The victim has little hope of legal recourse, for the authorities are largely sympathetic to the perpetrators, as they hold the same religion and world view.
“Abducted Young Mother in Pakistan Refuses Forced Conversion,” Morning Star News, June 13, 2024:
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A young Catholic mother’s eyes welled up with tears and her hands shook as she recalled how a Muslim in Pakistan kidnapped her and tried to force her to convert to Islam and marry him.
A 20-year-old mother of a 3-year-old girl and an 18-month old boy in Okara District, Punjab Province, [First name withheld for security reasons] Masih was abducted from her father’s home in Chak No. 11/4L village on April 17 by five Muslims – Ali Raza, Muhammad Irshaad, Riaz Ahmed, Muhammad Imran and one unidentified person, she said.
“I was staying at my father’s house since September after separating from my husband due to some family issues,” Masih told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “On April 17, my parents had gone to visit some relatives in the evening, and I was alone in the house when the accused scaled the wall and abducted me on gunpoint.”
They took her by car to a deserted government school, where Ali Raza raped her while his armed accomplices stood guard, she said.
“Ali Raza lives in the same village, and he had been trying to force me to develop illicit relations with him whenever I used to go out for chores,” she said. “I told my father about this, and he had raised the issue with the village elders. However, our pleas for intervention were ignored, emboldening him further.”
After raping her, Raza took her to Lahore along with his accomplices, where they held her captive in a hotel room for three days, she said.
“During this time, Ali Raza continued to rape me on gunpoint,” she said. “He beat me up when I resisted him and threatened that he would kill my parents if I screamed or called for help.”
The distressed woman said that the accused then took her to his home in Okara where he and his accomplices tried to force her to convert to Islam and marry him by forcibly taking her thumbprint as a signature on a blank paper.
“They wanted me to surrender to their demands so that if there was any legal issue, they could claim that I had eloped with Ali Raza and converted and married him with my will,” she said. “Even though they tortured me to take my thumbprint, I refused to renounce my faith and told them that I will not deny Christ come what may.”…
Barbara says
What a truly brave woman. She may have to go to another country to be safe. I hope her family can find a way to keep her and the children safe.
A non muslim person living in a muslim country is constantly in danger.
Tony Rice says
Do we ever read of Jews, Christians, Sikhs or Hindus doing this to Muslims. Why are the Latter so desperate to rape, murder or convert others, not only in Pakistan but in MANY countries.
Bruce David Watt says
they normally don’t value girl babies so they kill them or abort them but don’t understand that all the boy babies that live will want wives, apparently Hindus and Christians don’t want to fight islamics and are easy targets to convert out of fear,
somehistory says
Her faith in Christ will be rewarded even further than being able to speak about what has happened to her, showing that she did escape the captivity.
She doesn’t say where her children were during this time; perhaps with her husband. Such young ones to be separated from their mommy for days.
I pray she can find a way to escape further, with her children and her husband if he is a decent guy who will take care of her and the children.
The scummy mozlums need to be punished severely for their evil actions. The mozlums in pakistan won’t see to it, but Christ will….in His Time and in His Way.
Mike says
Why hasn’t Pakistan been taken to the ICJ for this kind of predacious porkypaki bullshit? The International Court of Justice seems like a farce overall, so maybe that’s why.
The West and some other countries need to end the gravy train for Pakistan, and to demand accountability from them, regarding how religious and ethnic minorities are treated there.
somehistory says
The gravy won’t end and the accountability won’t happen.
Nabil Bissada says
Muslims always ae doing the same in every country who the Christians are minorities.
The Islamic government in any Muslims country support any Muslim who rape a Christian female in any age
Wise words
“Western countries and the Muslims.
“. Do not blame the snake when you find him in your bed. Blame who opened the cage for the snake.”
abu taleb says
Not only the Islamic governments but also the Islamic communities support the kidnap, rape and force women to Islamize them. Have you ever heard some Islamic community takes action against the perpetrators? I haven;t.