Below is another investigative report by Eugenia Fiore into the plight of women in Muslim ghettoes in Italian cities. One of the cases mentioned is that of Saman Abbas, was murdered by her parents in Novellara (see the bottom of this post for a list of previous articles about Saman Abbas).
Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
| 00:02 | Have you been in Italy for twenty years? —Yes. | |
| 00:08 | So, do you speak Italian a little? —No, because Italian is not pretty. | |
| 00:12 | I am going to pray. —Do you have to pray now? —Yes. | |
| 00:18 | We are in Novellara, a town in the province of Reggio Emilia, | |
| 00:21 | which in recent years has hit the headlines thanks to the case of Saman Abbas, | |
| 00:25 | the Pakistani girl killed by her family just because she wanted to live the Western way. | |
| 00:31 | Can girls go out, besides going to school? | |
| 00:37 | With friends and classmates? —No, at a certain point, no. | |
| 00:41 | There are hundreds of Pakistanis living here, | |
| 00:44 | but a part of this community has never wanted to assimilate. | |
| 00:48 | Women often live segregated at home. | |
| 00:51 | Can she go out alone? —No, she can’t go out alone. | |
| 00:55 | She doesn’t go out alone? —No. —A few weeks ago, a new case. | |
| 00:59 | Two Pakistani parents were arrested because they wanted to force their daughter to marry a cousin. | |
| 01:05 | We know that the girl who ran away from home lived in this little building. | |
| 01:10 | Now we try to find the parents. | |
| 01:13 | The father told her, “If you don’t get married, I will make you end up like Saman.” | |
| 01:27 | I’m a journalist, I need to talk to them. | |
| 01:30 | Hi, nice to meet you. My name is Eugenia. —They open the door. | |
| 01:34 | The brother of the girl who ran away refuses to shake hands with us. | |
| 01:37 | Eugenia Fiore from Mediaset. Can we have a chat? | |
| 01:41 | I heard about what happened. Your daughter ran away from home, right? —Yes. | |
| 01:46 | How come? What happened? —She [her mother] said she wants all her children to be happy, | |
| 01:52 | to get married however they wish and with whomever they want. | |
| 01:56 | But she’s lying, of course. The girl, in fact, asked for help, denouncing everything, | |
| 02:00 | and is now in a protected community. For preventive reasons her parents wear electronic bracelets. | |
| 02:07 | They can no longer approach her. —That was her decision. | |
| 02:11 | Did she really want to marry her cousin? Why did she run away, then? | |
| 02:14 | Here in Italy we don’t force people to get married through an arranged marriage. | |
| 02:18 | It’s illegal here, I don’t know if you bear that in mind. Didn’t her father tell her: | |
| 02:21 | “If you don’t get married, I’ll make you end up like Saman”? | |
| 02:24 | No, no, no, no, that’s not true. | |
| 02:28 | The girl’s father and brothers go to the mosque in Novellara, an illegal place of worship, | |
| 02:33 | about which Fuori Dal Coro had already raised a red flag some months ago. | |
| 02:37 | These are the testimonies we had collected. | |
| 02:40 | What about the place women have in Islam? | |
| 02:43 | Can the Muslim girls who live here go out without veil? | |
| 02:48 | Can they have a life, have fun, go to dance? —No, according to Islam, they can’t. | |
| 02:53 | Do your sisters go out? —No. | |
| 02:56 | They can only stay at home? A woman cannot look at a man? | |
| 03:00 | Yes, she cannot. By Islamic order. | |
| 03:05 | It’s time for prayer. | |
| 03:09 | Islam requires women to stay home. | |
| 03:13 | If you have a daughter in Italy, you have to adapt to our culture, you know? —No, no. | |
| 03:19 | You have to live our way. You can go out, you can have friends, you know? | |
| 03:23 | That is your Italian culture. | |
| 03:29 | From Novellara we move to Padua. Here too, a girl denounced her family, all of Pakistani origins. | |
| 03:35 | Her father wanted to force her to go to Pakistan to marry a cousin. | |
| 03:46 | She ran away from home and asked for help in this tobacco shop. | |
| 03:50 | She came here, asked for help. I called the Carabinieri. | |
| 03:54 | Her father told her he would take her to Pakistan. | |
| 03:59 | She found it on her cell phone. I don’t know, since she was a minor, the girl was only fourteen. | |
| 04:06 | Not a girl, a child. —They have other habits, other customs, other ways of seeing things. | |
| 04:11 | They should raise their children in their countries, if they mean to bring them up their own way. | |
| 04:15 | The minor is now in a protected community. | |
| 04:18 | We tried to talk to her family. | |
| 04:25 | Can I talk to you for a moment? Are you home? | |
| 04:30 | They have been locked up at home for days, they won’t open the door. They won’t talk to us. | |
| 04:37 | Children, girls, women: all victims of an Islamic fundamentalism which is more and more | |
| 04:41 | deeply rooted in our cities. Masuma, from Bangladesh, is another victim who rebelled. | |
| 04:47 | Her family wanted to force her, with violence, to marry a distant relative. | |
| 04:51 | At the moment she is hospitalized in a psychiatric center. | |
| 04:54 | She is trying to survive her traumas. | |
| 04:57 | We talk to her foster mother, Barbara, who saved her from the abuses she used to suffer. | |
| 05:03 | She was beaten. —Did her brother beat her? —Yes. | |
| 05:07 | Why? —The male can do everything to the woman, in their own customs. | |
| 05:11 | When she was not behaving well, she used to be beaten and her mother remained silent. | |
| 05:16 | Because the male, in the family, is entitled to everything. | |
| 05:19 | Then she was abused, always in the family. | |
| 05:22 | By whom? —By another brother. | |
| 05:26 | Did she attempt suicide? —Yes. Out of pain. | |
| 05:31 | A person can’t endure more than this level. |
Previous posts about the honor killing of Saman Abbas:
SHARIA IS [ordure]-DON’T PUT UP WITH IT !!
Well get off your bloody backside and do something about it except to complain. Action speaks louder than words.