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A woman invited her family to her wedding in Mexico. They kidnapped her to arrange a forced marriage to another man for $500,000 instead.
Insider via Yahoo ^ | 02/25/2023 | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert

Posted on 02/26/2023 2:01:54 PM PST by DFG

"You are no longer in the West, you are in the Middle East, women like you are killed," Khaled Abughanem said to his daughter, according to the Justice Department.

The American woman — who sought to celebrate her wedding in Mexico — invited her family to the ceremony in Guadalajara last September. Instead, her disapproving father, mother, and brothers conspired to kidnap her in an attempt to force her to marry someone else in Yemen, the Department of Justice alleged in an ongoing case against her father, Khaled, and brother, Waleed.

The unnamed victim, who according to a DOJ statement remains in Yemen "under the supervision of two of her brothers," was tricked by her family into leaving Mexico and traveling back to the United States, where her father promised he would support her marriage to her fiancé, who she had known for nearly nine years.

Instead, the court filings allege, her family tried to force her fiancé to pay them a dowry of $30,000 for their marriage, but after the woman intervened, her father threatened to throw her from the 12th story of the hotel where they were staying. The next day, the elder Abughanem allegedly changed his mind and came to a "gentleman's agreement" with his daughter's fiancé and agreed to support their union — if he could host a party and the ceremony in the United States.

The woman agreed.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 14thcentury; arrangedmarriage; islam; khaled; mexico; muslims; oops; rop; waleed; yemen
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1 posted on 02/26/2023 2:01:54 PM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

I hate it when I invite my family to my wedding and they kidnap me! :(


2 posted on 02/26/2023 2:03:40 PM PST by fightin kentuckian
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To: fightin kentuckian

That would make for interesting family get togethers.


3 posted on 02/26/2023 2:05:03 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: DFG

You can take the Arab out of the east, but you can’t take the East out of the Arab.


4 posted on 02/26/2023 2:10:48 PM PST by pacificus
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To: DFG

Sounds like they got a good price ?


5 posted on 02/26/2023 2:11:10 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: DFG

“Beginning at the hearing next week, we will vindicate his name and undo the damage all too often caused by government overreach into our personal lives and disregard of cultural diversity.” ~ Waleed Abughanem (her brother)

“I should’ve killed you before I left Yemen, you bitch, my biggest mistake was to keep you alive.” ~ Khaled Abughanem (her father)


6 posted on 02/26/2023 2:13:50 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: faithhopecharity

She must be quite the looker to fetch $500,000.


7 posted on 02/26/2023 2:21:43 PM PST by jimwatx
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To: DFG

“Waleed Abughanem denies any allegation of criminal conduct or wrongdoing whatsoever,” Buffalo News reported Frank Passafiume, an assistant federal public defender, said of the charges against his client. “Beginning at the hearing next week, we will vindicate his name and undo the damage all too often caused by government overreach into our personal lives and disregard of cultural diversity.” 🙄


8 posted on 02/26/2023 2:27:46 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: DFG

Just how do you write a title to that scenario ?


9 posted on 02/26/2023 2:28:57 PM PST by George from New England
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To: George from New England

Real Housewives of Yemen.

A very revealing storyline.


10 posted on 02/26/2023 2:36:40 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL )
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To: DFG

Wouldn’t you love to sleep next to a woman who you had to kidnap into a marriage? Oh, yeah, I’d sleep well.


11 posted on 02/26/2023 2:37:29 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: DFG

Direct link, because Yahoo! did not author this:

https://www.insider.com/woman-forced-marriage-abuse-egypt-trafficked-by-family-dowry-500000-2023-2


12 posted on 02/26/2023 2:40:21 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: DFG

this war against boys just has to stop.....


13 posted on 02/26/2023 2:43:20 PM PST by cherry
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To: Gen.Blather
Oh, yeah, I’d sleep well.

Do you think it might be wise to sleep with one eye open? 😆

14 posted on 02/26/2023 2:44:19 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Mark17

What makes you think he plans on sleeping with her?

All he wants is beautiful (in his eyes) and a breeder who has excellent genetic markers and I am sure both boxes are checked off by her looks and breeding.

Rapists very rarely sleep with their victims.

Not in those countries at least......

Sigh.


15 posted on 02/26/2023 2:49:37 PM PST by Notthereyet (NotThereYet. )
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To: jimwatx

US passport improves a lot of things.


16 posted on 02/26/2023 2:52:30 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: DFG

Aren’t Muslim families sweethearts. Such delightful human beings.


17 posted on 02/26/2023 3:18:03 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAXI)
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To: jimwatx

Or maybe the dude is butt ugly and desperate for a wife.


18 posted on 02/26/2023 3:39:01 PM PST by Four of Six
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To: Gen.Blather

“Wouldn’t you love to sleep next to a woman who you had to kidnap into a marriage? Oh, yeah, I’d sleep well.”

It’s Yemen so he probably has two or three other wives to help beat the new one into submission. All big daddy has to do is consumate the marriage and leave her family and his other wives to beat the new reality into her.
Her family in the US could threaten to zip the head off the Mexican fella if she thinks about leaving her new husband.


19 posted on 02/26/2023 4:09:23 PM PST by oldvirginian (A friend helps you move furniture. A Real friend helps you move bodies. )
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To: DFG

Islam is as Islam does!


20 posted on 02/26/2023 4:15:14 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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