KIDNAPPED CHRISTIAN WOMAN IN PAKISTAN FORCIBLY CONVERTED AND MARRIED TO MUSLIM CAPTOR

Reports indicate a kidnapped Christian woman in Pakistan was forcibly converted to Islam and married to her Muslim captor, highlighting the systematic pattern of abductions and forced conversions targeting Christian and Hindu girls across the nation.

The case represents one of approximately 1,000 Christian and Hindu girls kidnapped annually in Pakistan, where they are forcibly converted to Islam and married to Muslim men, often with complicity from police and courts.

Pakistani authorities frequently refuse to investigate kidnappings of Christian girls, and courts routinely rule that conversions were voluntary despite evidence of coercion, drugging, and threats against families who attempt to rescue their daughters.

The practice disproportionately targets girls between ages 12 and 25 from impoverished Christian communities in Punjab and Sindh provinces, where families lack resources to fight powerful Muslim families and religious networks facilitating the abductions.

Forced conversion certificates, often signed while girls are drugged or under duress, are accepted by Pakistani courts as legal proof of voluntary conversion, making it nearly impossible for families to recover their daughters even with evidence of kidnapping.

Christian advocacy organizations have documented cases where girls as young as 12 are abducted, held in madrassas, forcibly converted, and married to men decades older, with police refusing to register complaints from Christian families.

Pakistan's blasphemy laws further complicate rescue efforts, as families attempting to recover daughters face potential blasphemy charges for "insulting Islam" by questioning the validity of forced conversions.

The systematic nature of these abductions, combined with legal and societal structures that protect perpetrators while punishing victims' families, has led human rights organizations to characterize the practice as a form of religious persecution and gender based violence.

International pressure on Pakistan to address forced conversions has produced minimal results, with authorities claiming conversions are voluntary while ignoring overwhelming evidence of coercion, abduction, and legal manipulation.

THE CRUSADER'S OPINION

A Christian girl kidnapped, drugged, converted, and married to her captor.

Pakistani courts call this voluntary.

This is not conversion.

This is trafficking sanctioned by the state.

One thousand Christian girls stolen every year.

Pakistani police refuse to investigate.

Pakistani courts refuse to intervene.

Pakistani imams provide conversion certificates for kidnapped children.

This is systematic religious cleansing through sexual violence.

And the world yawns.

When Christian girls are abducted and forcibly married in Pakistan, Western feminists say nothing.

When Muslim families kidnap 12 year olds and courts legalize rape through forced marriage, human rights organizations issue reports that change nothing.

Pakistan receives billions in international aid.

That aid should stop until forced conversions stop.

Every dollar sent to Pakistan funds a government that protects kidnappers and persecutes Christian families who try to save their daughters.

The West has leverage.

We refuse to use it because we fear offending Muslim sensibilities more than we care about enslaved Christian girls.

That moral cowardice makes us complicit.

TAKE ACTION

1. Support Pakistani Christian persecution victims through British Pakistani Christian Association, rescuing kidnapped girls and providing legal defense for families. Donate at britishpakistanichristians.org or call +44 (0)1763 247004 for emergency intervention efforts.
2. Demand government action by contacting your MP via parliament.uk/get-involved or representatives via congress.gov. Press for conditioning aid to Pakistan on ending forced conversions and prosecuting kidnappers instead of protecting them.
3. Fund legal defense for Christian families fighting forced conversion cases through organizations like Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement. These groups provide lawyers challenging Pakistani courts that legitimize kidnapping and forced marriage.
4. Raise awareness about Pakistan's systematic persecution of Christian girls by sharing documented cases on social media. Tag government officials and media outlets to force coverage of crimes Western press ignores.
5. Pray for kidnapped Christian girls enslaved through forced conversion and marriage. Contact Release International at releaseinternational.org or +44 (0)1689 823491 to join prayer networks interceding for victims and their devastated families.
6. Support International Christian Concern's Pakistan advocacy documenting forced conversions and pressuring authorities. Visit persecution.org to fund investigations exposing this systematic trafficking and demanding accountability from Pakistani government.