UNITED KINGDOM
The Sun
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By ANILA BAIG
DRESSED in a fancy new outfit, little Samina Shah thought she was getting ready for her birthday party.
Instead she was being married off — having just turned FIVE.
The Islamic ceremony effectively ended her childhood and paved the way for years of abuse.
Just as shockingly, this was not happening in a remote Third World village — but in a large town in the north of England.
Samina has decided to speak out after Britain’s Forced Marriage Unit revealed that last year the 1,468 cases they investigated included another girl of five. …
“There is no Islamic justification for forced marriage and doing it to a child of that age is not just wrong — it is criminal.”
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