Family of teen Muslim invited men to rape her

BBC News Report

by Abul Taher

 

A GIRL of 15 was tricked into a "telephone marriage" ceremony to a Sheffield man with a mental age of five in a ceremony recognised by sharia (Islamic law).

 

When the girl arrived from Pakistan expecting to meet the handsome man she had been shown in a photograph, she found that he was 40 years old, unemployed and disabled.

 

To make matters worse, her mother-in-law decided to exploit her attractive looks by forcing her into prostitution.

 

The family invited men to the family home to rape her before she managed to escape to the police by bolting through the front door. She was taken into care and now lives in a refuge.

 

The case is highlighted in a report by the Centre for Social Cohesion, which has found that policemen, councillors and taxi drivers are turning a blind eye or even conniving in enforcing the Asian community's strict "moral code" on young women.

 

The girl's marriage last April was not recognised by the Home Office but was approved by the Islamic Sharia Council in Britain. She is typical of the runaway brides at risk of an "honour killing". According to official figures, 10 to 12 women are murdered in Britain in honour killings each year, but the government has been warned by MPs that this is a serious underestimate. Police often record the deaths as cases of domestic violence, while other girls are driven to suicide or taken away to their family's country of origin and never seen again. Many Asian parents would rather resort to violence against their children than see their reputation tarnished by the perceived dishonour of allowing them to become "westernised".

 

The report, Crimes of the Community, claims the problem is no longer an issue of first-generation migrants importing attitudes from "back home" but is "indigenous and self-perpetuating" because it is sustained by third and fourth-generation immigrants.

 

The study reveals the case of Saamiya, a 16-year-old girl from Birmingham, whose parents were so angry when they discovered she had a boyfriend that they flew her to Pakistan and told her they had arranged a marriage two hours before the ceremony.

 

"During the Islamic ceremony my dad was standing behind me with one hand on my shoulder and with his other hand he had a gun which was pointed at my back so that I didn't say 'no'," Saamiya said.

 

"To everyone else it looked natural — he was just standing there stroking my shoulder — but just before he had told me that he would shoot me if I didn't go through with it."

 

She was rescued from Pakistan by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's forced marriage unit and now lives in a refuge in the Midlands, but has been told that she will be murdered by her brothers. The girl told investigators: "I haven't been back home since then. My brothers say that they want to take me back to Pakistan so they can kill me basically. They'll just pay the police there to keep quiet... I don't want to be killed. I'm only 16. I want to live my life."

 

The think-tank's report comes after Gordon Brown, the prime minister, said last week that he was extremely concerned that too little was being done to prevent honour crimes.

 

The study criticises the police and schools for failing to take action in a misguided attempt to avoid offending cultural sensibilities.

 

Karma Nirvana, a support group in Derby, claims it asked local schools last year to display warning posters produced by the forced marriage unit. It said the schools refused.

 

Derby council last week denied that the group had made the requests, but the prime minister has pledged to investigate reports that the government unit cannot get its advice posters into schools for fear of upsetting local opinion.

 

According to the report, women who go to the authorities to seek protection have been tracked down through their mobile phones or even by leaks of confidential information from government databases.

 

Jasvinder Sanghera, director of Karma Nirvana, said that police who find girls who have escaped from their families often simply return them to their parents where they face further abuse, with some Asian officers actually colluding in crimes. Sanghera is taking a case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission of a girl who fled her family but was kidnapped by relatives and held prisoner. She claims that a police officer tipped off the family where the girl was staying.

 

"Police have a long way to go before they get on top of honour crime. There is a lingering fear among officers of being dubbed racist for probing cultural issues. We've got to shake off that myth," she said.

 

Do you think that it is right that this is allowed to happen in the UK because of the families religious beliefs or is this another example of political correctness rotting our society to the core?

I have to admit I have a very closed mind on this.

What possible "honour" do they see in killing their own? Or inviting men to rape their daughters? Yes, that's VERY honourable!

 

And at the risk of being mistaken for a racist, if they don't want their kids to become westernised, WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING MOVING THEIR KIDS TO THE WEST?

 

I don't know how anyone can justify this in any part of the world, but for it to happen here is just awful.

I have to admit I have a very closed mind on this.

What possible "honour" do they see in killing their own? Or inviting men to rape their daughters? Yes, that's VERY honourable!

 

And at the risk of being mistaken for a racist, if they don't want their kids to become westernised, WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING MOVING THEIR KIDS TO THE WEST?

 

Doesn't sound racist to me e.g. if I didn't want my kids to be swimmers I wouldn't move house and live next to the ocean. It's okay to take the good parts of the West but then rant about where you live? Move back home then. If your country of origin is so great, why did you leave in the first place?

Thats just sick (the report). It's all about their reputation. She has been betrayed by her family.

 

I think muslim families come to the west so they can have a better life (basically it's the parents want the better life and not their kids).

 

The government in those types of countries should really get involved more with force arranged marriages and provide support for the victims.

I have to admit I have a very closed mind on this.

What possible "honour" do they see in killing their own? Or inviting men to rape their daughters? Yes, that's VERY honourable!

 

And at the risk of being mistaken for a racist, if they don't want their kids to become westernised, WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING MOVING THEIR KIDS TO THE WEST?

 

couldnt agree more.

 

i hope the british law system gets going and these people are treated like the criminals they are.... they want sharia law? then fcuk off to the country that recognises it as their legitimate law system.

I find it utterly laughable that these hypocrites are against their daughters becoming "westernized" but are then guilty of the worst level of Western Capitalism - ie, to "sell" their daughters into virtual sexual slavery... An "arranged" marriage where both parties are willing and consenting is one thing, this is nothing less than Sex Traffic, and no different that what gangs of Russian Mafia thugs do to young girls from Russia and Eastern Europe.... Can a person with the mental age of 5 even give their consent legally is another question.... This is just wrong on both parties.....

couldnt agree more.

 

i hope the british law system gets going and these people are treated like the criminals they are.... they want sharia law? then fcuk off to the country that recognises it as their legitimate law system.

I absolutely agree! It is appalling what these people are doing, here or anywhere in the world.

I absolutely agree! It is appalling what these people are doing, here or anywhere in the world.

 

This sh!t wouldn't even BE allowed in Pakistan.... It wouldn't be allowed in Turkey either, probably not even the Middle eastern sheikhdoms.... About the only place that this sort of sh!t might have been acceptable would've been in Taliban controlled Afghanistan.... And, well, erm, we all know how that happened dont we....? The US destabalising the Soviet-controlled authority and basically not giving a sh!t about what the consequences would be.....

 

I have to admit I have a very closed mind on this.

What possible "honour" do they see in killing their own? Or inviting men to rape their daughters? Yes, that's VERY honourable!

 

And at the risk of being mistaken for a racist, if they don't want their kids to become westernised, WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING MOVING THEIR KIDS TO THE WEST?

 

My sentiments exactly.

This sh!t wouldn't even BE allowed in Pakistan.... It wouldn't be allowed in Turkey either, probably not even the Middle eastern sheikhdoms.... About the only place that this sort of sh!t might have been acceptable would've been in Taliban controlled Afghanistan.... And, well, erm, we all know how that happened dont we....? The US destabalising the Soviet-controlled authority and basically not giving a sh!t about what the consequences would be.....

 

eh?..... are you refering to the russian invasion of afghanistan back in 79/80?... the one that the afghanis ASKED the usa for support?... the yanks were there by INVITATION to assist repelling the russian invaders.

eh?..... are you refering to the russian invasion of afghanistan back in 79/80?... the one that the afghanis ASKED the usa for support?... the yanks were there by INVITATION to assist repelling the russian invaders.

 

Here are the facts... The US spent BILLIONS arming, training and equipping the Mujahadeen (which included one Osama Bin Laden in their ranks.... :lol: :lol: ), and spent precisely BUGGER ALL in repairing Afghanistan's post-war shattered infrastructure, so you basically have a bunch of armed nutters running around the place, and no semblance of a civil infrastructure, no investment in education, public health, no stable Govt. Not gonna end well really is it....? Say what you like about the Soviets, they actually made Afghanistan reasonably stable as a state, women certainly had more rights under the Soviet regime, can you say the same for the fukkin' Taliban....?

 

As Senator Charlie Wilson (who was the main guy responsible for procureing the money to arm and train the Mujahadeen) said - "We fukked-up the end-game".....

 

And, seriously, looking back at things, was destabalising the Soviet empire really the best thing to do all things considered....?

And, seriously, looking back at things, was destabalizing the Soviet empire really the best thing to do all things considered....?

 

you cannot be seriously extolling the benefits of communism are you?... the people didnt want it! maybe colonialism was good and stabalising for the backward countries we invaded... <_<

 

the Russians were NOT WANTED in Afghanistan by the populace end of.

you cannot be seriously extolling the benefits of communism are you?...

 

Considering what we have now and what's going on in the world atm, I dunno.....

 

I'm just saying that it was stupid to undermine the secular soviet authority without having any kind of clue as to what was going to be installed in its place... The Americans had no plan, at all (just as now in Iraq, except of course the "plan" for western corporations to go in and syphon off billions of Iraqi oil wealth to their own coffers...). They just wanted to "kill the commies" and then fukk off back to Washington.... There was nothing like any kind of Marshall Aid-type plan to help the people of Afghanistan.. Perhaps if there had been, then Bin Laden and the Taliban would never have even got off the ground....

 

Makes you think.....

dunno whos worse, gw bush or reagan... of course the yanks were keen to 'kick commie ass'... and i agree that like iraq there was no 'after the war' contingency.... well nothing strong enough to work anyway.

dunno whos worse, gw bush or reagan...

 

Both as dumb and dangerous as each other as far as I'm concerned mate.... -_- Reagan saw his fight against Communism as a "religious crusade" (in much the same was as Dubya and the Neo Cons see this "war on terror"), and it was on this basis that Charlie Wilson managed to get much of the money he needed to arm and train the Mujahadeen. The Mujahadeen were as "god fearing" as the Americans, they were fighting the "heathen communists", they just happened to be Muslim, so, birds of feather flocking together mate... Who knew it was gonna turn around and bite them on the arse..... -_-