Unfortunately, these barbaric practises are so embedded in a cloak of secrecy and fear that it is difficult to prevent them.
This is one of the problems with a multicultural soceity, communities can become closed and inpenetrable and any attempt to expose their shortcomings is interpreted as racist.
A few hundred years ago it was okay to drown women accused of being witches. Two hundred years ago slavery was considered the white man's right. These barbaric practises have been rightly outlawed and condemned. The same needs to be done within these backward communities that flout the laws of the land and basic humanity without regard to their ethnic group or 'culture'.
The time has come to substitute caution for courage. Martin Luther King, Birmingham, Alabama 1963
Unfortunately, these barbaric practises are so embedded in a cloak of secrecy and fear that it is difficult to prevent them.
This is one of the problems with a multicultural soceity, communities can become closed and inpenetrable and any attempt to expose their shortcomings is interpreted as racist.
A few hundred years ago it was okay to drown women accused of being witches. Two hundred years ago slavery was considered the white man's right. These barbaric practises have been rightly outlawed and condemned. The same needs to be done within these backward communities that flout the laws of the land and basic humanity without regard to their ethnic group or 'culture'.
The time has come to substitute caution for courage. Martin Luther King, Birmingham, Alabama 1963