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India-Pakistan

'Sindh bill against forced conversions un-Islamic'

2016-12-11

And there you have it: honesty in its rawest form.

[DAWN] The Council on Islamic Ideology discussed the minorities bill recently passed in Sindh, which criminalises forced conversions and bars conversion of minors.

Sherani said the law is "illegal, unconstitutional and un-Islamic". The council further declared that the legislation was against basic human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
."The law was not correct and it was not fair either," Sherani said. "If anyone is forced to convert from his or her religion, then that is unfair, even if the person who has converted is a hundred years old."

He added that the country's constitution allowed every person to adopt Islam as per their own will.

"...even if it takes roughing them up a bit to help them discover they want it," he added.

"Anybody who is sane and has decision making power has to be allowed to adopt Islam, but limiting this choice to the minimum age of 18 years is not correct," he added.

"You don't have to rough them up as much when they are eight, donchaknow."

"This law is against the spirit of Islam too and we will write to all concerned including Governor Sindh against this law," he said.

"The Prophet Mohammed (bees pee upon him) said there is no compulsion is religion, which means that kidnapping and roughing them up a bit is not compulsion," he continued. "Therefore it's ok to do it even to toddlers!"

The meeting also opposed any proposed amendment in the blasphemy law.

Sherani said the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights had called to discuss the blasphemy law but that "disturbing the existing laws" wouldn't be right.

"Parliamentarians should instead focus on making the remaining laws Sharia compliant," he added.

Sherani, who is also an MNA from the Jamaat-e-Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F), is set to retire from the chairmanship of the CII on December 16, 2016 after completing two terms of three years each.

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