Posted on 10/31/2020 3:50:37 PM PDT by ebb tide
KARACHI, Pakistan, October 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A 13-year-old Catholic girl who was abducted and raped by a Muslim man saw her “marriage” to him validated in court on Tuesday, according to the Catholic Herald.
That outlet reported:
Arzoo Raja had been taken from outside her home on October 13 and two days later, as the family searched for her, police announced that they had received marriage papers claiming that Arzoo was 18 and that she had converted to Islam to marry her 44-year-old abductor, Ali Azhar.
Despite the fact that the family obtained legal representation from Aid to the Church in Need and provided a birth certificate proving that Raja is only 13, the Sindh High Court upheld the validity of the so-called marriage. According to the Court, the girl confessed “that she had recited the Islamic proclamation of faith,” which the court determined meant “that she had freely consented to her conversion and marriage.” The Court also stated:
The petitioner initially belonged to the Christian religion. However, after the passage of time, the petitioner understood and realized that Islam is a universal religion and she asked her parents and other family members to embrace Islam but they flatly refused.
Raja left the courthouse escorted by police and her captor. Her parents begged to see the girl, her mother imploring, “Arzoo, come to your mama … he will kill you.” To make matters worse, “Arzoo’s mother and father have both lost their jobs following their daughter’s abduction and they have reportedly received threats from the family of Ali Azhar.”
Cardinal Joseph Coutts of Karachi asked Christians to protest Raja’s abduction the following day. There have been other protests against forced conversions and marriages in Pakistan, most notably the cases of Huma Younus and Maira Shahbaz. Both girls were abducted when they were 14 years old. Younas became pregnant with her perpetrator’s child and has been in his captivity for more than a year. Shahbaz was taken at gunpoint earlier this year but recently escaped. She is now seeking asylum in the United Kingdom.
The advocacy group Girls Not Brides reported that “21 percent of girls in Pakistan are married before their 18th birthday and 3 percent are married before the age of 15.”
Was she his niece? Asking for Hunter
Photo: Comrade Pope “Next time I get to ride the pony”.
But, but, but...the bumper sticker tells me to “Coexist”.
A picture that says A MILLION words!
A 13yo girl defiled and tortured, and this Pope will SAY NOTHING!!!
Disgusting excuse for a human being, let alone the leader of the Catholic Church!!!!!
Leftists around the world are at war with all moral boundaries,
As such, they would champion the abduction and rape of children.
And why not, leftists idea of making money includes excruciating and gruesome torture to death, and selling of babies body parts. Many of them also personally use adrenochrome from babies and children.
This is absolutely horrible, what has happened in this story. The abductor should be publicaly ended with extreme prejudice.
JHC if you dont want to go to war over this you are an imbecile. Satan is at your doorstep, And the world says , “ Not my problem”
For years, Mohammad Al Ghazoli, a scholar and an advisor of Libyan President Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi, believed and taught Islam as the true religion.
But after reading in his Qur’an that Allah misleads whoever he wants, he wondered if one of Allah’s names is ‘the Misleader’. As he dove into the Qur’an, the Hadith and other holy books, he asked these essential questions:
Is Allah the true God?
Is Muhammad the prophet of God?
If Allah is not God, who is the true God?
What he found disturbed him greatly. And in his heart he walked away from Islam. Eventually, he read the Bible and found the God he had sought, a God of compassion, forgiveness and honesty, who does not change or go back on His word.
islam is a scourge upon the Earth and must be expunged.
Good words. Thanks.
Perversion and abuse reign in the world’s pinnacles.
Including Bergoglio's Vatican.
Pakistan should not be confused with a civilized country.
With Sharia if a man rapes a girl, even breaks her arm doing it, and then marries her there is no crime. The girl, of course, has no say in it. Even rape without subsequent marriage very seldom carries any penalty. If charged the rapist will be charged with not marrying the girl he raped.
Then Bergoglio is one confused man:
Do you have an opinion on this, Francis???..........
It was Pakistan that was hiding Osama Bin Laden right?
We need to snuff that crap hole out.
All done within Pakistani law. So it’s all nice and legal.
He is the Anti-Pope. The real Pope has been forced to live in a mountain fortress under close guard.
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