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| Sweden: Ban arranged marriages? | |
| 2007-06-21 | |
| A senior Stockholm politician is calling for a ban on arranged marriages and for social services to be allowed to investigate honour-related issues involving young people without first contacting their parents. The proposals come from Ulf Kristersson, who holds the Social Affairs portfolio on Stockholm council, and Kickis Åhré Älgamo, who leads a Stockholm project that combats Stockholm's honour-related issues. The pair, writing in Dagens Nyheter, said it was "pure discrimination" for Sweden to allow arranged marriages in cases where such unions are part of the culture in the family's home countries. "Forced marriages are naturally not allowed in Sweden," they wrote.
"This provides little comfort to those young people pushed every year into arranged marriages by their relatives." They also called for the government and education authorities to ban schools from allowing pupils to use cultural or religious background as a reason to skip lessons such as physical education or sex education. They cited a recent doctoral thesis in which 27 percent of foreign-born girls interviewed were banned from some lessons. "Sorry, teach, no can do. I gotta note here from my imam." The article's publication date comes eight years to the day after a 19-year-old Swedish girl, Pela Atroshi, was shot dead in Iraqi Kurdistan. She was said to have dishonoured her family by wanted to live in a western style. | |
| Posted by:Jaish Ebbeaque6273 |
| #6 No, DEAD. I'll be triple damned in Hell if Islam will rule on my turf except over my DEAD body. Besides, life as a dhimmi is worse than death. Most certainly Western civilization would be DEAD. In my book, that means we're all DEAD. Arguing otherwise is nothing but hairsplitting. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-06-21 23:39 |
| #5 Koran and that book wants all of us infidels DEAD Look again. Domesticated not dead (IMO: Allan doesn't actually expect his faithful to work). |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-06-21 22:37 |
| #4 Aw come on, Islam has written it and who shall declare otherwise? Yeah, I know the Kurds and Ahmadiyya muslims are supposed to be so wonderful, caring and sending their mothers flowers and all that, but guess what? All of them subscribe to the Koran and that book wants all of us infidels DEAD. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-06-21 18:39 |
| #3 Interesting: I'd read that honor killings were much less common amongst the Kurds compared to other Muslim countries. While less common, still happens. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2007-06-21 18:31 |
#2  Pela Atroshi The article's publication date comes eight years to the day after a 19-year-old Swedish girl, Pela Atroshi, was shot dead in Iraqi Kurdistan. She was said to have dishonoured her family by wanted to live in a western style. Allan is at the bar, and women are 2nd class people... It is written! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2007-06-21 14:56 |
| #1 Posted by me (mrp). |
| Posted by: mrp 2007-06-21 11:45 |