choicemakers.
Sharia was designed for the toilet.
Flush.

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Zilla

12 years ago

I’m sorry I missed this post, I’ve had some stuff going on at home and have been distracted. Today I blogged about the two sisters who were abducted for forced conversion and marriage n Pakistan, their father was told by the police to “forget his daughters”. Details here:
http://zillablog.marezilla.com/2011/06/forget-your-daughters.html

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