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Mom reunites with daughter spirited away nearly 14 years ago
Seattle Times ^ | 12-12-2007 | Sara Jean Green

Posted on 12/12/2007 12:43:26 PM PST by Nachum

The moment she spotted the young woman in the puffy silver jacket, Ginger Mayes screamed her daughter's name and rushed the escalator, oblivious of the other passengers streaming into the baggage-claim area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Zarminah Al-Rabiah stepped off the escalator and into her mother's arms. The women clutched each other in a minutes-long hug, sobbing and then laughing.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: daughter; missing; mom; reunion; reunites; years
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To: CindyDawg
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.

21 posted on 12/12/2007 1:53:54 PM PST by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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To: SF Republican

Remember the movie, “Not Without My Daughter”?


22 posted on 12/12/2007 1:54:21 PM PST by freepertoo
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To: SF Republican; sneakers; Nachum

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).


23 posted on 12/12/2007 1:55:12 PM PST by livius
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To: arthurus

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


24 posted on 12/12/2007 1:57:39 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: freepertoo

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


25 posted on 12/12/2007 1:59:58 PM PST by SF Republican
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To: freepertoo

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


26 posted on 12/12/2007 2:05:32 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: Sender

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


27 posted on 12/12/2007 2:10:32 PM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: SF Republican
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.

28 posted on 12/12/2007 3:00:54 PM PST by defconw (Pray for Snow!)
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To: newgeezer

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.


29 posted on 12/12/2007 3:49:38 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: Nachum
"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.

30 posted on 12/12/2007 4:31:59 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Nachum

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

31 posted on 12/12/2007 4:38:14 PM PST by rawhide
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To: wintertime

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.


32 posted on 12/12/2007 8:16:12 PM PST by Sender (You are the weapon. What you hold in your hand is just a tool.)
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To: wideawake

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.


33 posted on 05/21/2009 4:39:39 AM PDT by HollyB
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