Score One for Those Against Interfaith Marriage

A local woman married a nut-job, so he kidnapped their daughters and he's living with them now in his family home in the Palestinian West Bank.  In marriage news, he's divorcing her, marrying someone else, and he's already chosen husbands for their pre-pubescent girls.  And apparently, she's asked for Barack Obama's help in getting them back because, hey, he's there now anyway and what else could he possibly have to do there?

And the reason for all this?  Religion, of course.  Sometimes the world makes me sick.

Here's the story from CBS:

Girls Possibly Kidnapped; Mom Asks Obama For Help

Reporting
Mike Flannery

CHICAGO (CBS) ― A local mother of four is pleading for her daughters to be brought home from the West Bank. The woman says the girls are being held captive there, by their own father.

As CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports, the Illinois woman hopes Sen. Barack Obama's trip to the Middle East will bring peace to her family.

All Colleen Davis Bargouthi has now are pictures of her daughters. The girls themselves, ages 4 to 12, are with their Palestinian-American father in the Middle East.

Davis Bargouthi claims her husband told her and the children they would visit the West Bank town of Ramallah just for a few weeks to see his ailing mother. A few weeks soon became forever.

"Almost immediately after we arrived my husband decided he did not want our family to return to America; he wanted the family to stay," Davis Bargouthi said.

Davis Bargouthi, a Christian, said after returning with her Muslim husband to his homeland, he announced he was going to divorce her, and planned to marry another, Muslim woman. He also threw her out of his family home. ... 

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Make sure to watch the video.  She's smiling an awful lot for someone with so little media attention, don't you think?