http://www.hudson-ny.org/2575/german-forced-marriages
A new report shows that thousands of young women and girls in Germany are victims of forced marriages every year.
Most of the victims come from Muslim families; many have been threatened with violence and even death.
The revelations have shocked the German public and will add to the ongoing debate in Germany over the question of Muslim immigration and the establishment of a parallel Islamic society there. The revelations will intensify an ongoing debate in Germany over Muslim immigration and the role of Islam there.
The 160-page report, entitled, “Forced Marriages in Germany: Numbers and Analysis of Counseling Cases,” was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of the Family, and made public at a news conference in Berlin on November 9.
The problem of forced marriage is evidently far more widespread than previously believed.
The study — the first and most detailed of its kind in Germany — reveals that in 2008, the most recent year for which statistics are available, 3,443 people sought help at counseling and social services centers across the country because they were being, or already had been, forced into marriage.