It looks as if Siham Qandah may finally have won. From Christian Today, with thanks to Dr JDJ:
Compass Direct, a news agency focusing on human rights and Christian persecution, reported that a Jordanian Christian widow has been granted the custody of her two Christian children by the Amman Islamic court after their Muslim uncle had taken care of them for 7 years.Siham Qandah appealed to the Amman Islamic Court for the legal guardianship of her two children after she discovered that her Muslim brother, Abdullah al-Muhtadi, had withdrawn their monthly benefits while he was taking care of them. At a hearing on April 12, Judge Mahmud Zghl ruled in favour of Qandah and ordered al-Muhtadi to repay mis-spent amounts taken from the children’s trust fund....
Compass Direct reported that Qandah’s husband died while serving with the UN in Kosovo in 1994. But when she went to claim her children’s army orphan benefits, a local court produced an unsigned "conversion" certificate, claiming that her Christian husband had secretly converted to Islam three years before his death.
According to Islamic law, the two children automatically became Muslims too. In order to maintain the army orphan benefits for her children Qandah nominated her brother (who converted to Islam as a teenager) to serve as their legal Muslim guardian, Compass Direct said.
In 1998, her brother applied for full custody of the two children, objecting to the children being brought up as Christians. Later, he even withdrew the monthly benefits from the two children and later withdrew nearly half of their UN-allocated trust funds by getting signed approvals from senior judges....
Yeah, but will some vigilantes try taking "justice" into their own hands now?
It is a victory, but hollow... it's not like the kids will ever get to lead a normal life, at least not at home (i.e. in Jordan.)
Well, kj, islam is under attack, don't you know. It has to to "defend" itself.
From women and children.
Geoff
KJ, Geoff
This legal victory, maybe quite literally, shortlived for the mother and her children.
As for the uncle re-paying the funds he stole from the trust fund set up by the UN for the children - some hope that this will ever occur. It is inconceivable that this muslim will pay for the welfare of Christian children.
Mom and kids should 'get out of Dodge', post haste.
Her 'de-converting' of these 'Muslim children' to the infidel polytheism of 'christ-loving' idolatry won't win her many friends in the land of the 'compassionate' Allah.
And the court will probably be over-ruled by some ayatollah with a fatwa up his sleeve.
If we hear more, it is likely to be messy.
As I have understood this case, the children have remained with their mother thoughout the legal battles, in which case they have not been Islamicized. She now, hopefully, has permanent custody. I agree...she should get out of Dodge, ASAP, with her children. It is amazing that this bogus case was allowed to drag on, since it took place in the most "moderate" of Islamic countries, the one with the King who rides Harley's and has a fashion model wife.