A brave teenager has spoken for the first time of the harrowing ordeal of being beaten up in an arranged marriage after her father tried to sell her for £10,000.NEARLY 2000/YEAR IN BRITAIN. THAT'S ABOUT 1/MOSQUE/YEAR.
The 15-year-old girl was tricked into flying to Pakistan then forced to marry a 31-year-old man so he could get a British passport.
She has described how she feared she would die after being hit, scarred with broken glass and locked up for refusing to get married.
Her harrowing story has been revealed as part of BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat investigation into forced marriages.
The girl, who would not be named, said: 'It was just about the money. He was literally selling me and my nationality so I could bring the person back.
'In pounds, it would have been about £10,000.
'He whacked me across the face, then I started rebelling more, saying ''no''.
Then he got a glass and scarred my arms. He had somebody holding me from behind and he got a glass and was cutting very deep.
'I thought he might kill me. I thought I was going to die.'
The beatings started when the young girl refused to get married. She was then locked up without food or water.
Fortunately she summoned her strength and escaped to the British High Commission in Pakistan. She then returned home and was reunited with her worried mother.
Figures obtained by Newsbeat show that her ordeal is one of many suffered by an estimated 1,735 potential forced marriages involving British citizens in 2010.
THERE ARE UNDOUBTEDLY MORE INSTANCES OF THIS ALL OVER EUROPE AND EVEN MORE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA.
EXTRAPOLATING FROM THIS BRITISH NUMBER - AND ESTIMATING THAT THERE ARE 1O0 MILLION YOUNG SINGLE MUSLIM WOMEN IN THE WORLD (OUT OF 1.5 BILLION MUSLIMS), THEN THERE ARE PERHAPS AS MANY AS 1 MILLION FORCED MARRIAGES PER YEAR IN ISLAM.
THIS BARBARIC DEHUMANIZING PRACTICE AMOUNTS TO SLAVERY, AND MUST BE ABOLISHED IF WE ARE TO FULFILL THE UN DECLARATION OF UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS.
ISLAM ISN'T A RELIGION; IT'S A MISOGYNISTIC MILITARY CODE DESIGNED TO PRODUCE SOCIOPATHIC JIHADISTS CAPABLE OF BEATING AND MURDERING THEIR OWN DAUGHTERS AND COMMITTING GENOCIDE AGAINST "INFIDELS".
IT SHOULD BE ERADICATED.
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THIS TIRADE SHOULD MAKE CLEAR THAT I DO NOT HATE MUSLIMS; I WANT THESE WOMEN AND THEIR DESCENDANTS SAVED FROM ISLAM.
AS MUCH AS ALL HUMANS, THEY DESERVE FREEDOM AND PEACE AND AUTONOMY AND JUSTICE AND PROSPERITY AND ALL THE WONDERFUL TRAPPINGS OF MODERNITY.
THEY DESERVE TO BE LIBERATED.
From "The River War" by Winston Churchill:
ReplyDelete"The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men."