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.
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I hate it when I invite my family to my wedding and they kidnap me! :(
That would make for interesting family get togethers.
You can take the Arab out of the east, but you can’t take the East out of the Arab.
Sounds like they got a good price ?
“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)
She must be quite the looker to fetch $500,000.
“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.” 🙄
Just how do you write a title to that scenario ?
Real Housewives of Yemen.
A very revealing storyline.
Wouldn’t you love to sleep next to a woman who you had to kidnap into a marriage? Oh, yeah, I’d sleep well.
Direct link, because Yahoo! did not author this:
https://www.insider.com/woman-forced-marriage-abuse-egypt-trafficked-by-family-dowry-500000-2023-2
this war against boys just has to stop.....
Do you think it might be wise to sleep with one eye open? 😆
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.
US passport improves a lot of things.
Aren’t Muslim families sweethearts. Such delightful human beings.
Or maybe the dude is butt ugly and desperate for a wife.
“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.
Islam is as Islam does!
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