Posted on 05/19/2015 7:16:35 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
A woman who said she feared for her life after she converted from Islam to Christianity as an Ohio teenager has written a book through which she hopes to inspire girls and women who are desperate for freedom.
Rifqa Bary, 22, gained national attention in 2009 when she ran away from her northeast Columbus home to Florida, saying her father had threatened to kill her. The book Hiding in the Light: Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and Follow Jesus tells her story. It was released on Tuesday by the WaterBrook Press division of Penguin Random House.
“Writing this book was so painful. I wept so much reliving everything again, and my hope is to save others who read it, to shed hope and light, and that it would cause other people to see that you can leave, that there is hope,” Bary, an evangelical Christian, said on Tuesday in a telephone interview.
“Even though I’ve had so much loss in my life, I’ve experienced more joy and love than I ever dreamed of, and I found that to be in my faith in Jesus Christ.” Bary is a college student studying philosophy and politics and said her life experiences, including help she received from others, have inspired her to consider a career in law. She cites concern for her safety as the reason for not disclosing where she lives.
Bary was 12 when she began practicing Christianity and 16 when she left her parents’ home near New Albany, boarding a Greyhound bus to take a two-day trip to Florida. There, she was taken in by a woman with whom she’d been communicating on Facebook and the woman’s husband...
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She didn’t damn them; she just fled them. Surely she hopes they will become believers too.
Jesus beats evil religious games all hollow. Even evil religious games that are carried on supposedly in His name.
God bless this girl but i think the people that took her in are going to be sued for child abuse./s
here are the golden phrases that unlock the BS of the parents and the imom/sp
He said the 16-year-old Bary was a minor lured away from her family for keyword political pursuits and that her parents were keyword discriminated against because they practice Islam. He called some of Bary’s claims lies and said she still is living under delusions planted in her head by others.
she was a child being supported by keyword Islamophobes. They were putting things in her head, and she was mimicking them,” Elahi said. “Rifqa became an exploited teen, exploited by these adults for their keyword political keyword and religious agendas.”
what minister of gospel would respond this way about a family in his church:
The mosque that the Barys attended, Noor Islamic Cultural Center in Hilliard, was not involved in the “personal family issue,” said Imran Malik, chairman of the board that oversees the mosque. He said nothing taught at the center advocates or condones physical abuse.
Yep. Jesus beat the devil with two sticks.
What a great testimony. She is right not to tell where she lives for they would put out a fatwa in a heartbeat.
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