Posted on 08/06/2020 7:45:28 AM PDT by Cronos
A Pakistani court has sparked outrage by ruling a 14-year-old Christian girl was legally married to a Muslim man who allegedly abducted her at gunpoint.
In a case that has renewed focus on the persecution of Pakistan's Christian minority, the Lahore High Court ruled on Tuesday that Maira Shahbaz had willingly converted to Islam and married Mohamad Nakash.
The girl and her family claim that she was kidnapped in April by Mr Nakash and two accomplices from near her home in the city of Faisalabad. If the ruling is not reversed, Ms Shahbaz will have to return to Mr Nakash's home from the shelter she was temporarily placed in.
Around 1,000 Christian and Hindu women are abducted each year in Pakistan and typically forced to convert to Islam, according to the Movement for Solidarity and Peace.
Mr Nakash, who is already married, tried to claim Ms Shahbaz was 19-years-old but this was discounted by the victim’s family who produced birth certificates and school records to show she was a minor.
...“With this ruling, no Christian girl in Pakistan is safe,” echoed Pakistani Christian advocate, Lala Robin Daniel.
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Not after you kill the rapist kidnapper “husband.”
There really are no words for this.
They live in a sub-human Koran based world.
Criminal, jihadi government.
JoMa
I hope this poor girl will become a widow soon. All thugs who kidnap children need to receive swift and permanent justice. When government fails . . .
Islam in its purest form always betrays itself as the filthy, evil, gutter religion that it is.
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