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June 10, 2007

UK: Girl, 11, rescued from marriage

"The forced marriage unit deals with 250 cases a year." And that number is certain to climb.

"Girl, 11, rescued from marriage," from BBC News, with thanks to Darcy:

An 11-year-old girl has been rescued from a forced marriage, the Home Office has said.

Minister Baroness Scotland said the girl, who was born in Britain, was taken to Bangladesh at the age of six to care for her disabled mother.

At 11, she was forced into marriage but her aunt in the UK reported the case to authorities who brought her back to Britain and put her in foster care.

It is one of 5,000 cases handled by the government's forced marriage unit.

Baroness Scotland told the BBC's Asian Network: "We've just rescued an 11-year-old who'd been forced into marriage, who'd been raped.

"Since she was six she'd been looking after her disabled mother and two siblings. And with the help of her aunt we were able to rescue her and bring her back."

The forced marriage unit was set up just over two years ago to help victims and survivors of forced marriage.

It deals with 250 cases a year and has rescued 300 people, many of them very young girls.

Posted by Robert at June 10, 2007 6:20 AM
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An ongoing problem of having a paedophile as a role model.

A few years ago, "moderates" in the Iranian parliament tried to increase the age of consent for girls. They were defeated by hardliners who said that would reflect badly on mohammed. If sex with a 9 year old was good enough for him, it's good enough for everyone else.

PS, how much is this costing the UK taxpayer? We should divert the money from islamic appeasement programs to help innocent victims like this girl.

Posted by: Celsius [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 8:49 AM

Thank You, dearest God! 300 down, 1/2 a billion to go.

Posted by: Isabellathecrusader [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 9:58 AM

I hope social services are finding foster homes for these children...

Posted by: The Resistance [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 10:22 AM

"At 11, she was forced into marriage but her aunt in the UK reported the case to authorities who brought her back to Britain and put her in foster care."

Oops, I missed that...

Posted by: The Resistance [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 10:24 AM

There should also be ways of prospective children to escape this reality. Maybe a children's helpline, and if that is impossible a 911 hang-up or something like that...

Posted by: The Resistance [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 10:27 AM

British Girl????? where in all this story do they tell you she is a Muslim because once you know that all paedophilia falls in to place. What other Cult supports the humiliation and desecration of children like this and on the blogs these animals try to defend it and their evil Cult leader Mohammed for starting the whole process. Truly a 'man for all time'

Posted by: Realist [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 11:49 AM

Dear Resistance,

You'll feel a bit better to know that such a helpline for abused children does exist in the UK, it's called Childline on 0800-1111.
That's a freephone number.

Posted by: Elephant [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 12:18 PM

Sounds like the Brits still think their native culture is superior to imported Muslim culture.

That'll change.

Polygamy is already quasi-legal.

Pedophilia is on the way.

Brave New Britain.

Accomodating.

Agreeable.

islamic.

Posted by: profitsbeard [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 12:36 PM

Sad story :-(

But it can only motivate me to fight more intensively against Islam.

Posted by: seville844 [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 1:46 PM

"Sounds like the Brits still think their native culture is superior to imported Muslim culture.

That'll change."

Sounds to me as though that's something you want to believe. Of course we believe our culture's superior, and I cannot see that changing. Why should it?

Posted by: JFGR [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 1:55 PM

The 'forced marriage unit' deals with 250 cases a year, and that number is certain to climb. Who would have thought that the great country of England, the bedrock of modern society, would have a 'forced marriage unit? "WE SHALL NOT BE CONTENT WITH A DEFENCIVE WAR." Winston Churchill (1940)

Posted by: mustang65 [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 2:04 PM

JFGR-


You could also mention some of our our cultural attitudes regarding paedophiles in our neighbourhoods.

There's a reason they have completely seperate wings in prisons and it isn't anything to do with the hurt feelings of the general prison population. This is also true on the outside, which is why paedophiles don't advertise: It could mean their life.

Why some people believe that we would willingly devolve into a society where the most heinous crimes are decreed by popular consent is beyond me.

Posted by: Wishbone [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 2:12 PM
the girl, who was born in Britain, was taken to Bangladesh at the age of six to care for her disabled mother

Sounds like uncovered meat being waved in front of the lions.

Posted by: special_guest [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 3:26 PM

"Care for her disabled mother"? Unlikely. She was shipped to Bangladesh as "marriage" meat, to be sold as soon as she hit Mohammed's magical molestation age.

Posted by: Marwan'sDaughter [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 3:48 PM

Incidentally, in discussions of Mohammed's behavior with Aisha, I find using the phrases "child molester" and "molestation" to have a greater impact than "pedophile." It may be that the phrases are less academic -- and I believe "molestation" is more accurate, because it reflects Mohammed's actions and not speculative sexual predilections -- but the sick expression that comes across people's faces when it becomes clear to them that this "prophet" actually sexually abused a child is very telling.

It spurs Moslems, especially muslimahs, to literal screaming, frothing fits, however, so care is indicated.

Posted by: Marwan'sDaughter [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 3:56 PM

JFGR-

It'll "change" if the Brits don't fight back.

It has already gone too far in England, in my opinion. Not irreversible, but getting close.

As it will in the U.S. -and the rest of the infidel West- unless we start reversing ther influx of Islamic infil-traitors.

What they bring is the worst of the past.

And an end to our future.

Posted by: profitsbeard [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 4:25 PM

Profitsbeard-

"It has already gone too far in England, in my opinion. Not irreversible, but getting close."

Sorry mate, but this is the kind of statement I have problems with. What has gone too far? How has it gone too far? What are the obvious and irrefutable effects of England having 'gone too far'?

Are you saying the British Apocalypse has come and gone and not one person had the decency to send the entire nation a memo?.

Posted by: Wishbone [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 4:40 PM

Simply rescuing these girls is meaningless, if they are not handed over to Infidel families who will raise them as Infidels. Otherwise, the vicious cycle will continue. Of course, the mom in this case was a real queen - having her 6 year old take care of her, instead of having her family take care of her daughter while she went under the care of social organizations.

Also, if I were the aunt, I'd watch out for her relatives - an honour killing couldn't be far behind.

Posted by: Infidel Pride [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 5:45 PM

“JFGR-
It'll "change" if the Brits don't fight back.
It has already gone too far in England, in my opinion. Not irreversible, but getting close.”

I’m sorry, but this kind of thing could only be written by someone who is totally unfamiliar with ordinary everyday life in Britain, or who is of a naturally apocalyptic mentality. You say “If the Brits don’t fight back…” There has been ample evidence documented on this site of “fighting back”, as you put it. – in other words not agreeing to unreasonable and often ridiculous demands made by a sometimes vocal minority to change our ways in the interests of an alien and repugnant culture. Indeed, this very item is an example of such “fighting back”. But I’m afraid that to us British the main agenda of too many posters on this site seems to be to leap to point the finger at us while ignoring the very similar things going on all over the Western world, including their own countries. What is the point of all this, for God's sake?

Posted by: JFGR [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 6:27 PM

In addition to the 'forced marriage unit', the government should also set up services to protect those who are at risk from 'honour' attacks and those who wish to leave, or find themselves at risk from, Islam.

Such services are essential because there is strong circumstantial evidence to suggest that many, especially women, within the 'Islamic community' are coerced into conforming with certain cultural requirements.

Women and children deemed to be at risk from violence are offered social services to try and protect them. Likewise, someone who wishes to leave Islam or simply wishes to assert his or her independence from his or her community may well find his or her life at risk. There are worrying signs that predominantly Islamic communities in Britain are starting to resemble tribal life in rural Afghanistan: tribal elders and bearded old clerical perverts are laying down the law, nine-year-old Bengali are being forced into marital slavery, etc.

It sounds daft but if the government offered a service like the 'apostasy unit' (okay,, it's bad title) it could well offer a way out to those who are trapped in the Sharia-esque hell that appears to be setting up shop in the UK.

And this would really, really piss off the Muslim Council of Brtiain.

Posted by: A Nonny Nonny [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 7:53 PM

their sexual pervert profit started all this and
It is undoubtedly the case that Muslim sexual mores creates a greater obsession with sex than occurs in other cultures. It is the Muslim view that both men and women have little or no control over their sexual appetites, and will always copulate given even the slightest opportunity.unfortunately in Islam and the middle east this seems to be true and once a girl has had her first moon time she is fair game for some upstanding follower of the seventh century pervert to claim in marriage or take as a concubine my personal opinion is that the average Muslim from the Middle East this never been on a board a New York subway or BART train or Vancouver's skytrain during rush hour would flip right out at the site of men and women in such close proximity and that the men and women are not copulating at the first opportunity, if nothing else this alone proves that Western society with all its problems is still much more civilized than Middle Eastern Islamic Society the average Western woman rarely has to fear being raped and in fact could go to nude beach where there are men and women or even go swimming in a very revealing costume in the local coed swimming pool and not have to fear being raped or even touched by the men in the place yet in the middle east and unaccompanied woman is a great danger of being raped by almost any man that see's her it is a sexual Moore's of Islam that allows the un-punished rape of unaccompanied women and the marriage and legalized rape(at least under sharia law in Islamic countries) of children and these Islamic societies have the gall to claim their way of life is superior to the west because the West has sex outside marriage pornography and women appearing in public who do not wear a burqa. I ask you which is a superior society a Islamic one were a woman runs the risks of being gang raped if he dares appear in public without a male protector and girl children can be forced into a marriage with a pedophileor here in the West where women routinely can walk down the street were nationwide in the USA and Canada rape does happen but where the chances of that happening are very slim and a woman does not need to fear that she cannot go out by herself or one where her chances of being raped are very good in Islamic society unless she has a male relative with her

Posted by: godisnotallha [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 7:58 PM

Are you saying the British Apocalypse has come and gone and not one person had the decency to send the entire nation a memo?

Hi Wishbone

Yea, I missed that one too; though my excuse is that I don't live in the UK.

It does seem to be a tendency among many Americans to write Europe and the UK off before their actual demise. I suspect that this phenomenon is more due to frustration than any actual reasoned thought, though given the continuous litany of official appeasement in the face of Islamic demands, it certainly does not inline one to any degree of confidence as to the degree of resolution imbued in our ruling elites; indeed it shows up those same elites as the shallow vacuities they truly are: definitely not what one could describe as 'leaders of men'. Actually, my definition of them would be more upon the lines of...'just a waste of space in the firmament'

I believe the tide is slowly turning, and that sadly the Islamic radicals are about to bring the house down upon the whole ummah. The great damnation which falls upon our elected governments is that by their consistent failure to address these issues in a firm, sensible, resolute manner, that their irresolution in the face of clear and persistent provocation, will in the end lead to untold numbers of mostly innocent dead, on both sides; for their ineptitude exposes their weakness, not their strength as they suppose, and in turn this encourages the Islamics to reach for ever more, thereby guaranteeing a reaction from the people of the West. As we all know, it is only a matter of time before some Islamic nut case goes that little bit too far. The politicians are sitting upon a powder keg, but I'm not sure that they even realize it.

One thing is for sure, the extreme left have exposed themselves in a manner that will not be forgotten nor forgiven for a long, long time, if ever. Their alliance with Islamic radicalism, locks them on an inevitable collision course with the sleeping giant of Western culture, God help them on the day that the West truly awakes, and it will, radical Islam will see to that!

There are difficult days ahead, all brought about by man's ignorance and hubris, what a toxic combination; it would seem to be man's lot to repeat this poisonous brew ad nauseam: such is the tale of man's journey down through the pathways of history. Sad, so very sad, but totally predictable.

We live in an age, when we are led by donkeys; but whose fault is that but our own?

Posted by: Just Another Richard [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 10:24 PM

It deals with 250 cases a year and has rescued 300 people, many of them very young girls. from the article

Are we to understand from this sentence that the "government's forced marriage unit" has rescued 300 people a year, or over the span of its existence, and if so, how long has this government department been in existence? 300 does not seem like a lot, given the prevalence of the practice of seeking spouses from the old country among members of the Asian community of Britain; doesn't seem very multicultural of them either. Silly me, I thought the whole idea was to be one giant melting pot, at least that's what those cleverer than us Marxists told us peons, could they be liars as well as sanctimonious fools, looks like it to me.

Posted by: Just Another Richard [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 10, 2007 10:52 PM

Just Another Richard

I feel the same sense of depression - many innocent lives will be lost just to continue to maintain the fiction that all cultures are alike and we can all live together. This just cannot happen with Muslims.

Americans feel frustrated by our lack of response but they themselves continue on the same path as Europeans, even though the US is in far greater danger from Islam then Europe.

Posted by: DP111 [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 11, 2007 1:00 AM

Just Another Richard

300 is only the ones who complain, most cannot. Some years ago "The Times" (MSM) reported it was common for muslim girls to disappear from school at the age of 11/12. As usual the teachers who told them were too scared to be quoted.

One suspects they take their British passports with them and come back 6 years later with a husband and children.

Posted by: Fred [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 11, 2007 5:00 AM

I missed this yesterday - thanks Mr. Spencer for posting it! It was nice seeing "with thanks to Darcy!"

So, after reading the Comments, a theme seems to be "which culture is superior, "Infidel" or Muslim?

I think we all know the answer to that one. Figuring out what 2 + 2 equals is more difficult.

Posted by: darcy [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 11, 2007 7:39 AM

"But I’m afraid that to us British the main agenda of too many posters on this site seems to be to leap to point the finger at us while ignoring the very similar things going on all over the Western world, including their own countries. What is the point of all this, for God's sake?"
Posted by JFGR

Agreed. As I have noted many times, except for a few trolls like Naseem and defenderofislam, we are all on the same side here. We are all dealing with the same problem. Unity is called for, not separation and criticism. The only way we will defeat the menace of islam is if we all work together.

Posted by: ImNoDhimmi [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 11, 2007 7:57 AM

DP111 & Fred

The most depressing aspect of it all is the total dysfunctional response of almost all of our major institutions, which, under a normal, rational mind, would have responded in a manner and by means to protect the societies which they represent; instead we have the spectacle of the mouth pieces of these organizations, spouting off glib phrases of great concern, leavened with the well worn nostrums of multicultural piety in defense of a Utopian fantasy, a fantasy that in reality spells absolute disaster for all parties. Even the elites, should their ultimate designs come true, would be cast adrift in a sea of anarchy and desolate despair; yes, some would, for a brief time hold positions of wealth and power, but as history repeatedly shows, the more authoritarian a polity becomes, the more transitory the seat of power becomes, with the one exception of the great leader of course.

I know that it is becoming an overused axiom, that the Marxist narrative has infested our institutions of higher education and consequently, our ruling institutions, but the consistent denial of the real and present threat to our societies does indeed point to a malaise of the mind which has infected our intellectuals. The fact that they cannot rationalize real actions, events and the clearly stated objectives (from our adversaries), leaves one no other option than to conclude that their minds have indeed been corrupted beyond any useful purpose; these people are quite simply, in the way. Here of course, I'm not talking of those of sinister intent, but only the majority, the useful idiots martyrs brigades, and martyrs to their cause they will be, though they know it not yet; as I said above...God help them upon the day of awakening.

The brotherhood of man mantra is about to crash down upon all our heads, courtesy of Ahmadinejad, the Mad Mullahs, and a ragtag assortment of radical religious absolutists, all enabled by a collection of useful fools and Utopian dreamers living in positions of comfort and security with the West. When that security bubble is burst, just what will their responses be then, blame everybody else but themselves is my bet.

Posted by: Just Another Richard [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 11, 2007 8:22 AM

" hope social services are finding foster homes for these children...

Posted by: The Resistance "


....Christian homes....

Posted by: exsgtbrown [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 11, 2007 9:15 AM

No excuses - Can you British (not Muslims) kick the Barbarians (Muslims) out, or what?????

Posted by: darcy [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 11, 2007 4:47 PM

“No excuses - Can you British (not Muslims) kick the Barbarians (Muslims) out, or what?????”

“Kicking Barbarians out” would be – the act of Barbarians. To be a non-Barbarian means precisely not acting like a Barbarian. Or do you want a Hobbesian law of the jungle?

Posted by: JFGR [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 11, 2007 6:36 PM

Dear Just another Richard,
We lack leadership. What would Churchill do?
Amadonutjihad would be gone. USA and Russia would be friends and the filthy mysogynistic, impotent imams would be looking for a new job.
And hopefully the women would at least be seen in public for the first time in their lives
I hope that 11 year old girl becomes a "crusader"
for muslim womens' rights and many more like her.
The answer to islam's problems is the liberation of their women. God willing.

Posted by: imamerican [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 11, 2007 11:09 PM

In this day and age dear Mohamed would be a registered sex offender.

Posted by: hemoglobin [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 12, 2007 5:47 AM

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