CRIMINALIZING BARBARIC ACTS

The government has introduced legislation to criminalize honour killings, polygamy and forced marriages. To my knowledge we already have laws that prohibit murder, polygamy and establish a minimum age for marriage but the act goes further to render temporary and permanent residents inadmissible for practising polygamy without need for a criminal conviction. As we historically discouraged Chinese immigration by making possession of opium illegal, is this perhaps our modern day attempt to discourage Muslim immigration? Is this a good thing?

Criminalizing ‘barbaric’ acts law welcomed.

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