[LAF] Scandalous Treatment Of Muslim Women By Family & Doctors

[Ed McArthur]

It   has to be said the fault lies as much with the law as with the Doctors who use it    but something has to be done about this.   There are many other examples  of the abuse of Muslim women, questions need to be asked of groups like Libertty as to why they will not take them up
Please circulate far and wide
 
 Ed
 
 
The following was posted by Ruth Gledhill at Times On Line In Feb
 
 
A few weeks ago, I was chatting to a woman who works in an advocacy role for Muslim women in an area that, quite independently of the Bishop of Rochester, she described as a ‘no-go area’ for non-Muslims. Her clients were women in the process of being sectioned into mental health units in the NHS. This woman, who for obvious reasons begged not to be identified, told me: ‘The men get tired of their wives. Or bored. Or maybe the wife objects to her daughter being forced into a marriage she doesn’t want. Or maybe she starts wearing western clothes.There can be many reasons. The women are sent for asssessment to a hospital. The GP referring them is Muslim. The psychiatrist assessing them is Muslim and male. I have sat in these assessments where the psychiatrist will not look the woman patient in the eye because she is a woman. Can you imagine! A psychiatrist refusing to look his patient in the eye? The woman speaks little or no English. She is
 sectioned. She is divorced. There are lots of these women in there, locked up in these hospitals. Why don’t you people write about this?’ 
My interlocuter went very red and almost started to cry. Instead, she began shouting at me. I was a member of the press. ‘You must write about this,’ she begged.
‘I can’t,’ I said. ‘Not unless you become a whistle-blower. Or give me some evidence. Or something.’
She shook her head. ‘I can’t be identified,’ she said. ‘I would be killed. And so would the women.’
So there you have it. After weeks of wondering what to do, inspired by the Archbishop, I’ve taken her word that she is telling the truth, respected her anonymity, and written it anyway.
And this, I imagine, is what the Archbishop wants for the whole of England. As they used to say in my father’s country parish: ‘Heaven preserve us!’ I wonder what they’re saying there today. Expressions somewhat shorter and sweeter, I fear.
Posted by Ruth Gledhill on February 07, 2008 at 05:00 P

http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2008/02/has-the-archbis.html 
 
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