Fundamentalist Christian tries SOS on Muslim - at knifepoint

[dArKeR]

By Heidi Kingstone

The most terrible things can happen in the most normal of towns. Walking in Ilford, Essex, (about an hour's drive from London) a 17-year old Muslim girl, wearing the traditional headscarf, made her way to school on a Monday morning in March.

Just before she went to class at Ursuline College, this young girl, who remains anonymous, was abducted by a middle-aged man. He bundled her into a white van and drove off to a local park where the fundamentalist Christian tried to "save her soul" by demanding at knifepoint that she convert to Christianity.

As she refused, petrified and crying, he cut little crosses into the back of her hands and sides of her arm, small scars that have started to heal but will remind her forever of this terrifying ordeal. That concluded after an hour with the man dropping off the frightened girl - a woman repressed by Islam, he told her - back at her sixth form college.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=ct20040409232620616U25245511&set_id=1

So it's Rat Robertson who also has a SR-72!

[Bertha Venation]

1. Mofo arrogant sonofa....

Do note, however, that this wasn't a run-of-the-mill "fundamentalist Christian." Deluded though they may be, they don't kidnap and maim victims.

[Dufaeth]

They don't?

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04543c.htm

[Bertha Venation]

8. oh, f'chrissakes

Can we talk about TODAY, please? :eyes:

Are there bands of fundamentalist Christians roving earth in the 21st century, torturing, maiming, killing anyone who won't convert?

[BiggJawn]

3. Not before this incident, anyway...

I don't consider Fundies to be too tightly wrapped in the first place.

I fear we may be in for more of this.

[newyorican]

4. Now they do, it seems...

As we are told, ad-nauseum, that everything changed after 9/11.

[Ekova]

2. Awful.

Not much more to say than that.

[Dark]

5. Terrible

But Christian Fundamentalists do often use violence to scare others into converting. They don't do the violence, they leave that up to their god. They threaten people with an eternity of pain if they don't convert.

[lumpy]

6. Some fundies

have no problem killing women's choice Doctors either. Hope they nab this kidnapping terrorist.

[riverwalker]

7. micro of the macro

miniature version of the US in Iraq.

[mobuto]

9. I don't believe it

Not that I don't believe that Christian fundamentalists would do something like this, but this particular story is just not believable. Crosses cut in the back of her hands and on her arms? That sounds a lot more like self-mutiliation than anything else. I think this girl has emotional issues unrelated to the very real and very dangerous problem of anti-Arab and anti-Pakistani racism in England.

[Dover]

10. I hear Jesus found this method of conversion very effective.....

He figured if he had to suffer, why shouldn't others....

[MetaTrope]

11. I'd think something like this would be reported a LITTLE more widely

But it seems solely sourced from here:
http://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/archived/2004/Wk122004/ilfbark/ilfnews/splash.asp

Check the tone of the story.