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Published Date: 11 March 2008
FORCED marriages are not a culturally sensitive issue but an abhorrent act, a Tory Muslim peer said today.
Baroness Warsi, shadow minister for community cohesion and social action, has called for such marriages to be treated as crimes to send a clear signal that they are intolerable.


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  • Last Updated: 11 March 2008 9:53 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Doreen,

The Cyber Shebeen 11/03/2008 13:30:52
Absolutely...bravo the Baroness....
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Fanling,

Guangdong 12/03/2008 10:41:01
About time somebody put their head above the parapet. Now, all that is needed is for several hundred men of influence in UK Muslim society to follow suit publicly.

 

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