Posted on 07/13/2009 3:19:37 AM PDT by forkinsocket
Before he goes to sleep, Jack Briggs goes through his nightly ritual. First, he checks there is a knife within easy reach beside his bed and a baseball bat beneath it.
It has been the same routine ever since he ran away with his sweetheart, Zena, 17 years ago. She came from a Muslim family and was supposed to wed a cousin in an arranged marriage - not Jack, a white British man ten years her senior.
And so it was that, under threat of death, the couple fled their homes and have been in hiding ever since.
Now, for the first time, the Mail can reveal that the couple, who had battled not just prejudice but violence, have separated after the strain of so many years of clandestine existence finally proved too great. But remarkably, says Jack, that changes nothing. Their lives are still in danger.
'The threat to me and Zena is still there, and I don't think it will make a jot of difference when her family finds out that we have split up,' he says. 'In their eyes, the damage has been done.
'It goes back to the whole honour-based culture. We have put a mark - a stain - on their family and it will never go away.
'They believe it's passed from generation to generation and the only way they can see how to lift it is through murder. It is terrible, but it is fact.'
For a couple whose extraordinary story has been likened to that of Romeo and Juliet, news that their marriage has broken down will come as a terrible shock to the legion of supporters who have followed their plight over the years.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Ahh Islam... the peaceful religion.
Disgusting how the UK tramples upon these peoples’ right to own a firearm for self-protection.
Several points:
1. Too bad Jack lives in a country where his self-defense choices are knives and baseball bats. If he wants to campaign about something, that’s really where he should start.
2. The family was obviously guilty of a series of “hate crimes”. Oh, I forgot. Muslims and dark-skinned people can only be victims of hate, never perpetrators of it. Silly me.
3. Isn’t whoever makes this film, or works on it, going to become targets of enraged muzzies filled with blood-lust to prove that Islam is the ROP?
4. There’s an obvious moral to this story, isn’t there?
this is news now since “he ran away with her 17 yrs. ago”? fluff i say and the brits bent on sympathizing at this point? i think not-those brits have bent over backward to accommodate these muslims and now they are publishing ? give me a break the horse was out of the barn loooong ago.
I thought the UK outlawed knives last year.
He should have came to the US and settled in the south. First time any one of her family tried to “dishonor kill” them and the intruders would meet the end of a double barreled shotgun.
Unless he has a criminal record, it wouldn’t have been that hard for him to get a shotgun certificate......
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