could have been made differently, I find it rather cold for you to be assigning all the blame on the mother here, as if she deserves it somehow for her stupidity.
Perhaps she maintained his Qatari citizenship because she genuinely wanted her son to stay connected to the culture and country of his father. Maybe she wanted him to have the choice of which country he wanted to make his home in when he became an adult. We don't know what she was thinking...but throughout all of this, she has at least demonstrated some kindness and compassion in maintaining relations with her son's father's family, even though they had been divorced since he was a baby.
The fact that they have not even allowed his mother access to see him since they took him from her over a month ago speaks volumes about their complete lack of compassion and concern for the boy's emotional and mental well-being.
How lovely that an energetic 10 year old boy who speaks English and (probably) little Arabic is being uprooted from his mother and sister and friends and given over to a septuagenarian Arab relative who he doesn't know well at all to be raised. When this old woman dies (which at her current age cannot be far off), then who will they pass the boy off to to be raised? Another distant relative he doesn't know very well, I am sure.
I hope the English national football team is reading this story in the local papers that get slipped under their hotel room doors, so that when Saturday night rolls around, they can say something publicly and make a grand gesture of support to this woman and the injustice that has been done to her here in Qatar.
If you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it between sh*t and syphilis in the dictionary."
- David Sedaris
could have been made differently, I find it rather cold for you to be assigning all the blame on the mother here, as if she deserves it somehow for her stupidity.
Perhaps she maintained his Qatari citizenship because she genuinely wanted her son to stay connected to the culture and country of his father. Maybe she wanted him to have the choice of which country he wanted to make his home in when he became an adult. We don't know what she was thinking...but throughout all of this, she has at least demonstrated some kindness and compassion in maintaining relations with her son's father's family, even though they had been divorced since he was a baby.
The fact that they have not even allowed his mother access to see him since they took him from her over a month ago speaks volumes about their complete lack of compassion and concern for the boy's emotional and mental well-being.
How lovely that an energetic 10 year old boy who speaks English and (probably) little Arabic is being uprooted from his mother and sister and friends and given over to a septuagenarian Arab relative who he doesn't know well at all to be raised. When this old woman dies (which at her current age cannot be far off), then who will they pass the boy off to to be raised? Another distant relative he doesn't know very well, I am sure.
I hope the English national football team is reading this story in the local papers that get slipped under their hotel room doors, so that when Saturday night rolls around, they can say something publicly and make a grand gesture of support to this woman and the injustice that has been done to her here in Qatar.
If you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it between sh*t and syphilis in the dictionary."
- David Sedaris