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You’ve got to hand it to Australia’s taxpayer-funded left-wing propaganda factory ‘national broadcaster’: their ability to not say the obvious is almost impressive. In over 1,000 words on forced child marriages in Australia, they manage to not say the dreaded ‘I-word’ even once.
When Helena Hassani hears the stories of migrant women who were forced into marriages as children, she feels heartbroken on a deeply personal level.
It must have killed the ABC to even use her real name, which is a bit too much of a giveaway. No doubt, if they could have got away with calling her ‘Sharon Smith’, they would have.
Ms Hassani was born in a small village in Afghanistan in the ’90s and, as a child, she relocated to Pakistan.
Must have been the work experience kid’s day: any ABC journalist worth their salt knows it’s always just ‘Australian national’.
But during her schooling years, her life took a turn when she was abruptly “promised” into a forced marriage at the age of 11.
Credit to Ms Hassani’s grit and determination: she not only pursued her eduction, earning a master’s degree, and, finally, freed herself through divorce.
In the years since, she has tirelessly raised awareness of underage forced marriage, having come across numerous examples of it happening in Australia […]
Recently, the Australian Federal Police (AFP)-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) called on school communities to help identify and protect vulnerable children amid a growth in reports of forced marriage.
In which case, it might be helpful to identify if there are certain communities where forced child marriages are overwhelmingly more likely to take place.
Warning signs included children who had very limited independence and privacy, were constantly monitored by a family member, had expressed concerns about planned family travel overseas, or had flagged a sudden change in domestic circumstances.
That’s it? Nothing else to notice?
Once upon a time, the ABC wasn’t so ‘culturally sensitive’.
Sakina Muhammad Jan will have to serve a minimum of 12 months’ jail after being found guilty of pressuring her daughter to marry a man who went on to murder her in 2020.
After the wedding, Ruqia Haidari, 21, moved across the country to live with her new husband in Perth.
Six weeks later, he’d slashed her throat with a kitchen knife.
A Western Australian court sentenced Mohammad Ali Halimi to life for the killing.
Perhaps it was because all those names just made it too obvious to hide, but, with rare honesty, the ABC went on and said out loud what we all guessed.
Jan’s family are Afghan Hazara refugees who fled persecution from the Taliban and settled in the regional Victorian town of Shepparton.
Earlier this year, a jury found Jan guilty of entering her daughter into a forced Islamic “nikah” marriage.
Note that: Islamic. This is a horrific problem we’ve wholly imported, in the name of ‘human rights’ and ‘Multiculturalism’.
Aisha remembers the precise moment her mum introduced her to the distant relative she was going to marry. She was 12 years old.
Practically an old maid, compared to the original Aisha.
Aisha’s parents are deeply traditional Muslims from India and made plans for Aisha to live the same way.
These are not isolated cases of ‘extremism’, either.
The Australian Federal Police said there were 90 reports of forced marriage in Australia in the year 2022–23.
There were similar figures for the past five years.
And with mass immigration of these backwards savages continuing apace, it’s only going to get worse.
Thanks, Multiculturalism!
