Mom reunites with daughter spirited away nearly 14 years ago

Seattle Times ^ | 12-12-2007 | Sara Jean Green

[newgeezer]

It happens here in the U.S. too.

Of course it does. My own sister-in-law just divorced for the second time. The second loser was practically a carbon copy of the first one. It's the same old story where the girl thinks the guy needs her help to become the man she wants him to be.

Sadly, there are children involved this time. Ultimately, they will be the ones to pay for their parents' selfish, immature behavior.

[freepertoo]

Remember the movie, “Not Without My Daughter”?

[livius]

There’s a difference between a man acting like a man and acting like a woman-hating brute with homosexual tendencies.

For a great view of a Western woman running off into the Muslim world, read “The Turkish Passion,” by Spanish writer Antonio Gala. They made a movie of it a few years ago, but the movie prettified things. It’s a great book (probably the only good book Gala has ever written).

[CaptainK]

Women who marry into this twisted religion have the same thought process as women who write to prisoners.

[SF Republican]

Sally Fields movie escaping is the only one I recall on this subject, was it that one?

[MayflowerMadam]

That movie is one every girl should see. True, terrifying story.

[wintertime]

Wow! Your link was well worth the time to read it.

[defconw]

From my experience with a few friends from college. The "men" wine and dine them, treat them like princesses. Spoil them with gifts, say they are not like the men back in the old country. They get the girl to marry them and get her pregnant, then things start to change BIG time.

In the middle east women have no recourse and a man only has to say "I divorce you". Done, she can leave but the children will stay with him.

[CindyDawg]

True. I was thinking about taking the kids though. Her situation is different but sometimes a parent will take a child and run if they think they are in danger or can’t get reasonable time with their children.

[SuziQ]

"My dad was telling us, 'Your mom doesn't want you,' but we never believed it," Zarminah said. "I've been crying for five years. But he's my father, so I can't get mad at my dad."

Poor girl; she's been so brainwashed. She can and SHOULD be mad at her Dad, and if there is any justice, she'll never see him or speak to him again, in retribution for what he did to her and her siblings, unless and until he repents and asks for their forgiveness. If I were them, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that.

[rawhide]

Ginger Mayes, right, and her daughter Zarminah Al-Rabiah, 20, at Sea-Tac Airport on Tuesday. Mayes brought the stuffed gorilla as a present.

[Sender]

It’s pretty amazing. An American woman who meets a dashing Saudi man can expect to be burka’ed, kept from ever going outside, unable to work or drive, associating only with the resentful family who only speaks Arabic, expected to tolerate any and all horrible behavior from any children, expected to tolerate other wives, and to be unable to leave the Kingdom for any reason. If she should be so lucky as to be permitted to leave, she must leave any and all children behind to become Muslims. This is a lose/lose proposition for any thinking woman. Why do we continue to pretend to be allies with these neanderthals? Oh, that’s right, they have oil.

[HollyB]

Very sad, indeed. Reminds me a little of a a repo-man I spoke to at the DMV. He said, you’d be surprised at how many people will give up information about their friends and family for 100 bucks. Although giving information about a child is completely different than about a car, but the concept is the same.