Norwegian authorities expected Muslim communities to self-police forced marriage

Evidence

The government ‘presupposed that minority communities themselves and their religious leaders would take the responsibility to see that forced marriage did not occur,’ and expected ‘that all who live in Norway follow Norwegian laws and regulations.’ Norwegians were betrayed. By 1999 the government knew from the media and the foreign service that the problem was more widespread than originally thought and was not in fact confined to a few conservative parents. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 311

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s central claim about Muslims being cast out of Western law — the state’s initial reliance on community self-policing gives way to external enforcement once the community is deemed to have betrayed Norwegian trust.