Jan 17, 2023 · Hence, institutional religious discrimination at the state level is being manipulated by the dominant Muslim faith in Pakistan. The BBC reports (last year), “Farah, a 12-year-old Christian girl, says she was taken from her home in Pakistan last summer, shackled, forced to convert to Islam and made to marry her kidnapper. It’s a fate estimated to befall hundreds of young Christian, Hindu and Sikh women and children in the country each year.”