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Hugh Fitzgerald: Marriage Jihad (Part One)

Dec 1, 2018 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

One of the many ways that Muslims manage to enter and settle in the West is by marrying a Muslim who is already living in the West as a legal migrant or even as a citizen.

One version is that where Pakistani-British men return to Pakistan to find a bride, most often a cousin, who will be unused to Western ways, unlike Pakistani-British girls brought up in the U.K. For the Muslim girl, this arranged marriage appears not much different from the arranged marriage her family would otherwise make for her to a husband in Pakistan. In fact, she will come out ahead, because when her new husband brings her back to the U.K as his wife, even though she may live in a Muslim neighborhood, she will have more freedom of movement than would ever have been possible in Pakistan. She may acquire a better knowledge of English, offered by the generous welfare state of Britain. She may then have the further possibility of being able to work outside the house, depending on how liberal her husband is, and how great is the family’s need for money. She and her children will receive medical care far beyond what would have been possible in Pakistan. Her children will receive educations superior to anything they could get in Pakistan.

And in this way, many thousands of Pakistani girls and women are allowed into the U.K. each year — no one seems to know exactly how many — as the wives, in arranged  marriages, sometimes forced, of Muslim men already living in the country legally, thereby helping to increase the number of Muslims in Britain.

A different kind of arranged marriage is that where Muslim girls and women, who are legal migrants, or citizens, living in the U.K., are sent abroad by their families to marry Muslim men, who can return with them, as their husbands, on spousal visas. In order to make sure the girls are unable to back out from the marriages that have been arranged for them, the men deliberately rape and impregnate the girls, a way to seal the deal, and to prevent divorce, for the girls have now been rendered of less value — except to these “husbands” — on the marriage market. Furthermore, it is believed that a pregnant wife makes the marriage more legitimate in the eyes of British authorities.

These husbands from abroad now find that they are often (though not always) given that coveted thing, a spousal visa, by the Home Office, that allows them to remain in the U.K. as husbands of women who are legal migrants or  citizens. The couple can now be recipients of all the largesse the generous British welfare state provides. Their family can receive free or highly subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, family allowances, and more. But the main thing the men wanted they now have: they are able, with these spousal visas, to remain in the U.K.

Not all the women involved in these forced marriages are reconciled to their dismal lot. Some of these women have tried to get the British government to halt the practice of giving visas to their putative “husbands.”

Here is a recent story from The Times:

Women and girls raped after being sent abroad, then Home Office lets illegal husbands settle in UK.

British teenagers are being forced to marry abroad and are raped and impregnated while the Home Office “turns a blind eye” by handing visas to their husbands, The Times has found.

Officials received dozens of reports last year that women wanted to block visas for men they had been made to marry in countries including Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates. In almost half of their cases the visas were approved, records show.

Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the home affairs select committee, said she would demand answers from the Home Office over the findings.

Experts believe that there are thousands of victims in Britain as the vast majority are too afraid to come forward….

Thus, while recognizing the nature of these forced marriages, designed to help the husbands obtain residence in the U.K., and having heard the testimony of many of the women who have been forced into these sham marriages, and heard, too, their pleas not to give their “husbands” visas, the Home Office has nonetheless continued to approve visas for these men. Why? Is it because they don’t mind offending Muslim women, but are worried about offending Muslim men? Are there Muslims working in the Home Office who are used to the idea of arranged — and forced — marriages, and do not consider such marriages to be “sham”? Where is the justification for approving these visas for men who, at the very least, have been accused by their “wives” of having raped them, and whose main interest is clearly not the marriage itself, but the ability to receive the spousal visas that will allow them to remain in the U.K.?

These “marriages” have involved girls as young as 11 who were sent abroad from the U.K.  Sometimes they are “married” using Skype. As noted above, the deliberate attempt to impregnate these girls not only makes them less marriageable to others, so that they are more likely to stay in this forced marriage, but also to make their own “marriage” more legitimate to British authorities. Another consideration is that by having their daughters marry Muslim men from abroad, who expect strict adherence to Islam, the parents hope that will change the behavior of their daughters, if they give signs of becoming too Western in their ways:

“Imams in the UK and abroad have been conducting ceremonies using Skype – so girls can be married remotely before “being put on a plane and consummating the marriage at the earliest opportunity”, according to Freedom, a charity.

The marriage is often conducted with the promise of a visa to the UK for their new husband, it said.

“The reason is to curb the behavior of their children when they become ‘too western’,” charity founder Aneeta Prem was quoted as saying by ‘The Sunday Times’.

“Once married, there is enormous pressure to get a spouse visa. The hope is the girl will visit (country of husband’s origin) and fall pregnant to make the union seem more legitimate before bringing the partner back,” she said.

To sum up:

Muslim girls in the U.K. are being sent abroad and forced to marry Muslim men, often much older, whom they do not know, and who have already been chosen for them, for three reasons. First, in order to make sure that their behavior remains islamically correct, and does not become “too western.” Second, so that the men they marry will be able to enter, and remain in, the U.K., on a spousal visa. Third, in some cases, these husbands-to-be pay the families of the girls for the right to marry them, mainly in order to get the benefits of that visa.

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  1. Jean (old) says

    Dec 1, 2018 at 10:38 am

    “in some cases, these husbands-to-be pay the families of the girls for the right to marry them, mainly in order to get the benefits of that visa.”

    Why is it common among Muslims to obsessively repeat the idea that Western women are prostitutes? It’s a projection. Because they deep inside know quite well that their own mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters have been forced into prostitution all their lives, and that what they call marriage is often just institutionalized rape.

    They call others whores in order to reassure themselves that there is no better alternative to the misery of their own loveless way of life.

    Very tragic and very indecent.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 2, 2018 at 12:18 am

      +1. There is no love in Islam.

      One Muslim troll here–Ibrahim itace muhammed–has gone so far as to say that anyone who marries for love should be murdered.

    • BC says

      Dec 2, 2018 at 7:01 am

      This shows up the nonsense of ‘integration’ of Muslims into UK society. They do not want to integrate as in most cases at least among the religious, they consider non Muslims to be inferior and even evil and dirty. They actively fight against integration by their family members, as shown above. They are subjected to community pressure not to integrate and thus bring ‘shame’ on their families and community. Their religion actively discourages them from integration with non Muslims and in fact forbids it.

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 1, 2018 at 11:54 am

    Those marriages of the naïve Western girls to their strong and forceful Muslim men may results ,sometimes, in the phenomena of females who are jihad suicide /homicide bombers is tragic, sad, yet t interesting in a negative sort of way. The reasons for the delusional and murderous behavior by brainwashed, girls and women is the mind programming inflected on them by the Muslims clerics, as the imams, who keep telling them lines and lies. Such as “We will honor you” and “You will go to paradise” and “We are doing this for Allah.” That’s some strange kind of “We.” For the reader might ,very well ,notice the those same Muslim clerics who so thoroughly mind indoctrinate them into actually wanting to become human bombs are never, ever, the ones who strap bombs vest on themselves and then go out and blow themselves up in a suicide bombing. Those Islamic clerics just mind condition and then manipulate them to become, literally, dangerous to self and others by engaging in murderous bombs attacks. Ten the same Muslim clerics sit home safe all the while the deadly bombing are going on. Therefore those Islamic clerics who use those girls and women as stooges for the jihad are both despicable and cowardly.
    In addition, Islam gives female be they girls or women, little to no value or worth because Islam because is, in essence, a religion of extreme misogyny. Nevertheless, the Muslim clerics and the jihadist leaders of different jihad organizations will not hesitate to use girls and women for the advancement of their jihad agenda for Islam. How Ironic. How unconscionable! How callous! They are so very wicked. The Bible informs its reader that “The counsels of the wicked are deceitful.” Proverbs 12:5. [N.K.J.V.]

  3. Krishna says

    Dec 1, 2018 at 1:27 pm

    This is common in South Asian countries like India and Indians Call this marriage jihad as love jihad
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Jihad

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 2, 2018 at 12:19 am

      Yes–this ugly phenomenon has been noted here before, Krishna.

  4. The Awful Truth says

    Dec 1, 2018 at 1:53 pm

    Muslim men in the U.K. Can I think legally marry more than one wife – double or quadruple happiness. It’s a Muslim loophole denied non-Muslims and Moslim women.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 2, 2018 at 12:21 am

      I don’t think I would call this “happiness”, exactly–it is privilege, though, and gives Muslim men the ability to abuse others.

  5. Ole Pederson says

    Dec 1, 2018 at 2:17 pm

    One version is that where Pakistani-British men return to Pakistan to find a bride, most often a cousin, who will be unused to Western ways,

    … who will be unused, period.

    But only before marriage, as from then on she will be used as “your tilth; go, then, into your tilth as you wish” (Q’ran 2:223)

    • JM says

      Dec 2, 2018 at 9:15 am

      Yes, that verse from the Qu’ran is a licence for marital rape.
      What a disgusting and perverted system Islam is!

  6. Nakul jana says

    Dec 1, 2018 at 6:25 pm

    Islam is standing on deception and lying to spread Islam. Their role model has used these to spread the Arabic imperialism which is continuing for 1450 years It is going to destroy mankind and there appears no way to save the body from this cancer. It is only possible if they get educated which is against the Islamic teaching . Biggest vice of man of all ages is sex and it is sailing on that boat to conquer the world. The days has come when the Muslims are finding kufer in Muslims who are not radicalized

  7. gravenimage says

    Dec 2, 2018 at 12:16 am

    Hugh Fitzgerald: Marriage Jihad (Part One)
    ………………….

    Another important piece from Hugh Fitzgerald.

    That the West is allowing this is deeply foolish.

    • JM says

      Dec 2, 2018 at 9:18 am

      Indeed. But it is not only deeply foolish. It is also suicidal.
      How is it that Western governments do not see that?

  8. Harold Armitage says

    Dec 2, 2018 at 3:23 am

    Pretty accurate report.
    Another aspect not mentioned is that this repeated generational cousin marriage leads to children with various health defects, some serious and untreatable. Cost the health service a fortune.
    Some reports say 30% of Pakistani children have a health issue due to inbreeding.

    • JM says

      Dec 2, 2018 at 9:24 am

      Deobandi Pakistanis not only have health issues but also, after generations of endogamy, lower IQs. My family are Greek Orthodox. It is exactly for these reasons (mental and physical health) that the Orthodox Church forbids cousin marriage. We consider it to be incest, especially when the marriage is between first cousins.

  9. Jennifer says

    Dec 3, 2018 at 5:47 am

    Not only the Muslim community, but the Hindu and often the Sikh community in Britain does exactly the same thing. Another frequent abuse is for these men to marry an unknown girl in Britain, take the dowry payment and abscond, but still claim his right to British residence etc.
    Muslim girls are often forced to marry a first cousin, so their children are mostly inbred, with many genetic faults.
    If these Muslim and Hindu girls want or do marry the man of their own choice, then they are usually killed by men in their own family.
    Often these Muslim and Hindu girls are forced into going to these countries and marrying strange men in these countries. The Foreign Office and the British Embassies are aware of this, and even officials at airports are on alert to detain these girls and interview them in private without their parents or escorts, so that they may or may not speak freely. If they are being taken against their own wishes, then they are given immediate protection and taken to safe houses with adequate security.

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