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My Travels to the Muslim Middle East, to Afghanistan, and to Montreal
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Excerpt: Welcome to my quiet, relatively sedentary, entirely bookish life. Yesterday, I spent half the day on the phone to the Muslim Middle East trying to help an American citizen mother (who happens to be a Muslim) and her American citizen young daughter get out of Dodge. Like Betty Mahmoody, who was held hostage in Khomeini's Iran, this mother won't leave "without her daughter." The problem is that the girl's father is an Arab Muslim man and his country, like other Muslim countries, has not signed onto the Hague Convention; this means that Muslim countries are under no international legal obligation to pursue and return parentally kidnapped children. Under Shariah law, children automatically belong to their fathers anyway—even if they have been born in a western country, even if their fathers have never financially supported or spent time with them. Mothers are women and as such are entirely expendable. A mother-in-law, a second wife, an older sister, an aunt—a female servant–will do just as well. I have heard many such stories like this. Haven't you? Read the complete original version of this item... | |||||
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