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Yesterday, I spent half the day on the phone to the Muslim Middle East trying to help an American citizen mother (who happens to be a Muslim) and her American citizen young daughter get out of Dodge. Like Betty Mahmoody, who was held hostage in Khomeini’s Iran, this mother won’t leave “without her daughter.” The problem is that the girl’s father is an Arab Muslim man and his country, like other Muslim countries, has not signed onto the Hague Convention; this means that Muslim countries are under no international legal obligation to pursue and return parentally kidnapped children.
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