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Muslims Abduct Young Christian Woman, Family Says |
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Muslims kidnapped and forcibly converted an 18-year-old Christian woman to Islam, severely beat her mother on two occasions to "discourage her from trying to recover her daughter," lawyers have said. The CDN story said that Muhammad Akhter and Muhammad Munir on April 25, 2010, broke into the home of 50-year-old widow Fazeelat Bibi while her sons were at work and beat her "because they were upset at her continuous demands that they return her daughter Saira," Christian Lawyers Foundation (CLF) leaders told Compass. They news service stated that CLF President Khalid Gill said that neighbors' calls to the police emergency number went unheeded as the men beat her in Lahore's predominantly Muslim Bostaan Colony. "On April 18, 2010, Muhammad Akhter and members of his family had beaten her with clubs and ripped her clothes when the widow, having received a tearful phone call from her kidnapped daughter that day, went to their house to argue for her release," said CDN. "In her telephone call, Fazeelat Bibi said, Saira told her that Munir, Akhter and Munir's sister Billo Bibi had kidnapped her, stolen the jewelry of her dowry, forced her to convert to Islam and were pressuring her to marry Munir. "When Saira was kidnapped on March 10, 2010, she was engaged to a young Christian man in Youhanabad, a large Christian slum on the outskirts of Lahore." Kotlakhpat Police Station Inspector Rana Shafiq has flatly refused to help her recover her daughter and has explicitly sided with his fellow Muslims, Gill said, adding that Shafiq "was unavailable for comment." (CDN/ANS-6/5/10) |
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Monsy Abraham |