If you think underage muslim girls are normally going to go against the wishes of their father then you clearly don't know much about the kind of patriarchy they are exposed to. Fathers word > law.

Child education comes from 1) parents & 2) society. (1) should not exclude (2) and vice versa.

If the patriarchy family understood the idea of education better, maybe they would've thought their children that the law > father word.

If they do understand that idea, but don't like it. Well they should vote on their next election for someone that doesn't support it.

What they should not do is go against the law and do something on their own. Because that's what makes us all citizens.

Maybe in Middle East. Not in Switzerland.

You'd think so but in plenty of those households when you cross the threshold you might as well be in the middle east. I've had plenty of contact with Muslim families living in the West and the range is very wide, given that these girls were not allowed to swim with the boys it isn't a wild guess at all that their family is on the traditional side of the spectrum.

I know. I meant: maybe that is acceptable in Middle East, but it is not acceptable in Switzerland.

The connection is that these girls and your friend were both denied citizenship over some petty bullshit that doesn't matter, motivated by xenophobia.