Posted on 09/02/2008 5:47:12 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
MPs too scared to talk about forced marriage 'in case they lose Muslim votes'
Politicians are too scared to speak out against forced marriage in case they lose valuable Muslim votes, according to a veteran Labour MP.
By Martin Beckford Religious Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 12:46AM BST 02 Sep 2008
Ann Cryer said politicians in areas with high Muslim populations, many of which are Labour heartlands, should be at the forefront of the campaign to stop young couples being made to wed against their will by their families.
But she claimed that some politicians are afraid to speak out on the issue in case they alienate Muslim voters. The forced marriage unit at the Foreign Office deals with an estimated 300 cases every year, most of them involving teenage girls from Pakistani or Bangladeshi families.
Mrs Cryer, who is stepping down as MP for Keighley in West Yorkshire at the next general election, added that local Muslim leaders are not doing enough to encourage integration and accused them of trying to keep immigrants who move to Britain "in the backwoods".
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pc comes home to roost!
Gee are Brits MP are bunch of p***ys
HEY TIGER guess what I hear on Fox news your Fav Chia Pet rebuild one of nuke plant that he promise not rebuild on it
Yes, they are afraid of alienating muslim voters, but it isn't votes they are afraid of losing.
Pretty soon they will be too afraid to speak out about honor killings, stonings, beheadings, and live burials. Best to speak out now, while there’s still a chance to save the country and your life.
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
When are they going to stop capitulating to evil ?
And Stalin was just a confused progressive in a hurry.
These MPs wouldn’t be intimidated by Muslims if they STOPPED MUSLIMS FROM IMMIGRATING IN THE FIRST PLACE!
And so we have found the end of democracy. We have not found Marx’s dicatatorship of the proletariat. We have not come to a place where all are civic minded and angelic enough that there is no need for government.
Instead the end is the bleating of politicians, unable to support noble human rights because it might have a cost. A culture too decadent to be intolerant of that which is destroying it.
There is a decided lack of men in England. They have all gone to girly men or just to the pub.
Nothing to see here boys, back to the pints!
A recent case from that bastion of diversity Pakistan where 5 women were killed and buried in a ditch for wanting to choose their own husbands.
Instead the end is the bleating of politicians, unable to support noble human rights because it might have a cost. A culture too decadent to be intolerant of that which is destroying it.
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Or a culture too frightened or significantly cowed by political correctness.
“Or a culture too frightened or significantly cowed by political correctness”.
Well said.
“There is a decided lack of men in England. They have all gone to girly men or just to the pub.”
And to think they used to rule over quite a bit of the known world.
Maybe it’s better to let them continue to devolve into genetic hell. Polygamy and marrying first cousins is not a long-term survival plan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4442010.stm
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