Posted on 06/14/2006 2:48:12 PM PDT by pitinkie
NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - The mother of a West Bank man who invited a 16-year-old American to the Mideast to get married says she is distraught that the teenager has returned home and hopes to bring the couple together.
Sana Jinzawi says she was waiting at the airport in Tel Aviv to pick up Katherine Lester, who met her 20-year-old son Abdullah on the popular MySpace.com Web site.
Lester had boarded a flight to Israel last week after slipping out of her mother's house in Gilford, Mich. But Sana Jinzawi said by telephone from her West Bank home in Jericho Wednesday that her son was heartbroken and insisted the two are in love.
"She was going to sign a marriage contract as soon as she got here," the mother said, adding she told Lester to "bring a pink dress for the engagement party and a white dress for the wedding."
"She wanted to convert to Islam and wear the head covering and live with us and adopt our culture," Sana Jinzawi said.
Abdullah Jinzawi, who works in his father's business delivering goods to minimarkets, is no longer giving interviews. But in a phone interview with WNEM-TV in Saginaw, Mich., on Saturday, he said he met Lester on the Web seven months ago, that he was a wealthy businessman and that he wanted to marry her. He said he sent her the money for the flight.
Sana Jinzawi said five other Jericho residents had brought American girls to Jericho in recent years and that all the couples now live in the U.S.
Sana Jinzawi says her son and Lester have been in touch since the teenager returned to Michigan. "Neither of them are giving up on each other," she said.
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2nd photo explains everything. Arabs LOVE blondes!
>>>So bascially she is admitting that he is a pedophile. (Age of consent laws)>>>
I would hardly call a 20 year old with a 16 year old girl a 'pedophile'. Especially in that area of the world where social stigma isn't as broad here. Heck, by technical laws, my son would have been a 'pedophile' when he turned 19 and his girlfriend had yet to reach her 17th birthday.
>>>What mother of a 16-year-old girl would let her go alone to Canada?>>>
What American doesn't know you don't need a passport to get into Canada.
But I don't think this is the same story you are talking about. That was an Egyptian 25 year old man.
>>>I know every keystroke my daughter makes on MySpace. Privacy be damned.>>>
As all my children know verbotem (as they quote with accompanying eye rolling);
Privacy begins when your name is on the lease.
>>>I'm not too keen on the whole situation, but a 20-year-old guy and a 16-year-old girl is hardly pedophilia. Let's not dilute the meaning of the word.>>>
Agree wholeheartedly. When you start throwing pedophile in with young man with young almost woman, you take away the sting of the word when it's being used to describe a man with child.
Abdullah's myspace name was, if memory serves, "Abdullah Psycho".
I tried to find it but couldnt.
Okers.
My memory on it could be faulty.
But it was one of those handles that made you go, "And THIS is a good idea?!"
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=53002644
abdullah psycho myspace
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