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Help Bring Noor And Ramsay Home

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Somehow in the midst of all the mommy wars we’ve forgotten about dads. I’ve written a lot about dads. The best stay at home mom I know happens to be a dad. Fathers are parents too, right? Yet we relegate them to babysitter status much of the time. It’s funny to quip about a father’s shortcomings and faux pas. We snort at their missteps and gasp at their guffaws. One thing we don’t see enough of are shining examples of Fatherhood. Mac Daddy happens to be king of that club. Talk to him about signing up and tutorials. Bird and Deal are damn lucky to have such a man to call Daddy.


Noor and Ramsay are lucky little boys too.


The distressing thing is that Noor and Ramsay have not seen their father in over one year.


Now banish all stereotypes playing out in your minds, lest you think this is another deadbeat dad tale.


Au contraire, my friends.


Colin Bower, father to 8-year old Noor and 6-year old Ramsay, had sole custody of his sons after his divorce in 2008. Noor and Ramsay were kidnapped from their Boston home on August 11, 2009 by their mother, Mirvat el Nady, a British and Egyptian citizen. KIDNAPPED.


Colin was left hanging, no sons, no ex wife to be found, and a male voice from an Egyptian cell phone telling him he’d never see his sons again.  I’m a writer, a creator, a thinker, a dreamer, a story maker upper, yet I cannot begin to fathom what Colin was feeling at the time.  I cannot imagine what happened next in this real life horror. Panic? Rage? Fear? I bet his world was spinning while his mind and heart were racing.

A father whose sons were taken. Kidnapped. Who can imagine such a scene?

Here are some details from the Facebook page set up to help shed light on this story and drive the world into overdrive to take action: “According to US Immigration official records, the mother used Egyptian passports in the name of “Power” to travel to Egypt with the boys to Cairo on August 11, 2009. There is a US federal warrant outstanding for the arrest of Mirvat el Nady on charges of kidnapping and an outstanding international Interpol red notice has also been issued.”


Colin is about to embark on his sixth trip to Egypt to try to find his sons and bring justice and peace to his world. He doesn’t  even know where the boys are. Despite an Egyptian court order to see his sons, his ex wife has not complied. Yet he fights. He endures. He will prevail. He must.


Colin has had no contact whatsoever with his sons since August 9, 2009. There are two little boys about Bird and Deal’s age without a daddy to tuck them in. Our world is full of children struggling through life with absent fathers. Here we have a father who is struggling to see his sons. A father who was given sole custody of his boys. A father who clearly wants nothing more than to hear “Daddy” while being squeezed in the mother of all embraces.


Please use your voice to help bring these children home to their daddy. Come on, Social Media World, show me what you’ve got. We’ve banded together over tutus and babies and strokes and illnesses. I realize I’m leaving out lots of other ways we’ve lent our voices and our actions to make this fine world of ours even better. Let’s show the world that we can muster it up one more time, mkay?


Here’s how you can voice your support:

  1. “Like” this page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Help-Bring-Noor-And-Ramsay-Home/152445694771527
  2. Contact the Egyptian government: embassy@egyptembassy.net
  3. Create a video, photo, or message and upload it to the Facebook page. And once you “like” the Facebook page, be sure you listen to Colin’s message to his sons.
  4. Thank Senator Kerry for all his support: support@johnkerry.com
  5. Share this post and/or this information to your own page and encourage your own friends to help Noor and Ramsay.
  6. If you’re active on Twitter, show your support and encourage your friends to help Noor and Ramsay by using the hashtag #noorramsay.

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  24. Being a single mother I always feared the worst but thank God it never happened. How can anyone allow this to happened first off and secondly to continue. Bring the boys. The Embassy’s need to get this straight for this dad who just wants to be a dad.

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