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Posted by on Dec 1, 2008 in Uncategorized | 2 comments

Forced Marriage in the UK


Two interesting news reports here and here. Also this.

500 reported cases of forced or threatened forced marriage per year in the UK. Which I guess will be just the tip of the iceberg.

2 Comments

  1. I’m not from the UK, so I’m not sure how the “Sharia Law opt-in” works, but couldn’t you get around the forced marriage law by “both” “volunteering” to settle the matter in a Sharia court?I mean, if you can be forced into the one…

  2. jeremy: That’s precisely the problem with allowing Sharia law, people that will be victimized under it can easily be forced into accepting it.

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