GHOST GIRLS: 1,000 Christian Girls Kidnapped Yearly in Pakistan, Forced Into Islamic Marriage
Global — Christians, particularly converts from Islam, face disproportionate vulnerability to human trafficking in countries with high levels of religious persecution, according to International Christian Concern.
In the 50 countries with the highest levels of Christian persecution, forced marriages of women have increased by 16 percent. At least 90 percent of World Watch List countries reported cases of forced marriage, and 86 percent identified sexual violence as a key instrument for persecution.
Unlike typical human trafficking motivated by profit, trafficking in religious persecution contexts is driven by religious and cultural factors and used as a weapon to destroy religious minority populations.
In Pakistan, approximately 1,000 girls from religious minorities are kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam, and married to their abductors annually.
In May 2025, a 16-year-old Christian girl was abducted and married to a 28-year-old Muslim who forced her conversion. During three months of marriage, she was sexually assaulted, drugged, and forced into prostitution.
In Egypt, tactics evolved from abduction to grooming. An 18-year-old Coptic Christian woman was targeted by Muslim girls at her school for two years on social media, then caught in a web of Islamist students, administrators, police and sheikhs seeking to forcibly convert her.
Saeid Mansour Abdulraziq, a Christian convert from Islam, was charged with terrorism in Egypt on July 22, 2025, after requesting his ID papers be changed from Muslim to Christian.
In Nigeria, Christian man Zachariah was imprisoned and told he would only be released if he converted to Islam. After torture forced his conversion, authorities still refused to release him
Even in Europe, Christian converts from Islam face persecution. The 2022 European Centre for Law and Justice report documented government failure to protect those who leave Islam. Bible studies and baptisms occur in secret due to danger from families and communities.
Pakistan's Movement for Solidarity and Peace calculates up to 1,000 young Christian and Hindu girls aged 12-25 are abducted by Muslim men yearly, with Christians comprising 70 percent of cases. Perpetrators increasingly receive support from Islamic religious leaders and face no consequences.
THE CRUSADER'S OPINION
This is jihad by another name. When 1,000 Christian girls are abducted in Pakistan annually and forced into Islamic marriages, when Egyptian authorities charge converts with terrorism for requesting ID changes, when European governments allow converts hunted in their streets—this is systematic religious cleansing disguised as trafficking.
The pattern is undeniable: persecution, then trafficking, then forced conversion. A weaponized trifecta designed to destroy Christian communities from within. These aren't random crimes. They're coordinated campaigns using sexual violence, forced marriage, and legal persecution as tools of Islamic domination.
Notice the complicit governments: Pakistani police refusing Christian complaints, Egyptian courts prosecuting victims while enabling abductors, Nigerian officials calling traffickers "husbands," European authorities ignoring threats on their soil. This isn't incompetence—it's collaboration.
What if Christian men in Pakistan systematically kidnapped 1,000 Muslim girls annually? If Christian authorities in Egypt charged Muslim converts with terrorism? If Christian mobs in London hunted Muslims who left Christianity? International outrage would be deafening. Sanctions immediate. Military intervention possible.
But when it happens to Christians? Silence. Reports buried. "Cultural differences" excused. This double standard reveals Western cowardice and Islamic impunity.
Christian converts from Islam face the worst danger because they represent Islam's greatest fear: people choosing Christ when given freedom. That's why they're targeted with special ferocity—their existence proves Islam cannot compete in the marketplace of ideas.
Egypt's constitution guarantees religious freedom. Egypt's reality? Christians attacked, churches burned, believers murdered, apologists jailed. Muslims attack Christianity daily on Egyptian television and social media without consequence. One Christian responds with facts, and Egypt imprisons him indefinitely.
This is Islamic blasphemy tyranny masquerading as law.
The Church must demand action: sanctions on governments enabling trafficking, asylum for persecuted converts, prosecutions under international law. No more empty statements. These are our brothers and sisters being raped, enslaved, and forcibly converted while we watch.
This isn't about cultural sensitivity. It's about good versus evil. And right now, evil is winning because good men do nothing.
