That the
conversion-by-forced-marriage trend is inspired and imported from a global
Islamist agenda, is not in any doubt. According to the Movement for Solidarity
and Peace, a research, education and advocacy group, 700 non-Muslim girls are
converted to Islam each year in Pakistan.
In a recent such
incident, 15-year-old Saima Bibi was abducted by a group of Muslim men, forced to convert to
Islam, and marry one of her kidnappers. The family filed a complaint with
police against her captors, showing her birth certificate confirming she is
beneath the legal age for marriage in the country. The Police, however, insisted that they have
official documents proving the marriage and confirming that Saima has converted
to Islam. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/01/14/pakistani-family-says-teenage-christian-daughter-kidnapped-forced-to-convert-to-islam-and-marry-her-abductor/.
Sardar Mushtaq
Gill, a Christian lawyer and head of Legal Evangelical Association Development,
explains that it is common in cases like this for perpetrators to take a plea
of marriage and conversion to Islam in order to “save themselves from criminal
charges of rape and kidnapping.”
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