Hans Rustad Tvangsekteskap og æresdrap har ikke forsvunnet med første generasjons innvandrere. Det er overtatt av annen og tredje generasjon og har slått rot blant muslimske miljøer i Storbritannia, skriver Senteret for sosial sammenheng, i en rapport.
De peker også på et hinder for å få gjort noe med det: politi og kommunalt ansatte er redde for å trå på kulturelt ømme tær og/eller ikke vil ta problemene på alvor. I noen tilfelle har politiet aktivt hjulpet foreldrene å spore opp jentene. Det gjelder særlig en del politimenn med asiatisk bagkgrunn.
Centre for Social Cohesion, which has found that policemen, councillors and taxi drivers are turning a blind eye or even conniving in enforcing the Asian community’s strict «moral code» on young women.
Det anslås at 10-12 kvinner drepes i såkalte æresdrap hvert år, men trolig er tallet langt høyere.
Ett problem er at Storbritannia har latt sharia-domstoler få vie ektefolk. Rapporten gir et eksempel der en 15 år gammel jente i Pakistan ble telefon-viet til en mann.
A GIRL of 15 was tricked into a «telephone marriage» ceremony to a Sheffield man with a mental age of five in a ceremony recognised by sharia (Islamic law).
When the girl arrived from Pakistan expecting to meet the handsome man she had been shown in a photograph, she found that he was 40 years old, unemployed and disabled.
To make matters worse, her mother-in-law decided to exploit her attractive looks by forcing her into prostitution.
The family invited men to the family home to rape her before she managed to escape to the police by bolting through the front door. She was taken into care and now lives in a refuge.
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The girl’s marriage last April was not recognised by the Home Office but was approved by the Islamic Sharia Council in Britain. She is typical of the runaway brides at risk of an «honour killing».
Many Asian parents would rather resort to violence against their children than see their reputation tarnished by the perceived dishonour of allowing them to become «westernised».
The report, Crimes of the Community, claims the problem is no longer an issue of first-generation migrants importing attitudes from «back home» but is «indigenous and self-perpetuating» because it is sustained by third and fourth-generation immigrants.
The study reveals the case of Saamiya, a 16-year-old girl from Birmingham, whose parents were so angry when they discovered she had a boyfriend that they flew her to Pakistan and told her they had arranged a marriage two hours before the ceremony.
«During the Islamic ceremony my dad was standing behind me with one hand on my shoulder and with his other hand he had a gun which was pointed at my back so that I didn’t say ‘no’,» Saamiya said.
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Saamiya ble reddet av det britiske utenriksdepartements egen avdeling for tvangsekteskap. Den har trykket opp plakater med informasjon, men opplever stadig å bli nektet å sette dem opp på britiske skoler.
Gordon Brown sa nylig at det nå måtte settes inn trykk for å stanse tvangsekteskap. Men hans eget embetsverk får ikke slippe til på britiske skoler.
The study criticises the police and schools for failing to take action in a misguided attempt to avoid offending cultural sensibilities.
Karma Nirvana, a support group in Derby, claims it asked local schools last year to display warning posters produced by the forced marriage unit. It said the schools refused.
Derby council last week denied that the group had made the requests, but the prime minister has pledged to investigate reports that the government unit cannot get its advice posters into schools for fear of upsetting local opinion.
According to the report, women who go to the authorities to seek protection have been tracked down through their mobile phones or even by leaks of confidential information from government databases.
Jasvinder Sanghera, director of Karma Nirvana, said that police who find girls who have escaped from their families often simply return them to their parents where they face further abuse, with some Asian officers actually colluding in crimes. Sanghera is taking a case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission of a girl who fled her family but was kidnapped by relatives and held prisoner. She claims that a police officer tipped off the family where the girl was staying.
«Police have a long way to go before they get on top of honour crime. There is a lingering fear among officers of being dubbed racist for probing cultural issues. We’ve got to shake off that myth,» she said.
