[FITZ]

And some are so desperate to be married, they probably ignore her advice figuring if they get themselves in a jam later, our government will just have to get them out. To me there are enough of these stories there is no excuse at all for ignorance about international marriages. There was one here, a woman from Mexico studying and a man from Iran. They married and she gave birth in the US to a US citizen. The man's family didn't want his child to grow up as a corrupt American or be raised as a Catholic which the Mexican woman started to do so he took the boy to Iran where his sisters and mother are raising him. The mother will never see him again until he is an adult. They sometimes will let her talk to him on the phone, and she's upset our government didn't go in there and take him out for her, she apparently didn't expect her own government to do anything.

It's amazing to me that these women can't open their eyes before they make such a drastic mistake. The mistake is all theirs and why they believe American soldiers should be killed over there mistake is beyond me.

[SarahW]

Sara Saga made no such mistake. And she is a US citizen, held on foreign soil against her will, essentially sold into marriage and raped by a man she did not willingly marry.

[najida]

They don't understand that 'over there' females have little to no value. And the religion IS the government. Sounds harsh, but erm, ah....

It is extremely ingrained in the culture, and difficult to even comprehend. Like I said, this teacher has to really lay down the law about travel over there (dress, escorts, curfews etc). Even so, I know of a couple of women who have had scares.

Sorta the double edge sword of growing up in such a wonderfully free country like the US. Makes you believe you are invincible. You can't fathom how it could be so different until you are there.