The abduction of four Hindu women and girls in Pakistan, including three minors, has once again put the safety of Hindu women in the country under scrutiny and drawn attention to the vulnerability of Pakistan’s Hindu minority, particularly women and girls in Sindh, where rights groups have documented repeated allegations of abduction, forced conversion and […]
Pakistan: Islamic party riots, demands that government ban marches calling for rights for religious minorities
“Islam must dominate, and not be dominated.” — Hasan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood “Officials in Pakistan Attempt to Ban Rights March Organizers,” Morning Star News, August 29, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Sindh Province officials are trying to impose a ban on organizers […]
Pakistan: Muslim kidnaps 15-year-old Christian girl, forces her to convert to Islam and marry him
The idea here and in all similar cases is to enlarge the Muslim community and simultaneously ensure the diminishment of the Christian community. It is an inherently supremacist action. “Girl Kidnapped, Forcibly Converted/Married in Pakistan,” Morning Star News, April 25, 2024: LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A Christian father in Pakistan who […]
Pakistan: Muslim landlord demolishes Hindu houses, temples; burns down entire Hindu village
The Hindu community in Pakistan has been facing the wrath of Islam since the creation of the country in 1947. It appears that every day, for the past 75 years, they have been paying a penalty to the people and the government of the country for being Hindu and deciding to stay in their ancestral […]
Pakistan: 11-year-old Hindu girl abducted at gunpoint, 28-year-old Muslim man forces her to convert to Islam
This is becoming increasingly routine in Pakistan. Minority Hindu and Christian girls are kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam before a forced marriage to the perpetrator. O prophet, indeed, we have made lawful to you your wives to whom you have paid their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses of those whom Allah […]
Pakistan: Three Hindu women married to Muslims who kidnapped them and forcibly converted them to Islam
The Qur’an forbids Muslim men to marry “polytheistic” women: “Do not marry idolatresses until they believe, for indeed, a believing slave woman is better than an idolatress, even though she pleases you. And do not give your daughters in marriage to idolaters until they believe, for indeed, a believing slave is better than an idolater, […]
Pakistan: Muslims attack two Hindu temples in 24 hours
In less than 24 hours, two Hindu temples were attacked and torn down in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. While such barbaric actions are not unheard of in the South Asian countries of Bangladesh and Pakistan, one would imagine that the Pakistanis, shaken with poverty and financial breakdown, would channel their energies towards something productive. […]
Pakistan: Muslim mob beheads Hindu man for protesting to sexual harassment of his daughter
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) “Pakistan: Hindu man beheaded by a Muslim mob in the middle of the night for protesting against the eve-teasing of his daughter,” OpIndia, May 12, 2023: Atrocities against Pakistani Hindus continue as a 50-year-old Hindu man named Amlakh Bheel, belonging to the Bheel tribe was beheaded by […]
Pakistan: Muslims drive Hindus out of their village, deny them water in Tharparkar, Sindh
That Pakistan has never treated its non-Muslim population justly, and often not even as human, let alone as full citizens of the country, is a truth that is globally known, but not officially acknowledged. Hindu girls and women receive treatment worse than cattle in that country; they can be abducted, raped, converted, and forcibly married, […]
Pakistan: Sharia court dismisses plea from Sharia advocates against law that sets minimum age for marriage
“The arguments for or against the law were cited from Islamic literature, not one argument was made citing human rights or other modern progressive ideas.” Child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law. Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) said in January 2018 that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry. “Islam […]