| FrontPageMag.com | By Robert Spencer | By Hugh Fitzgerald | Books | Jihad Watch | Islam 101 | Qur'an Blog | Raymond Ibrahim | Robert Spencer |  |
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
According to the AP, Molly Campbell, also known as Misbah Iram Ahmed Rana, has signed a legal statement saying she left of her own free will. While that statement comes under automatic suspicion of coercion due to the circumstances, the parental rights of her mother have been revoked by a Pakistani court on the grounds that "an apostate is devoid of all rights," adding a new dimension to an already-messy custody battle.
From the Evening Standard: "Father given custody of Molly - because her mother's a Christian"
The father of runaway Molly Campbell was granted interim custody of the 12-year-old in Pakistan because her mother had re-converted to Christianity.
Sajad Ahmed Rana won the ruling after telling a court that Louise Campbell was not giving Molly an Islamic home and was living with a man she had not married - a crime under Pakistani law.
Molly, who triggered an international police investigation after she disappeared from her school in the Outer Hebrides nine days ago, was at the Session Court of the Civil Judge in Lahore to hear the verdict.
The court issued an order through the British High Commission in Islamabad that Mrs Campbell must personally appear in Lahore on Wednesday to defend herself, until which time Molly stays in her father's custody.
There is now likely to be a protracted legal case involving lawyers in Scotland and Pakistan. In Scotland, Mr Rana, a wealthy clothing manufacturer who initially had custody of all the couple's four children after their divorce in 2001, could face prosecution for child abduction. In Pakistan, the position of Mrs Campbell, who converted to Islam upon her marriage, would be uncertain.
"Louise Campbell is a re-convert and according to Pakistani law an apostate is devoid of all rights and deserves punishment,' said Mr Rana's lawyer, Dr Abdul Biset.
Posted by Marisol at September 4, 2006 1:24 AM
Print this entry
| Email this entry
| Digg this
| del.icio.us
This is not the first time that Dhimmi have been treated in such a fashion. What was this woman thinking?
Posted by: lonewolf![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/nav-commenters.gif)
at September 4, 2006 1:50 AM
So much for the "No compulsion on religion" BS. Hope Naseem's prospective daughter-in-law (if such a person reallly exists) hears about this.
Posted by: Bohemond_1069 at September 4, 2006 2:40 AM
Oh,,and what about the rule that any person leaving islam is to be killed?
Posted by: Bohemond_1069 at September 4, 2006 2:41 AM
This is not a suprising result. The father is the guardian of child custody no matter what the conduct of the mother. The father used the fact of the mother's apostasy to show the judge's father is a good Moslem, he prays five times a day and teaches the lad to torture animals for the Eid. The fact that the mother is an apostate will be a secondary reason to deprive her of any parental rights. Under Islamic law, the father has all rights to the child even if the father divorces the wife without cause. What is unique about Islam, is that it has not adopted the simplest and obvious moral principle that a court should consider in these custody matters the best interests of the child.
Posted by: David England at September 4, 2006 7:04 AM
This is a super case. Why a 16 year old marries a Muslim market trader in an Islamic ceremony is beyond comprehension - that she brings her children up as Muslims follows from this initial lunacy.
That she cohabits with an Englishman in Scotland and assumes his name and has another child by him makes her youngest child no longer the youngest and sibling rivalry might make living with her "family" more attractive than with just her mother.
The whole Islam thing is persiflage for a Pakistan Court which has made an interim order - I somehow doubt it will in the end conflict with a Scottish Court..........
Posted by: Voyager at September 4, 2006 7:52 AM
I'm pretty sure Louise is on her way to crapistan right now. What chance in hell does this Woman have? I can't help but feel for Molly, she ran away for crimany sake.
Posted by: mustang65 at September 4, 2006 8:50 AM
The Times gives a report which appears sympathetic to the girl and her father (calling her Misbah and showing a picture of her looking happy in Islamic dress) on the surface. But the report goes on to emphasise aspects of the case which are disturbing and which do not paint Islam in the positive light that I anticipate the father would prefer.
THE mother of a 12-year-old at the centre of an international childcare battle was not fit to be her legal guardian because she was an “apostate” from Islam, according to legal documents placed before a court in Pakistan.
They added: “If the girl was permitted to live in the household which is presided over by a stranger, it will be impossible to bring her up as a proper Muslim female.
Asked whether his client had any intention to go through the courts in Britain, Dr Basit said: “No. We have succeeded in doing what we wanted to do. A Muslim girl is back in a country that is supposedly governed by Sharia and now if Sharia prevails she cannot go back.”
..the schoolgirl said yesterday: “My mother has reconverted to Christianity after her divorce and has taken up her original name. She wants to bring me up as a Christian. I do not want to be a Christian. I love Scotland but I love Islam more.”
Not "I love Pakistan" more. It's the umma, see.
Friends of Misbah in Stornoway, where she lived in a council estate, suggested yesterday that she may have been attracted by the wealth of her father, who is a financier.
Posted by: Granny Weatherwax
at September 4, 2006 8:55 AM
What a strange story. Custody of children in this sort of situation is something I had never really thought about before.
The article listed above is accurate (The Times)it makes it sound like she really wants to live with her father. I say, send her off. She'll see how horrible it is when she's married off to some old guy and forced into a life of virtual slavery and abuse. It'll be too late then, but if her mother's house is such a 'living hell', then so be it. If this story is true, then she sounds like a spoiled brat. I have no patience for those who choose to put themselves in a situation like that, even if they are kids. 12 is not a baby.
(This is a side note, and doesn't apply to the original issue, but I keep hearing of people who are not Muslims being referred to as Christians. Just because someone is not a Muslim or not of a particular other religion doesn't automatically make them a Christian. If this mother is living with some guy she's not married to and living a wild life as is alleged here, I highly doubt she's a Christian in the Biblical sense.)
Posted by: Mo at September 4, 2006 10:09 AM
A British court decided Molly's mother was her legal guardian. Sharia law and tribal courts in Pakistan have now over-ridden British law. This is a wider argument.
It just looks like we will have to fight to get our laws back.
Posted by: IceDragon at September 4, 2006 10:12 AM
I wonder how the BBC will twist and distort this article to further the cause of Islam. I didn't find anything yet on the BBC's web site. Maybe the editors are having a hard time trying to strip out the facts.
On another note. I really hope that the mother takes armed protection to Pakistan. Some insane Islamist is bound to try to re-convert her or kill her.
Posted by: non-redneck at September 4, 2006 10:16 AM
And just think of the dowry that Daddy can get from some old Saudi millionaire for a young light skinned European daughter.
Posted by: RBLA at September 4, 2006 10:46 AM
Its unfortunate that this case becomes a showcase for the legal principle. It does nothing but re-enforce the picture of decadent west vs pious Islam. I have no sympathy for women who wander into this trap anyway.
Posted by: ScottSA at September 4, 2006 12:29 PM
I am sorry but I have a hard time feeling sorry for this woman. The simple thought of getting married with a muslim shows she's already as described in the koran, with half a brain.
I hope stories like those can at least convince people not to mix with mud.
Posted by: FedUp at September 4, 2006 2:00 PM
While the story is illustrative I have no pity for the mother, and only disgust, I do feel sorry for the girl though, because what she is and will endure is tantamount to child abuse..
To be raised Muslim is child abuse.
Posted by: Nariz at September 4, 2006 6:49 PM
It is quite apparent from reading about this tragic case and of other cases in the past where non-Muslim women have married Muslim men in the West, that such women appear to have no understanding, not even a vague shapeless grasp, of what lies in store for them if the husband decides to return to his Muslim country. There is a harrowing movie (I think it is called 'Oh My Darling Daughter') based on a real happening, about an educated young American woman who married an Iranian doctor while he was working in the States. The couple had a daughter and the husband decided to return to Iran. The wife was, from her moment of arrival a mere prisoner, and hardly ever alone with her mother and sister-in-laws always with her. Eventually, after risking her and her daughter's lives they made it to the US embassy in Turkey with the help of people smugglers. I have also read the book by Babs Rule about her visit to her daughter in Saudia - also an educated young American, who had married a Saudi prince and ended up a prisoner in a gilded cage in the desert kingdom. Merely as a mother-in-law, Babs Rule had a job to escape back to America, although she eventually managed it. These are the educated, the well-connected and well-off - the total opposite through Western eyes from the working class girls that Theodore Dalrymple calls 'their lumpen-slut white concubines' - the co-habitees of the mainly young Muslim men who they live with temporarily in British cities and towns. I watched a British TV documentary a few years ago about British girls living with Muslim men and having children with them (actually unwittingly filling-in time for the guys until they married Muslim girls). One of these pathetic girls was trying to persuade her baby-father to agree to having their little baby baptised: 'Couldn't you agree to it for my sake?' the teenaged unmarried mother was pleading as the baby-father adamently shook his head. 'Oh please' she whined, 'just for my sake....' The only way that non-Muslim girls and women in the West can be discouraged from these reckless unions is to show them movies like the one I mentioned while they are still at school. Of course Muslims will kick up hell but unless anything in such stories can be shown as indisputedly inaccurate these heart-breaking cases like that of Molly Campbell and her mother, Louise, will probably increasingly occur. We in the West have a duty to discourage such one-sided unions by publicising the facts. Apropos of nothing: how did East End London MP George Galloway marry a Muslim woman? Muslim women are forbidden by Islamic law from marrying non-Muslim men - for the mirror-opposite reasons that it is allowed the other way round. The Muslim half of a mixed marriage must always be in command and under Sharia law and Muslim cultures that must always be the man.
Posted by: moris2 at September 5, 2006 8:42 AM
moris, it's pointless that you say "educated western women" failed to see the perils of islam.
isn't the PC lefty crowd by definition "educated" in the best universities so much that they feel superior to you and call you racist all the time?
well, being "educated" and with a degree doesn't prevent you from being deeply stupid.
Posted by: FedUp at September 5, 2006 2:41 PM
Moris2, the film was Not Without my Daughter, with Alfred Molina and Sally Field based on the true story of Betty Madmoody.
Posted by: Granny Weatherwax at September 5, 2006 3:55 PM
That should be Betty Mahmoody, who is not to be confused with Mad Eye Moody of Hogwarts.
Posted by: Granny Weatherwax at September 5, 2006 3:57 PM
"Louise Campbell is a re-convert and according to Pakistani law an apostate is devoid of all rights and deserves punishment,' Aha! THAT is the "put the apostate to death" clause phrased in PC-speek!
Posted by: Bohemond_1069 at September 5, 2006 6:15 PM
Chalk up another happy ending for our civic religion - multiculturalism.
Posted by: MP at September 5, 2006 6:19 PM
Right now, such cases are occurring mostly in Muslim countries, however, when Muslim males in non-Muslim countries start using religion to demand custody of their children, that will be a sign that our western heritage is slowly being destroyed.
Posted by: Christian at September 5, 2006 7:53 PM
Well, the BBC did publish a story about the a hearing on Wednesday, but of course, they censored everything relevant to the part of her being an apostate according to Pakistani law and what comes with that.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/5318476.stm
I honestly don't know how you Britons can put up with the BBC, especially since you fund it with your taxes.
Posted by: non-redneck at September 5, 2006 9:40 PM
Comments are turned off and archived for this entry.
(Note: The Comments section is provided in the interests of free speech only. It is mostly unmoderated, but comments that are off-topic, offensive, slanderous, or otherwise annoying stand a chance of being deleted. The fact that any comment remains on the site IN NO WAY constitutes an endorsement by Jihad Watch or Dhimmi Watch, or by Robert Spencer or any other Jihad Watch or Dhimmi Watch writer, of any view expressed, fact alleged, or link provided in that comment.)