by Soeren Kern
December 5, 2011 at 5:00 am
December 5, 2011 at 5:00 am
More than 2,800 so-called honor attacks -- punishments for bringing shame on the family -- were recorded by British police last year, according to the first-ever national estimate of the problem.
The highest number of honor crimes -- which include murder, mutilation, beatings, abductions and acid attacks -- was recorded in London, where the problem has doubled to more than five times the national average.
Still, although the statistics provide the best national estimate so far, they do not give the full picture of the levels of honor violence in Britain. The real figure could be five times as high and in any case shows that Muslim parallel societies are now firmly established in Britain, thanks to decades-long multicultural immigration policies in the country.
The data on honor violence in Britain was released on December 3 by the London-based Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organization (IKWRO), a registered charity that provides advice to Muslim women and girls living in the United Kingdom, who are facing forced marriage, honor-based violence, female genital mutilation and domestic abuse.
In an effort to provide the most complete picture of the problem to date, IKWRO sent Freedom of Information requests to all 52 police forces across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland asking how many incidents of honor-based violence they had recorded in 2010.
A total of 39 police forces responded with a total of 2,823 incidents. IKWRO estimates that a further 500 incidents may have been reported to the 13 forces that did not respond. Read the rest on: Hudson New York
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