re: #317 Alouette

How would they get her on a plane. Put duct tape over her mouth and cover her with a burqa?

I’d guess they hadn’t thought it through. Their focus was on getting her back into line through threats and fear. “Reclaiming their honor” was the sole concern. Any love for their daughter took a backseat, as in Arab culture she had put the family in danger by disobeying. The logic goes like this: If the daughter defies her father and gets away with it, then he is shown as weak. And among the Arabs tribes of old, those seen as weak were inevitably attacked by those who wanted their possessions. These two parents had not learned that in America the advent of the Rule of Law means such old tribal rules are no longer in play, or they simply did not care.