Posted on 04/08/2012 12:31:44 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A successful businesswoman has told of her agony after being forced into an abusive marriage at the age of five - despite living in Britain.
Samina Shah, who is now in her 40s and too frightened to reveal her real name, spoke out after revelations that Britain's Forced Marriage Unit had handled the case of another five-year-old girl last year.
Mrs Shah said she believed she was being dressed for her fifth birthday party on the day of the Islamic ceremony which effectively ended her childhood.
She told The Sun: 'There was a lot of activity - a lot of relatives in the house. I was dressed up in an outfit which my mother-in-law had bought for me.
'My sister told me later that my mother-in-law had said, "At last, the beautiful girl belongs to me!"'
Pondering why a tiny girl from a large northern town would be forced to undergo such an ordeal, she said she thought it was to do with maintaining tradition - and control.
Mrs Shah was born into a close-knit Asian community, and while her family lived in Britain they remained true to the conventions of remote Pakistani villages.
Aged just 13, she was removed from school without explanation. Instead of an education, she was taught that a woman's place was in the home - and reminded that the greater her sufferings on earth, the more lavish her reward would be in Paradise.
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Islam: an insane rape, murder and slavery cult since Mad Mo crawled from the bat cave and barked at the moon.
Talk about being in denial! Didn't Mohammad marry Aisha when she was 6 and consummated the marriage when she was 9? Islam is a sexual predator's dream. I've often wonder about those American Christian women who marry Muslims, what are they thinking?
So their culture has too little sexual freedom.
While our culture has way too much.
Like one is worse than the other.
From the mouth of the abused Muzzie female:
She said: ‘Islam safeguards women’s rights, and I am delighted that I found the Islam that God sent down - not the one that has been hijacked by the jackals who misrepresent its true teachings.’
She is either too stupid, too ignorant of Islam, or scared to tell the truth about the real status and condition of Islamic females.
Samina was still a frightened girl of 14 when she went through the formal wedding ceremony which marked her transition from her parents' house to that of her husband. At 6am the day after, she was forced onto a plane to Pakistan, told only that she would return to Britain with her husband when she reached 16.
IOW, the "marriage" was more along the lines of a betrothal, and she was at least 14 when the marriage was (forcibly, according to her) consummated.
Bad enough, but a whole world of difference from 5.
Nonsense. Child brides and forced marriage are certainly permitted in Islam.
Muhammed's favorite wife, Aisha, was six or seven years old when she was betrothed to Muhammad and nine when the marriage was consummated.
Their culture supports the rape of little girls, and the slavery of all women.
I hope you're sitting down while I say this, because I don't want to shock you. But yes, there "culture" is worse than ours.
Way worse.
As in, are you out of your little girl raping mind?
Get help. Something in you is not only broken - it's dead.
At least they believe in marriage first.
That was over a thousand years ago, when the average lifespan was, what, twenty years?
Nine was almost middleage back then.
And it was only a hundred years ago in America, when it was perfectly normal for marriages consummated with brides who would be regarded as children today.
Asian my ass.
I can gaurandamntee you these are muzzies.
Religion of peace and all that.
They are animals. Nothing but animals.
Ours is a society in its dotage.
History shows that all civilizations rise and fall.
And ours fits the pattern; we are now on the decadent and downward slope.
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