A Britain without honour or shame

Verity

"...another grim watershed in this country’s spineless surrender to the forces of darkness."

Yes, indeedy.

Rob

Well done Melanie and Ms Cryer for exposing this. Now if you can stomach it, here's the caring councils website advice and wisdom on dealing with abuse.
I suggest that this council is bombarded with mails and phone calls over this!

Information and Communication

Taking a hard line on domestic abuse Taking a hard line on domestic abuse
A campaign is being launched to tackle domestic abuse in the lead up to one of the most stressful times of the year.

Although the Christmas season is traditionally a time when families get together, it is also a time when stress levels can soar, triggering a rise in the levels of domestic abuse.

The campaign is being led by the Domestic Abuse Partnership - which is made up of The Safer Communities Partnership - a partnership between Bradford Council, West Yorkshire Police, the Probation Service and Bradford & Airedale Teaching Primary Care Trust - and voluntary sector organisations.

The Partnership has developed a strategy to tackle the crime on a range of levels and ensure that women experiencing abuse have a range of options to help them. Domestic abuse includes physical, emotional, sexual, or financial abuse.

Domestic abuse figures do rise during the holiday season such as Easter, summer and Christmas, but there are also other triggers such as pregnancy.

This particular campaign, which is being launched at St Peter's House, Bradford, on Wednesday, December 5, features an image of a perpetrator attacking a pregnant woman on posters, bus adverts and billboards.

The launch of the campaign is followed by a performance by Certain Curtain Theatre Company of The Lady in Red*, a 45 minute educational drama highlighting why women stay in abusive relationships.

Chief Superintendent Sarah Brown, Co-chair of the Bradford District Safer Communities Partnership, said: "Domestic abuse is a serious crime and Bradford District Safer Communities Partnership has a range of services working together to provide advice and support to victims. We urge anyone experiencing domestic abuse to report it to the Police."

Coun Martin Smith, Bradford Council's Executive Member for Safer Communities, said: "Domestic abuse is completely unacceptable and we are committed to tackling it across the Bradford district.

"If you or a friend or family member is suffering from domestic abuse we urge you to take action and report it to the police on 0845 606 0606. Always call 999 in an emergency."

*The drama performance is part of the work by the Lindsay Bridge the Council's Domestic Abuse Awareness Training Co-ordinator to train staff to be able spot the signs of domestic abuse. There will be two further performances on 18 and 29 February.

Officer/Contact
James Lee
Senior Marketing Officer for Safer & Stronger Communities
Telephone: 01274 437591

Media Relations Officer
Jane Lewis
Telephone: 01274 433526
Fax: 01274 432005
Email: press.communications@bradford.gov.uk

Date: 30.11.07

aram karibian

Perhaps some international pressure could be brought to bear on these officials. I'd be happy to lend a voice if I knew whither to direct it.

Verity

So perhaps Blair could explain why we imported this problem into our previously law-abiding homogenic (including long-settled immigrants) society. We always knew he was lying about the economic benefits, so perhaps he could be forced to tell the truth. That he was set on the destruction of Britain, which he loathes.

D Gray

I just seen an extended and in-depth report on this on the main BBC national news programme.......N O T.

David Simpson

actually melanie if you bothered to do any research then you'd find that around half were boys and only 2 were of south asian ethnicity.

That's aside from the fact that if Philip Balmforth had been doing his job rather than spouting to the rightwing press he would have known this anyway.

Kevyn Bodman

Verity:
An interesting article by Simon Heffer in today's Daily Telegaph.
He says the current state of Britain is not a result of NuLab incompetence; they've done it deliberately.

Kevyn Bodman

I came here first, as I like to, before going to Coffee House; now I see they've spotted Mr. Heffer's article too.

Rachel Miller

Mr Simpson,

Would you care to present the source for your claim? I take it you are involved in research into this area.

Roger Henderson

No doubt David Sampson, in your perverse little world it would have been alright if Philip Balmforth had spoken to the Left-Wing press, and the fact that the police had investigated 176 cases of forced marriage in the past year was just another example of discrimination that Muslims face in the racsist country that you choose to live in. Oh I'm sorry you chose to ignore that part of the story because it would have interferred with your interpretation of the facts as presented by Melanie. What an odious little toad you must be to be more concerned with shooting the messenger than to be concerned with the horror that these women are forced to live with.

Dee Ranged

According to the ex-Muslim Abul Kasem http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=8AD3D2F1-FD2C-4E78-B233-2F97FCF97B94

The husband’s permission is required for a wife to work (Doi, p.117).
Beating a wife is allowed (Doi, p.130).
The wife must worship the husband. Unbridled freedom of modern women is not good (Doi, p.132).
Muslim women can’t marry unbelievers under any circumstances (Doi, p.138).
The guardian of a woman must be a male. A woman cannot be married by herself. A widow can marry by herself (Doi, p.141).
Hanafi, Shafii and Maliki rate the marriage of a minor boy or a girl as lawful (Doi, p.142).
A Muslim man is allowed to have four wives at one time (Hedaya, p.31; Doi, p.147).
A law against polygamy is against the Qur’an. Not a single Hadith is against polygamy; modernists reject Qur’an and Sunnah. Satisfy more wives (Doi, p.152).
Prohibition on polygamy is a violation of Sharia provision. Court does not understand biological need. Follow Muhammad (59:7) (Doi, p.153).
A drop of semen is the greatest sin (Doi, p.236).
Adoption is not allowed in Sharia (Doi, p.463).
Circumcision is obligatory for both men and women (foreskin for men, prepuce of clitoris for women) (e4.3, p.59).
Wudu (ablution)—use not less than 0.51 litre of water (e5.24(1), p.66).
Ghusl (bath)—use not less than 2.03 litres of water (e5.24(2), p.66).
Make repeated love, do repeated ablution (e5.29, p.67).
Human private parts are impure; do not touch them with your hands (e7.4, p.74).
Stoning to death for adultery (married person, man or woman) (o12.2, p.610).
Fornication: scourge 100 stripes and banish 81 km for 1 year (for unmarried persons) (o12.2, p.610).
Men scourged standing, women sitting (o12.5, p.611).
Stone the adulterer/adulteress even in severe cold or illness (o12.6, p.611).
Sodomy and lesbianism considered as adultery; same punishment; kill both for sodomy (p17.2, p.665).
To get united with the previous husband a divorced wife must marry another person, have complete sex with him and get divorced by him voluntarily (Hedaya, p.15, n7.7, p.565; p29.1, p.673).
When making love, no talking (r32.7, p.767).
Unlawful for a man to look at a woman who is not his wife or one of his unmarriageable kin (m2.3, p.512).
Husband and wife cannot look at each others genitals’ (m2.4 p.513).
Unlawful for a woman to show any parts of her body to an adolescent boy or a non-Muslim woman (m2.7, p.513).
Whatever is unlawful to look is also unlawful to touch (m2.9, p.513).
A woman must not conduct her own marriage; she requires a male guardian (m3.4, p.518).
A non-Muslim man cannot be the guardian of a Muslim woman; a Muslim man cannot be the guardian of a non-Muslim woman (m3.4, p.519).
A male guardian of a virgin woman may force her to marry a man of his choice (m3.13, p.522).
Arab women cannot marry non-Arab men (because Allah has chosen the Arabs above others) (m4.2(1), p.523).
A man of lowly profession cannot marry the daughter of higher profession (m4.2(3), p.524).
When the husband settles the dower (bride money) or defers it, a wife must immediately submit her private parts to her husband’s demand for sex, unless she has legitimate ground of not doing so; if she requests to wait the maximum waiting time is three days (m5.1, p.523).
A husband has the full right to enjoy his wife’s person, from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet (m5.4, p.526).
It is unlawful for a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man (m6.7(5), p.529).
Husbands are not obliged to provide doctor’s fees, medicines and cosmetics to wives; they must provide only food, cloths and housing; rebellious wife doesn’t get anything (Hedaya, p.140; m11.4, p.544).
A Muslim man is allowed to beat his wife or wives (the Qur’an, 4:34 ; m10.12, p.541; o17.4, p.619).
If wife refuses sex, the husband is not obliged to support her until she surrenders her person to the husband (m11.9, p.545).
A divorced wife gets maintenance only for maximum three months (Hedaya, p.145, Shafii law, no support during her waiting period if pregnant, then support is on daily basis until she gives birth (m11.10 (3), p.546).
A son is obliged to finance his poor father’s marriage (m12.5, p.549).
Husband divorces wife instantly even under torture, compulsion, alcohol, narcotics and jokes; then he can marry a new set of four wives and continue the cycle (Hedaya, p.81, 253; n3.5, p.560).
The only way for a wife to get divorce is to convince the sharia court and also to pay money to her husband (Hedaya, p.112; n5.0, p.562; n7.7).

EyeSee

David Simpson. We need to understand what you agree with. Do you believe there is a problem of forced marriages, violence against women and 'honour(!)' killings in the UK? Do you believe it might be Islamic in origin? Do you believe there is a country called Pakistan?

Verity

Kevyn Bodman - Yes, thank you. I saw it and it is superb. This is something I - and I'm hardly alone - have been saying for 10 years. It was deliberate. Every step carefully planned. Far from being inept, "New Labour" has been cunning, patient and deeply malignant.

None of what has happened to Britain was through bad planning or incompetence. It was very well executed indeed. This includes sluicing an alien, hostile culture into our society, and then according them rights and privileges above those of the natives.

It includes the destruction of the education system. It includes the destruction of the family. It includes the unpicking of the tapestry of our ancient civil laws and rights. It includes the facilitating of publid disorder.

What was astounding to me was that so people realised the malice with which all this was executed. They put it down to incompetence and bad planning and lack of understanding.

Not at all.

Verity

H odd that all this violence against Islamic females is suddenly in the news, just when a strong light is being shone on the New Labour malignancy.

I see it as a diversion. Labour knew what it was importing. I don't believe they were ignorant of the way women and girls are treated in the more primitive, conservative Islamic countries,i.e., Pakistan. They knew. Their treatment of girls and women was imported as part of the destabilisation of our society -- a further assault on the norms of an advanced civilised.

And sure enough, the vile Brown announced that the British taxpayer would be giving "benefits" to polygamous wives.

Adela Kostea

There`s no England anymore...

Verity

Adela. D'accord. It breaks my heart to type it and I could never have conceived this situation when I was growing up, but I have no country any more. My country has been battered to death, while it lay supine. I have a passport, but no country.