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Monday, January 11, 2010

This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.

Don't Come Out - 'Not perhaps the anticipated kind of victims when Forced Marriage Protection orders were first mooted. A depressing BBC article: A UK charity is dealing with an increasing number of young gay Muslims becoming homeless after fleeing forced marriages and so-called honour violence...Trust worker Annie Southerst said in the past six months there has been an increase in the number of Muslims coming to them for help. "They face threats of physical violence, actual violence and restriction of liberties," she said. "We've had people chased out of the house with knives and we have had issues around young people who had exorcisms planned to get rid of the gay demons, I suppose...'

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