Comments by "marie parker" (@marieparker3822) on "Pro-Gaza MP Backs First Cousin Marriage For Muslims" video.

  1. What good would a legal outlawing of cousin-cousin marriage do? Those who wanted to break the law would continue to break it. They would not be held to account, not prosecuted, not even condemned socially - 'It's their culture. All cultures are equally good, you know.' I am looking at the example of Female Genital Mutilation - ponder thise words - FGM. Saint Thomas's Hospital in London has a special Unit dedicated to treating hundreds of victims of this barbaric procedure each year and I understand that there are 16 other centres in Britain dedicated to the same thing. While this act on a child is clearly child abuse, and could be prosecuted under English Common Law as grievous bodily harm to a child or attempted murder, it was made specifically a serious criminal offence meriting 14 years in prison. This applied anywhere in the World, so it would not help you to take your daughter to Somalia during the school holidays to be mutilated. Forty years after this Act of Parliament was passed, there has been one (1) conviction.
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