Honor killings, forced marriages, Muslims in America and Balkanization

By Frosty Wooldridge

If you will take a gander at the September 26, 2011 issue of Newsweek, page 48, titled “Marry or else!” by Michelle Goldberg, you will see that the Balkanization of America steams full speed ahead of schedule.  The quote by James Walsh below brings it home like gangbusters.

“Immigrants devoted to their own cultures and religions are not influenced by the secular politically correct façade that dominates academia, news-media, entertainment, education, religious and political thinking today,” said James Walsh, former Associate General Counsel of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. “They claim the right not to assimilate, and the day is coming when the question will be how can the United States regulate the defiantly unassimilated cultures, religions and mores of foreign lands?  Such immigrants say their traditions trump the U.S. legal system.  Balkanization of the United States has begun.”

In the Newsweek article, we now watch while American Muslim girls are sent off to marry men 20 to 30 years older than themselves—to uphold the family honor.  If not, they are killed by fathers, uncles and brothers.

New research shows how it happens in England and the United States

Frankly, I am stunned that the politically correct media giant Newsweek would publish a piece exposing the barbarism of Muslims in America.  It’s usually hidden, suppressed and avoided at all costs.

“Perhaps the most high-profile honor killing case in Britain has been the tragic 2006 killing of Banaz Mahmod,” said Goldberg. “Banaz entered into an arranged marriages at the age of 16 to a man who raped and beat her.  Two years later, she fled the union and fell in love with another man. Enraged her father and uncle, both Islamic Kurds, killed her and stuffed her body into a suitcase and buried it in a London garden.”

Before killing her, her two cousins and other Muslim men tortured, raped and beat her for breaking the family rules as to arranged marriages. The cousins, father and uncle now live in prison cells in London for their atrocities.

But it doesn’t stop there. 

In the United States, in the past two years, over 3,000 cases of forced marriages have surfaced.  Layli Miller-Muro, executive director of the Tahirih Justice Center, is trying to change that problem. 

“We’ve already learned  enough in the survey to tell us we’re just hitting the tip of the iceberg,” Miller-Muro said.

Forced marriages continue in most states of the Union where Muslims live.  That includes Michigan, Iowa, California, New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Georgia, Colorado, Tennessee and Texas.

One 16 year old girl attempted to escape her family after she rejected her arranged marriage.  “My father has said that he would behead me,” said the girl.  “I’ll be considered dead by my family no matter what.”

“Other parents will take their children out of the country to marry them off—again, not an illegal practice,” said Goldberg.  “In some cases, there has been clear violence or the threat of violence, which allows agencies to interfere, but in others, the pressure is financial or emotional.”

While the article in Newsweek touched only one aspect of Muslim rituals, it failed to address female genital mutilation, stoning, torture, rapes,  multiple wives, killings of gays and subjugation of women to men’s power in America.  While you can take the man out of the Islamic country, you cannot take the culture out of males used to brutally dominate their women.

While seven million Muslims call America home in 2011, another 10 million added will create horrific consequences as they instigate legalizing arranged marriages, female genital mutilation, honor killings and subjugation of women.

America faces difficult and dangerous realities in the future as it continues to add 75 million immigrants from the third world in the coming two decades.

Samuel Huntington wrote the best seller: Who Are We?  He stated, “By 2001 Congress appropriated $446 million for bilingual programs, supplemented by huge amounts of state funding.”  Ironically, so many legal and illegal immigrants find they don’t have to speak English because none of their friends speak it.  Koreans, Vietnamese, Hmongs, Middle Easterners, Russians and dozens of other immigrants cannot speak English and will not invest in becoming Americans. 

Thus, these new immigrants live in America, but they cannot speak, and do not think like Americans.  What’s more, they could care less.  No investment!  They enclave themselves into separate groups.  Los Angeles stands as a polyglot of seething anti-American bias by Mexicans and their children.  One look at Detroit’s growing Muslim population portends what happened to Paris, France, London England and Amsterdam, Holland, i.e., complete separation from the host country by new immigrants. 

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