{"id":40340,"date":"2020-11-01T15:46:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T20:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40340"},"modified":"2020-11-01T15:46:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T20:46:59","slug":"all-cultures-are-not-equal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40340","title":{"rendered":"All Cultures Are Not Equal"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, The Christian Post<\/a> posted an article about Arzoo Raja, a thirteen-year-old girl who was kidnapped and married to a 44-year-old Muslim man.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Arzoo Raja\u2019s parents bowed to touch the feet of Pakistani police officers, begging to see their daughter who was kidnapped by Ali Azhar from their home on Oct. 13, but they refused.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Instead, the high court of Pakistan\u2019s Sindh province changed their daughter\u2019s name to the more Islamic \u201cArzoo Fatima\u201d and announced that she \u201cunderstood and realized that Islam is a universal religion,\u201d International Christian Concern reported<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Raja wasn\u2019t able to tell her parents or anyone else what she \u201cunderstood\u201d about Islam because her abductor, whom the court referred to as her \u201chusband,\u201d has had her locked in a single room after getting her pregnant, International Christian Concern\u2019s South Asia Regional Manager Will Stark told The Christian Post. Azhar has children near Raja\u2019s age.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Raja was forced to officially convert to Islam by signing a piece of paper, he said. She might have been tortured, threatened, tricked or drugged into signing it. Once she did, the courts could apply Islamic religious law to her case. In Raja\u2019s case, the conversion shouldn\u2019t be legally valid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to Pakistan law, you shouldn\u2019t be able to convert without your parents\u2019 permission until you\u2019re 18,\u201d Stark said. \u201cArzoo is 13.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

That point probably won\u2019t matter to the court, he said. Although most government officials in Pakistan don\u2019t support Islamic child marriage, they can be bullied by radical Muslim groups. These groups often murder judges when they feel Islam has been shamed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pakistan\u2019s signature on U.N. documents that promise to end child marriage means little, Stark said. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThey know if they inject religion into a case, they can play on religious biases to cover up their crimes or retain custody. It\u2019s a concerning update because two cases from the same court have held this way,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To fight the radical Islamists who support child marriage, people around the world can sign petitions for Raja\u2019s return. Pakistan\u2019s government depends on international aid to survive, so its government can be responsive to international pressure, he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

People can sign a petition for Shahbaz<\/a> and email the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan at ACSIslamabad@state.gov<\/a> about Raja.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThat sort of outside pressure is helpful,\u201d Stark said. \u201cWe need to keep pressure on Pakistan so the scales of justice are even.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is not acceptable behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, The Christian Post posted an article about Arzoo Raja, a thirteen-year-old girl who was kidnapped and married to a 44-year-old Muslim man. The article reports: Arzoo Raja\u2019s parents bowed to touch the feet of Pakistani police officers, begging … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1989,9675,13066,109,23,12820,223],"class_list":["post-40340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-catholic","tag-child-marriage","tag-conversion-to-islam","tag-muslim","tag-pakistan","tag-the-christian-post","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40341,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40340\/revisions\/40341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}