Yeah , only Muslims kidnap children. No other race, colour or creed would ever do a thing like that, would they? A little girl is missing and all you can do is throw about stupid comments. A 6 year old girl has been taken from her mother and is in a foreign country, away from her friends and facing an uncertain future and you decide that it is the right occasion to take a cheap shot at her expense. How well you didn’t post your comments on your Facebook page for all your friends to see.

Brian you have a point.But this is common in Europe. Muslim men kidnapping their daughters as they feel they are becoming too Westernised. Read the book “Stolen” and “A Promise to Nadia”. Fiorsceal had a brilliant documentary on this problem a few years ago.Denmark has brought in legislation with the hope to halt Mix Marriage kids been taken back to Islamic countries and married off.

Many of us have seen the movie Not without my Daughter. Off course non Muslims kidnapp children too.No one disputes this BUT this style of kidnapping due to a intolerance for their daughters becoming too western is common.Its the first in Ireland but it does happen in the UK,France and Denmark .

no it wasn’t the kidnapping, more about having to sell everything and trying to make her live the Muslim life ???

The Islamic angle is important if complex. Under Islamic law, a mother has greater rights to custody, but only till the age of seven or eight, when the father automatically takes charge. If the mother re-marries, however, custody passes directly to the father. This father may have concluded that his daughter was reaching the age of discretion quickly (which is a factor in Islamic law) or suspected the mother was planning to re-marry or just decided to ignore Islamic law entirely. Although Brian is right to say that Muslims are not the only people who kidnap children, it is a fact that this shift from the mother to the father (who may be unsuitable) is common in the Islamic world and in Muslim communities outside. It is also a factor where the mother is not a Muslim. Although coercion is not acceptable, it is generally thought that a husband should ‘encourage’ his wife to convert. Here’s a ruling from Shaykh ‘Abd al-Sattar al-Sa’id of the prestigious al-Azhar theological school:

1- There is nothing wrong, as far as Islam is concerned, that a Muslim man marries a Christian woman, but he should stipulate in the marriage contract that any children from the marriage will be Muslims.

2- We hope that the questioner tries hard to call his wife to Islam, and urge her to follow the straight path. In doing so, he will be generously rewarded by Allah Almighty.

3- If all efforts for the couple to reconcile have failed, and divorce becomes inevitable, then the Muslim father is held responsible for the custody of his children and their wellbeing.

In Syria.?? Have you watched the news recently

I’m with you on this one Barry. This gu obviously missed this http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/12419-syrian-army-raids-idlib-as-outrage-mounts Idlib is where this little girls father is from. Safe as houses then.

I’d love the rock your under. Can i borrow it for a period.Must be a great place. What is it called. “The Bubble”??