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by Soeren Kern • June 8, 2018 at
5:00 am
- Quilliam, a
London-based counter-extremism group, in a new report —
"FGM Legislation in Britain: A National Scandal" —
noted that Britain has failed to bring a single perpetrator of
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) to justice, even though the
practice has been outlawed there since 1985.
- The Daily Mail
reported that Amazon, the online retailer, was selling terrorist
recruitment material and bomb-making manuals.
- Baroness Cox and other
members of the House of Lords called on the British government
to "respond urgently" to a 2015 review on Sharia
courts by drafting a law to protect vulnerable Muslim women. The
review found that Muslim women are being systematically
oppressed, abused and discriminated against by Sharia law
courts, which treat women as second-class citizens.

A new report
notes that Britain has failed to bring a single perpetrator of Female
Genital Mutilation (FGM) to justice, even though the practice has
been outlawed there since 1985. Pictured: Part of an anti-FGM poster
produced in the UK by the Metropolitan Police, in conjunction with
community organizations.
May 1. Rana Irfan Aslam, a 51-year-old shopkeeper from
Dundee, was sentenced to one year in prison for grooming a
12-year-old girl for sex during an 18-month period 20 years ago. The
judge said it was the maximum possible sentence for the crime as
Aslam did not engage in sexual intercourse with the girl. The court
heard that Aslam gave the girl gifts of money, perfume and alcohol
before sexually abusing her at various locations in Dundee, Angus,
Perth and Kinross and Fife between August 1998 and August 2000. In a
blog post, Natasha Phillips, an expert on family law, explained that
nuances in sentencing guidelines for non-recent abuse are resulting
in unduly lenient sentences: "There are very real concerns about
the way offenders of non-recent abuse continue to be sentenced and
which bolster the view that unmerited leniency has managed to find
its way into the system."
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