{"id":792,"date":"2012-04-26T13:14:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T17:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omsweetom\/?p=792"},"modified":"2012-04-26T13:14:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T17:14:23","slug":"kidnapped-converted-married-growing-up-hindu-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omsweetom\/2012\/04\/kidnapped-converted-married-growing-up-hindu-in-pakistan.html","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapped, converted, married: Growing up Hindu in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks, the news from Pakistan has been dominated by the case of Rinkel Kumari, a Hindu teenage girl who was kidnapped from home. Rinkel eventually turned up&#8230;but converted to Islam, supposedly of her own free will, and married to a Muslim man. \u00a0The court proceedings have been a sham, and instead of returning to her parents, Rinkel is now condemned to live with a man she barely knows.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Rinkel&#8217;s case is not one off. \u00a0Kidnappings and forced conversions of Hindu and Christian teenage girls is a common\u00a0occurrence\u00a0in Pakistan. \u00a0My colleague and good friend, Suhag Shukla, wrote a touching piece for the Huffington Post on this ongoing human rights violation. \u00a0Please take a few moments to read it:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/suhag-a-shukla-esq\/growing-up-hindu-in-pakistan_b_1449374.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/suhag-a-shukla-esq\/growing-up-hindu-in-pakistan_b_1449374.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks, the news from Pakistan has been dominated by the case of Rinkel Kumari, a Hindu teenage girl who was kidnapped from home. 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