Posted on 10/28/2009 11:48:03 AM PDT by CedarDave
To all those who value life,
Please take a few minutes to consider the life of our sister in the faith Rifqa Bary, which is once again in grave jeopardy. On Tuesday October 27’th, Rifqa Bary was handed over to Ohio authorities for placement in foster care in Franklin County. Over the previous weekend, a very unfortunate deal was made by Rifqa’s former Florida Guardian Ad Litem, Krista Bartholomew, with Rifqa’s parent’s attorney David Colley that allowed Rifqa to be transferred back to Ohio. The gist of this (behind the scenes) deal was the following:
1. Because Rifqa’s parents are in the U.S. illegally, they refused and defied numerous court orders to produce documents detailing their immigration status. As a result, Rifqa’s parents were in danger of being arrested for contempt of court. The Florida judge who had emergency jurisdiction over the case said that even though the jurisdiction is transferred to Ohio, he was not going to release her until they produced the proper documentation that satisfied the court.
Well, in order to have the immigration issue go away for Rifqa’s parents, Mohammad Bary’s attorney, David Colley, cut a ‘behind the scenes’ deal in which the Florida court would drop the contempt of court issue regarding their immigration situation in exchange for an assurance that they would leave Rifqa alone and let her stay in foster care for the next 9 months until she is 18. This sounded like it was too good to be true, and it was! As soon as Rifqa was transferred into Ohio custody and the Florida court gave up their emergency jurisdiction over Rifqa and the immigration issue, Rifqa’s parents fired their own attorney that made the deal! Simply put, now that Rifqa was in ‘favorable’ hands in Ohio, all deals are off! They trusted Rifqa's parents hoping they would live up to their word, and because of this, Rifqa is in a dangerous situation and there is nothing the Florida court can do now because the (G.A.L.) gave the entire house away! Let this be a lesson about Mohammad Bary's real intentions.
In my opinion, this was all part of a premeditated plan on the part of Rifqa’s parents and the organization called C.A.I.R. who has been advising them according to the Florida department of law enforcement report released to the public. They have since hired a Muslim activist attorney named Omar Tarazi that is no doubt influenced by the mafia like C.A.I.R. organization whose sole agenda is to paint a positive picture of Islam in America at any cost. (The slander of the Lorenz family and the slander of 17 year old Rifqa’s own character by releasing her prayer journals to the media are perfect examples of how C.A.I.R. ruthlessly operates to accomplish their agenda.)
They completely went back on the agreement that they made to leave Rifqa alone, and I believe they now are planning to continue to pursue to get her back against Rifqa’s will. C.A.I.R. wants her silenced both now, and in the future, because they know that Rifqa’s story of abuse is common among many Muslim families. Apostasy in Islam is not something they want to shine a light on. They know that as her story gets out there, there will be a massive exodus of Muslims just like her. Indeed, it has already begun!
2. If that was not bad enough, Rifqa went back to a hostile environment in Ohio right away. In an article posted on Saturday October 24’th, three days before her return to Ohio, the Columbus Dispatch reported that Eric Fenner, the executive director of Franklin County Children Services, has said that he has stated that he “has no reason to believe that Rifqa wouldn’t be safe with her parents.” Remember this is coming from the very person who has charge over protecting her!
Rifqa then arrived back to Ohio on Tuesday October 27’th. Upon her arrival came a new set of restrictions that her parents and Muslim attorneys have been trying to impose on her from the beginning…solitary confinement! While Rifqa was being protected in Florida, they repeatedly tried to separate Rifqa from other Christians that she leaned on for strength and encouragement. Rifqa’s Muslim parents have been saying from the beginning that they don’t believe that Rifqa became a Christian on her own accord, rather they believe that her real problem is that she has been brain washed by other people through facebook and over the phone.
Immediately upon Rifqa’s arrival to Ohio, came new draconian measures to limit her freedom already! Franklin County Juvenile Magistrate Mary Goodrich put these restrictions on Rifqa at the request of the Franklin county children's services agency immediately upon her arrival back to the state of Ohio. “Bary's use of Facebook was one issue that led to the situation, said Jim Zorn, a children's services attorney, who asked Goodrich to restrict Bary from using the Internet and her cell phone. "What we want to restrict is the other people, the other organizations, the other forces, that have interjected themselves into this case inappropriately, and has caused the additional problems that we've seen," Zorn said.
Zorn’s account of Rifqa’s situation is absolutely false! Where is he getting his information? It seems as if the Ohio director of children’s services in Franklin County is reading right out of the C.A.I.R. and radical Muslim playbook for this case. Facebook did not in any way lead to this situation. What led to this situation was the fact that a very bright and intelligent girl decided to leave Islam and become a Christian. According to numerous passages in the Qur’an and other Islamic scriptures, this is called apostasy and is punishable by death. Like many others all over the world, Rifqa faced this threat of death, or even deportation back to Sri-Lanka by her own family along with pressure from the Columbus Ohio mosque that her family was actively apart of.
What crime did Rifqa Bary commit that she would be held with such restrictions from communicating to the outside world? While it is legal for 17 year old girls in this country to have abortions without parental agreement, this 17 year old girl is forbidden to have unrestricted access to her phone or facebook friends of her choosing! Is she under house arrest because she is a Christian? This sounds like Sharia law in Ohio!
The lengthy article concludes with a Call to Action which I urge all to read.
That deal that they made “behind the scene” was a bone-headed retarded mistake. Seriously, Muslims should never be trusted because Koran permits Al-taqiyya.
Al-taqiyya is what they call lying to infidels.
The Call to Action being?
If the girl was married wouldnt all this go away someone from the church should marry the girl and in a year or two get annuled or divorce.The solution is so easy
Please contact Franklin County Children Services, and the Ohio governor’s office at the following addresses and let them know that you want Rifqa to be able to have the basic freedoms to communicate to the outside world, and that she needs to be protected from her parents & the radical Islamic community:
Franklin County children services can be reached here:
http://www.franklincountyohio.gov/children_services/contact-us.cfm
The Ohio governor’s office can be reached here:
http://governor.ohio.gov/Contact/tabid/153/Default.aspx
Also, Governor Strickland is up for re-election. Here is his opponent's contact information:
God bless you for taking a stand,
Jamal Jivanjee
www.illuminate-us.com
The mere fact that her parents are here illegally should have been enough to let her finish out her 17th year in the relative safety of a Florida foster home.
re: They trusted Rifqa’s parents
That was probably a big mistake.
You must be 18 in Ohio to marry without parental consent. The only other way for a minor child to emancipate themselves from their parents is to join the military, which of course also requires parental consent.
Having said that, this article is alarmist nonsense, just nonsense. She's a minor child. Her parents are alleging that she's being manipulated, or undo outside pressure is being applied. So, the family court referee writes an order limiting or monitoring her communication. That's fine. She's a minor. I certainly monitored my kid's internet and phone access when they were minors.
This will all be settled in family court. Both sides - parent and child - will be heard and psychological evaluations will take place, and ultimately, whatever is best for the child will be determined and ordered. Rifqa isn't going to be murdered, and so long as there is even the slightest hint of any kind of danger, she won't be around her parents without court-ordered supervision.
She's a runaway. We don't get to ignore federal and state laws because we don't like Muslims, or because the girl has been "saved". The only thing the judge in Florida could do, is to follow the law. And, the laws relevant to runaways demand that she be returned to her home jurisdiction, where the courts will make a determination for the child's appropriate domicile.
If in fact her parents are in the US illegally, they should be deported.
If her parents are illegal aliens, as the story claims, that makes Rifqa an illegal alien or an anchor baby.
And that raises the question of if the United States should deport illegal aliens and their anchor babies?
So, you believe "anchor babies" should be permitted to stay in the United States and not be deported?
I'm not absolutely sure, but I believe she was born outside the US, ergo she's illegal. So, she clearly can be deported.
If, OTOH, she was born the US, her citizenship - via jus solis and the 14th Amendment - would be absolute. She would be "un-deportable", to coin a phrase.
I hope you don’t have to eat your words....
I do hope you are right on the other hand!
Well, there are many people here that believe that we should not only deport all illegal aliens but also “anchor babies.”
And it would appear, from this well written article, that Rifqa is either an illegal alien or an anchor baby.
I'm an Ohio attorney, from the Columbus area. I know the courts a little around here. They are hyper-sensitive to the safety of children. This child will never be around these parents without court-ordered supervision. It's just not going to happen.
Now, what happens after she turns 18, or if she is deported, is another matter altogether. If she was returned to a Muslim country, it very well may be a death sentence - which would bolster any claim of asylum she might eventually make.
And Rifqa"s father has sold his business and seems to be pulling up stakes. And according to the article, the parents are going back on a deal to just "leave her alone" in foster care for 10 months. I note a court hearing is set in Ohio for November 16.
But she'll probably be OK.
Irrespective of what people believe, children who are born here "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." This is long settled law, and because of stare decisis, it isn't going to change without another Constitutional amendment.
You cannot "strip" citizenship acquired via jus soli, and you cannot deport a US citizen.
re: So, you believe “anchor babies” should be permitted to stay in the United States and not be deported?
Not as a rule, but this situation is far from ordinary. As much danger as she’s in to be killed in an honor killing she would be in even more danger back in a Muslim country.
IMHO, the whole family should be sent packing if they are here illegally.
Yes, I understand that all people born in the US are natural born citizens.
Under the circumstances it would do no harm to keep her in the safety of a Florida foster home until she turns 18.
My opinion has nothing to do with her salvation or my like or dislike for Muslims. We have example after example of honor killings that happen without warning. She expressed a fear of that. Those honor killings are all done by one religion and it's not Southern Baptists or the Amish, it's Muslims and they consider it their Allah-given responsibility to kill someone who in their opinion has disgraced Allah.
If the law were as cut and dried as you say she would simply have been bundled up on day one and shipped back to her parents.
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