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muriel_volestrangler

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15. The younger one got American citizenship last year

Reply to dimbear (Reply #14)

Fri Apr 19, 2013, 07:54 PM

Apr 2013

There seems a dispute whether the older one did - some say his arrest for assaulting his girlfriend or wife should have stopped that, but I don't know if that's been confirmed or not. So I don't know if they'd regard the USA as 'host' anyway. But they'd have to be disregarding a lot more than just laws of hospitality for what they've done, from normal Islam.

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