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In reply to the discussion: Western Denial of Women's Danger In Islam Concerns Us ALL [View all]shaayecanaan
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She didn't change her name to escape her husband, and what woman anyway tries to escape her husband by taking on her husband 's name? She changed her name because she was registered as a political refugee under her birth name in Kenya, and Netherlands had laws at the time refusing any visa to refugees that had received asylum in Kenya.
She claimed to be evading her family, and yet she continued to stay in telephone contact with a aunt who was in attendance at her wedding.
Her husband was Canadian, he has since remarried. If she wanted to stay away from her husband she didn't need to do anything other than stay in Kenya. As it was, he visited her in the refugee camp in the Netherlands. When ayaan told him she didn't want to go back to Canada with him, he accepted it and left quietly (her admission). So much for fleeing in terror of her husband.
She didn't "flee" to the Netherlands to escape her husband. He was the one who sent her the plane ticket. Had she not married him she would still be in Kenya to this day.