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Fundamentalist Christian tries SOS on Muslim
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....