You're totally right and I of course agree... Katherine isn't a teen anymore.. she is 18 and she knows what's right & what's wrong.. her parents should leave her and they'll see that, someday, she'll die just to get back to her house. I am a Christian Arab and I know the people here. Most of the them don't respect their wives, well, disrecpect is found eveywhere, but it's more often here. And if she marries him, he may force her to become a Muslim or to cover her hair, so she will look horrible. On the other hand, I heard that Abdullah does not respect her or her family, so, just ask a kid this question and he'll answer the correct one: "What do you expect this person to be? This person who cursed at her and her family?" So I think she must have known the answer, she will regret it a lot... But not to be unjust, there are some Muslim Arabs here who really treat their women nicely, but Abdullah doesn't seem to be that type pf person... So Katherine, I really advise you and all the girls who have done similar to this or who are about to do it, to move back and stay home... Don't ruin your life and get yourself a bad reputation. Actually I call this "Adolescence madness". She was 16 years old when she did this, which means she was a teen, but a 16 year-old girl/boy is still mature or well-grown, in this gae of technology, especially. There's still a lot to say, take this from me, Muslim men can divorce their women from a one single word, which is: "Inti Taleg." So if he utters that word to her, in their religion, she is a divorced woman and she'll have to find somewhere else... Also, you guys don't know how Muslims here think about the Christians, especially that she is an American, he'll keep trying bringing her down, and you can't imgaine how bad Abdullah's parents can be to this crazy girl, they will all despise her for leaving her parents and coming for some guy...
I got a similar story that my mom shared with me:
My mom used to work as an Arabic teacher in some public school, she, of course, had many friends from female teachers, and one of those teachers did the same! She married a Muslim man, who forced her to become a Muslim and to cover her hair and her body with something called "Al-Jilbab" it's like a cloak. Anyway, she's now married to him and they have two daughters. This woman is now very poor, she doesn't have an oven! Her husband is very mean to her and keeps calling her: "You're a wh*** Christian, you're the unpure woman who sold herself to me and left her family, bad Christian!." Besides that he sometimes hit her, and this woman's mother died, but why? Because of what her daughter had done... which means, she now has done two sins, changing her religion and leaving Jesus, and killing her mother, and I think it should be considered as "on purpose" because she knew how sad and mad the whole family would be... So one day, after she had run away with him, she came back to the school which she used to work at with my mother, but once she entered the teachers' room, all of the Christian teachers kicked her out of the room.. Which means, she is low now, she has no place to go to, and she is very sorry and she wishes she didn't do it.. but after what? After 20 years of their "fake" marriage?
So finally, I really hope this Katherine girl gets her head back... I promise I will pray for her and for everyone...
Thanks! :)