Posted on 10/15/2013 9:47:43 AM PDT by george76
"Forced marriage is probably the last form of slavery in the UK." — Nazir Afzal, Chief Crown Prosecutor for Northwest England.
More than a dozen Muslim clerics at some of the biggest mosques in Britain have been caught on camera agreeing to marry off girls as young as 14.
Undercover reporters filming a documentary about the prevalence of forced and underage marriage in Britain for the television program ITV Exposure secretly recorded 18 Muslim imams agreeing to perform an Islamic marriage, known as a nikah, between a 14-year-old girl and an older man.
Campaigners against forced marriage -- which is not yet a crime in Britain -- say thousands of underage girls -- including some under the age of five -- are being forced to marry against their will in Muslim nikahs every year, and that the examples exposed by the documentary represent just "the tip of the iceberg."
The documentary, entitled "Forced to Marry," was first broadcast on October 9 and involves two reporters posing as the mother and brother of a 14-year-old girl to be married to an older man. The reporters contacted 56 mosques across Britain and asked clerics to perform a nikah. The imams were specifically told that the "bride" did not consent to the marriage to an older man from London.
Although the legal age for marriage in Britain is 16, according to Islamic Sharia law girls can marry once they reach puberty. The imams who agreed to marry the girl openly mocked the legitimacy of British law, reflecting the rise of a parallel Islamic legal system in Britain.
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why Britain is taking so long to outlaw forced marriage involves multicultural sensitivities. Many promoters of British multiculturalism say the move to criminalize forced marriage will unfairly single out Muslims
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Cannot, rule of succession.
Also, some of us (some of us who are even British!) do not share the hatred for Charles many do on this site. One well known freeper is in fact a personal friend of the Prince. And I personally have met the Prince, and found him to be a charming and highly intelligent individual who cares deeply about his country and his people. And who btw is also very fond of your country and its people.
All this Charles-Muslim nonsense is just that, nonsense.
Between the high levels of homosexuality or pedophiles Islam doesn’t have much going well for them.
To a certain extent, we are about to re-enter and re-live the Crusades period. The Crusades were about Muslim armies swarming Europe trying to force people to convert to Islam.
Today, they have a much more modern approach to forcing people to convert - they call it "terrorism"!! /sarc
I find the subject of first cousin marriage to be a fascinating dilemma for the NHS— Pakistanis, for instance marry first cousins for half of total marriages, and have done so for a thousand years! The health consequences are very dire.
"Nikah", that's on odd spelling for a word that's clearly pronounced RAPE.
“”Nikah”, that’s on odd spelling for a word that’s clearly pronounced RAPE.”
Gotta love multiculturism.
14 ? That’s an old maid to a Mohammadan male.
I just read this article about some American Muslims who were in Mecca to worship that giant rock that got attacked,
“During the attack, the men reportedly shouted “Our [holy pilgrimage] will be complete once we have killed you, ripped out your hearts and eaten them, and [then] raped your women.”
Meanwhile the local police stood by and laughed. I wonder if the victims were lead to question their faith.
“I wonder if the victims were lead to question their faith.”
If anything, it probably strengthened their resolve. Feral animals.
And by the same token, it would be cruel and unfair and Multiculturally Insensitive to pass any other laws that unfairly single out Muslims.
For example, laws that would criminalize public beheadings of adulterous women, or the public rapping-on-the-knuckles of adulterous men, or forbidding public amputations of thieves, or public Honor Killings of girls who are raped (other than by their loving, geriatric husbands).
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