Gute Argument von links für dieses Gesetzesvorhaben – von dem immer wieder interessanten Kommentator Sunny Hundal:
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It is frustrating to find that while racism and terrorism is so high on the political agenda, violence against women is almost forgotten. Excused, as if it were a necessary evil.
While British Asians were huffing and puffing over the treatment meted out to Shilpa Shetty, getting worked up in self-righteous indignation, they can’t seem to find similar conviction over the fact that thousands of young British Asian girls get forced into marriages that lead to domestic violence, depression and suicide.
Suicide rates for British Asian women are three times higher than the national average and an average of one woman a month is killed in the name of honour. No, let’s not talk about that because, as Sadiq Khan MP says, it only reinforces both stereotyping and „ghetto“ legislation. Apparently that is a more heinous crime than helping these women….
So let me state this clearly and unequivocally: this is an issue about violence against women – an attempt to control their lives and force them into doing other people’s biddings, based on narrow-minded ideas of honour and culture. Thus is should be treated and dealt with as gender-based violence. The religion and race of the victim is irrelevant – it affects Hindu, Sikh and Muslim women despite what the „community leaders“ may pretend.