Thursday, July 02, 2009

Islamic forced marriage in the UK

How do you say 'not surprised' in Pashto? Just curious...Check out the article HERE. Here is an excerpt:

...government figures released today suggest the true scale of Britain's forced-marriage problem is only now beginning to emerge. It is estimated that between 5,000 and 8,000 cases of forced marriage occurred in Britain last year, according to the Department for Children, Schools, and Families.

Most are teenage girls from Britain's large Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Indian communities. They're married off, according to the report, to bond the young women to their community, keep clan promises, or as a way to provide a British visa for a foreign family member or friend.

The figures have delivered a fresh jolt to Britain's multicultural paradigm, which until recently handled reports of forced marriage and associated "honor crimes" as cultural issues, beyond the remit of the justice system [...]

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

And apparently they actually have 85 sharia courts instead of just 5...