As readers will have noticed my diary entries are now up to date. Nothing much happened over the last 5 days or so, so no riveting reading I'm afraid. Hope the nighttime pictures made up for that.
I do want to mention that the custody battle has commenced in Pakistan over the schoolgirl who was whisked to Pakistan last August. She is 12, going on for 21, and saying that she doesn't want to go back. Her mother is now preparing to travel to Lahore to be present at proceedings. Meanwhile, Misbah's / Molly's passports have been surrendered to the courts and her father has been barred from making public statements under penalty of contempt of court proceedings. Molly meanwhile said in court that she refused to live with a mother who had allegedly abandoned Islam (mother said she didn't) and had gone to live with an unsuitable man (mother said she had not married that man). It is a sordid affair, but the judge has said that Molly being a minor that her wishes do NOT play a role in proceedings. He has to decide whether the custody battle will take place in the UK or in Pakistan.
I have to say that I dislike the negative image that the young lady has spread about Stornoway and her mother. She could have left off the accusations of racism and the slagging off of her mother and just said: "I prefer to live with my father, my mother isn't well enough and I want to live the Islamic way of life, which isn't very easy in Scotland".
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i agree, the girl should not have said bad things about her mother...
ReplyDeleteAstra!
Very true, she shouldn`t have said some of those things but she IS only 12 and the whole situation must be very difficult for her. In my opinion her wishes must be taken into consideration at least before any judgement is made. One way or another one parent is going to be very hurt.
ReplyDeleteSandra xx
I agree the child should never have said that about her mother, the girl is only 12.
ReplyDeleteSunny
Common, she is 12 and speaks her heart and mind... she must be heard and listen, or she will hurt to be heard, even if it means she has to say "racist" things or say things against her mother.
ReplyDeleteShe is old enough to know where and with who she wants to live. The Judge might say what s/he wants, s/he will not be able to force a child/teenager be where she does not want to be, whatever the distance. This is already the end for the mother's custody, but they cannot let it happen as if it were easy or it would give bad ideas to other kids/fathers who have been separated. It is very easy to do and change the custody as soon as the child is 12; under 12, if the child is kidnapped and taken into another country and has the nationality of that country, it would be the same case. The mother has lost as I said a month ago, the evidence is that she has to travel there.
At the end of the day, no one, you, me or any one here or in the audience can speak for this young girl. She is the one and the only one who can decide where she wants to grow up and develop as a young and mature woman with the principles she has chosen.
I am sorry for her mother, as I would be sorry for the father.
I have never seen anyone win against a child even if they win officially. It is better to let things go their flow, not to fight or go against what has to be. The mother might regret to have hurt herself so much by wanting something her daughter does not at a later time, paying with her health, mental health... why not letting go and enjoye her daughter when her daughter will ask herself to see her mother... why wanting so much someone when they do not want you? This - is - NOT - healthy and makes every one unhappy...
Give the daughter what she wishes so much... and let's see
Valerie
I agree that she shouldn't have said bad things about her mother but she is only 12yrs old and not really mature enough to bite her tongue. I hope this will be settled for her so she can stay where she wants. Jeannette xx
ReplyDeleteDealing with a twelve year old girl, here, there's no telling what she will do or say. It would have been much better if she'd used more reasoning and stated her wishes in a less vindictive way. I feel for her mother.
ReplyDeleteLori
Sounds tough Guido
ReplyDeletenatalie
Daughter has been indoctrinated....sad....when does a daughter abandon a mother because of religion....Was she abused by this religion?...In this case..Islam...the daughter is speaking to make her father proud....I call it "alternate lingo"...Its speech about something else about something..sad nonetheless
ReplyDelete~Raven