My friend Malini, fighting to save her son from his father-kidnapper in India, is starting to get serious press attention. Good to see. The case has international ramifications. Let’s hope that, amongst other things, it leads to still more international agreements on what happens when a parent absconds with a child in a blatant effort to separate and estrange them from the other parent.
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I have a cousin who’s father is Pakistani. He would never let his daughter or wife go with him to visit his family there, telling them that his family would keep them there and he couldn’t stop them. When I was a kid, there were two factions in the family — one that flat didn’t believe him and thought that he had some other reason, and the other that figured that of course Those People are capable of anything.
Now, as an adult, I have a pretty good grasp of the way things work in south Asia, and I fear that he was right and honest all along, and I think that pisses me off more than anything. (I am also amused as an adult to realize that even in the deepest hills, clan loyalty trumps racial bigotry. He may be one of Those People, but he’s one of Our People first.)
I had thought only moslem men stole children from their non-moslem ex-wives. I see I was dead wrong, now that this rich hindu bastard has decided to follow the same road to hell.
Live and learn.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
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