Teenage girls who fear they are being taken abroad to enter into a forced marriage are using a simple trick to escape: hiding a spoon or any other metal object in their underwear to set off the metal detector at the airport and avoid the flight at the last minute.On the one hand, it's a story of success: these girls are avoiding a nasty fate with a simple but ingenious idea. On the other, they shouldn't have to.
The idea is apparently being promoted by charity Karma Nirvana, that I previously wasn't aware of. According to the news article linked above,
Its founder, Jasvinder Sanghera, was disowned by her Sikh family at the age of 16 after she refused to marry a man in India. She set up the charity in 1993, when she was 27.And from the charity's website,
If you’re here to tell us that we can please all cultures without causing the slightest bit of offence - well, frankly, you’ve come to the wrong place.I'll be in the UK next month, so it should be a good time for me to send some money their way.
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