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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Shes 16???
You said -- "So bascially she is admitting that he is a pedophile."
There are no pedophiles in Islam. They follow the example of the Prophet Mohammed, who married his bride at 6 years old. That says it all.
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Star Traveler
You said -- "Exactly, her (16 year old girl) family really dodged a bullet..."
It doesn't sound like they've dodged the bullet yet. What I read said they were still talking.
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Star Traveler
You said -- "I shudder to think of what a living hell that poor girl's life would have become."
It sounds like she might still do it.
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Star Traveler
You said -- "Where did you find that info on the woman who was blown up? I haven't seen any info on her. Thanks!"
Although you weren't writing to me, I also read the very same thing in one of the many news articles that I looked through about Zarqawi. That fact is -- sort of -- *scarce* information.
This "16-year old" could be the "child" that some newspaper articles were referring to. I believe that most of the MSM would rather leave the impression of a "child" being blown up -- rather than the impression of Zarqawi carrying around a 16-year old for a wife.
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Star Traveler
You said -- "She is advertising for a man, any man- up the 35 YEARS OLD!!"
Up to half that generation is doing the same thing -- one way or another.
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Star Traveler
You said -- "She said very few of the kids really paid attention to the info they were given and the horrible stories they were told about people molested and stalked over things on the net. The kids don't think it really is a problem- YIKES!"
That is very true -- that kind of attitude. That's from what I've seen from others in our extended family and how they act. There's no concern for what might happen.
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Star Traveler
All I need to read.
You said -- "Try imagining hundreds of thousands of teens with worse myspace pages."
And with the web cams, the girls also put on "shows" for whomever wants to watch. And I'm not talking about porn sites, but just normal girls, in their bedrooms, with their laptops and a web-cam attached.
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Star Traveler
You said -- "Missie wouldn't have liked wearing the burka!"
Only out in public. Once the door is closed at home, she could still look like she looks on that web-site of hers. In fact, she might also still maintain it after being locked up at her new Muzzie-home...
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Star Traveler
You said -- "Sounds like a plan to me. I wonder if the Palestinian came up with this by themselves or did OBL have a hand it in?"
They've been doing it for years. I remember it from way back in the 70s. It's a standard way of them "doing business" and getting "in" over her. Nothing new there....
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Star Traveler
You said -- "Stupidity does not deserve pity."
Sure it does.
God had pity on us (i.e., "the world") regardless of how stupid it's been and how *opposed* to God it is. Thank goodness He has no reluctance showing pity to the "stupid" of this world -- of which we are all in that category -- according to what the Bible says.
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Star Traveler
You said -- "A girl that looks like that would not need to link up with a guy halfway around the world."
The Internet closes up the distance so that he might as well be just a few blocks away. Her friends in school are just as "close" as he is -- on the Internet. So, the "distance" is not meaningful.
And being "halfway around the world" is lot more "alluring" than just going down the street to a nearby crummy neighborhood -- you see...
And, sure that's her.
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Star Traveler
You said -- "And if she does look like that, then she's stupid and deserves whatever she gets."
Not really...
Sometimes it's a curse to look that good. It causes all sorts of problems. It's probably to be sort-of average, for better development.
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Star Traveler
You said -- "I bet it's mighty lonely."
That's a clue to her problem...
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Star Traveler
You said -- "His 18 month old son was also killed in the airstrike. Do the math from there."
Gosh, I missed that detail. They're really keeping that information out of the MSM.
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Star Traveler
Sheesh, is that why females want to convert to Islam, no more bad hair days?
You said -- "I know every keystroke my daughter makes on MySpace. Privacy be damned."
And she keeps you happy that way. It's what you don't know that's the problem....
Regards,
Star Traveler
You said -- "How do you do that? Do you have a special program installed on your computer?"
I don't know about that person (that you were asking) -- but -- sure..., it's easy to do -- if you own the computer and you maintain it. There are plenty of programs out there. I've done it before to monitor my own machines and see if anyone was doing anything that I should be concerned about (on my computers).
Regards,
Star Traveler
When my youngest daughter was 16, I let her go to Montreal for the summer to work as a counselor in a day camp. I dropped her off at the airport and they would not allow her to board the plane until I faxed them a copy of her birth certificate (she had her passport, but they wanted to see the BC as well).
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