It’s well-known and well-documented that certain sects in the Religion of Peace are perfectly willing to sell their underage daughters into marital slavery — as early as age one.
What may not be as well known is that they will also force their gay sons into marriage — even in Britain:
Positive East is a counselling service in east London which has given support to men who have been forced into marriage. One of those it helped is 25-year-old Arza, who was taken to Pakistan and forced into marriage at the age of 19.
He said: “I used to wear make-up and dress in women’s clothes, and knew I was gay when I was a teenager. [My family] said my grandmother was ill, so we went to Pakistan. They said, ‘If you don’t marry, your mother will have a heart attack from the shock.’ I was scared they would disown me and kick me out if I refused. I suffered from depression, mental health issues which were alcohol-fuelled. I kept saying to myself ‘How do I lead both lives?’ It was very difficult to get a divorce, my family wanted us to stay together. They wanted to protect their honour.”
Another British Asian with a similar experience is Randeep, who was forced into marriage when he was 24. Now aged 30, he told Eastern Eye: “All the family went to India together, for a ‘visit’. They said I had to get married. I felt isolated and under a lot of pressure. I told her, ‘You will be spoiling the girl’s life and my life’. She said, ‘What will people think if you don’t get married?’ She only cared about izzat [honour].”
Of course, shotgun weddings, threats to withhold trust funds, banishment to torture reparative therapy compounds and other loveless forms of familial anti-gay coercion are not unheard in Christian and Jewish communities here in the U.S. Point conceded. On the other hand, the problem is no so rampant here that we need a dedicated, full-time “Forced Marriage Unit” to combat the abuse as the U.K. does.
(Via Hunter of Justice.)
Previously:
–RoP: Gambian Barbarian-in-Chief Calls for Summary Beheading of All Gays
–RoP: Bickering Eurocrats May Deport Gay Teen to Iranian Death Sentence
–RoP: Still Viciously, Even Lethally Anti-Gay
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Link Chris Berez // Sep 20, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Wait, so the U.K. has a forced marriage unit (which, I agree, is justified), yet they allow Muslim communities to have their own courts operating under Sharia law when it comes to women who are very likely in abusive relationships; and, if given access to British courts, would most likely seek divorce?
I realize that one stance does not directly correlate to the other, but aren't they at least somewhat intertwined? I just don't get it.
Forced marriage is certainly a vile and evil practice, and the suffering of of gays in Muslim cultures, although utterly unsurprising, is still disturbing. But why would the U.K. make concessions to one aspect of Islamic barbarism in its secular, liberal society, yet turn a blind eye to another barbaric aspect?