RE: [mukto-mona] FW: PAKISTANI HINDUS CONVERTING FOR MATERIAL BENEFITS

Trying to convert to ones own religion is nothing new. All major religions have done it throughout history or are doing it  even today. In Chittagong Hill Tracts Christian missionaries' run hospitals where they admit pregnant tribal women, help them in giving safe birth and then baptize the newborn with a Christian name, and discharge them with a cross around their neck - all for free! What are they then - Christian Jamaati? Dig out how the Jews have smuggled out Africans to Israel who are willing to convert to Judaism. No harm in that eh? This tug of war to rope in those with weak religious beliefs will go on. Why single out Islam only?

Mustafizur Rahman

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From: farida_majid@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:18:14 -0500
Subject: [mukto-mona] FW: PAKISTANI HINDUS CONVERTING FOR MATERIAL BENEFITS

 

             All Jamaat followers in Bangladesh, including Adorer jamai should be ahllade aaTkhana!

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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:20:27 +0000
Subject: PAKISTANI HINDUS CONVERTING FOR MATERIAL BENEFITS

Pakistani Hindu Converting for Material Benefits

MATLI, SINDH PROVINCE, PAKISTAN, January 21, 2012 (Express Tribune): 

Money, jobs and a debt-free life: It sounds like a sweet deal for

many of the Hindu laborers in Matli, but it comes with strings attached -- convert to Islam. 

Hundreds of Hindus in the area have converted to Islam in the past few years, 

courtesy seminaries, mosques and self-styled preachers. Switching religions 

comes with an upgrade in social status and material benefits - 

Hindu converts said they could easily get Watan Cards and 

National Identification Cards, aid, and were given land and assistance

 by the organisation helpfully walking them over to the other side. 

With new Muslim names and a vow to adopt religious rites, 

they are only hoping that someone will be impressed enough to 

offer them land and social security. 

These desires have been fulfilled at the Madrassa Baitul Islam, 

a Deobandi seminary in Matli which meticulously maintains a log 

of the conversions. The first entry is dated November 1, 2009. 

The most recent is December 22, 2011, when they converted the 428th Hindu to Islam. 

The seminary - which has received kudos from religious-political parties

 including the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan and is affiliated with 

the Darul Uloom in Karachi - also pays off the debts of Hindus converting to Islam. 

Based on the entries in its records, this can range from a few thousand rupees to

 over Rs50,000. 

A newly converted family is given Rs5,000 as well as a copy of the Holy Quran,

 and housing for three to four months. During this time, they are given

 a religious education and taught how to live their life according to the Islamic code.

 There is an on-call doctor and a hospital on the premises and an 

ambulance is available to move serious patients. 

Another seminary in the city educates female converts. 

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