Because this is Britain, you cannot tell anyone what to do

[PanzerJaeger]

How can it be a muslim thing when a fair share of muslim have never even heard of things like arranged marriages or honour killings?

Really? You feel muslim women are treated with equality in immigrant communities? This story and a thousand others seems to contradict that rosey outlook.

It isn't just about me any more - it is about thousands of other women who are being held down by people who refuse to wake up to the reality that it is the 21st century.

Muslim culture as practiced in the Middle East and exported to Europe and other parts of the world is broken, demented, and sadistic. It breeds the hatred and terrorism that has poured over into our own countries. Honor killings and arranged marriages are just the tip of the ice berg of abuse against women, physical and mental, that runs rampant in these communities. We don't even need to discuss what happens to converts to other religions, homosexuals, jews, underage girls, and other offenders of allah, do we?

Luckily there are brave women like this who demonstrate that the problem is the culture, not the people. When put into an environment where they are allowed, contemporary-minded muslims can succeed just like anybody else, even, gasp, women! I bet no one was more surprised than that Imam. Maybe he'll allow his wife out of the house a bit more... err... probably not.