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Forced Marriages in Our Own Backyard by Phyllis Chesler FrontPageMagazine.com March 17, 2011 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/960/forced-marriages-in-our-own-backyard Send Comment RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. Excerpt: On February 22, 2011, Jessie Bender, a 13-year-old southern California girl, ran away from home. No, Jessie was not into "sex, drugs, or rock n' roll." On the contrary. Jessie was terrified that her American-born mother, Melissa, a convert to Islam, and her mother's Pakistani boyfriend and acting stepfather Mohammed "Mo" Khan, had decided to send her to Pakistan to be married against her will. Had Jessie gone, her mother and "Mo" would have received $3000.00. Initially, her mother told police that Jessie had been abducted by a Facebook predator. Melissa, in full hijab, made a tearful plea for the television cameras. "If you are holding my daughter, please let her go…Please, I beg you to let my daughter go. She's just 13 years old." Read the complete original version of this item... Related Topics: Islamic Gender & Religious Apartheid, Woman's Inhumanity to Woman
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