Tip-of-iceberg meter hits red
The British child brides: Muslim mosque leaders agree to marry girl of 12… so long as parents don’t tell anyone
British Muslim mosque leaders are agreeing to carry out secret marriages with child brides as young as 12 in the UK, it emerged today.
In an undercover investigation, a Shi’te mosque leader agreed to marry a 12-year-old girl so long as she was a willing participant.
A Sunday Times journalist visited the Husaini Islamic Centre in Peterborough – the ‘first Shi’te mosque in the whole of Europe’ – posing as the father of a 12-year-old girl.
According to the newspaper, the reporter was told by Imam Mohamed Kassamali that ‘under sharia [Islamic law] there is no problem’ in marrying a 12-year-old.
But while he declared Islamic Law dictated a girl should see ‘her first sign of puberty at the house of her husband’, he admitted they would all get in to trouble if she went to police saying she was forced into the marriage.
Never mind that. Here was an expose by a Kurdish feminist group. Girls as young as 9 married off (sold off by their family). The girls are at school in the day, then raped at night by their elderly “husband”.
And school teachers in London are conniving at it. These are the same school teachers whose trade union would be out on the street protesting against the EDL.
https://www.islingtontribune.com/news/2012/jan/islington-girls-forced-marriage-age-nine
This story has been completely buried by the British media and politicians. Islington is home to plenty of TV people, journalists, writers, film-makers, politicians, academics, socialists, etc.
None of them bother to do anything about child-rape going on in their own back-yard. A feminist, socialist lawyer (ex) friend of mine lives there. When confronted with this kind of information, she says “it would be racist to get involved”. The same woman would get incandescent with rage if a bus-driver should refer to her using an affectionate turn of phrase.