Imagine the outcry if a Muslim teenage girl had been forced to convert to Christianity and marry a Christian. But that would not happen and should not happen. This, on the other hand, happens all the time, and gets no media attention. It doesn’t fit the narrative.
“Christian Girl Kidnapped by 60-Year-Old Muslim in Pakistan,” Morning Star News, February 13, 2023:
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Arif Gill said he lost hope of finding his 15-year-old daughter – abducted by a 60-year-old Muslim who forcibly married her and converted her to Islam – until police in Pakistan finally registered a case after nearly two months.
Sitara Arif, also known as Saira, was kidnapped on Dec. 15 by Rana Tayyab in the Yousafabad area of Faisalabad, Gill said. Tayyab is the husband of Naila Ambreen, a Muslim government school principal for whom Saira worked as domestic help.
“I went to the police station to report my daughter’s kidnapping, but they refused to accept my complaint and forced me out of the building,” said Gill, a physically handicapped Catholic.
He said he made repeated attempts to register a case against Tayyab, with police ignoring his pleas.
“Madam Naila is a government employee, and both she and her husband have considerable influence on the police, which is why they outright rejected my application,” Gill told Morning Star News. “After repeated humiliation and intimidation to stop pursuing the matter, I surrendered to my fate thinking that I won’t be able to see my daughter again. It’s been nearly two months since my wife and I haven’t seen our daughter or heard anything regarding her safety and well-being. Only God knows our pain and suffering since the day she was taken from us.”
Gill said poverty forced the family to send their daughter to work in a Muslim household.
“I’m unable to earn a livelihood, so my wife and daughter work as domestic helps to provide for the family,” he said. “We have always been very protective about our daughter, and it never occurred to us that she would be targeted by a man five times her age.”
Sitara is the oldest of Gill’s children.
Gill’s lawyer and chairman of the Minorities Alliance Pakistan, attorney Akmal Bhatti, said he learned of Gill’s ordeal on Feb. 3 and immediately arranged for the family to meet with Faisalabad’s regional police chief. Protesting police indifference, they demanded immediate registration of a First Information Report (FIR).
An FIR was registered against Tayyab on Feb. 4 at the Madina Town Police Station on the orders of the regional police chief, and officers have begun raids for his arrest and the recovery of Sitara, Bhatti said. The case was registered under Section 365-B of the Pakistan Penal Code relating to kidnapping, abducting or forcible marriage.
Bhatti said that when the police raided Tayyab’s house in Yousafabad, his wife Naila Ambreen handed the officials the Islamic marriage certificate between him and Sitara.
“This is the modus operandi in all cases involving forced marriages of underage minority girls,” Bhatti said. “The accused first rapes the victim and then uses the cover of an Islamic Nikah [marriage certificate] to escape punishment for this heinous crime.”
Though police are now acting, it is unfortunate that the family is deprived of justice because they are poor and Christian, Bhatti said.
“If the police had acted when the crime was first reported, the child could have been recovered sooner, but the prolonged delay has given the accused ample time to change his locations,” he said. “Some sources have told us that the accused has taken Sitara to Islamabad, and we are now pressing the police to find them there.”
Police took two of Tayyab’s relatives into custody for questioning, and later they were released.
“We are continuing to build pressure on the officials nonetheless, so that they don’t slack in their responsibility,” he said.
Bhatti said only young girls from minority groups are targeted for forcible marriage and conversion because their families are generally poor, with little resources to put up a fight in court.
“The country’s legal system is currently operating under a dual system of state and shariah [Islamic] laws, creating a conflict in the minimum age for marriage,” he said. “State law should prevail in cases of forced conversion and underage marriage of minority girls.”…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I heard a few months ago on one Indian YouTube channel that after the age of 6, Hindu girls are never sent to school in Pakistan, for the fear of such kidnappings and rapes. I’m assuming that the same would be true of Christians as well
Until they can hightail it out of there, Christians, Hindus and Sikhs should ghettoize themselves and organize their own educational pods, similar to what we had during the lockdown. Do the best they can about their education, until they can smuggle them out to India
Hoi Polloi says
Appalling, and my heart breaks for the whole family.
A principal who is sourcing victims for her husband should be thrown under the jail.
somehistory says
Reading this, I feel that any punishment is too easy for these children of satan the devil. Christians are not supposed to take such matters into their personal hands, but I wish we could do to these as Jesus did to the greedy moneychangers in the Temple.
Or do as the prophet of old did when he was being harassed…calling out a bear to deal with the ungodly.
None of those is possible, so I pray for Almighty God Jehovah to deal with them as He sees they deserve.
The slimy “principal” has no business around children and to help her maggot husband to do this to a girl who trusted her, is beyond despicable. She deserves to face the True God and His Son and answer for these crimes against a child. Perhaps she has helped her maggot before this.
I pray for these ones and others who are being persecuted and murdered, that they find escape.
The poor child, being raped for two months by an old maggot…that is four months too long.
Aum says
Cant earn a livelihood because he is disabled Christian.
Daughter helps out and is abducted.
Sad and helpless at this monstrous situation with Sharia.
And they want this in the UK!
OLD GUY says
How sad, and we want these muslim/islamic people to migrate and bring their sharia laws to our western society. Whats wrong with our leaders, or maybe I should say how much are they being bribed to allow this to happen.
Bobf1958 says
There comes a time when people realise enough is enough and this sect that calls itself islam be shown for what it is.. a tool that Satan is using that destroys people, families and relationships. Without lies islam dies and is being shown to the world how cancerous it is.