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Dozens of Christian Girls in Pakistan Targeted for Rape, Abduction, Forced Conversion
CBN ^ | 20 June 2019 | Steve Warren

Posted on 06/26/2019 3:45:34 AM PDT by Cronos

A poor Christian family in Pakistan is calling for justice after their teenaged daughter was reportedly kidnapped at gunpoint and raped by five Muslims.

UCANews.com reports the girl named Maria, 15, was taken from her house in Sheikhupura city of Punjab province on June 9. Her father, Jalal Masih, was at his job at the time, working as a laborer.

Masih filed a police report accusing Muhammad Sajid, a local businessman, and four others in the attack in which there were several witnesses.

"The locals saw them abducting her at gunpoint in a vehicle. I reached his (Sajid's) office but he was absent," Masih said in the First Information Report (FIR) filed six days after the incident. "We made contact the next day and he threatened to return her dead body if we informed the police."

"Sajid escaped after leaving Maria on our doorstep on June 10 night. She was extremely scared," her father said.

As the news of the attack spreads on social media, Christian activists are calling for the arrest of the suspects.

According to Legal Evangelical Association Development (LEAD), a non-profit advocacy group providing legal aid to persecuted minorities, 28 Christian girls became victims of abduction, torture, sexual harassment, rape, forced conversion and forced marriages in Pakistan from November 2018 to June 2019.

"The number of unreported cases will be higher as the families of victims usually avoid getting help from biased police officials who support cruel and influential culprits. Only Christian and Hindu girls are victims in such cases," LEAD national director Sardar Mushtaq Gill told UCANews.com. "Crimes against religious minorities are increasing at a high scale in Pakistan."

"In Pakistan, abduction of girls from Christian and Hindu minorities' communities has been on the higher side since years," Gill wrote in his online blog. "These girls after abduction are sexually assaulted, forcibly married to the abductors and forced into conversions. Some human rights groups define persecution in old fashion(ed) way but the persecutors have changed their ways to persecute religious minorities in a new ways and they called it policy and it could be implemented at both by Government sector and at private sector."

"So it is the need of time to define religious persecution in a broader-way and to believe it or not Pakistani Christians and Hindu are most vulnerable who are being persecuted by Islamic extremists objectively because their poor status and poor defense in society," he continued.

The news website also reports the interfaith group Rwadari Tehreek launched an anti-rape campaign with a protest on June 15 in front of the Punjab Assembly in Lahore.

"It is a sad reality that dozens of male and female children are subjected to sexual abuse and violence almost every day," Chairman Samson Salamat told the website.

"Unfortunately, governments and concerned authorities have turned a blind eye toward these serious violations of human rights and the victims are being denied justice because of the lacunas in the justice system," he said.

Salamat also called local officials to organize sessions to educate police officers and other law enforcement officials on the issue.

"Most cases are dealt with in a wrong manner because of the bad treatment and attitude in police stations. The victims only become more victimized. Safe and fully equipped rehabilitation centers should be established for the victims of rape and child sexual abuse," he said.


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How many billion$$$ has the USA sent to Pockistan??
1 posted on 06/26/2019 3:45:34 AM PDT by Cronos
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How many billion$$$ has the USA sent to Pockistan??
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The ‘World Police’ brigade of FR think ‘not enough’; nor enough U.S. blood spilled or...


2 posted on 06/26/2019 4:11:30 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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Pock-ee-ston is Obama’s favorite place.


3 posted on 06/26/2019 4:14:26 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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Obama vacationed in Pakistan. Now, how many people do you know of who do that? What does that tell us of his character?


4 posted on 06/26/2019 4:30:36 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Investigate! Investigate! There are charges yet to fabricate!)
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The ‘World Police’ brigade of FR think ‘not enough’; nor enough U.S. blood spilled or...

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A bunch of insane McCainocrats disguised as Trump supporters.


5 posted on 06/26/2019 4:34:15 AM PDT by granada
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....Pakistan is what the savages are planning for us.... (and they're using our govt and our tax dollars to destroy us)

Sicko Somali Ilhan Omar's Ideological Attacks on Two Christian Pastors
Townhall ^ | June 26, 2019 | Star Parker
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(SNIP) Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, one of three Muslims in Congress, had her already well-practiced, prefabricated sick Somali view of the world ready.....she used all her time to pontificate and ridicule two Christian pastors at a Congressional hearing.

The remarkable stories that these two pastors shared about growing up poor in broken communities and beating the odds through struggle and faith were of zero interest to this sick Christian-hating Somali. They didn't say what she wanted to hear. (Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...

6 posted on 06/26/2019 4:42:44 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Because it’s the religion of peace, and nothing they do is ever wrong.


7 posted on 06/26/2019 4:43:03 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To be fair, Obama’s Pakistan policy worked quite well. Osama Bin Laden, and Drone strikes inside Pakistan territory.


8 posted on 06/26/2019 4:44:45 AM PDT by granada
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0bama never had a policy for anything much less Pakistan. He bungle and vacationed for a 8 years


9 posted on 06/26/2019 4:47:02 AM PDT by okie 54
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Muslims and Democrats have a lot in common.


10 posted on 06/26/2019 5:57:53 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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The only long term solution is the total eradication of islam. Every last man, woman, child, dog, camel, etc. related to islam must be killed and every last copy of the koran destroyed. It is a plague that must be wiped out.

the koran itself leaves us no other option. they are commanded to kill or enslave us.


11 posted on 06/26/2019 6:10:35 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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