I don't think it is as easy as that. If her family and surrounding associates are that strict and traditional, it is hard for someone who has been brought up by that culture to go by the western standards that this sub are advising her to do.

I'm western brought up with a western mother and a father who is from an arabic country. My father ( thankfully- in my opinion) went away from the islamic culture and fully immersed himself with the western culture. He was more strict than my western friend's fathers but he was not AS strict as my muslim friends parents.

I have personally witnessed the harsh punishments and standards addressed towards my fellow female muslim friends or associates. One extreme was a girl from my school who went to live with her father in Dubai for studies and ended up being locked in solitary confinement for "kissing a guy" at Dubai uni , her father ended up mentally and physically abusing her, eg shaving her hair, beating her etc. The UK london court had to send a court order to have her released. But the Dubai courts SUPPORTED the father. This ended up on the news.

That was an extreme case. My other friends had lovely parents but they were absolutely strict with their Muslim daughters . No dating and absolutely NO divorce. It would be considered shameful for their family if their daughter left the guy they chose for her to marry and go off with another man with their grandchildren. They would cut her off for good and consider that child dead.

This is why I feel it is not as simple for her to just leave. There could be so much more surrounding this story