Akshay

I came across this old but shocking article today. I doubt if things are any different today.

Kidnap Hindu Girl, Force Marriage to Muslim: Pakistan
By J. Grant Swaank Jr.


Sanao Menghwar has had three of his daughters kidnapped, then forced to marry Muslim men. That means that the young women were coerced into becoming Islamics.

This happens daily, particularly in the Pakistani Sindh province, according to Hasan Mansoor, reporter, Midday.com.

Other Hindus in the province worry when their daughters will disappear. Therefore, there are entire Hindu families leaving Pakistan for Canada, India or other nations.Menghewar and his wife left their house on errands. When they returned to their residence, their daughters were missing. They reported the missing young women to the police department, filing the necessary papers. Neighbors helped them on a search party to locate the daughters, but to no avail.

Menghwar’s daughters have yet to be found. However, authorities have arrested three Islamic young men assumed to be connected with the girls’ kidnapping. The men have been released on bail by a court due to the men being minors.


"’Kidnapping Hindu girls like this has become a normal practice. The girls are then forced to sign stamp papers stating that they’ve become Muslims,’ says Laljee Menghwar, a member of the Hindu Panchayat in Karachi."

Because of Muslim threats, Hindus have had to turn to what those in the Netherlands are resorting to. Both areas have been under extreme pressure from maiming and killing Islamics so that the local citizens have put into action what one person refers to as "self-censorship."

There is no talk. There is no public utterance. There is nothing said negatively about the Muslims in the area for fear of being slain.

So it is that Islamic killers international could overtake country after country, area after area. Instill such fear in the people that no one speaks the facts concerning local Islamics kidnapping and killing; therefore, they have open skies to do just that — more so.

"’Hindus here are too frightened to vent their anger — they fear victimization,’ said one local."

Nevertheless, Pakistani Christian community members have come to their aid. The Christians have organized support for the Hindus persecuted by Muslims. The Christians have "carried out a demonstration with them in Karachi, protesting against this crime.

"Similarly startling incidents have occurred in several districts of Sindh and evoked identical responses. At least six Hindu girls met this fate a few months ago in Jacobabad (a tribal area heavily inhabited by Hindus) and Larkana districts.

"Sapna, the daughter of one Seth Giyanchand, was recently taken to a shrine (Amrote in Shikarpur district) by Shamsuddin Dasti. Dasti, a Muslim friend of Sapna’s brother, is a married man and father of two.

"Nevertheless, the custodian of the shrine, Maulvi Abdul Aziz lost no time in converting Sapna to Islam (her name was changed to ‘Mehek’) and marrying her to Dasti. The case came to light only when Sapna’s parents stated that their daughter hadn’t eloped but had been abducted."

Islamic fanaticism is increasing alarmingly, according to Nuzzhat Shirin of the Aurat Foundation. The fanatics erect shrines that are used in coercing "conversions." When a Hindu is forced to become a Muslim, zealot Islamics gather at the shrines, chanting and singing and marching in the streets.

Such a ruckus is made that if the young kidnapped girl appears in court, the fanatic Muslims yell, scream, throw rose petals into the air and follow the youth into the building so that she is so intimidated that she can hardly speak.

It is Muslim winning by intimidation. It is Muslim overcoming a culture by threatening. It is by Islamics abducting young girls that an entire community is snuffed out by moving away or succumbing to the Muslim murderers global.


"The threat of victimization by Muslims is palpable; Shirin says when forced conversion cases make it to court, lawyers themselves avoid taking them up, fearing a backlash from maulvis."

It is the same with so-called "honor killing." When Muslim males slay a Hindu female whom they have accused of dishonoring the clan in some way, usually police and media say nothing, looking the other way. Therefore, the slaughtering of innocent females continues daily.

"And forced conversions are not the only problem that the Hindu minority (there are 2.7 million Hindus in Pakistan; Pakistan’s total population is 140 million) is facing in the country.

"A powerful syndicate of bandits and patrons in the northern districts of Sindh regularly kidnap rich Hindus for ransom. They not only kill hostages if the ransom doesn’t arrive on time, they even kill some despite their ransom being paid.

"Sadham Chand Chawla, the former president of the Hindu Panchayat, Jacobabad, was abducted and murdered. His killers remain at large despite enormous protests. Following his murder, his family had received several threats until they secretly migrated to India."

Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swaank, Jr.

Graduate of accredited college (BA) and seminary (M Div) with graduate work at Harvard Divinity School. Married for 44 years with 3 adult children. Author of 5 books and thousands of articles in various Protestant and Catholic magazines, journals, web sites, and newspapers. Writer of weekly religion column for PORTLAND PRESS HERALD newspaper, Portland ME.

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Ray

Ah, well!

Conversion by Kidnapped Persuasion.

A religion of Peace.

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Tronic

its because they don't have people like Feroze Khan and Shabana Azmi... so no one to smack them one and tell them what they do is wrong...

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Vile and sickening.

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hound

Pakistan has not only kidnapped and traumatized any chosen Indian province in the past and at will and India could and cannot not do anything about it.

There is no use posting such articles, India will not do anything to help the hindus in Pakistan or other parts of the world. A nation that chooses to not stand for its own religion deserves to stand only in garbage and pollution.....that we see nearly everywhere in India.

Tronic

lol.. so now we are responsible for Hindus all over the world??? we don't really give a hoot how you treat your own citizens, your actions speak about yourself, no one else...

Hinduism is India's religion??? oh wait, buddy... you forgot, we are not like Pakistan... we don't have a state religion... we keep our politics and religion seperate... mixing the two is only done in your Islamic countries...

we love you too...

veera8

Yes,hinduism is the relgion of our indian soil .........

Jay

Wrong, Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism all originated from India.

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Ray

Veera,

That was a real good one.

You are serious about Hinduism is the religion of the Indian soil?

I believe in Natural phenomena and hence you could term me as a pagan.

I think paganism or worshipping Nature is the REAL religion of the soil.

So, I am the real Indian!

Tronic

hehe...

hound

'we don't really give a hoot how you treat your own citizens, your actions speak about yourself, no one else...'

You talk like a byproduct Hindu.......someone a result of mughal oppression, british rule and 50 years of soviet influence. Indian hinduism of today is a spanked up brand. People like you cannot take care of Hinduism in India so outside its border is only a news item for you, real coward mentality!

Akshay

Could you give me an account of the Indian provinces that Pakistan Kidnapped & traumatised? Blowing up few bombs here & there doesn't traumatise us. Or are you speaking about the bleed India with 1000 cut policy? How much did Pakistan succeed in that? Rather it was Pakistan that was bleeding from all its holes. The Jehadi serpant that Pakistan so dearly nurtured, cared & caressed turned against itself.

Sorry Boss!! Thats not our job & neither do we have any intention of uniting under any so called Hindu Brotherhood. We are sovereign people who recognize ourselves as Indians first. Its not our concern what Pakistan does with Hindus in its own land. Had it been Cristian/Sikhs/Buddhists/Mongols even then it wouldn't have stopped me from posting the article. Our job here is to discuss & highlight the problem. Whether the news is about India or Pakistan or US or Mongolia.. it doesn't matters.

lol!!!! As if Pakistan is the garden of Eden... The article on the first post clearly sums up the situation in Pakistan.

gilgamesh

As if its not done in India, just look at bollywood.

veera8

ray,
u got me wrong .....iam not a fanatic ,iam a staunch worshipper of sun (surya namaskara) ,so u can also term me as pagan ....but today in this changing world where increasingly people try to identity themselves with relgions and extremism creeping from all directions , some times i tend to defend my relgion --does that mean iam fanatic ???

why is that only a hindu defends his relgion ,accusations of him being a RSS or hindutuva fantic comes into picture ????
Look how much intimadation is done to hindus in PAK ....as Hound pointed out ,why is that hindus are so helpless and dis organised ???...

ray ,
i have a feelings that HINDUISM is rapidly loosing ground ....

veera8

tamil,
that's true ....India gave birth to all those beautiful peaceful religions ...