Where Are the Women's Rights Activists On This?

Indeed:

"Police and judiciary tend to support those who commit crimes such as forced conversions, child marriages and sexual violence because they believe they will receive a heavenly reward for helping convert someone to Islam, regardless of how intentional or coercive the conversion is." — Sherkan Malik, human rights activist, Morningstar News, August 23, 2022, Pakistan.

"In the rare cases where a girl is returned to her family, the culprits are never held accountable. In other words, the supposedly law-preserving authorities act as implicit, if not explicit, partner in such heinous crimes." — Report, copticsolidarity.org, August 9, 2022, Egypt.

"I am writing to you out of deep concern for the safety and well-being of the indigenous Coptic women and minor girls in Egypt who have been increasingly targeted for trafficking, forced marriage, and forced conversion." — Petition, copticsolidarity.org, August 9, 2022, Egypt.

[T]hroughout the month of August... a total of eleven Coptic churches in Egypt supposedly "caught fire," none of which was reported in the Western press.... In every one of those eleven fires, Egyptian authorities denied arson as a possible cause, citing instead "natural" or accidental causes such as faulty wiring, electric overloads, and so on, even though there was obvious foul play in at least one case.... — copticsolidarity.org, August 31, 2022, Egypt.

"Constant killings and maiming of innocent Christians by terrorists and herdsmen bandits [Muslim Fulani] have become very common here in Taraba state," said Ayuba Matthew, a local. "So also, kidnappings of Christians has become a problem." — Morningstar News, August 17, 2022, Nigeria.

"Incitement against the Copts is daily in Egypt! Accusing the Copts of being infidels [kuffar] is daily in Egypt! Mockery of Christianity and the sacred things of Christianity and the accusation that the Bible is distorted [moharraf] occurs daily in Egypt!" — Magdi Khalil, noted author, YouTube, August 15, 2022, Egypt.

"They forced me to sing Christian songs as they began chopping off my husband's hand." .... Apparently fearful of worse repercussions, the "family has yet to file a police report." — Morningstar News, August 16, 2022, Egypt.

A recent video report found that, although Christians make up only 1.6% of the Muslim nation's population, they account for 90% of Islamabad's sanitation workers.... [M]any sanitation job listings in Pakistan often advertise "for non-Muslims only": working in garbage all day is for "infidels," not ritually clean Muslims. — dw.com and Morningstar News, August 11, 2022, Pakistan.

Although deemed by some Westerners as a relatively progressive Arab nation, Qatar continues to indoctrinate its children with hate for and violence against "infidels," including Christians and Jews...

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