{"id":304,"date":"2013-10-07T21:52:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T21:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:14:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:14:53","slug":"clerics-at-18-mosques-are-caught-agreeing-to-marry-off-girls-of-14-four-imams-investigated-after-undercover-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/clerics-at-18-mosques-are-caught-agreeing-to-marry-off-girls-of-14-four-imams-investigated-after-undercover-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Clerics at 18 mosques are caught agreeing to marry off girls of 14: Four imams investigated after undercover operation"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than a dozen Muslim clerics have been caught agreeing to marry off girls as young as 14.Four imams are now under investigation, after they offered to arrange the illegal ceremonies.\u00a0Undercover reporters, posing as the mother and brother of a 14-year-old, contacted 56 mosques\u00a0 across the country and asked clerics to perform an Islamic marriage ceremony, known as a nika.\u00a0Imams at 18 mosques agreed \u2013 including one who has advised the police. \u00a0The preacher was prepared to arrange the nika despite being told that the \u2018bride\u2019 was being forced to move in with a man against her wishes.<\/p>\n

The revelations will raise questions about how prevalent underage marriage is in Britain.\u00a0Campaigners claim thousands of girls are forced into the illegal ceremonies every year, in a boom fuelled by the \u2018moral blindness of cultural sensitivity\u2019. \u00a0Such weddings are not recognised by UK law. \u00a0Marriages can only be officially registered if both parties are over 16, which is also the age of sexual consent.<\/p>\n

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More than a dozen Muslim clerics have been caught agreeing to marry off girls as young as 14.Four imams are now under investigation, after they offered to arrange the illegal ceremonies.\u00a0Undercover reporters, posing as the mother and brother of a 14-year-old, contacted 56 mosques\u00a0 across the country and asked clerics to perform an Islamic marriage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[53,38,4,3,8],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-forced-marriage-unit","tag-foreign-office","tag-halo-project","tag-haloproject","tag-honour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}