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One person was arrested in a search of the home of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Later-Day Saints, a group of “breakaway” former Mormons — led by one Warren Jeffs — who practice polygamy. Apparently, there was an investigation underway “related to the marriage of an underage girl.”

Somewhat less reported in the news, of course, are those missing British schoolchildren, a phenomenon that this blogger is almost certain can be found, albeit to a lesser extent, both in Canada and the U.S.

Just to be clear: in parts of the world, thousands of young girls are being effectively sold into arranged marriages at a very young age. No arrests seem to be emerging from what sparse investigation into such practices is being done. And the people behind the disappearing schoolgirls are members of what may now be the most populous religion in the world.

But a rogue group of ex-Mormons numbering only a few hundred are worth a full-on investigation complete with arrests, and all because one underage girl may have been married off?

I’m not trying to excuse what Jeffs et. al. were doing — polygamy disgusts me, as does the idea of underage marriage. And yes, O Reader, I realize that I’m discussing phenomena that have been reported in different nations, and so in a sense am comparing apples to kumquats. That acknowledged, can any of us say that we labour under the delusion that, were a rampant phenomenon of underage arranged marriages being reported in the American Muslim community, similar arrests would be made at the outcome of comprehensive police investigations? Or would police forces and federal agencies back down in the face of another lawsuit and media campaign by CAIR…not unlike how British police have similarly been cowed into looking the other way for fear of being branded as “racist” over across the Pond?

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