Forced Marriages at Record High in South Wales

[jordan179]

According to BBC News Wales:

South Wales Police say they are dealing with the largest number of cases of forced marriage and honour based-violence they have ever seen.

In the past 12 months, the force has dealt with 49 cases of forced marriage, up from a typical 30-35, with new cases almost every week.Now, stop and consider this for a moment. "

Comments

[pathia]

I can't imagine this happens in all cases, but I'd not be surprised if more than a few if not the majority played out like the following...

What if the victim refuses to press charges?

[jordan179]

Well yes -- unfortunately, it can be hard to accept that one's own family are monsters, and have grievously harmed you, and that one needs to either see them punished if possible, or have nothing to do with them, if not possible.

And yes, I'm talking to you, too.

[pathia]

Yes, but I'm not brainwashed into thinking they're good people, or it's the right thing to do. The situation there is even worse, because they may well think they deserve what happens to them.

I don't, I'm just a stubborn bitch.

[jordan179]

The sickness of the Muslim immigrant culture's treatment of women needs to be combatted, and at the ideological level. But to do this, Britain is going to have to acknowledge to herself that all cultures are not equal, and that's something which appears to be so psychologically difficult for the British chattering classes that they are willing to let any number of young Muslim women be held prisoner and serially raped rather than admit that the British Establishment was wrong.

[unixronin]

Unfortunately, the sun long ago set on the British Empire.

[jordan179]

I'm not wondering why the British don't reconquer the Indian Northwest. I'm wondering why they don't enforce their own laws in WALES!

[madwriter]

I wonder if anyone is hiding behind Britain's nasty libel laws as an excuse to keep from talking about the perpetrators. (It's been done before...)

[blackhawk101]

Lets not forget the honor killings for disobeying dad or even looking at a boy the wrong way. And God forbid you get caught with a guy- I guess the only good thing about being in Britain is your family will kill you swiftly since stoning is pretty much not accepted (yet) in any English village.

[expanding_x_man]

Really, they should and must arrest the perpetrators. This really is the only way to deter this crime, and even then, it will take awhile to sink in to the offenders that they just cannot do this. The British have to be merciless about their own laws, about enforcement. Sigh - this is just so upsetting.