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Dear Auntie Yasmin

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Luckygirl Mon 13-Jul-15 15:18:39

Did anyone else read this article in the ST this weekend? Written by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown it chronicles the abominations perpetrated against women from muslim communities in the UK. Many of these women write to her as some sort of agony aunt and are desperate for help.

She chronicles:
- FGM
- domestic abuse
- forced wearing of cover-up clothing
- forced marriages
- forced abortion of female foetuses

She talked of meeting a "bounty hunter" in a graveyard - these are men who track down women who have escaped from the abuses above and punish them. He carried a rusty knife and said: "We are doing god's work, saving girls. Muslim girls must obey. They must be taught a lesson if they don't."

Some of these women are well-to-do, but still finish up being sent to India to abort female foetuses.

This is going on in the UK. It is shocking.

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vampirequeen Mon 13-Jul-15 15:25:46

Can you put the link on for the article please?

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kittylester Mon 13-Jul-15 15:46:02

I read some of it Lucky and found the bits I read hard going. I must fish it out of the recycling to read it properly. I'd forgotten so thanks for starting the thread!

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Luckygirl Mon 13-Jul-15 15:54:39

Vampire - I tried, but it only links to the first paragraph and you have to subscribe to get the rest of the article.

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jollyg Mon 13-Jul-15 16:45:31

Sad reading. but is the dominance of Muslim men, and they are allowed 4 wives, according to a Muslim on the plane back from Athens.

By That time Ramzan had started. He Tucked in to tea, pastries, and complained his wife was FAT. Should be fasting

I dont think that is what the KORAN says, its a male interpretation.

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mrshat Mon 13-Jul-15 20:34:20

It is an excellent, if troubling, article and well worth a read.

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