19 June 2014, The Tablet

Reality check


 
After reading Clifford Longley’s column (14 June), I am seriously considering moving to Orpington, in order to experience the joys of Mr Longley’s Shangri-La of mutual consideration among the tribes. Unfortunately, I live in Oxford, where, working for many years in sexual health, I was increasingly witness to practices in the Muslim community which were a clear and unequivocal rejection of the values and laws we take for granted here. Whether forced marriage, domestic violence, female genital mutilation, or female patients attending the clinic not being allowed to be seen without their husbands, and most recently the fallout from the abuse of vulnerable girls by Asian men in the city, what I saw, I believe, was what happens when Islam is unchallenged by a society accused, as M
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