Sweden legalises child marriage for migrants
 

Oh, Sweden....

:facepalm: idiotic

Madness. Give them an inch and they will take a mile. Thought Sweden were better than that.

So the Swedes really are turnips then :fist:

Absolutely crazy and disgusting

why on earth are they letting these people into their lovely country?

liberal madness

Child abuse.

This is obviously literal fake news lol. Delete this

I really hope it is

sadly its not

"As a 15-year old Syrian refugee, Fatima has been granted all the comforts that Germany offers to those fleeing her war-torn homeland.

Living in a secluded shelter near the western town of Bielefeld, she can look to the state for all her basic needs: accommodation, food and security.

Such support is all the more needed because Fatima is pregnant by her 34-year-old husband, a fellow Syrian refugee who was put up in the same town so they could continue to see each other."

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/g...ides-djtkwl30n

I don't see how they can possibly allow this outrage that goes against not only their own domestic laws, but against everything the West has achieved over the last few hundred years. Are these girls worth less than their own citizens? It's obscene.

1) This is about Germany
2) Nowhere does it say that Sweden has 'legalised child marriage"

Here is the Swedish news source which the story is based


http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel...rtikel=6096214

opening para states:

A marriage between a 14-year-old girl and a 21-year-old man was approved last year by Swedish authorities. Ekot can reveal today. The case has brought strong feelings, but is just one of several examples in recent years of childhood marriage recognized in Sweden.

1) That doesn't mean it's not true, it means you're Googling in the wrong place.
2) The fact that it's happening in Germany too should have you worried not crying "fake news".

Oh dear.
You have to live by the laws of the land you live in, not those laws be changed to suit you.
Surely there cannot be one rule/law for some and different rules for others.
Where will it all end?

Yeah I totally agree, I'm all for helping people but there should be no new rules or giving in to practices like this that protect the most vulnerable members of our society. We should be going forward not backwards

It doesn't seem like any major news outlets have picked the story up which makes me doubt it's validity but if it's true then it's ****ing stupid. Children are not emotionally prepared or can understand what marriage truly entails. This only benefits peadophiles.

This is fake

Thread can be closed

I love how not only are they dirty old men in their 30s but also their cousin...

Way to go Syria

what by some PR release from the Government turning a blind eye to rampant immigration and child abuse?

hardly

What's more, the Government article is from March, the two in the o/p are from several months later.

Sweden need to pull their heads out of their ‘progressive’ virtue signaling arses and start protecting kids.

It does seem like its a fake story (I hope)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/4413...5035745945793/

"Your News Wire is a clickbait website that is listed on Factcheck.org’s fake news list. (9/10/2016) Update (7/7/2017)"

Come on guyz. Engage brains before posting.

https://i.giphy.com/media/Fml0fgAxVx1eM/giphy.gif

Embarrassing

thats great TS but rather than talk about one news source what about the Swedish news source I posted can you "fact check" that one?

There's nothing to say the source article from Sverige's Radio posted by LT is fake though.

The article LT posted is from 2015

:joker::joker:

It's almost like you two want it to be true :suspect:

If it's not a story that's been picked up by major sources then it's not likely true. The DM would have loved this story if it could have been verified.

Wanting something to be true so you can complain about it is a world apart from it actually being true.

What a car crash of a thread

So it's been going on for a while then.

Probably not because the information Smithy posted-as you pointed out- is from March of this year

will a mod please close this thread!
would be disgusted if this was real. Let the children live their lives!

This is why fake news is such an issue, too many people want it to be true that they'll spread it regardless of it's validity.

I know, jeez be happy that this isn't happening for gods sake

It’s so easy to copy and paste an article damning something, god forbid you check your facts first before making a fool of tourself :bored:

Denmark's dilemma

Denmark's response has swung first one way and then the other.

In February, Integration Minister Inger Stojberg vowed to act after a review found dozens of cases of girls living with older men in asylum seekers' accommodation - which the minister called "totally unacceptable".

Couples would require "exceptional reasons" to live together below the age of 18 (the legal age for marriage in Denmark) and no cohabitation would be allowed whatsoever if one party was below 15.

But separation reportedly prompted two migrants under 18 to attempt suicide.

The policy was reversed earlier this week - with children as young as 14 reunited with their husbands - after the issue was raised with the Danish Immigration Service (DIS) by lawmaker Josephine Fock.

"It is completely outrageous. We are talking about people who have fled to Denmark who are being split from each other. Some of them have children together and investigating individual [asylum] cases takes an unbelievably long time," Ms Fock told Metroxpress news service.

The DIS cited Denmark's "international obligations" as the trigger for its policy change, concluding that enforcing separate living quarters would violate the UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child and Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to one's "private and family life".

That has prompted conservative politicians to call for Denmark's withdrawal from such treaties.

Data suggest that in Germany there are at least 1,000 marriages where one or both parties are under the legal marriage age of 18, of which more than half are in the southern state of Bavaria.

Unicef figures from the vast Syrian refugee camps in Jordan suggest the proportion of registered marriages where the bride was under 18 rose from 12% in 2011 (roughly the same as the figure in pre-war Syria) to 18% in 2012, and as high as 25% by 2013.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37518289

No because

A) I don't read Swedish and neither do you so we're relying on loose translation

B) None of it is even cited, in any way, making the source dubious to begin with

C) Disregarding the above and assuming the source is credible... If you had translated the entire article you would have seen that:

- It indicates that this occurred last year, BEFORE regulations were tightened

- It states that it is NOT legal to marry in Sweden under 18, it's about whether or not already existing marriages are recognised.

- It suggests that this specific case was a mistake / oversight and it's very rare that a marriage under 16 would be recognised. This is not "law" or "policy"; nothing has "been legalised".

- It's ALREADY BEEN UNDONE :facepalm:



So yeah. Fake news. The best fake news sites lie using fragments of truth to make their stories seem more legitimate... but, I'm sure you were already aware of that.

Not that I'm saying we can consider the first site one of the "best"... it also seems to be sayng that Jay Z and Beyonce are shapeshifting reptiles, that mermaids are real, and that a small alien family has been dug up in Peru. SMFH.