Adoption JIhad: Want to Adopt A Child? Convert to Islam

There is a very disturbing situation going on with International Adoption in Islamic countries. In order to adopt, you must convert to Islam. This includes the most "moderate" of Muslim countries, like Morocco.

This is suprmacist and outrageous.

Moroccan Adoption Guidelines

• In the country of Morocco, which is located in Northern Africa, a child can only be adopted by a married couple or a single female. Children may not be adopted by parents that are single males or who are involved in a same sex marriage.
• There is no age restriction imposed on the adoptive parents as a requirement for adoption.
• The individuals who are adopting must be employed.
• The adoptive parent or parents must be Muslim or they must be willing to convert to the Islam religion. The adoptive parents must provide proof of this conversion.

Conversion to Islam as a requirement for International Adoption in Morocco

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By William Thacker

There is a strange and sad adoption program taking place in our American culture among International Adoption Agencies.  Four American Adoption agencies are offering adoption services from Morocco and part of the expensive price tag includes a requirement of the Government of Morocco to convert to Islam.  Yes you did read this correctly – it is a 2 for the price of 1, you get a new child and new religion for one low price of somewhere in the neighborhood of $30,000 (not including travel expenses).

Searching the Internet I found several American Adoption agencies offering adoptions in Morocco under the Kefala law of Islam.   Adopt Abroad Adoption Agency was the first to claim they offered Moroccan Adoptions.  A quick call to this agency and the information was vague, I was unable to find out just how many adoptions they have finalized under this bizarre adoption law.   However with further research I found that on the US State Department’s website, I found that Moroccan Adoptions were growing to the USA: 2008 (12)  2009 (20) and 2010 (32) total of 64 adoptions to the USA from Morocco in 3 years: here  A list of sworn translators located throughout Morocco can be obtained by contacting the Immigrant Visa Unit at the U.S. Consulate in Casablanca, Morocco at [email protected]. The following is a list of basic documents required for the Kefala procedure:

·         Islam Conversion Document for the prospective adoptive parents

·         Birth Certificate for each prospective parent

·         Marriage certificate for the prospective parents (if applicable)

·         Health statement from a doctor practicing in Morocco

·         Work and salary statements for each prospective adoptive parent (if applicable)

·         Home study completed by a licensed U.S. home study provider

·         Photographs (the exact number and size required varies)

·         copy of passports of each prospective adoptive parent

The other thing of Interest on the US State Department website, it indicates that Morocco has not signed a Hague Convention agreement with the USA.  Which being a party to the Hague Convention a country is stating they have precautions in place to safeguard against human trafficking or selling of children/babies for referrals.  But then some people only want a child they care less about conversion to Islam or being ethical.  It’s hard to imagine that any self respecting American would stoop to this level just to have a child and submit to Islam.  Harder yet the US State Department 2010 report on page 4 indicates http://adoption.state.gov/content/pdf/fy2010_annual_report.pdf that 43 American Children from foster care were adopted OVERSEAS with Canada (19) and the Netherlands (18) being the countries very willing and able to adopt American children.  How is it that we as Americans have not provided for our children, yet we have couples willing to spend over $30,000 travel over 6,000 miles and convert to Islam to adopt?   Yet couples in Canada and Netherlands are adopting American children.

Moroccan children deserve the right to stay in their country with members of their fellow ethnicity and religion, the same is true for American children retaining their American culture and roots.

Adopt Aboard Adoption Agency states that:
The Moroccan adoption program is open to married couples and single women. It is possible to adopt more than one child in a single adoption process. Morocco is flexible regarding the age of the adoption parents. Families must respect the child's religious heritage.

Hopscotch Adoption Agency states that bluntly you must submit to conversion of Islam:
Our Morocco child adoption service is a pilot program that we're very pleased to announce. In 2009, 20 U.S. Visas were issued to children of all ages—many of these issued to infants. While this is a new program to Hopscotch, we have partnered with a very experienced team in Morocco and expect that this program will be very popular. For our Morocco children and infant adopting, families must be comfortable in the knowledge that we are responding daily to the changes in process as they occur.  Additionally, Married couples and single women may adopt from Morocco. The country does not permit same sex marriage, partners or single men to adopt children from Morocco.  There is no age restriction on the prospective parents.  The prospective parents must be employed and must be Muslim or willing to convert to Islam.  All prospective applicants to this program will be required by the Moroccan government and court to submit to conversion of Islam in the presence of a court notary while in the country prior to the court proceedings.  The conversion appointment is completed on your first day of arrival.  We expect all applicants to take this very seriously and honor the legal codes and culture.  Conversion taking place in a manner, time or place other than in Morocco in the presence of a court notary or Imam will not meet the requirements for the purposes of obtaining guardianship, also known as ‘Kafalas’.

Children’s House International Adoption Agency states it more direct:

The culture of Morocco cherishes children. Due to conditions of poverty, some children are abandoned at a young age. Your time spent in Morocco will be culturally rich and will enable you to understand better the country and background of your child’s heritage. The prospective adoptive parent/s will begin the process by taking the following steps. They will file an I 600A with the embassy in their country of residence since Morocco has not signed the Hague as of this time. You will also begin a homestudy with an approved social worker. Please contact our agency before you begin this process to be sure that your social worker is qualified. Prospective adoptive parents of Moroccan children must be Muslim. Those who are not already Muslim can convert to Islam while in Morocco. Conversion does require that you reflect on your decision and make a knowledgeable, certain, sincere and truthful declaration of faith and intent with love, affection, submission and acceptance. 

Across the World Adoptions makes it sound more like a romance novel:

Salam and Peace be upon you!  Across the World Adoptions (ATWA) is excited to announce its pilot program for adoptions from Morocco.  Morocco, located in North Africa, is a short ferry ride from the tip of Spain.  It may be best known to many Americans for the romantic invitation to “Come with me to the Casbah.” The Casbah is a walled citadel or fortress woven with alleys and souks (markets).  The markets of Morocco are renowned for their splendor, variety and frequent invitations to join the proprietors in a glass of hot mint tea.

Our coordinator for Morocco is very experienced with the adoption process but families should be prepared for unexpected changes or delays in the program as it unfolds.  Although we use the term adoption in this description, families should think of the process in Morocco more as a guardianship or legal custody (“Kefala”) in preparation for adoption in the United States.
After reading and researching about this new adoption trend, I was disgusted with the marketing of children and the adoption process.  What has become of Americans that we adopt our children to Europeans and Canadians but would travel across the world, convert to Islam for the chance to adopt a child in a country that is not even a party to the Hague Convention?   Have we just become victims of some fancy marketing or notion of exotic adventure of adopting a child from an Islamic country?  Only time will tell if this latest trend in International Adoptions will pan out or just be another passing fancy done on a whim.

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grungyoldvan

12 years ago

“The conversion appointment is completed on your first day of arrival.”
You know, at least they can’t be accused of false advertising..

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Noelegy

12 years ago

I’m a bit confused…I thought Islam prohibited adoption.

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AuntieMadder

12 years ago

The devil called dibs on those children and he plans to keep them.

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Janet Clare

12 years ago

According to a BBC radio interview of Arafat some years ago, he had adopted 100 children, all little boys. I guess they make an exception for homosexual pedophiles as long as they are Muslims.

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Lisa Franklin

12 years ago

No self respecting American would do something this insane!!!
Must be crazy liberals doing this. I don’t know what was more upsetting the conversion to Islam or the fact that American children are being passed over by these selfish people whilest Europeans are adopting American children in our foster care system.
Have we just all gone bat shit crazy?
A proud American and Christian!!!
Lisa Franklin

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Maria Sutro

12 years ago

I must admit, the children are very beautiful in those photos. I have a feeling they are being sold and this is a way for these countries to make money. If they had 32 adoptions just to the USA that is roughly $1 million in fees. What is Morocco’s take on that money, nothing like funding a muslim country.
so sad for these kids they are innocent, yet they are being exploited.
shame on those adoption agencies, why don’t they work to find homes for all the children in foster care.

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Helen Mastro

12 years ago

so is it legal adoption or a guardianship that you get under this kafala thingy. i am confused too, i thought adoptions were frowned on by muzzies. guess everything and everyone has a price.

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Tom Jansen

12 years ago

Sorry but I don’t think American Christians should be doing this, as it is a dis service to those kiddos in Islamic countries.
Let the Muslim couples adopt their own and stay the heck away from their kids, they don’t want a bunch of infidels raising their kids. They might put a fatwa out on you.

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Momminator

12 years ago

I called the American Embassy in Cairo to look into adopting a 22 year old friend out of Egypt, just before the Muslim Brotherhood started the riots this year. Needless to say, the message I left with the embassy was ignored (they are pro-muslim there), and my Coptic Christian friend has spent the last several months hiding in his house. There is no democratic push in any of these countries. They are being united to create a one world caliphate to be based in Babylon, just as the Bible predicted 2000 years ago. Each country is going to fall to the Muslim Brotherhood, and all will give up their current government structures for the leadership of the Maudi/12th Imam. Their intent is world domination, and as the book of Revelations tells us, the one world religion, at least at first, will be islam. The endtimes religion/government beheads those who refuse to join, abuse women, and participate in commerce shockingly like Sharia finance.
They will never stop, even if they get all the land of Israel, because the land is not the issue. They want the blessing that Abraham gave the bloodline of Isaac and Jacob. They want God Almighty to give approval of their lifestyle and their wanton desires. They want, like Cain, to kill their blood brothers, the Jews (ie. Abel) because the Jews offered (and the believers in Christ offer) worship as God requested, and the moslems offer worship that is not acceptable and not what God requires. God has standards for healthy living. He desires whole hearted love, not sorry seconds. God will not make happy a nation that ignores his direction. If you want to call Israel thieves because, LONG before islam they were given the land of the Amalekites by God, fine. God can forgive thieves, like the one that hung on the cross next to him, a thief who recognized his sin and believed that Jesus could still love him. But a murderer, like Osama, like all the moslems, because all of them are culpable, refuses relationship, and each kills his eternal soul in incomprehensible spite.
There is no “peaceful” moslem. The “radical” ones merely carry out the desires of the “peaceful” ones who FUND THEM!!!

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Daniel Ibn Zayd

12 years ago

What a moron you are. My adoptive parents were not allowed domestic adoption in the U.S. because they were a mixed marriage–Protestant and Catholic. The Catholic Church required my adoptive father to raise all of his children Catholic or else be excommunicated from the Church. My Catholic orphanage in Lebanon required that all children being adopted be sent to a Catholic home, with a letter from a priest attesting to this fact. This despite the fact that 50% of the children going through the orphanage were from Muslim families. Since returning to Lebanon, I’ve learned that the marginalized Shi’a population of the South, through the intervention of Sayyed Fadlallah, started an activist orphanage campaign in order to prevent the kidnapping and trafficking that were being done through Christian institutions. Where do you get your facts? The number one trafficker of human beings in this region is Israel, which replied to the U.N. ban on women sex worker trafficking from Russia and Eastern Europe by turning on its own minority Jewish populations. Who is kidding whom? Of course adoption is forbidden in Islam; the community takes care of its children–especially when they are targeted by twisted missionaries. The Qur’an states hundreds of times that care of the orphan is primary to Islam. Thank God I returned home. Thank God I converted back. Thank God I don’t have to deal with this kind of hatred on a daily basis in the U.S. May you rot in hell a thousand times over.

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Ali Isanla

12 years ago

This is crap that the Americans are doing this to our Islamic culture, just who in Morocco is selling us out? The Americans only want a child they don’t care about any of this conversion nonsense. I would be interested to hear how many of those 32 adoptions last year were by Moslem American families. My guess, is very few, this advertising is skewed toward American Christians willing to convert. —Ali Isanla
Morocco should provide a local home for these children, or maybe the adoption money is good industry and the bribes supplement their incomes.

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Sandra Beauman

12 years ago

Yea and I just bet they are adopting out female babies and not the males which are more highly regarded in Islam.
This was outrageous that a country would allow this sort of thing, surely Morocco can find Moroccans living abroad that will adopt. Shame on Morocco

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Westchester Court

12 years ago

Poor children. To convert just to adopt is living a lie and fake. Shame on the embacy

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WWJD

12 years ago

Wow…how I ended up on this blog is beyond me. You all are the most uneducated and ignorant people I have come across in quite sometime. That is saying a lot since I live in a “podunk” town. I regret spending any money on the “real” Atlas Shrugged if it is attracting the likes of you.
As a mother of a Moroccan child, an educator (and Republican) you should consider the banter that you place out there without thinking. It is clear that everyone has made assumptions as to what is truly going on. (Are you smart enough to figure out what ASS-U-ME means?)
I digress and am ashamed that I am stooping to your level.
There are innocent children in the world that need families and love. Regardless of race and religion they are innocent in God’s eyes. For people who truly love unconditionally they will walk to the ends of the earth for a child. It is clear that many of you are not parents or were never taught basic values and morals, let alone how to communicate effectively. You all should not only be ashamed but embarassed of yourselves.
To Helen: If you can read…Muhammed was adopted. If you are a true Christian you would know the story!
To Lisa: Do Christians talk about other humans in this manner?
To AuntieMadder: You will be judged and karma has a way about it.

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[email protected]

12 years ago

I deeply agree with WWJD had to say. These are beautiful, wonderful children in very awful circumstances. Recent reports show that these children are most often stuck in commercial sex trade and indentured servitude. This is a complex issue with many variables, and honestly the writer of this article is primarily to blame. Instead of exploring the reasons for these agencies providing adoption services of this nature, he/she rushes to judgment without understanding the gravity of the suffering for these children. These agencies are attempting to provide a way for them to get out. For anyone who has actually explored these situations in-depth, it is obvious that little research was done beyond the headline. This will be my first and last visit to Atlas Shrugged.
To AuntieMadder – You aren’t a Christian. A true Christian would never say something so hateful.

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