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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This story makes me very sad for the child.  I know [b]the Masts think they are doing the right thing[/b], but I hope the courts get it straightened out and return the child to the relatives.  [/quote]

Do they really think that? It's hard to imagine[/quote]

Well, I assume they are focused on the fact that the alternative is growing up female under the Taliban - no education, no freedom, no rights.  I imagine they desperately want the baby and have used this to convince themselves that they are justified.  To be clear, I think it's terrible, I'm just saying that I can imagine that they might be deeply misguided rather than evil.

But regardless of their intentions, they have inflicted a terrible trauma on this poor girl and her family and I hope it's over soon.[/quote]

The child...wasn't growing up under the Taliban. The Afghan parents had fled to the US as the Taliban took over (admittedly w/ Mast's help in securing a visa, but still). They are Hazaras (a minority) that ran a co-ed school. I am not sure you could find Afghans more opposite of the principles espoused by the Taliban. 
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The Masts were able to get the family over so quickly because Mast had registered the girl as his own child with DoD and she had some sort of DoD pass. All without the knowledge of the girl’s parents. So Joshua Mast was making the claim that his “adopted daughter” needed to be evacuated and the parents were just her temporary guardians escorting her. It’s laid out in the brother’s response to the lawsuit. [/quote]

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