APR 15, 2023 2:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
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. Remember Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, the journalists who were kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam — even though their conversions were obviously coerced, their captors made them say that they were converting freely, and the captors probably believed that themselves. After all, the journos could have chosen to be killed instead.
“The Shocking Case Of Forced Conversion To Islam As Punishment For Supporting BJP In Bengal,” by Jaideep Mazumdar, Swarajya, April 12, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A thorough probe will, says the BJP, expose the involvement of the police with crime cartels and cops’ links with Islamist terror outfits.
The ‘punishment’ for supporting the BJP in the badlands of Bengal is forced conversion to Islam.
Two men who are siblings and residents of Kaliachak area of the Muslim-majority Malda district, were allegedly abducted a little over six months after the stiffly-contested Assembly elections in Bengal in 2021.
The two brothers–Gouranga Mondal and Buddhu Mondal–had worked for the BJP in the elections and despite many warnings by local Trinamool activists, they had refused to sever their ties with the BJP.
They were ultimately abducted, allegedly by local Trinamool musclemen, on November 24, 2021. They were then allegedly threatened, assaulted and told they would be killed if they did not convert to Islam.
Fearing for their lives, the battered and bruised brothers agreed to convert. Their tormentors, all Muslims allegedly owing allegiance to the Trinamool, got hold of a Muslim cleric and forced them to recite the kalma, eat beef and offer namaz.
The wives of the two men, who are also siblings, were shocked to learn about their husbands who were devout Hindus and die-hard BJP supporters. Gouranga had been renamed Gousal Azam and Buddhu as Mohammed Ibrahim Sheikh.
The two sisters then tried to lodge an FIR against their husbands’ tormentors at the Kaliachak police station.
But the officer-in-charge of the police station reportedly refused to accept their complaint. The aggrieved women even complained to the district police chief, but he also reportedly ignored their complaints….
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