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SNIPPET - Quote: Ex-Muslim receives death threats after publishing article critical of Islam -- in Tulsa He criticized all religious belief in his essay. But he's not in fear for his life from an angry mob down the road at Oral Roberts University. "Former Muslim receiving death threats," by Bill Sherman for Tulsa World, October 1 (thanks to Basil): Sabri Husibi, a former Muslim who is now an atheist, says he has been ostracized and threatened with death since publication of a Tulsa World article Saturday in which he was critical of Islam and all other religions. That article can...

Just minutes ago I posted an article about the persecution of Christians in Egypt. We now see just how "tolerant" Islam is in Somalia. This is a worldwide problem that has come to our shores as well. Will we sit silently and let them takeover or we will defend our freedoms and fight Islam? It is time for non-Muslims to rise up and take a stand against Islam.

Sept 29, 2009 Dear church, Thanks for taking a few minutes to read this update regarding my time in Washington D.C for the events that took place on Thursday & Friday September 24-25. I appreciate all of you who were able to pray. The Lord clearly did great things that only He could have orchestrated. We are truly living in sober, yet exciting times! On Thursday September 24’th, I arrived in Washington just in time to sit in on a very important press conference announcing the launch of what I believe is a very timely and important national movement called...

Former Muslims United speak out on eve of “Islam on Capitol Hill” march By Michelle Malkin  •  September 24, 2009 02:55 PM Earlier this week, I noted the “Islam on Capitol Hill” event taking place tomorrow in Washington DC. Well, a group of brave apostates has launched Former Muslims United and they are holding an event today to raise awareness of the ravages of sharia law. The group is pressing the DOJ to protect the rights and safety of ex-Muslims in America: Former Muslims send “Freedom Pledge” Nationwide to Muslim Leaders for 220th Anniversary of Bill of Rights“Muslim Pledge for Religious Freedom...

What Islamic Terrorism??? Fate of 17-Year-Old Fathima Sealed byPaul L. Williams, Ph.D. thelastcrusade.org The lawyers for Aysha and Mohamed Bary, the parents of Fathima Rifqa Bary, the 17 year-old Muslim girl who converted to Christianity, assured Orange County District Court today that there is no such thing as honor killing in Islam. Romin Iqbal assured Circuit Judge Daniel Dawson that such killings are “cultural and tribal” and are not related to “the Islamic religious practice.” No one in court took issue with Iqbal’s statement, despite the fact that Islamic law clearly calls for the killing of anyone who abandons...

A Florida judge declined today to decide whether a 17-year-old girl should be sent home to her Muslim parents in Ohio or allowed to stay in Florida with a couple of Christian pastors. Circuit Judge Daniel Dawson instead urged the lawyers, the girl, her parents and the pastors to settle the custody issue in mediation. In the meantime, Fathima Rifqa Bary was ordered to remain under the jurisdiction of Florida's Department of Children and Families. The teenager, who goes by the name of Rifqa, has told Florida authorities that she fled her home in July because she had secretly converted...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - An investigation by Florida authorities has found that there were no credible threats to a teenager who ran away from her Ohio home because she says she feared for her life after converting to Christianity from Islam. A summary of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation into Rifqa Bary's (RIF'-kuh BEHR'-ee) allegations was unsealed Monday. The probe found no reports of threats against Bary in Florida or Ohio.

Between comments left on my site and the articles that I have read, I have literally not seen one Muslim show an once of concern for the life of 17 year-old apostate of Islam Rifqa Bary. Even the Arab News has decided to attack her and try to provide a smokescreen for the Noor Islamic Cultural Center in Ohio. As usual Muslims will say anything to defend Islam. Hate groups use teen to defame Islamic center Sameen Khan | Arab News COLUMBUS, Ohio: At only age 17, Fathima Rifqa Bary has already managed to create one of the most controversial...

Rifqa Bary, the teenage girl who converted to Christianity from Islam and then fled for her life after her father threatened to kill her, faces daunting obstacles in her quest to be free. As a high-profile apostate, she is Islamists' highest value target right now. And on top of that, she faces a Leftist media that is complicit with those who want to see her dead or institutionalized. Witness the outrageous treatment that Newsweek gave to her story in its September 9 issue, and especially to Jamal Jivanjee, Rifqa's friend and confidante. Newsweek reporter Arian Campo-Flores, said Jivanjee, asked him...

A Muslim teenager from Ohio says her father threatened to kill her because she converted to Christianity. Rifqa Bary, 17, ran away from her family in Columbus, Ohio, in July and took refuge in the central Florida home of the Rev. Blake Lorenz with the Global Revolution Church in Orlando. The teen heard of the pastor and his church through a prayer group on Facebook. The girl's parents reported her missing to Columbus police, who found her two weeks later in Florida through cell phone records. The teenager, in a sworn affidavit, claims her father, Mohamed Bary, 47, was pressured...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The teen who ran away from her Ohio home after converting from Islam to Christianity will stay with her foster parents in Orlando for the time being, a judge ruled. The judge also put a gag order on all the attorneys involved in the case, barring them from talking to the media. Rifqa Bary, 17, ran away to Florida in July, saying she feared being killed for changing religions. The Florida judge also ordered sealed a police report about a teenage girl. The judge said two weeks ago that he would postpone deciding whether Bary should return...

Teenager Says Her Parents Will Kill Her Over Conversion. The Muslim community if speaking out about a so-called religious runaway who came from Ohio to Florida saying she feared her parents would kill her because she converted to Christianity. On YouTube, Fathima Bary, who is known as Rifqa, says her parents must kill her because she has converted. "It's an honor. If they love God more than they love me they have to do this," she said. "I'm fighting for my life." Rifqa's attorney has said that the mosque attended by her parents has terrorist ties.

(CNN) -- A Muslim teenager from Ohio says her father threatened to kill her because she converted to Christianity.

Rifqa Bary Documents - Father Threatened To Kill Her, Noor Mosque Which Family Attended Has Terrorist Ties By WILLIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ August 31, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The case of Fathima Rifqa Bary, a 17 year old young woman who was raised as a Muslim and lived with her family in Gahanna, Ohio since 2004, revolves around a claim that because of her recent conversion to Christianity she fears for her safety at the hands of her family which is adamantly opposed to her leaving Islam. To escape from the danger posed especially by...

Hello again, I want to say thanks to all of you who prayed for me this past Friday for my brief interview on the Fox News Channel about Rifqa Bary’s situation. It was a much shorter interview than I was expecting, but the Lord is the one who even made the interview possible in the first place, so praise God! Anyway, I am writing you again because they have asked me to come back on tomorrow, (Sunday August 30) @ 7:20am Eastern & 6:20am Central time for another interview. PRAISE GOD! I have an overwhelming desire to get Rifqa’s testimony...

Rifqa Bary, the young woman who fled Ohio fearing for her life, after converting from Islam to Christianity, told of her Muslim father's words: "If you have this Jesus in your heart, you are dead to me. I will kill you." "I will kill you"- the same words spoken to Mohammed Hijazi by his Muslim father in 2008. Watch this important video. "From the Gaza strip to neighboring Egypt, his father is promising to kill him for becoming a believer." "Now he's on the run with his wife and little baby." "Mohammed Hijazi's father always taught him to hate Christians....

Iran: Women: We Love Christ! UPDATE: On Aug. 8, Marzieh and Maryam were summoned to an Iranian court and ordered to deny their faith verbally and in a written statement, according to The Voice of the Martyrs contacts. Marzieh and Maryam were pressured to recant their faith after the chief interrogator recommended they be charged with apostasy. Praise God, they stood firm and replied, “We love Jesus. We will not deny our faith.” VOM contacts reported the deputy prosecutor, Mr. Haddad, aggressively questioned the women during the court proceedings. Haddad asked them if they regretted becoming Christians. They replied they...

Rifqa Bary is an Ohio teenager who recently fled to Florida claiming that her father seeks to murder her in an “honor killing.” While the media seeks to report the matter as a he said, she said story, there are some very disturbing details that back up her story. For starters, Rifqa’s parents are members of the Noor Islamic Cultural Center. The Center was home to resident scholar Salah Sultan, who calls himself a ‘friend and pupil’ of avowed terror supporter and advocate of suicide bombings Yusuf Qaradawi. Qaradawi is designated by the United States as a ‘Specially Designated Global...

PLEASE PRAY FOR MY INTERVIEW ON FOXNEWS TOMORROW MORNING (Friday August 28) @ 6:20am (Eastern Standard Time)! This is a recent posting on Facebook from Jamal More can be found at the website for his ministry www.illuminate-us.com Dear friends and family, I am a firm believer that we meet each and every person in life on purpose. There are no accidents at all! God brings each and every person across our path in life for His kingdom purposes in our lives and beyond. Just over one year ago, the Lord brought our family across the path of an amazing 16...

Return Christian girl to her Ohio Muslim family? Fathima Rifqa Bary, 17, says she became a Christian and fled Ohio to stay with an Orlando pastor's family because her father vowed to kill her for converting. Should she be sent back to her own family? * Yes. Kids who run away tell fibs all the time to justify leaving. There's no evidence her family would kill her. * No. If there's any chance at all that she is telling the truth, whoever returns her will have to answer for anything bad that happens to her. * Maybe. Florida and Ohio...