Sunday, August 7, 2011

A family of albino Muslims are being terrorized by other Muslims because their daughter married a Christian

The family has suffered smashed windows, vandalized cars and death threats. Aslam Parvez, 53, blames members of the Muslim community who believe that the family have been dishonored by his daughter's marriage. The hate campaign started when a national magazine published an article on albinos which featured Naseem, who no longer lives in Coventry and has little contact with her family. It revealed how she has married a Christian, goes to church and is expecting her second child with her husband. Parvez says that copies of the article were quickly spread maliciously, and were posted on walls near their house and through the doors of Muslim homes in the community. Parvez says that he has received numerous death threats and has spent hundreds of pounds installing security cameras around his house. He has now stopped going to mosque and says that he may be forced to flee the city with his wife Shameem Akhtar, 55, three sons Mohammed, 17, Haider, 28, Gulam, 30, and daughters Muqadas, 26 and Musarat, 19. Parvez was born in Pakistan and moved to Britain at the age of 10 to join his family. He later met and married Shameem, who is also an albino. Their six children inherited their parents' condition, which causes an absence of pigmentation and partial sightedness.

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