Gefangen in fremdverschuldeter Unmündigkeit
“Aufklärungs-” oder “Menschenrechtsfundamentalismus” sind zwei Begriffe die in der Feuilletondebatte über vermeintlich verwerfliche Islamkritik die Runde machten. In diesem Zusammenhang empfiehlt sich ein Blick auf den Fall von Nazia Quazi, einer jungen Frau aus einer indisch kanadischen Familie, die seit zwei Jahren gegen ihren Willen Saudi-Arabien nicht verlassen kann:
In most countries, a woman in her mid-20s is legally an adult. And in most countries, foreigners are free to leave when they like. In its flagrant rejection of these two principles, Saudi Arabia is unique, and that is a big problem for 24-year-old Nazia Quazi.
For more than two years Nazia, an IT specialist who graduated from the University of Ottawa and holds dual Canadian-Indian citizenship, has been trying to leave Riyadh and go home to Canada. Her troubles began on November 23, 2007, when she entered Saudi Arabia with her parents on a visitor’s visa. In Saudi Arabia, foreign visitors must have a sponsor, a local man who handles their paperwork. Nazia’s sponsor is her father, Quazi Malik Abdul Gaffar, an Indian citizen who has worked in Saudi Arabia for many years. At some point Nazia’s father clandestinely switched her visitor’s visa to a more permanent visa–one that requires that he, as her sponsor, approve her exit visa. This he refuses to do. No exit visa, no departure. Worse, Nazia says he has confiscated both her Indian and Canadian passports and all her identity documents–driver’s license, health card, credit cards and so on–and refuses to return them. She is trapped.
An ihrer Situation ist jedoch nicht allein ihre Familie und das saudische Rechtssystem schuld:
Nazia’s case offers the Canadian government a chance to redeem itself after its shocking refusal this past October to help Nathalie Morin, a Canadian living in Saudi Arabia whose husband refuses to let her and her children out of the country. Nazia’s case is easier, in a way, because she is single and no children are involved. But more than one person I’ve talked with has suggested that the fact that the Quazis are Muslim is relevant: the embassy in Riyadh doesn’t want to get involved in what it apparently views as a Muslim family dispute.
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But that’s a problem for the Quazis. It’s not a reason for Canada to allow Nazia to be deprived of her rights. How far have women come if a democratic, secular country like Canada permits a father to imprison his adult daughter in the cage of Saudi laws?
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