"Pakistan high court upholds forced marriage of abducted Catholic minor"

[IanM]

Pakistan high court upholds forced marriage of abducted Catholic minor​

Pakistan high court upholds forced marriage of abducted Catholic minor - Catholic Herald

The Sindh High Court in Karachi, Pakistan, has validated the marriage of a 13-year-old Catholic girl to a Muslim man who abducted her. 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...

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[Polak]

It is very disturbing what is going on in that country and most of all that the court system over there doesn’t do anything about it. This is a 44-year old man for crying out loud, forcefully marrying and converting a child who has just entered her teens.

child marriage is illegal in Pakistan, but courts typically do not enforce these laws. Sharia Law permits a child to be married after her first menstrual period.

I wonder if any non Catholic mainstream media is covering these types of stories?

“Religious minorities living in Pakistan are concerned about the future of their daughters who are being converted to Islam,” he (Fr. Saleh Diego) said. “But why only girls? Are our boys not good enough for religious conversion? Why are they not so easily converted?” he asked.

I assume that’s a rhetorical question.

 

[Anicette]

So scandalous and sad.

Yes it’s a rethorical question because the answer is obvious. It is allowed by islamic law for a man to marry a christian woman. It is never allowed for a muslin woman to marry a christain man, unless he agrees to convert.

It is cultural and normal in some muslin countries to uphold a girl. As they spent a night under the same roof, they are considered de facto “married”. That the girl does not agree with her kidnapping is of no importance. After, the divorce rate can be high in some places…

I see that child marriage is illegal In Pakistan, but obviousely, Christians are second zone people. They are not protected and deserve extinction by the mean of forced marriage with muslins for girls (so their offspring become muslin). The boys don’t deserve to be converted. They deserve to be dead. Those sorts of weapons belong traditionally to cultural genocide.

It also seems that this high court just endorse an a “accomplished fact”. This politic of the “accomplished fact” is not their exclusive prerogative, and it may make us think a lot when it is used in democratic countries to accept things that were seen as inacceptable at first…