Amidst the chaos and scandal of the U.S.’s Afghanistan evacuation—as thousands flee the country, with many still stranded—a young Afghan boy successfully made the journey state side, to his new home in Florida. After the collapse of the Afghan government in August, the process of adopting 10-year-old Noman, then caught between two very different systems, got even more complicated. Afghan-born Bahaudin Mujtaba, 54, now a 20-year Davie, Florida resident, was lecturing at a university in Afghanistan around 2015 when he first met Noman, whose mother had passed away from cancer a few years prior. The boy was ill and on chronic medication, and Bahaudin started looking into the adoption process, which in 2017, was granted by the Afghan government at the time in the form of guardianship. “In countries like Afghanistan, where it’s Islamic … their process is very different,” Bahaudin told The Epoch Times. “It was very, very bureaucratic …