10:30pm Sunday Night President's Having a Press Conference?

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Originally Posted by somerfrost

American Muslims have been consistent in their relief this monster is gone.

American Muslims at least Pakistani muslim males living in NYC have their own secret problem..........


It's a well-kept secret in Pakistani homes across the city: Young women violently forced to return to their homeland for arranged marriages.

In homes throughout the metropolitan area, violence against thousands of young women who are forced to go back to Pakistan to wed is shamelessly hushed as a "family matter."

"Eighty percent of the community has this problem" in New York, said Bazah Roohi of the Asian American Network Against Abuse of Human Rights (ANAA). "Women don't have their own choice.

"They try to fight. They are unsuccessful. Parents are very strict. They just beat them and take them to Pakistan.

"Their fathers and brothers say, "This is [a] family problem,'" said Roohi. "Then [the girls] disappear."

A Queens woman, now 29, recounted how as a teen she was tricked and drugged by her parents and forced to return to Pakistan to wed.

"My father said, 'You're going to get married. I have a gun in my bag. I'm going to use it,'" she recalled.

Her horrific ordeal ended when she escaped a year later.

In Pakistan, it would not have been a crime if her father pulled the trigger, but an "honor killing."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007...me_to_p-2.html