The mental trauma due to captivity and slavery caused unransomed prisoners who had lost family, money, and friends to convert to Islam. This controversial novel by Vladimir Nabokov was first published in 1955. “Lolita” has often been banned due to the nature of its subject matter – it concerns a man, Humbert Humbert, who gets involved with a single mother and develops a sexual relationship and a potentially dangerous romance with his 12-year-old stepdaughter. Jehovah’s Witnesses, like people who ascribe to other religions, are found around the world. The Human Rights Council of Pakistan has reported that cases of forced conversion are increasing. The rise of Taliban insurgency in Pakistan has been an influential and increasing factor in the persecution of and discrimination against religious minorities, such as Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, and other minorities. Members of minority religions in Pakistan face discrimination every day. In addition, governments of many nations are either unwilling or unable to prevent religiously intolerant groups from harming members of rival religions.

However, even in the optimal case, where the credibility of the witnesses and their reports are judged to be beyond doubt and wholly reliable, we are faced with evidence that is equally opposed – “proof against proof”. However, religious freedom was eventually restored. The raids by Muhammad Ghori and his generals brought in thousands of slaves in the late 12th century, most of whom were compelled to convert as one of the preconditions of their freedom. The community budgets of Jews was heavily burdened by the repurchasing of Jewish slaves abducted by Arab, Berber, or Turkish pirates, or by military raids. In 1839, during the Qajar era the Jewish community in the city of Mashhad was attacked by a mob and subsequently forced to convert to Shia Islam. Wherever Mahmud went, he insisted on the people to convert to Islam. I started smoking cannabis thinking that it was safe and the general opinion of people that smoke it is that it is quite safe, but my suffering and misery from it speak differently. The proportions of Christians of color and non-Christian religious people feature more modest shifts.

In Persia, instances of forced conversion of Jews took place in 1291 and 1318, and those in Baghdad in 1333 and 1344. In 1617 and 1622, a wave of forced conversions and persecution, provoked by the slander of Jewish apostates, swept over the Jews of Persia, sparing neither Nestorian Christians nor Armenians. In an invasion of the Kashmir valley (1015), Mahmud of Ghazni plundered the valley, took many prisoners and carried out conversions to Islam. In his later campaigns, in Mathura, Baran and Kanauj, again, many conversions took place. Aurangzeb employed a number of means to encourage conversions to Islam. Non-Muslims faced frequent persecutions and at times forced conversions under the rule of his dynastic successors. Myrrh is known for its medicinal value and was used in ancient times for cleaning wounds and sores, as an analgesic, and for embalming the dead or anointing kings. Waaqism was an ancient traditional religion practised by many Horners, in particular by Cushites. His letter says that “The invaders endeavored to impose their impure religion on the populace, at all costs, intending to make the inhabitants followers of Muhammad”.

Judaism along with his followers in secrecy. In a Mughal-Sikh war in 1715, 700 followers of Banda Singh Bahadur were beheaded. Banda Singh Bahadur was offered a pardon if he converted to Islam. During the Noakhali riots in 1946, several thousand Hindus were forcibly converted to Islam by Muslim mobs. In a country that is 96 percent Muslim, targeting of its religious minorities (3 percent), especially Shias, Ahmadis, Hindus and Christians, is widespread. Reflecting such changes, when smaller urban areas fell out of regime control in 2012 and 2013, local religious figures had to establish relations with the new authorities in their areas, namely Islamist-inspired political and military factions. Thus, after the capture of the Hormuz Island, Abbas I required local Christians to convert to Twelver Shia Islam, Abbas II granted his ministers authority to force Jews to become Shia Muslims, and Sultan Husayn decreed forcible conversion of Zoroastrians. The ninth guru of Sikhs, Guru Tegh Bahadur, was beheaded in Delhi on orders of Aurangzeb for refusing to convert to Islam. The charges included forced conversion of Bengali Hindus to Islam. Sikandar Butshikan (1394-1417) demolished Hindu temples and forcefully converted Hindus.