Neha loved the hymns that filled her church with music but lost the chance to sing last year when, at the age of 14, she was forcibly converted from Christianity to Islam and married to a 45-year-old man with children twice her age.
AP News She tells her story in a voice so low it occasionally fades away. She all but disappears as she wraps a blue scarf tightly around her face and head. Neha’s husband is in jail now facing charges of rape for the underage marriage, but she is in hiding, afraid after security guards confiscated a pistol from his brother in court.
“He brought the gun to shoot me,” said Neha, whose last name The Associated Press is not using for her safety.
Neha is one of nearly 1,000 girls mainly from Christian and Hindu minorities who are forced to convert to Islam in Pakistan each year, largely to pave the way for marriages that are under the legal age and non-consensual. Human rights activists say the practice has accelerated during lockdowns against the coronavirus, when girls are out of school and more visible, bride traffickers are more active on the Internet and families are more in debt.
The girls generally are kidnapped by complicit acquaintances and relatives or men looking for brides. Sometimes they are taken by powerful landlords as payment for outstanding debts by their farmhand parents, and police often look the other way. Once converted, the girls are quickly married off, often to older men or to their abductors, according to the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
Forced conversions thrive unchecked on a money-making web that involves Islamic clerics who solemnize the marriages, magistrates who legalize the unions and corrupt local police who aid the culprits by refusing to investigate or sabotaging investigations, say child protection activists.
One activist, Jibran Nasir, called the network a “mafia” that preys on non-Muslim girls because they are the most vulnerable and the easiest targets “for older men with pedophilia urges.”
The goal is to secure virginal brides rather than to seek new converts to Islam. Minorities make up just 3.6 percent of Pakistan’s 220 million people and often are the target of discrimination. Those who report forced conversions, for example, can be targeted with charges of blasphemy.
Az gal says
The Muslum vermin can only get a wife by force. Impossible to get a girlfriend in these regions. Imagine being forced to wed a smelly Koranderthal. Death would be better.
Linda Rivera says
Nothing is more evil than Rapes, GANG RAPES and SEX SLAVERY.
Islam was started by Pedophile, Robber, BEHEADER, MASS MURDERER, SERIAL RAPIST, TORTURER, SEX SLAVER of non Muslims, Barbarian warlord Mohammad.
Excessively cruel Mohammad is highly revered by Muslims as the perfect man and role model to be emulated.
God help our precious little Christian sisters in Pakistan.
And God help our Christian, Hindu and Sikh little sisters in Britain.
Over many decades Britain’s evil governments one after another, have allowed the Muslims they wickedly heavily colonized tiny Britain with, to GANG RAPE, TORTURE and Force into Prostitution and SEX SLAVERY, one million very young non Muslim girls.
Pakistani Muslim Sex Slaver gangs are highly organized. They operate all over Britain.
Where can the sex slave child victims and their families go to escape from the extreme suffering and severe persecution perpetrated on them by Muslims?
SATANIST UK authorities don’t give the sex slave child victims a single penny to escape.
Muslims occupy many powerful positions in local and national government. Muslims also help to formulate Britain’s national and foreign policy.
BRITAIN has been transformed into a NATION OF CHILD SEX SLAVES
At least one child sex slave was branded, PROPERTY of MOHAMMAD
Some of the sex slave child victims unable to bear the pain any longer, committed suicide. Some were horribly murdered.
The screams of AGONY of the Sex Slave Child Victims PIERCE the Heavens. The Earth is SOAKED with their BLOOD and TEARS.
Bible, Psalm 56:8
Put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not in Your book?
Hartmut says
As if this isn’t already bad enough such practice is getting a stronghold in Europa as well, supported by Sharia-compliant judges who entirely abandon legal regulations in favor of such satanic practice.