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“Education once brought hatred to the people, now it must be the healer.”

“In line with Britain’s generous policy of providing refuge and safety to those most vulnerable, I hope that Maira and her family will be afforded the opportunity of living in the safety that we would all expect for ourselves.”

“That same night the investigating officer told me that she had accepted Islam. I was shaken to the core.”   

“The question I must ask is who is responsible for his having to spend more than 11 years behind bars for a crime he never committed.”

“He was ready to sacrifice his life if God gave him a chance to protect others.”

“Sonia’s killing demonstrates the mortal danger girls and young women—especially those from Christian and other minority backgrounds—face in situations where they are under pressure to marry and abandon their faith.”

“There can be no compromise on cases involving underage marriage.”

“The blasphemy law is misused to target the innocent. If you stay silent, they start suspecting. If you try to answer their allegations, they twist your statements. It must end.”

Annually up to 1,000 young Christian and Hindu girls aged between 12 and 25 are abducted by Muslim men, forcibly married and converted.