This is the time of year that confuses those involved in education not ‘in the know’ about the life of an average Muslim girl in their early 20s or late teens.
Muslim girls are a strictly guarded commodity ‘jailed’ by their fathers and brothers until it is time to sell them off to the family of a young lad who wants them to be their son’s wife.
For these girls the first taste of ‘freedom’ is when they are allowed from the home to go to school. Later this becomes college or university, but the weekends, and when schooling is done for the day, their lives are spent in the home. They are trusted to make the journey to and from their place of learning on their own, although often this is by means of being dropped off or collected by car. Outside of educational hours, any journeys in the outside world are strictly chaperoned and surrounded by family. They are not allowed to go to events on their own, and certainly not allowed to mix with non-family members.
So, as they grow older and more mature they recognise that their true freedom exists only whilst officially at their place of education. It is here that they meet and form natural relationships with people from outside of their sect, some even non-Muslim, and a few even form highly forbidden sexual relationships, usually with young Muslim guys from their own sect studying in the same institution.
Indeed, most colleges and universities turn a blind eye to areas of their buildings being used for sexual intercourse during the term time when Muslim girls are involved.
What confuses college and university staff, however, is why after the courses and terms are finished, probably with Grade A results, the girls keep on coming back and using facilities such as libraries, free study areas or internet access. Again, this is the only way the girls have to escape the prison that is their home. They will lie and pretend that they still need to attend their place of learning in order to get moments to themselves. In most cases they aren’t even meeting ‘illegal’ friends, just searching for a few moments of solace and a chance to breathe freely.
When they can no longer pad out this freedom, they then spend their summer locked back in the confines of their family growing older (but not too old) and waiting to be handed on to their appointed husband.
Why educate these prisoners when all they are being groomed for is wife and motherhood duties? Simple. They need to be able to help their eventual male offspring do their homework and get qualifications and excellent careers. That is the sole purpose of their education, it’s not for their own benefit or career.
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