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U.S. mother wore a niqab to go undercover in Egypt and rescue son, 12, who was kidnapped by his father and forced to live as a Muslim

Apr 27, 2013 4:01 pm By Robert Spencer

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This Daily Mail story calls it a burqa, but from the looks of the photo, it’s a niqab. Anyway, stories like this are, sadly, not uncommon. One (of the many) was made into the Sally Field movie Not Without My Daughter. And note well the Islamic supremacist assumptions underlying the father’s actions: “My son told me (the kidnapping was) to make him a Muslim. He said that we lack the morality and the values that their system has. And he said that Americans were so violent, he said we are a rotting society.”

Kudos to Kalli for her daring, resourcefulness and pluck.

“Mom wore a burka to go undercover in Egypt and take back her son, 12, who was kidnapped by his father and forced to live as a Muslim,” by Daniel Bates for the Daily Mail, April 25 (thanks to Peter):

A mother dressed up in a burka and flew to Egypt to take back her son who had been kidnapped by his father and forced to live as a Muslim.

Kalli Atteya, from Pennsylvania, put on the traditional Muslim clothing as a disguise so she could wait until 12-year-old Niko got off the school bus in the city of Alexandria.

She then grabbed his arm and moved him towards a waiting motorized cart with the words: “˜Get in.”

The boy recognized his mother by her blue eyes which peered out of a slit in the burka and without saying a word did as he was told.

The pair were taken to a safe house where they waited three weeks before returning to the U.S. as they were so paranoid the boys” father Mohamed Atteya, who is wanted by the American authorities, would find them.

The daring rescue brought an end to Niko’s 20-month ordeal during which time his father “˜forced me to live as a Muslim, which I did not want to do,’ he said.

It also cost his mother some $100,000 and countless hours, false leads and false hopes.

The story dates back to 1999 when Miss Atteya married Mr Atteya and they settled down in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

They divorced in 2005 because she claims he was cheating on her.

Miss Atteya’s fatal error came on August 2011 when she agreed to meet him in Egypt because his mother was dying.

Whilst they were driving along he claimed to have car trouble, forced her and her sister out of the car then sped off and left them on a deserted road outside of Cairo.

Miss Atteya, 45, hired a Norwegian company to track him down, got a local guide and refused to give up.

She told Fox News: “˜I followed him. I mean, I came really close to him several different times. (Mr Atteya) didn’t recognize me, but my son did and when he saw me for the first time, he turned pale.”

In total, Miss Atteya made several trips to Egypt and after being tipped off by a local, finally made her move and rescued her boy, who is now back in Pennsylvania with her.

She said: “˜My son told me (the kidnapping was) to make him a Muslim.

“˜He said that we lack the morality and the values that their system has. And he said that Americans were so violent, he said we are a rotting society.”

Mr Atteya, 38, who speaks Arabic, English and Chinese, is wanted by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security Service for using forged documents to obtain a passport….

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