GrandtanteJE65: Thank you for your reply. More like the type of response I had expected.
I think everything you have said is a worthy comment and along the lines I had originally felt myself, except for the part about myself going as chaperone, which I hadn't thought of and is a good idea.
Hopefully this will die a death as lots of ships that pass in the night do. But I was concerned for all the reasons you highlighted because she lived so close by.
Your measured and thoughtful post has given me back a little faith in humanity, which frankly was stretched very thin reading some of the other more....'excitable' replies!
By the way Thanks for having the curtesy to talk/write TO me and not ABOUT me in the third person.....a much more civilised and acceptable form of communication!!
Thanks again 
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This is a strange situation, and one I feel needs a delicate touch.
My son lives in an area of lots of rental properties. There are students, and lots of different nationalities. Drugs and prostitution are associated with the worst streets there. Its often in the local news for some kind of criminal and/or violent trouble.
The other day, when he was parking (you need a permit)he was approached by a young muslim girl who offered him some free parking tickets and asked him back to her house (4 doors away)for a cup of tea. He agreed but when he reached her door had a phone call and had to leave.
Now he thinks she was being friendly and neighbourly and wants to invite her back in return.
He's very open to anyone, and has been known to sit with beggars in the street throughout the night to keep them company.
All I know is that a female wearing traditional head covering, is likely to be religious. Her adoption of that style of clothing showing the world her respectability, and part of being 'respectable' is that women/girls arnt supposed to mix with men unaccompanied are they?
In the mosque the women are separated.
Fathers and brothers dominate their lives, making marriage, financial and other decisions for them, I understand.
So what would her family think?
What if he gets trouble from her male relatives? Why would this girl be so forward as to invite a strange male into her house?
My son thinks only good things of people, and I know he would tell me off if I dared point out my worries to him.
If I lived in the area he does, as a western woman I wouldn't be so foolish as to open my doors to a stranger, so am I wrong to be suspicious? 
What do you think?
Starbird and sunlover:
I would like to Thank you also for your input. Having someone there and meeting in a crowded coffee shop is a sensible suggestion and would indeed stop any trouble in its tracks.
As I said previously hopefully this will all fizzle out and my concern will all be for nothing!
Wasn't it a daft question in the first place? 
The other day, when he was parking (you need a permit)he was approached by a young muslim girl who offered him some free parking tickets
This is the bit I find really confusing?
If you need a permit to park are these visitor parking permits? Does she work for the Council?
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