Thank you Nic and Olive for actually reading what I wrote.
I'll have to be more careful with how I use my words so that even Genesis can understand what I am saying.
I don't think that a mother trying to regain custody of a child she has raised for 10 years is a STUNT.
I am biased towards the mother's side, not because she is western, but because she has raised the child, and in any advanced judicial system that would be sufficient grounds for the child to remain with his biological mother.
The child has lived in Bahrain, and where there is support from Ministers and Human Rights groups for the mother. If this was an open and shut Sharia case, I'm perplexed as to why the Bahrainis are so supportive, and why the child wasn't removed from the mother as soon as she remarried.
Qatar does a lot of things seemingly for no reason other than to get on the world stage and be noticed by other countries. I don't believe the Asian Games was a method to get more Qataris to play sport (the average Qatari has trouble climbing stairs and getting out of car due to his girth...). Ditto the MIA wasn't opened to foster a love of art and culture. If Qatar wants to be seen by the rest of the world as a culture that is trying to unshackle itself from a past that devalued the role of women, then now would be a good start.
A lot of people in a lot of countries have a fear of Sharia being adopted in their countries as a parallel legal system, and with the way this case is playing out, it's easy to see why.
This whole incident has left such a sour taste in my mouth. There was a time when I used to think that on balance the Qatari population were okay with just a few bad eggs. Watching this situation play out I'm left with emotions not disimilar from the bigoted and Islamophobic people I tried to avoid when living in the West. At the end of the day I'm left wondering if such people were right all along. Deep down, the Gulf culture is petty and misogynistic, uses a legal system rooted in the past, one which most of the population would rather see preserved than updated to reflect more ethical and moral social norms.
Thank you Nic and Olive for actually reading what I wrote.
I'll have to be more careful with how I use my words so that even Genesis can understand what I am saying.
I don't think that a mother trying to regain custody of a child she has raised for 10 years is a STUNT.
I am biased towards the mother's side, not because she is western, but because she has raised the child, and in any advanced judicial system that would be sufficient grounds for the child to remain with his biological mother.
The child has lived in Bahrain, and where there is support from Ministers and Human Rights groups for the mother. If this was an open and shut Sharia case, I'm perplexed as to why the Bahrainis are so supportive, and why the child wasn't removed from the mother as soon as she remarried.
Qatar does a lot of things seemingly for no reason other than to get on the world stage and be noticed by other countries. I don't believe the Asian Games was a method to get more Qataris to play sport (the average Qatari has trouble climbing stairs and getting out of car due to his girth...). Ditto the MIA wasn't opened to foster a love of art and culture. If Qatar wants to be seen by the rest of the world as a culture that is trying to unshackle itself from a past that devalued the role of women, then now would be a good start.
A lot of people in a lot of countries have a fear of Sharia being adopted in their countries as a parallel legal system, and with the way this case is playing out, it's easy to see why.
This whole incident has left such a sour taste in my mouth. There was a time when I used to think that on balance the Qatari population were okay with just a few bad eggs. Watching this situation play out I'm left with emotions not disimilar from the bigoted and Islamophobic people I tried to avoid when living in the West. At the end of the day I'm left wondering if such people were right all along. Deep down, the Gulf culture is petty and misogynistic, uses a legal system rooted in the past, one which most of the population would rather see preserved than updated to reflect more ethical and moral social norms.