Umm... Like... Not to be too monomaniacal about this or anything... But could this bad outcome be –substantially if not mostly– a product of vacant fatherhood? "[H]er husband has been working in Libya for the last ten years" is more than resonant, and it's not about a religious verge.

Loving dads react badly when bad guys in the neighborhood collect their daughters and threaten their sons.

And –call me a stickler– "her husband" does not equal 'the child's father'.

Hate Islam if you want, OK by me, maybe I'll buy a ticket to your raffle. But this tale has smelly language.

Sorry, Crid, it happens all the time, whether there's a father there or note. See this story:

http://www.zimbio.com/Islamization/articles/67/Children+Kidnapped+Forced+Convert+Islam

Sisters 12 year-old Saba Younis and 10 year-old Anila Younis were kidnapped from their Christian family on June 26, 2008 from the small town of Chowk Munda while on their way to their uncle’s home in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The girls are from Chak No. 552, T.D.A, a Muslim dominated village.

Their father Masih Younis went to the police for assistance. Instead of receiving assistance from the police, he was told to keep silent.

Muhammad Arif Bajwa (a Muslim fruit vendor) had kidnapped the sisters at gunpoint, then sold the girls Anila and Saba Younis to Falak Sher Gill. Falak Sher Gill then gave Saba Younis to his son, Muhammad Amjid.

On June 27, 2008, the girls were forcefully converted to Islam.

On June 28, 2008 Falak Sher Gill (Muslim man), arranged for his son Muhammad Amjid (also Muslim) to be married to 12 year-old Saba Younis, after receiving the religious decree ‘Fatwa’ from the Muslim religious leaders.

Then on June 28, 2008 the kidnappers filed with the police for custody of the children. They had married the children, and declared the children had converted to Islam.

Masih Younis, the father of Saba and Anila, went to Falak Sher Gill to get his daughters back. Falak Sher Gill refused to return the children back to their father, and instead threatened him, warning that if Masih Younis files a case against him then the rest of the Younis family will be killed. Falak Sher Gill further claimed that he cannot be caught by the police or any court.

The Muslim kidnappers filed a case of harassment against Masih Younis and his family, stating that the girls Saba and Anila have accepted Islam and their father Masih Younis is threatening the girls and the Muslims.

"All the time"?

FUBAR.

Can't they just leave tracts stuck in your front door handle, like the other conversion-happy religions?

Aw c'mon Amy, that link will report the same thing over and over!!

Did seventeen hundred race car drivers get hit on the head last week, or just two?

JUst had a brilliant idea. People infected with swine flu need to vacation in the middle east.

the price will be your son Meena (9 years old) being slaughtered in front of your own eyes. I am not threatening, I'm talking seriously.'"

In a country with the 2nd Amendment, he would be talking through an additional hole in his head.

Did seventeen hundred race car drivers get hit on the head last week, or just two?

So now you get religion on Google searches?

If it were my daughters that they wanted to take, the motto of US Special Operations Command Central says it best: "Molon Labe". Come and Get Them.

> So now you get religion

First of all, Skippy, like the song says, you've got to move past the hurt. Everyone here understands that your January rhetorical defeat was profound, and the humiliation must have been debilitating. But it's been months!... C'mon now, buddy! Snap out of it!

Secondly–

> So now you get religion on
> Google searches?

I've never admired badly composed ones: Amy got carried away.
Y'know, "Context" is my middle name. Seriously. It's on my drivers license.

Crid:

So now you get religion on Google searches?