I came across an update on the MySpace girl. You remember her; she's the 16-year-old from Michigan who tried to fly to Jericho/The West Bank in order to meet a man she met on MySpace. You can read the article here. You can read my comments in a previous post.

As it turns out, the Palestinian man, Abdullah Jimzawi, is only 20, and he says he loves the girl. The media is calling him a predator, someone who, as do most internet predators, persuaded his victim (rather than abducting, as a would a traditional predator). On the one hand, he convinced a 16-year-old girl to leave her country/continent/family and meet him so they could marry and so she could convert to Islam. On the other hand, in his country, it would be perfectly acceptable for him to marry a girl of that age. In fact, in same states of our country it would be perfectly legal for him to marry a girl of that age. In addition, the two are probably biological equals, and, as evidenced by how they speak for hours on the phone every day, they are probably intellectual equals as well.

So, is he a predator? Or did the paths of two dufuses just happen to cross?