How does one get rid of their nationality? Especially a 10 year old boy (or his mother on his behalf)? You are either Australian/Japanese/Brazilian/Chinese or you are something else, unless, of course, you are one of the poor bedu in the GCC who didn't "sign up" for citizenship 30 years ago and now don't have papers for the country they were born and brought up in - and technically, don't belong anywhere else.
One doesn't maintain nationality, in Adam/Fawaz's case, HE can choose when he reaches the age of majority as to whether he wants to give up one or the other or carry both passports.
I agree his mother was extremely foolish in signing a piece of paper that she couldn't read - I'd think the same if she did that anywhere else in the world including her own country. Unfortunately, she must have trusted her ex-husband's relatives - which was a mistake in this instance and I feel badly for the family.
I do understand with my head under Shari'a the boy "belongs" to the father's family - however, I also believe that the boy's paternal relatives have behaved atrociously here in what they've done.
They have not been honest or straightforward in forcibly abducting the child and keeping him apart from the only family he has ever known - hardly the type of people that should be raising a young child and supposedly providing him with a good example as to ethical and moral behaviour.
I hope the courts take the immorality, dishonesty and cruelty of the abduction into account as the case proceeds.
Signature line > "You can't fix stupid"
How does one get rid of their nationality? Especially a 10 year old boy (or his mother on his behalf)? You are either Australian/Japanese/Brazilian/Chinese or you are something else, unless, of course, you are one of the poor bedu in the GCC who didn't "sign up" for citizenship 30 years ago and now don't have papers for the country they were born and brought up in - and technically, don't belong anywhere else.
One doesn't maintain nationality, in Adam/Fawaz's case, HE can choose when he reaches the age of majority as to whether he wants to give up one or the other or carry both passports.
I agree his mother was extremely foolish in signing a piece of paper that she couldn't read - I'd think the same if she did that anywhere else in the world including her own country. Unfortunately, she must have trusted her ex-husband's relatives - which was a mistake in this instance and I feel badly for the family.
I do understand with my head under Shari'a the boy "belongs" to the father's family - however, I also believe that the boy's paternal relatives have behaved atrociously here in what they've done.
They have not been honest or straightforward in forcibly abducting the child and keeping him apart from the only family he has ever known - hardly the type of people that should be raising a young child and supposedly providing him with a good example as to ethical and moral behaviour.
I hope the courts take the immorality, dishonesty and cruelty of the abduction into account as the case proceeds.
Signature line > "You can't fix stupid"