Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday termed the practice of forced conversions as “un-Islamic” and said there was no precedent in Islamic history for forcefully converting others, according to reports.
Addressing an event in connection with National Minorities Day at the Aiwan-e-Sadr (Presi-dent’s House) in Islam-abad, Khan also vowed to protect and develop worship places of minorities in Pakistan and also facilitate them to the maximum level to perform them religious rituals.
Khan said the Prophet himself had given minorities religious freedom and protected their places of worship, Dawn reported. “How can we then take it into our own hands to forcefully convert someone to Islam — either by marrying (non-Muslim) women (...) or on gunpoint or to (by threatening to) kill someone because of their religion?” he asked.
“All these things are un-Islamic. If God hadn’t given his messengers the power to impose their beliefs, who are we (to do so)?” he asked, explaining that the messengers’ duty was only to spread the word of God.
