Abductions, forced marriages, threats and legal pressure used to bring people into Islam, from Sindh to Sinjar. The pattern is old. Quran 9:29 orders war on the People of the Book until they pay the jizya "while they are humbled". In Sahih Muslim 1731, polytheist enemies are offered Islam, the tax or the sword. In Sahih al-Bukhari 25, Muhammad says he was ordered to fight people until they profess Islam. When the alternatives to conversion are humiliation or war, the choice is not free.
Two Hindu sisters, aged 13 and 14, allegedly abducted, converted to Islam and married off in Pakistan's Sindh province, begged a court to let them go home. The court sent them to a safe house. In Sindh, marrying a child is a crime. Converting one, as clerics keep reminding lawmakers, has no age limit.
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