The Christian girl, Farah Shaheen, and her family have no recourse, as police in Pakistan are sympathetic to the perpetrator rather than the victim when the perp is a Muslim and the victim is a Christian. And the world yawns, because this story doesn’t fit the dominant narrative. “Pakistan police drop investigation into Muslim man […]
Pakistan: Muslim kidnaps 12-year old Christian girl, forces her to convert to Islam, and marries her
These “love jihad” incidents are motivated by supremacist assumptions. The idea is that the Muslim community will always grow at the expense of the non-Muslim community. In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, authorities generally share the same assumptions, so the family of Arzoo Masih is unlikely to get justice. Meanwhile, the international “human rights community” […]