Warning Tale for those who are thinking of raising children

Submitted by sara (United States), May 5, 2013 at 15:01

Pennsylvania: Woman marries Muslim, has to rescue kidnapped son from Egypt

Posted on April 26, 2013 by creeping

Courageous rescue but an idiot for marrying an Egyptian Muslim and then after not seeing him for ten years agreeing to take her kid to Egypt in the middle of a U.S. backed Islamic uprising. via

Courageous Mom Rescues Abducted Son in Egypt | Parenting – Yahoo! Shine.

Khalil Mohamed "Niko" Atteya,12, must have been terrified when a woman in a burka grabbed his arm as he stepped off a school bus in Alexandria, Egypt and hauled him toward a motorized cart—until he saw her bright blue eyes through the slit in the dark fabric. "My first reaction was…[wondering] if that was my mom or not, and then I saw her eyes," Niko told Fox News. "I thought, 'Thank God. I'm going to finally get out of here. I'm going to be free.'"

As opposed to living under Islamic sharia.

It's a parent's worst nightmare. In August 2011, Kalliope "Kalli" Atteya of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, agreed to travel to Egypt with her ex-husband, Mohamed, and only child, Niko. A few days later, her son was gone.

A parent's worst nightmare is their daughter marrying a foreign Muslim and bearing his children.

Mohammed had abandoned the family in 2000, only three months after Niko was born. "Basically he married me for a visa," Kalli told Fox. They divorced in 2005.

In late July 2011, at the height of the Egyptian revolution, Mohamed demanded she and Niko travel to Egypt to visit his aging mother. Though Kalli was reluctant to bring her son to an unstable country, she told Fox, "[Mohammed] kept pushing and pushing until I finally relented. I didn't want his mother to die without seeing her grandson." She asked her sister, Maria Panagos, to accompany them for emotional support.

Shortly after they arrived in Egypt, Kalli said Mohamed kept trying to separate Niko from her and Panagos for a "man talk." On their second day, he began asking for his son's passport. The next day, the group took a hired car from Port Said to Cairo. En route, Mohamed told the driver to pull over claiming car trouble. "Mohamed threw me off to the side and ran to the car," she told Fox. "I remember seeing [Panagos] dragging behind the car as my son pounded on the windows. It was so unreal to me. At that very moment, I knew this was all preplanned." Kalli and her sister were abandoned on the side of the baking highway and Niko was gone.

According to Kalli, Mohamed abducted Niko because, "He said that we [in the United States] lack the morality and the values that their system has. And he said that Americans were so violent, he said we are a rotting society."

Because Mohamed and his son are Muslim and you're not. That's why he used and abused you and left you and your sister for dead.

After fruitless appeals to the Egyptian authorities for assistance, Kalli turned to a private Norwegian company. Three trips to Egypt and $100,000 later, she still had no clue to her son's whereabouts. She decided to take matters into her own hands. "Some people will say I was crazy," she told Publicopinion.online in an interview. "I had already lost everything. I had nothing to lose."

In October 2012, she made her fourth trip to Egypt. She hired a local guide who she won't name to protect his safety. Tensions between the United States and Egypt were escalating and her family begged her to return home. "There was nothing I could say to her," said Panagos. "When a mother has that much love for her child."

With the help of her guide, Kalli tracked down Mohamed's address, and finally, after months of surveillance, saw an opportunity to make her move. On March 15, she grabbed her son off the school bus, dressed him as a girl and hid out in a safe house. "The brave thing was: He knew it was me, but he couldn't say anything," she recalled. A few weeks later they were able return to the United States.

Now, mother and son are safe in an undisclosed location near Chambersburg. Kalli's lawyer, Jeffrey Evans, says there is a chance Mohamed might still attempt to return to the United States seeking out Niko—although he is wanted by the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security Service for making false statements and providing forged documents to obtain a U.S. passport. Evans told Yahoo! Shine, "Kalli is aware of others who share her experience and wants to tell her story to help those folks and offer some hope."

What she should be telling elected officials is to end immigration for Muslims who want sharia and warning American women not to marry foreign Muslim men.

According to the U.S. State Department in 2011 more than 1,300 children were abducted by a parent and taken from the United States to a foreign country.

Sounds like the State Dept. didn't do a damn thing to help despite giving billions of taxpayer dollars to Egypt.

For now, Niko is being homeschooled for his security though he says he would love to play football on the local junior high school team. As for Kalli, her family calls her their hero. "Never underestimate the determination and love that a mother has for her child," Panagos told a local Fox affiliate earlier this April.

They are so afraid of the Muslim father and Muslims who might seek revenge they are in an undisclosed location and the kid has to be homeschooled. Welcome to Islam. Your own private prison.

At least she saved the kid she put in harms way. Let's hope he doesn't become a devout Muslim who shares his father's view of America anytime soon.

Update: Seemingly missing from some Islamophobic politically correct versions of the story:

"My Dad forced me to be Muslim, which I did not want to do," Niko said.

"My son told me [it was] to make him a Muslim," Atteya replied when asked why she thought her ex-husband snatched the boy. "He said that we lack the morality and the values that their system has. And he said that Americans were so violent, he said we are a rotting society."

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