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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 489201" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Glad to have contributed to your education, Star <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> And you have contributed to mine by saying that you don't say "Happy Christmas" in the States. Good lord! What a very bizarre people you are (iron-y). </p><p>I am Muslim... in name only. To adopt in Morocco, as in all Muslim countries, one has to "convert" to Islam. However, as this consists only of repeating a phrase in Arabic in front of a court official (for a fee, of course) - "There is no God but God and Mohammed is his prophet" - and as I can square that with my sense of things, I was able to do it without feeling like a TOTAL hypocrite (just a semi one). And here is another interesting fact for you all - adoption is not legal in Morocco or in any Muslim country and does not exist there. It is banned in the Koran - the idea being that one can never override a child's original filiation or "blood". And so... what I have of J is actually legal guardianship, not full adoption as we understand it in the west. France does not accept this as adoption and the status of these "semi-adopted" Moroccan and Algerian children in France is problematic. You wouldn't want to know all the details! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> We are here perfectly legally, although that took some doing, but J has only Moroccan nationality which of course is a pain in terms of visas and so on. After five years living in France one can apply for French nationality...</p><p>Be thankful you don't face those particular hurdles, I suppose. And HAPPY CHRISTMAS ONE AND ALL!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 489201, member: 11227"] Glad to have contributed to your education, Star :) And you have contributed to mine by saying that you don't say "Happy Christmas" in the States. Good lord! What a very bizarre people you are (iron-y). I am Muslim... in name only. To adopt in Morocco, as in all Muslim countries, one has to "convert" to Islam. However, as this consists only of repeating a phrase in Arabic in front of a court official (for a fee, of course) - "There is no God but God and Mohammed is his prophet" - and as I can square that with my sense of things, I was able to do it without feeling like a TOTAL hypocrite (just a semi one). And here is another interesting fact for you all - adoption is not legal in Morocco or in any Muslim country and does not exist there. It is banned in the Koran - the idea being that one can never override a child's original filiation or "blood". And so... what I have of J is actually legal guardianship, not full adoption as we understand it in the west. France does not accept this as adoption and the status of these "semi-adopted" Moroccan and Algerian children in France is problematic. You wouldn't want to know all the details! :) We are here perfectly legally, although that took some doing, but J has only Moroccan nationality which of course is a pain in terms of visas and so on. After five years living in France one can apply for French nationality... Be thankful you don't face those particular hurdles, I suppose. And HAPPY CHRISTMAS ONE AND ALL!! [/QUOTE]
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