Friday, December 23, 2011

Kelek: Islam Responsible for Forced Marriages

From Europe News:

Kelek: Islam Responsible for Forced Marriages








Politically Incorrect 8 December 2011

By Michael Stürzenberger







Necla Kelek has joined in with the debate on Welt Online regarding the study about forced marriages in Germany with her article "When scholars deny the fatal role of Islam.” She takes up clear party with Minister of Families Kristina Schröder who actually dared to draw the right conclusions from the bare numbers: Islam is the problem. Women in every islamic country could confirm this if someone would ask them and if they could speak freely without fear of repercussions from their male family members, not to mention the deep-seated fear of Allah’s vengeance what will cast them into islamic hell with draconian methods of torture.



(By Michael Stürzenberger)



Istanbul-born Necla Kelek has experienced the multifaceted islamic enrichments in her own body and vehemently disagrees with the politically correct denial of the connection between forced marriage and Islam:







The legend propagated by Islamic associations, immigrant associations and immigrant researchers that forced marriages are the stuff of isolated cases will be laid to rest here. They are mostly young women who go to school; they are migrants of the X Generation and Muslims. And often they are kidnapped to be married in their parents’ homeland. And yet this is only the tip of the iceberg.





Kelek points out that the transitions of the usual "arranged” marriage in Islam and forced marriage are fluid. There is an urgent need in the public discussion for the curtain to be raised that presently blocks the relentless look into the system of Islam. It is a regularly occurring crime against hundreds of thousands of Muslim young girls and women among us, who through the rigid rules of a man-dominated and misogynous ideology are being robbed of their freedom and self-determination. The "politically correct” join in the blame for the immense human drama that is playing out among us here in Germany through the organized looking away and the ideologically pre-scripted trivialization of Islam.



It is tremendously important that believable secular Muslims like Necla Kelek get actively involved in this hitherto dishonest debate:





The fact that there is a proven "coercion to marry” in the islamic culture is being denied by these scholars. Sexuality is known to be legitimate only in marriage. and – willingly or under pressure – the parents have fulfilled their religious duty only when they have married off the children.



Anyone that negates the societal dimension of religion makes a methodical mistake, comes to skewed results in the analysis and draws incorrect conclusions. I am sure the result of an emperically clean inquiry about forced and arranged marriages with this questioning would be far more dramatic than the study now presents.





Kelek makes it clear with her explanations that healthy common sense in this shadow debate is being collectively shut off and is giving way to a nearly obsessive-neurotic campaign of denial. Victims of these politically correct hypocrites should well become the German Minister of Families. Kelek outs these double moralists:





Even the researchers at the Lawaetz Foundation have apparently been unable to defend themselves against this peer group. The monocausal definitions of the study show just how much this immigration research lobby is in the position of ideologizing science and as always reducing integration problems initially to a social one, and when this doesn’t help to an economic one and then to an educational deficit.



And when this doesn’t help, they carry on about “tribal customs” as the cause without questioning where tradition comes from and who legitimizes it. And why the situation of the women and the practice of marriage in islamic societies are so similar throughout the world. Do they all belong to a single tribe? A naïve/romantic idea of societal structures and activities that are being propelled to new heights in German universities.





For the sake of factual enrichment in the discussion, it would be recommended for all Islam trivializers that they take the Quran to heart . It is not just a dusty book from the Arab wilderness of the 7th century, but the Holy Book of the Muslims, valid for all time, not to be questioned, full of directions and commands. Here is where clear guidelines regarding forced marriage can be found, for example in Sura 2, Verse 221:







“and do not marry any devout women with infidels”





Or in Sura 24, Verse 32:







“And marry those still single among you and righteous ones among your male and female slaves. If they are poor, Allah will make them rich through his favor.”





In Germany, such a razor-sharp analysis of the problem can be undertaken only by a citizen with migrant background, otherwise the media censor sentinels of censorship will jump immediately in to action and swing their crushing Nazi muzzle. How intellectually derelict this former land of poets and thinkers has become is more than clearly revealed by the idiotic discussions about Islam. A blessing as a contrast in this ideological journey are Kelek’s clear words:





In spite of this: The study is to be lauded because it initially shows that, in the area of forced marriages, we are dealing with abuse and crimes against women, that they are subject to violence in families, that not just economically weak and not just the uneducated are criminals as much as victims.



And she makes it clear that neither German citizenship nor the German language is protection against forced marriage or even necessarily suitable as a parameter for integration. At least – and this is a small comfort – language abilities put those concerned better in the condition for getting help.





It’s getting to be time that politicians and media join the flaming appeal from Necla Kelek: Address the abuses clearly that are caused by Islam in our country, and work pragmatically on solutions. In connection with this, the root of the problem needs to be addressed, and that is just simply islamic teaching. It is yet to be seen who in this land still has courage and who cowardly swims with the current of political correctness. Note well:





Only dead fish swim with the current





In the case of the subject of Islam, there are almost only dead and apparently dead fish in Germany. These are the unbearable hypocrites who by instrumentalizing a rightwing radical gangster trio in the course of the past six years have demonstrated their dismay in the Bundestag because of nine murders of individuals of Turkish and Greek descent (each dead being scandalous and one too many!), but in the same breath they consistently look away when the issue involves more than 150 documented (!) deaths during the same span of time as the result of “honor” murders in the heart of Germany.





The Representative for Integration Maria Böhmer and the Minister of Families Kristina Schröder want to set up a help line and strengthen education above all in schools.



That to be much lauded because encouragement, education, knowledge of one’s rights, and the security that teachers, police, friends and neighbors understand and will protect someone is enormously important for enforcing that every person has the right to decide whether, when and whom he will marry.





And from the leftwing/Green politicians of the ilk of Claudia “Fatima” Roth & cohorts, who would otherwise give a yelp of total shock when they smell even the slightest discrimination against women in our society, there is only shameful silence in this case. A notable sign that this ideologically pigheaded group is none other than a collection of hypocritical double moralists who look at their swiftly growing Muslim electoral potential with total calculation.



This country needs once again to be turned on its head. And for this, courage, engagement, determination and action are needed. By people of the kind as Necla Kelek who have more than earned the admiration and support of all of us.



I had the great pleasure of speaking extensively with her July 7th at the Muffat Café on after her lecture in the Munich Gasteig on the theme of “Freedom in Islam – Can Muslims in Europe integrate?”. The Muslim future in our country should include her outlook: Neither the Quran nor the prophet Muhammad are authoritative for her, rather she sees herself as a “cultural Muslim.” Such people, like Hamed Abdel Samad who also calls for the “post Quranic discourse,” might be able to accomplish showing Islam the way into the modern day. But as long as they, as overall rare “isolated cases,” continue not to be accepted at all as Muslims by the entire islamic associative power – not even by one like the oh, so “modern,” “cosmopolitan” and “democracy-loving” Imam Bajrambenjamin Idriz – then the outlook is bleak with the deceptive hope for a “moderate Euro-Islam,” which so far has been nothing more than a mirage and a wishful fabrication by the naïve do-gooders of this country.



The ideology-free analysis of the study on forced marriage by the social and educational scientist Hartmut Krauss, “Forced Marriage Amongst Empirical Reality and Ideological Obscuration” offers further insights. And the book “The Foreign Bride” by Necla Kelek is absolutely read-worthy as it is useful as an introduction to the subject.









Posted December 8th, 2011 by pk

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