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Pak women Rehana Kausar and Sobia Kamar marry in Britain's first Muslim lesbian partnership |
2013-05-31 |
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Two former students from Pakistain are believed to have become the first Moslem lesbian couple to marry in a civil ceremony in Britannia. Rehana Kausar, 34, and Sobia Kamar, 29, took their vows at a registry office in Leeds earlier this month before immediately applying for political asylum, it was claimed. Relatives of the couple said the women, who studied in Birmingham, had received death threats both in the UK and from opponents in their native Pakistain, where homosexual relations are illegal. During the ceremony the couple reportedly told the registrar that they had met three years ago while studying business and health care management at Birmingham, having travelled to the country on student visas, and had been living together in South Yorkshire for about a year. Ms Kausar, originally from Lahore, also holds a master's degree in economics from Punjab University. "This country allows us rights and it's a very personal decision that we have taken. It's no one's business as to what we do with our personal lives," she was quoted as telling the Birmingham-based Sunday Mercury newspaper. |
Posted by:Fred |
#4 Hold on to your hats UK, I smell an "honor reprisal" coming your way from the Kausar or Kamar clan. |
Posted by: Harcourt Sinatra4379 2013-05-31 14:07 |
#3 The goat? |
Posted by: Silentbrick 2013-05-31 11:06 |
#2 Who wears the Burka? |
Posted by: Skidmark 2013-05-31 03:37 |
#1 Wonder if any insurer would be willing to sell them life-insurance. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-05-31 03:15 |