Pakistan: Muslims force 60 Hindus to convert to Islam

Jihad Watch : The Qur’an says “There is no compulsion in religion” (2:256). However, what constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the beholder.

The institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular humiliation and harassment, from which one can be freed for the simple price of converting to Islam, is not considered compulsion. Even when conversions are obviously coerced, those who are forcing the conversions can and do still claim that their victims were converting freely; after all, they could have chosen to be killed instead. “Pakistan: 60 Hindus forcibly converted to Islam in Sindh,” Times Now, July 11, 2021:

Islamabad: At least 60 Hindus were allegedly forcibly converted to Islam in Pakistan in the Malti area of Sindh province. The Hindus were made to recite the Kalimas (Islamic oath of allegiance) in the presence of the municipal chairperson.

Hindus, a minority in Pakistan, account for 4.5 million, or more than 2 per cent of Pakistan’s population with most of them living in Sindh, which has long been seen as the country’s religious melting pot.

Municipal chairperson Abdul Rauf Nizamani allegedly facilitated the mass conversion process. In a Facebook post, he said, “Alhamdullilah aj meri nigrani me 60 log musalman hui hain inke liye dua karen (Today, 60 people accepted Islam under my watch. Please pray for them.”

A video shared by Nizami shows an Islamic cleric making the group of Hindus recite Kalima and ensuring their full-fledged conversion. In another video, the cleric is seen claiming that it was their recitation of the first-ever Namaz. “The only aim in the life of a Muslim person is to make Allah happy. Then, the purpose of his life will be fulfilled.

Only the lives of those, approved by Allah, move forward,” the cleric said to the new converts.