There are currently 11,000 American kids who are being held in Islamic countries against the wishes of their non-Muslim parents.
They have been kidnapped.
How did this happen? Typically, an American woman marries a Muslim man, has kids, decides she doesn’t like how she is treated under Islamic law, tries to get a divorce and is left for dead as her husband returns to his country of origin with the kids, never to be seen or heard from again.
This is an ugly situation, and one that has been going on for years.
This has lead to some remarkable stories of mercenaries being sent in to take the kids back, shootouts with the man’s family member and friends, kids being reunited with their mother; or kids, mercenaries, father, father’s family and friends ending up dead. For more details, do a search on "international parental kidnapping."
International parental kidnapping is a serious crime. There is an international treaty that treats this as a crime, but dozens of Islamic countries haven’t signed the treaty or have shown any interest in returning these American kids.
We should stop giving foreign aid to those countries that have American victims of international parental kidnapping. This means Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Turkey, Yemen, Morocco, Jordan, Syria, Kuwait, Pakistan, Oman and other countries need to condemn this crime, punish the kidnapping parent and return the kids to their countries of origin. This is not just an American problem, but a Western problem. Every Western nation has cases like this. Here’s a Newsday story on this problem.
If they (non-complying nations to the Hague treaty) do nothing to help the problem, then they support it. Just because an idea is popular in a culture doesn't make it right.
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