Britain Cracks Down on Forced Marriages
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Britain investigated 400 cases of forced marriages last year and is also looking into whether some girls who have vanished from school registers were taken out of schools to be married against their will, officials said Tuesday.
It is currently not against British law to force someone into marriage, but the practice often involves criminal offenses including abuse, assault, rape, kidnapping and murder.
The Forced Marriage Unit, comprised of six officers from the Foreign Office and Home Office, dealt with 400 reported cases last year. Of those, 168 occurred abroad. The majority of the cases overseas were in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India, the Foreign Office said.
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A new act takes effect this year that will allow judges more power to remove victims of abuses connected with forced marriage from households and issue protection orders. Family members who break the protection orders could be arrested.
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Ann Cryer, a member of Parliament for Keighley in Yorkshire, has been speaking out against forced marriages for nine years. She said she is particularly concerned that the issue is not being addressed in schools and in Muslim areas.
“There’s a problem in our northern towns and cities where all three parties are worried about losing the Muslim vote so people have avoided talking about it,” Cryer told AP.
Figures from the Forced Marriage Unit show the highest incidence of reported cases is in Muslim communities. Britain is home to more than 1.8 million Muslims, the majority of whom are of Pakistani origin.
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(Posted on March 11, 2008)
Comments
‘Forced Marriage Unit’? Ok, now that’s funny.
Posted by Mr. Pibb at 6:10 PM on March 11
Britain is an example of white majority giving up their country to immigrants. The shape of things to come for the rest of us.
Posted by Trisket at 6:54 PM on March 11
>>>“Figures from the Forced Marriage Unit show the highest incidence of reported cases is in Muslim communities. Britain is home to more than 1.8 million Muslims, the majority of whom are of Pakistani origin”
This mealy-mouthed attitude is grist to the mill of the Muslim invader. What should be said is that all reported cases of forced marriage are amongst Asian communities, the vast majority of whom are Muslim, the rest being Hindus.
I pulled up the Home Office web page to find the report ‘A Choice by Right’ so that I could see the original report. On page 12 of the report the subtitle reads: “Not just an Asian Issue”. So I read on anticipating being informed about those forced Celtic and Anglo marriages; but I was disappointed. Below is the contorted section complete with ambiguous change of tense mid paragraph, and notice how all of a sudden we’re comparing 2008 Britain with the 18thC practices. Precisely which countries and cultures around the world continue to force marriage? Australian, Canadian, Swiss? What exactly do they mean by ‘emerging new values in modern Britain’? This is worrying stuff methinks and nothing reveals the fear of the invaders more than this constant kow-towing to their primitive lifestyle.
>>>”Not Just an Asian Issue:
Forced marriage is not just an ‘Asian’ issue and to discuss it as such denies a voice to those from other communities who have experienced it. In this country, forced marriages were commonplace a hundred years ago, and they continue to happen in many countries and cultures around the world. History, time and place shape people’s motivations and experiences and the emerging new values in modern Britain and elsewhere will affect these behaviours and practices over time.”
http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1094234862113
Arc.
Posted by Arcadian at 7:58 PM on March 11
“Britain is an example of white majority giving up their country to immigrants. The shape of things to come for the rest of us.
Posted by Trisket at 6:54 PM on March 11”
Only if we let them, my friend; only if we let them.
We could prevent something similar in the Northwest American Republic by getting our brothers and sisters in Montana to repeal the “double proxy marriage” law.
Posted by Wild Eyed Charlie at 11:47 AM on March 12
Britain, cracks down on forced marriages yet gives its blessing to polygamy. “Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies…”
Posted by idareya at 12:21 AM on March 13
And what about the crackdown on arranged marriages? As far as I know every single forced marriage results from turning down an arranged marriage. I see, we would offend all those “highly skilled” and “progressive” from indian subcontinent. Fighting forced marriages without focusing our attention on monstrosity of arranged marriages is like stoping the fan blades by putting your hands in instead of just pulling the cord.
Posted by at 1:05 PM on March 14