Pakistan court rules teenage Hindu girls converted to Islam voluntarily

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS APRIL 11, 2019 / 7:11 AM / UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO

Pakistan court rules teenage Hindu girls converted to Islam voluntarily

Asif Shahzad
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Two Pakistani Hindu sisters whose parents said they were kidnapped and forced to change their religion to marry Muslims had converted voluntarily, a court ruled on Thursday, in a case that has attracted attention in Hindu-majority India.

The court had ordered the government to take custody of the sisters, both teenagers, in late March after accusations spread on social media that they had been forced to convert to Islam.

Another video showed the sisters saying they had married two Muslim men and converted to Islam of their own free will.

The court said the two were adult enough to make their own decisions and that they were not forced to convert.

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[Ron Obvious]

1. Fortunately, they're free to convert back to Hinduism if they want to

Of course not. They'll be murdered if they tried.

[Act_of_Reparation]

2. The stomach churning part is it's plausible.

The parents may very well have cooked up a kidnapping story to save face in their community. There's centuries of bad blood between Hindus and Muslims in this region.