New school year puts French on forced marriage alert

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[DemonDeac]

" As thousands of girls and young women prepare to start the new school year in France, activists are sounding the alarm over those who are missing -- teenagers sent abroad over the holidays and forced into marriage.

Most victims are of Asian, African or Middle Eastern descent and belong to France's Muslim community, the largest in Europe."

"Zeliha Alkis, who works for Elele, a non-profit organization that mainly helps women of Turkish origin, cites the example of a young woman of Turkish descent who was married to a Turkish man at a Paris town hall this summer. On her wedding night, she was locked in a room, and when she screamed and protested, her grandmother tied her up so the marriage could be consummated."

"No one knows exactly how many French women are forced into such unions. A report on women's rights by France's high council for integration in 2003 put the number of girls and women at risk of being forced into marriage at 70,000, based on research by grassroots organizations."

"One such consulate assisted the escape of Fatou Diouf, a 28-year-old Muslim woman of Senegalese descent. She was lured abroad at the age of 18 -- her father told her he had won a trip to Senegal and gave her the ticket. When she arrived, she was told she had already been married off to her 36-year-old uncle in a religious ceremony that did not require the spouses to be present.

After seven months in confinement, she fled with the help of a local who put her in touch with the French consulate. Now, she works for a women's organization, Femmes Solidaires, in a tiny office in the shadow of grimy tower blocks south of Paris.""

[DemonDeac]

Animals.

[Question Liberal Authority]

she was told she had already been married off to her 36-year-old uncle in a religious ceremony that did not require the spouses to be present.

If we're going to have gay marriage, I think we should also consider non-consensual marriage. For instance, I should be able to marry Bill Gates without his knowledge or consent, and that should allow me access to 1/2 of his money.

[Nathan Zachary]

Women are property according to the unholy Koran.

[Nathan Zachary]

"If we're going to have gay marriage, I think we should also consider non-consensual marriage. For instance, I should be able to marry Bill Gates without his knowledge or consent, and that should allow me access to 1/2 of his money. "

Not a chance sister. I should be able to marry him as well, and have access to ALL his money. I shouldn't even have to be gay. Just weird.

Tell you what, we'll both marry him, take his money, then marry Oprah by decree, and clean her out too.

[Grunthor]

Animals? Hardly. THis is the religion of peace that our definitively NON-MUSLIM President recently honored at the White House.

[Grunthor]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory

[PrincessB]

For instance, I should be able to marry Bill Gates without his knowledge or consent, and that should allow me access to 1/2 of his money. Not if I get there first. :)

[Question Liberal Authority]

"Polyamory is the practice, desire, or acceptance of having more than one loving, intimate relationship at a time with the full knowledge and free consent of everyone involved."

See, that's too restrictive. I don't want to love, be intimate with or even know Bill Gates. I just want to marry him without his consent so that I can have his money.

[Tax-chick]

Most victims are of Asian, African or Middle Eastern descent and belong to France's Muslim community ...

While the rest must be those crazy Amish, right?

(Actually, they're probably Gypsies, I suppose.)

[Desron13]

Someone really needs to come out with toilet paper with Koranic verses printed on it.