Despite previously acknowledging the urgent need to promote integration, ministers have surrendered tamely to separatist pressure groups.

In 1997 Labour abolished the primary purpose rule that required people to prove that immigration status was not their main reason for marrying a British resident.

Since then there has been a doubling of marriages between British Asians and people from the Indian
subcontinent.

Instead of British-born Asians being encouraged to integrate into British society, they have been exposed to acute communal pressure to maintain the culture in which their parents grew up.

Last week a parliamentary select committee revealed that just one in 10 Pakistani women in Britain are in employment and cited their lack of command of English as a key factor.

This continual flow of outsiders into Asian communities has also massively increased the number of children who grow up speaking a language other than English in the family home.

The official report into the Bradford race riots of 2001 made clear that this trend was causing a rapid expansion
of a segregated Muslim population as spouses from south Asia usually went on to have large families.

The arranged marriage racket to which the Government yesterday submitted is not only a betrayal of the right to self-determination of young British Asians but also a surrender to the forces of separatism which spawned the bombers of July 7, 2005. Ministers should hang their heads in shame.

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