We often read articles that show us how savage and brutal Islam, the religion, can be. Usually the horror stories are tamed by the sheer small numbers of radical behavior being written about. We tend to write off much of the bad stuff by claiming it’s only a small percentage of Muslimes who do these things.

What about articles like this? AND don’t tell me this is about the culture of Islam. It’s beyond that. Many people want to know why we fight in Iraq. Or, why we fight at all. The threat of this article below is one reason I will stand up and bear arms.

She said she was too young to marry. But for honestly expressing her opinion with upright, civilized dignity against her impending forced marriage, the 15-year old Muslim, Turkish-German girl was rewarded with a vicious blow to the head that knocked her nearly unconscious to the floor. Her savage assailant? Her own father.

The parent of the unwilling bride-to-be had returned to his native Turkey with his teenaged daughter, who had grown up in Germany, to arrange her marriage to a cousin 12 years her senior. The cousin was present with his whole clan when his intended received the brutal chastisement. No one reacted. She should have known better. Like many women in traditional, patriarchal, Muslim-Turkish families, she has nothing to say about her marital fate. Moreover, previously in Germany, her father had already beaten her many times for refusing to answer her cousin’s letters, until she relented.

Girls who grow up in Western nations experience the freedoms of these worlds. The cruelest part to this? They lose it all.

Having washed her face after the blow as ordered, the subdued teenager took her place again with the others, now silent and sullen under watchful eyes, and listened to the negotiations over the ‘bride-price’, in which property, money and houses were mentioned as well as her attributes. In addition, the wedding date, the number of children she was to bear and the date of their arrival were also discussed. However, since no deal was reached, the young woman was able to return to Germany unmarried to await her next “suitor.”

In times past this was very common. But it’s not common now, and it goes against every Human Rights document ever written.

It is estimated that 30,000 women among Germany’s 3.2 million Muslim population, of which 2.7 million are of Turkish origin, are subjected to forced marriages every year. Hundreds of young Muslim girls disappear annually from their German elementary and high schools to travel to their native Turkey and other Muslim countries, never to return. Many are told they are going on holidays and do not realize they are to be married until after their arrival, after which their passports, jeans and freedom are taken away and replaced with head scarves and confinement. Moreover, it is only on their wedding day that some see their husbands for the first time.

30,000? That’s not a small percentage. Who cares about these lives? Do you? Do I? Where is the German government here? How about the fabulous UN?

But while forced marriages are bad enough, violating the basic Western precept concerning an individual’s right of choice as well as the woman’s personal dignity, it is the inhuman way the women in these unwanted unions are treated afterwards that has drawn the special ire of human rights groups. In many cases, the new wives live a slave-like existence for years in their new families, toiling long hours at housework under the rule of an oppressive mother-in-law, while suffering extensive physical and emotional abuse, sometimes from the day after their wedding, at the hands of their husbands. It is estimated that thousands, if not tens of thousands, of Muslim women in Germany endure daily such barbaric conditions.

Is this savage? Not in the sense of sheer grossness, no. But in the big picture, it is worse than savage…taking away freedoms and forcing young girls to enter farce, loveless marriages is the worst kind of torture.

Needless to say, freedom of movement, to come and go as they wish, also does not exist for the female newlyweds. Even Muslim girls who grew up in Germany and had enjoyed this basic right in their outwardly integrated families are now confined to the home of their new husbands and may not leave unless accompanied by a male.

But it is worse for the “import-brides” (called ‘gelin’ in Turkish). The only glimpse some will ever have of their new country is from the window of the car that takes them from the airport to the apartment where they will live, and sometimes never leave, for years.

How does this happen in a developed first world nation of such class, as Germany? Do the religious cultures and customs overrule the individual freedoms people are given? Do Germans even have this right? Do people who are not German, but who live in this country, have the right to be free?

“Forced marriages are our biggest problem,” said a Berlin integration official, probably to no one’s surprise. And the problem has become so pervasive that most German cities now have special establishments for Muslim women fleeing the marital home.

The Germans acknowledge the problem. I bet it’s safe to say that they also know where many of these homes are, where the young women are locked up. Muslim neighborhoods are a place to start looking. I am suggesting the German government LOOK and rescue here. For humanity’s sake if nothing else.

Another disturbing issue concerning import-brides in forced/arranged marriages is their young ages. The youngest victim of an honor murder in Germany, for example, was a 14-year-old, married Muslim girl; while a 22-year-old Turkish man was discovered living with his 11-year-old wife in Dusseldorf. The people back in the couple’s village told a German reporter it was not a forced marriage but rather love that spurred the union.

The coveted tender ages of girls…a prize for so many sick and perverted and evil men of this world. Islamic men are the worst of the lot. For not only do they wish to control the young girls, they have NO intentions of ever pleasing them. To do that might cause the girls to want OUT bad enough, they would escape. This is sad. These girls are deprived of the experiences so many of our own tweens and teens have. Dating, going to dances and parties and movies and malls- doesn’t happen here. Cell phones and computers and IPods are not found in these homes…nope. Just kids with babies, living in third world, 3rd Century conditions.

The “bride-price” is a part of the contract that even less well-off Muslims in Germany can now afford thanks to bank loans. This payment for a wife is regarded as establishing the right of the husband’s family to the children of the union as well as compensation to her family for the loss of her reproductive power, which now will increase the size of her spouse’s family or clan. Thus, it is not surprising that the 15-year-old girl mentioned above, whose anti-forced marriage protest was answered with her father’s fist, sat listening to how many children she was to have and when.

“They regard women simply as a womb on two legs,” said a female Turkish-German writer, summing up the prospective bride’s position best.

And if the contracted woman does not produce the desired children, then she is simply sent back to her family in disgrace and another is bought, the first wife’s value now almost worthless on the marriage market.

Sweet. A woman’s value is placed upon how many children she will bear. Nothing else. I guess this is a simple way of looking at life huh? Women here will never know what love is; they will never honor and cherish a man they chose to be with; they will never experience the feelings of safety and security a good marriage can provide. They can never be sexually free either, to express their love and other feelings towards the man of their life. How awful.

Sadly none of this is illegal in Germany.

German-Muslim feminists blame politically correct women’s groups, multiculturalists and leftists in Germany for allowing this disgraceful situation to continue where women are severely ill-treated and regarded as nothing more than a source of wealth for one family and babies for another. These leftist Germans, say the Muslim feminists, refuse to criticize and intervene, since this may damage their unrealizable dream of a multicultural society. Their leftist hypocrisy does even cause them to oppose the polygamy Muslims are now allowed to practice in Germany (and in France) as long as the extra wives were married legally in their native countries (another victory for sharia law).

What a shame.

But what these German-Muslim feminists do not realize is that now little, if anything, can probably be done to remedy the situation. Besides the fact that a criminal, society-destroying multiculturalism allows even the most offensive and archaic custom to flourish in Germany, forced marriages and honor murders are very deeply rooted in Muslim-Middle Eastern culture. And this culture is now well established in large parts of German cities where western laws and values have been repealed.

Germany should be ashamed. I’m sure some are…but from the sounds of it, most just turn the other way. It’s all about culture and tolerance and diversity, right?

The question now remains whether Germany’s liberal democratic society can survive such anti-civilizational practices as forced/arranged, marriages where so many women are placed in such an inferior position by a false legality. Probably not. When a father is allowed to sell his daughter in a commercial transaction disguised as marriage to a man sometimes many years her senior against her free will and with no choice on her part regarding the marriage or motherhood, all without protest or protection from the surrounding society, then freedom and dignity are dying in that society and a new form of slavery and falsehood is taking hold.

And this is what we’re fighting. The virus we call Islam. It’s spreading all over the world. Numb-nutted societies like Germany and Britain are surrendering to this virus, declaring with a huff that it’s NOT all Muslims who are a problem. It’s the people who take issue with Islam. Meanwhile shit like this happens right under their collective snobby noses, and before they know it, many many lives are forever ruined and lost, alive but better off dead.