A small step forward. If authorities enforce penalties properly and aren't deterred from pursuing cases for fear of "alienating" or allegedly "radicalizing" Muslim populations, that will be another step forward. British law aims at preventing forced marriage," by Jennifer Quinn for the Associated Press, November 25:
LONDON – (AP) — A British law went into effect Tuesday that allows courts to prevent someone from being forced into marriage — a move that comes as governments across Europe confront immigrant practices that sometimes clash with more liberal values.
The right to resist a forced marriage is more than simply a "more liberal value." But there is more politically correct understatement later in the article.
In the first nine months of 2008, the Forced Marriage Unit — part of Britain's Foreign Office — handled more than 1,300 cases in which there were concerns someone was about to be forced into marriage, or already had been.
Nearly 85 percent of the cases had female victims, and the majority involved families of Pakistani, Indian, and Bangladeshi descent, the unit said. About half involved minors.
The Forced Marriage Act gives British courts the power to issue protection orders that can stop intimidation or violence, prevent someone from having to go abroad, and compel someone to reveal the whereabouts of a person believed to be at risk.
The act allows the victim, a friend, or an agency working with the person at risk — like the police, social services or organizers of a women's refuge — to apply for a protection order. Anyone who violates such an order can be jailed for two years.
A curious detail:
It is not a crime in Britain to force someone into marriage. But the practice often includes offenses such as abuse, assault, rape and kidnapping.
Women who had been forced into marriage — or who had escaped a forced marriage — were consulted on the act before it became law, said Shaminder Ubhi, the director of London's Ashiana Project.
"You want to be able to say to the community that this won't be tolerated, that if you are a perpetrator, you will be held accountable," Ubhi said.
The effort to curb forced marriage is part of a wider debate across Europe over the proper balance between accepting diversity and demanding that immigrants accept the values of their new country. France, with a secular tradition, set of a furious debate in 2004 by banning Muslim headscarves and other religious symbols from schools.
The issue of forced marriage is in quite a different league from other "traditions," but that sets up a handy litmus test: If it's a crime and/or an institutionalized violation of human rights, it isn't "diversity."
What would these supposedly "good intentions" amount to if, in the end, we all know that political correctness is set to prevail in Dhimmi Britain and will allow muslims to keep getting away with such marriages?
Just wait for the usual appeasers, the usual useful idiots who cry "racism" at the smallest sign of anything intended to prevent islamic tenets from being considered criminal acts because of how they violate universal human rights (and, to ask that question that never gets old, WHAT RACE IS ISLAM AGAIN???) if the British authorities actually try to enforce such laws.
Just wait for the usual imams who have been placed beyond the reach of the law, by the gutlessness of British politicians and authorities, to start inciting more violence against infidels because of their attempts to forbid what has been deemed "halal" by allah (the imaginary) and his messenger.
No, these new laws aren't going to be enforced. We are more likely to see Hassan Nasrallah become an aerobics instructor than to see Britain actually punish anyone for forcing someone to marry someone else.
But the practice often includes offenses such as abuse, assault, rape and kidnapping.
It always involves all of the above. That is, unless it involves murder. And don't forget that the whole point of female genital mutilation is to facilitate the abuse, assault, rape, and kidnapping of women, plus the receipt of a higher john fee, or in the case of South Asians, cheaper reverse john fees, since these families actually pay to pimp their daughters into incestuous Sharia sex slavery. Who am I kidding? Make that abuse, assault, rape, and kidnapping of children.
Pathetic that such a law needs to be passed in the first place-even 30 years ago people would have thought it insane that such a law would be needed. But this is what happens when multiCULTuralism runs amok and allows unfettered immigration of strange people from strange places bringing their strange customs with them. That itself wouldn't even be so bad except for the fact that such people aim to impose their bizarre customs on everyone else, turning their new homeland into an unrecognizable mess.
So what?
They have had a special police unit tasked with combating the estimated 12 "honour" killings per year. About the only time they prosecute is when the neighbors hear the victims screams or in cases of wife murder when the girls family insists.
England is turning into than Christian police state with just dumd laws.
I'll use Pakistan in this example: feel free to substitute it with Bangladesh or any other Islamic paradise from where people go to UK.
As everyone knows, what happens is that Paki Muslimahs get taken to Pakistan, either being tricked or voluntarily, and it's there that they are forced to marry a local mullah, their cousin or someone else who they can bring back to the Ummah Kaliphate. It's not against Paki law to force a girl to marry (except maybe if the girl is a Muslimah and the guy is an Infidel).
So how exactly does this British law work? Does Scotland Yard's jurisdiction now extend to Karachi and La-Whore? How is an act that is not a crime in an Islamic paradise like Pakistan going to be treated as one simply because it's a crime elsewhere? And if the girls being forcibly married are daughters of Paki citizens, they'll be seen by the local authorities as Pakis, and legitimate tilth machines for locals. It won't be seen as a crime to forcibly marry off Aisha Begum in the same way as it would be to marry off Kate Taylor.
So regardless of whether forced marriages are legal or not in Britain, the issue of whether they can be eliminated is besides the point here. What Britain should do, were it to recognize this as a sham scheme of anchor brides bringing in people who'd otherwise have to wait in line, is to simply decree that if a woman is forced to marry a foreigner, he does not automatically gain entry, but has to wait in line behind everyone else, while his new bride has to continue to stay in UK for that immigration to work. Once this happens, at least the incentive to pimp girls to smuggle in more Mohammedans will go, although Mohammedan parents will continue to force their daughters to marry Muslims that they may even hate, so that Infidels don't get hold of their wombs.
And all this doesn't even factor in whether the man who the Muslimah in question is being sold to is entering a polygamous marriage.
There is no doubt to my mind that at last, words like "diversity" are beginning to be seen as concepts which have flies on them, as it were.
DefenderofIslam wrote:
England is turning into than Christian police state with just dumd laws.
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Yes, England must be "than Christian police state" if they have the temerity to try to combat forced marriages. This must be a "dumd" law, unlike the shining glory of Shari'ah, which knows, after all, how to keep those deficient women in their place.
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