IMNSHO, they are candidates for the insanity defense.
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas
which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas
which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.*--Thomas
**Jeff**erson*
On 11/5/2013 12:48 AM, [email protected] wrote:
*Atlas Shrugs*
November 4, 2013
A Cautionary Tale, One Mother's Story: Marrying Muslim
<http://p.feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=83634148&f=26412&u=13042656&c=4671984>
Any non-Muslim woman who marries a Muslim is putting her life, her
freedom and the freedom of her children in jeopardy. These horror
stories are told and retold by American women (and women living in
Western countries).
Micah Thorner, director of post-convention support programs at the
Hague, said that such cases will be the subject of a gathering in
Tunisia this month "to engage states that are based on /sharia /legal
systems in dialogue with states that are party to the convention."
Laughable, considering the role of Islamic Law in Tunisia's
Constitution and legislation
<http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4671984/www.loc.gov/law/help/tunisia.php>
post-"Arab" spring.
Thorner said the aim is to get /sharia /nations to agree on some
principles for the resolution of parental disputes involving
children. But many nations in the Middle East have not signed on
to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International
Child Abduction, an international agreement protecting against
detainment of children.
"As the convention gains wider acceptance throughout the world,
these types of situations are probably less likely to occur,"
Thorner said.
No, they won't. The convention runs counter to the sharia. There is no
way that it will gain wider acceptance while the sharia is sanctioned.
Look at laws concerning honor killing in Muslim countries. Honor
murderers get more lenient sentences because of the honor code under
the sharia.
One mother's story shows plight of trapped women
<http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4671984/https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/11/03/trapped-women-muslim-countries/3145559/&ct=ga&cd=NDgyNjcxNTE1MTg2MzA0MTgyNg&cad=CAEYAg&usg=AFQjCNHsp98X_vLsjxbce5iYyrgYBF9haA>
USA TODAY
LONDON: Gunfire cracked all around Sara Rogers as she climbed to
the roof of her high-rise home in Gaza. The year was 2005, and
Israeli soldiers were fighting Palestinian gunmen to stop rocket
attacks and destroy smuggling tunnels.
Rogers closed her eyes. "Just let one hit me in the head," she
begged. "And make it quick."
It was not the months of violence of the Second Intifada that made
the Italian-American college graduate ache for death. It was her
virtual enslavement by one of the most feared families in the
Middle East.
Days later, Rogers was in a taxi with her five children,*praying
her husband wouldn't catch her and their five children before she
reached the Israeli border. *
Sara Rogers reflects on her life after escaping her husband in
Gaza.(Photo: Adam L. Linn)
"It was the most relieved I have ever felt," she recalled of her
escape to Israel. "Four years of hell was finally over."
*Rogers is not the first Western woman to marry an Arab man and find
out how few rights she had once removed to a Middle East country that
abides by /sharia,/ or Islamic law. But some are working to make her
among the last.*
Micah Thorner, director of post-convention support programs at the
Hague, said such cases will be the subject of a gathering in Tunisia
this month "to engage states that are based on /sharia /legal systems
in dialogue with states that are party to the convention."
Thorner said the aim is to get /sharia /nations to agree on some
principles for the resolution of parental disputes involving children.
But many nations in the Middle East have not signed on to the 1980
Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child
Abduction, an international agreement protecting against detainment of
children.
"As the convention gains wider acceptance throughout the world, these
types of situations are probably less likely to occur," Thorner said.
The ordeal of an American woman who was held captive with her child by
her husband in Iran was chronicled in the 1991 book and film "Not
Without My Daughter." And a French woman who escaped her Saudi prince
husband has yet to be rejoined with her daughter despite a 2012 French
court ruling ordering the husband to turn over the child.
The U.S. State Department does not keep records on its citizens who
are kidnapped on foreign soil. Though it does try to put pressure on
governments for an American's release, State has gone on record in the
past that it has "very limited capability" in Gaza.
When such kidnappings do occur, it often *appears as a surprise* to
women as it was to Rogers, a bright multicultural studies student from
upstate New York.
[What they get from believing Left-wing claptrap*;* how naive can
anyone get?]
Rogers was living with her mother in Las Cruces, a city on the Rio
Grande in New Mexico, when she became enchanted by a soft-spoken Arab
man working at the Middle Eastern cafe where she'd often study.
"I was the feminist, the rebel, everything you could imagine," she
said. Hatem Abu Taha proposed to her three days after they met. They
were married soon after.
"The morning after we wed, my husband got up to meet his friends," she
recalled. "I was like, 'What? We're newlyweds.'"
"He just told me he was doing guy things and I could do woman things,"
she said in an interview at her home outside Boston.
Rogers worked as a nurse assistant but hoped for better. She completed
a master's degree and was preparing to write a book. Her husband
rarely worked. He spoke often of his native land.
The couple had three children and were expecting a fourth when Taha
said it was time they traveled to the Middle East to visit his
Palestinian relatives. It was 2001.
Taha's family lived in Rafah, a city on the border with Egypt from
which Palestinian militants launched Qassam rockets into Israel.
Rogers was surprised to see that Taha's family appeared to be well
off. They owned, he told her, Gaza's only cigarette patent. She was
also not ready for what happened to her husband.
Taha was ultra-patriotic, she said, and passive to the will of his
family who were hostile to the American in their home. After two
weeks, Rogers said her kids were "breaking down." Her eldest son was
suffering anxiety attacks. Her 2-year-old daughter had contracted
dysentery.
When they arrived two weeks before, carpenters were building a
third-floor addition to the family home. Taha told Rogers it was for
his brother and his wife. But when the work was done, Taha told her
the unit was where she would live.
Rogers was distressed and said she wanted the family to return home to
the United States.
"He just laughed: 'You have no embassy here. You have no family. No
one.' I was in shock," she said.
Her mother-in-law was the cruelest, she said, patrolling the
downstairs so Rogers didn't escape. The children were called
"Yehudi"(Jews) and bullied constantly at school. Her husband told her
the children were his and that she was nothing but "a vessel."
"I did not exist as a person," she said.
There was worse to come. Rogers said Taha struck her and broke her jaw
for not cleaning the refrigerator properly. And she was suspicious
that her in-laws weren't just involved in cigarette trading.
They would have lengthy conversations with members of Hamas, the
Palestinian terror group whose urban warfare tactics Rogers witnessed
firsthand.
"The Palestinians would get inside a local school and start shooting
from the windows," she said. "And the Israelis would just fire back.
Then you'd see people holding up dead Palestinian kids."
When Rogers pleaded to move away from the perilous border with Israel,
her father-in-law refused, claiming it would be an honor for them to
be "martyred." It was soon clear the family was active in terror
networks. Israeli aerial attacks were common.
"We could hear the helicopter coming a mile away: tick, tick, tick,
tick," Rogers said. "Then it would drop the bomb."
Rogers' eldest son was injured by an Israeli tank shell. Her newborn
son chewed holes in his feet because of the stress. One night, Taha
and his nephew Yahya didn't return from a trip.
"On the BBC was a report that two Palestinians from Islamic Jihad had
claimed an attack and a young man and his wife were dead," said
Rogers. "My sister-in-law came up the stairs crying happily, saying
that Yahya was now a martyr and in heaven. I had to get out."
On a trip to Gaza City to meet a family friend, Rogers slipped away
while the men were at afternoon prayers. In her burka, she had heard
that illegal taxis brought people from Gaza to Israel and pleaded with
a local store owner to call her one.
"I asked the cab driver how long it took to Erez and he said half an
hour. I said, 'If you can make it in 15 minutes, you can have every
bit of gold I have.' He got me to the border."
Rogers said that speaking about her life in Palestine helps ease the
pain. But it will be a long time until she recovers. "I try to take
the positives from everything," she said. "I meet good people and
everything makes me grateful."
"My kids are smart, funny, you'd never have guessed what they went
through," she added. "I tell them that it was a bad thing but that it
was given to them for a reason. They can make their lives count."
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