Kidnap Hindu Girl, Force Marriage to Muslim: Pakistan
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: January 1, 2006
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Force Marriage to Muslim: Pakistan
Sanao Menghwar has had
three of his daughters kidnapped, then forced to marry Muslim men. That means
that the young women were coerced into becoming Islamics.
This happens
daily, particularly in the Pakistani Sindh province, according to Hasan Mansoor,
reporter, Midday.com.
Other Hindus in the province worry when their
daughters will disappear. Therefore, there are entire Hindu families leaving
Pakistan for Canada, India or other nations.Menghewar and his wife left their
house on errands. When they returned to their residence, their daughters were
missing. They reported the missing young women to the police department, filing
the necessary papers. Neighbors helped them on a search party to locate the
daughters, but to no avail.
Menghwar’s daughters have yet to be found.
However, authorities have arrested three Islamic young men assumed to be
connected with the girls’ kidnapping. The men have been released on bail by a
court due to the men being minors.
“’Kidnapping Hindu girls like this has
become a normal practice. The girls are then forced to sign stamp papers stating
that they’ve become Muslims,’ says Laljee Menghwar, a member of the Hindu
Panchayat in Karachi.”
Because of Muslim threats, Hindus have had to turn
to what those in the Netherlands are resorting to. Both areas have been under
extreme pressure from maiming and killing Islamics so that the local citizens
have put into action what one person refers to as
“self-censorship.”
There is no talk. There is no public utterance. There
is nothing said negatively about the Muslims in the area for fear of being
slain.
So it is that Islamic killers international could overtake country
after country, area after area. Instill such fear in the people that no one
speaks the facts concerning local Islamics kidnapping and killing; therefore,
they have open skies to do just that — more so.
“’Hindus here are too
frightened to vent their anger — they fear victimization,’ said one
local.”
Nevertheless, Pakistani Christian community members have come to
their aid. The Christians have organized support for the Hindus persecuted by
Muslims. The Christians have “carried out a demonstration with them in Karachi,
protesting against this crime.
“Similarly startling incidents have
occurred in several districts of Sindh and evoked identical responses. At least
six Hindu girls met this fate a few months ago in Jacobabad (a tribal area
heavily inhabited by Hindus) and Larkana districts.
“Sapna, the daughter
of one Seth Giyanchand, was recently taken to a shrine (Amrote in Shikarpur
district) by Shamsuddin Dasti. Dasti, a Muslim friend of Sapna’s brother, is a
married man and father of two.
“Nevertheless, the custodian of the
shrine, Maulvi Abdul Aziz lost no time in converting Sapna to Islam (her name
was changed to ‘Mehek’) and marrying her to Dasti. The case came to light only
when Sapna’s parents stated that their daughter hadn’t eloped but had been
abducted.”
Islamic fanaticism is increasing alarmingly, according to
Nuzzhat Shirin of the Aurat Foundation. The fanatics erect shrines that are used
in coercing “conversions.” When a Hindu is forced to become a Muslim, zealot
Islamics gather at the shrines, chanting and singing and marching in the
streets.
Such a ruckus is made that if the young kidnapped girl appears
in court, the fanatic Muslims yell, scream, throw rose petals into the air and
follow the youth into the building so that she is so intimidated that she can
hardly speak.
It is Muslim winning by intimidation. It is Muslim
overcoming a culture by threatening. It is by Islamics abducting young girls
that an entire community is snuffed out by moving away or succumbing to the
Muslim murderers global.
“The threat of victimization by Muslims is
palpable; Shirin says when forced conversion cases make it to court, lawyers
themselves avoid taking them up, fearing a backlash from maulvis.”
It is
the same with so-called “honor killing.” When Muslim males slay a Hindu female
whom they have accused of dishonoring the clan in some way, usually police and
media say nothing, looking the other way. Therefore, the slaughtering of
innocent females continues daily.
“And forced conversions are not the
only problem that the Hindu minority (there are 2.7 million Hindus in Pakistan;
Pakistan’s total population is 140 million) is facing in the country.
“A
powerful syndicate of bandits and patrons in the northern districts of Sindh
regularly kidnap rich Hindus for ransom. They not only kill hostages if the
ransom doesn’t arrive on time, they even kill some despite their ransom being
paid.
“Sadham Chand Chawla, the former president of the Hindu Panchayat,
Jacobabad, was abducted and murdered. His killers remain at large despite
enormous protests. Following his murder, his family had received several threats
until they secretly migrated to India.”
Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant
Swank, Jr.
Pakistan: Forced conversion of Hindu women in Karachi
20/12/2005: This story has grave
implications, not merely as a case of atrocities on ‘religious minorities’ but where an ideology of religious genocide uses such a technique on young ‘unmarried’ women – whether through threat of rape or this kind of imprisonment. (The Daily Pioneer) The details are shocking. The As the local police station refused They had been, according to the affidavits, renamed Ahsan, Anam In the presence of a dour woman, a moulvi and several The unfolding The second is the reminder they provide of the continuing All civilised Governments must pressure Pakistan to have the three Silence and inaction on the ground that it is Pakistan’s internal If such considerations have not _______________________________________________________________________________________________
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