"Typically, kidnapped girls in Pakistan, some as young as 10, are abducted, forced to convert to Islam and raped under cover of Islamic 'marriages' and are then pressured to record false statements in favor of the kidnappers...." — morningstarnews.org, September 24, 2024, Pakistan.
Headlines of the "pure genocide" of Christians from the month of September follow.... — Nigeria.
"Muslims who abducted a 17-year-old Christian girl and gang-raped her for 10 days are threatening her family to pressure them to withdraw charges, even as police have failed to arrest most of the suspects." — morningstarnews.com, September 30, 2024, Pakistan.
Muslims murdered, hacked to pieces, and dumped the remains of a Christian man into a Cairo canal.... Mina Musa, 21, had left his family home in Minya for a new job in Cairo.... He was responding to an advertisement on social media to assist an elderly person in Cairo. The notice included the offer of a generous salary, along with broader networking opportunities in the field of physical therapy.....
The authorities managed to track the young man down to a Cairo apartment. On breaking in, they found parts of Mina's body.... Last reported, divers were searching in the canal for Mina's head. — copticsolidarity.org, October 5, 2024, Egypt.
"I WILL BOMB THE POPE. I'M A TERRORIST...JUST BE CAREFUL...WAIT FOR NEWS YEEE." — posted on social media, morningstarnews.com, September 10, 2024, Indonesia.
"Khosravi said the main goal of detention isn't always punishment or even to gather information, but to break a prisoner at such a fundamental level that they are shattered permanently.... Another Christian, forced to listen to the cries of a woman screaming in a near-by cell, was convinced by guards that it was his wife being raped repeatedly, he said." — morningstarnews.org, October 1, 2024, Iran.
On September 18, Christian mother of four was sentenced to death on a "blasphemy" conviction.... The reason she was handed the death sentence has less to do with actual evidence and everything to do with extremist pressure groups, Hameed [her lawyer] said... "If you analyze all cases of 295-C, you will see that all the convictions of the trial court are overturned by the superior courts." — morningstarnews.org, September 19, 2024, Pakistan.
"Nearly 3,000 persons have been accused of blasphemy in Pakistan since 1987..." — morningstarnews.org, September 19, 2024, Pakistan.
"These are Christians who are out to convert our people to a wrong religion." — Sheikh Kalimu, Islamic leader, morningstarnews.com, September 23, 2024, Uganda.
"After 1994 [when the Muslim Brotherhood came to power], the authorities tried to make Yemen an Islamic state. They wiped out our identity as Christians and refused to write 'Christian' on documents. Christians had to write either 'Muslim' or leave a blank space.... When I got full marks in Islamic education, they would reduce my grades, because they told me 'a Christian couldn't be equal to a Muslim.'... All the nuns were later killed....
In 2018, the authorities refused to renew our passports unless we wrote the word 'Islam' in the religion section of the application form, as we were told: 'There are no Christians in Yemen.'" — Badr, Yemeni Catholic woman living in Aden, catholicnewsagency.com, September 25, 2024, Yemen.
On September 12, a Muslim man and two accomplices kidnapped a 16-year-old Christian girl in Jaranwala, Pakistan, then forced her to convert to Islam and marry him.
The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of September 2024.
Pakistan: Forced Conversion and Rape of Christians
On September 12, a Muslim man and two accomplices kidnapped a 16-year-old Christian girl, then forced her to convert to Islam and marry him. Her parents were away at the time, but when they returned, neighbors said they had seen the gun-wielding suspects bundling their daughter, Diya Iftikhar, into a white Suzuki van and fleeing the scene.
"We were terrified," said the mother, Shaida, "because Ghazaal and his accomplices were involved in the Aug. 16, 2023 attacks on churches and homes in Jaranwala. They are notorious for their criminal activities, including sexual harassment of Christian girls." Four days later a video was sent to the parents of the underage girl saying she had converted to Islam and married of her own free will:
"We knew Diya was coerced to record this false statement, because she detested Ghazaal. She had often complained to us that Ghazaal and his friends used to harass her when she went to her tuition center."
Although her parents had immediately gone to the police, they refused to respond. After repeatedly visiting and "pestering" the police station, authorities briefly detained the kidnapper:
"But this was just to show us that the police were making an effort to find Diya. They neither investigated him nor put pressure on him to help recover our daughter from his son's illegal custody."
Joseph, the girl's father, said the investigating officer of the case was being not being cooperative:
"Despite pleading with the IO for Diya's recovery, he is not taking any action against Ghazaal and his accomplices. My wife and I work in local textile factories and do not have the money to pursue the case in court. We also made a video appeal for support from Christian organizations but so far we haven't received any legal assistance."
He said the suspects were pressuring them to drop the case, "but we will not stop until Diya is returned to us. I'm also fearful for the security of my four younger daughters. If the abductors are not arrested and punished, it will put them and the other Christian girls of my village at serious risk of abduction. I beg the police authorities to protect us from these predators."
Discussing how common such cases are, the report adds, "Typically, kidnapped girls in Pakistan, some as young as 10, are abducted, forced to convert to Islam and raped under cover of Islamic "marriages" and are then pressured to record false statements in favour of the kidnappers... Judges routinely ignore documentary evidence related to the children's ages, handing them back to kidnappers as their "legal wives."
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Raymond Ibrahim, author of Defenders of the West, Sword and Scimitar, Crucified Again, and The Al Qaeda Reader, is the Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow at the Gatestone Institute and the Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
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