Posted on 08/20/2009 5:37:11 PM PDT by Nachum
A 17-year-old girl who fled to Florida after converting from Islam to Christianity will almost certainly be forced to return home to Ohio, experts say -- despite her fears that she will become the victim of an honor killing for abandoning her parents' faith.
Rifqa Bary, who hitchhiked to an Ohio bus station earlier this month and took a charter bus to Orlando, remains in protective custody with Florida's Department of Children and Families. A judge is expected to rule Friday on the jurisdiction of the case, but several legal experts contacted by FOXNews.com say the girl is bound to be sent back to Ohio
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How does a court send a 17 year old home? if its a divorce she can choose a parent right?
We know from cases that she should run away.
Who will be killed/murdered in the name of Islam honor killing ...
She needs to split the scene.
Stick a fork in America.
Family Of Slain Sisters Wants Father To Come Forth (father fled to Egypt after daughters were slain)
http://cbs11tv.com/local/said.sisters.funeral.2.623996.html
‘Honor Killing’ Motive for Slain Sisters?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4102781&page=1
We can see to it that those Chinese Gitmo muslims get protected, but this girl can’t? Makes perfect sense to me.
Tienes cajones grandes.
A phrase normally reserved for Great Britain on Free Republic.
Just forge a Hawaiian COLB showing she’s 18.
Exactly. Let’s make sure she gets sent “home” but leave the runaways selling themselves on the streets alone
Absurd. At 17 all she needs is a job and she’s emancipated, if that pastor REALLY wants to help her, which I’m not convinced he does.
Protective services rarely expend time and energy and manpower on 17-year-olds. Very, very rarely. They can’t wait to cut them loose at 18.
Moreover, protective services would be in a very bad light if something happened to this girl after they approved her return to her parents. They’re unlikely to risk that, with all the media attention on this case.
However, stranger things have happened in Florida courts.
"Anyone who converts from Islam is considered an apostate, and apostasy is a capital crime," Chesler wrote FOXNews.com. "If she is returned to her family, if she is lucky, they will isolate her, beat her, threaten her, and if she is not 'persuaded' to return to Islam, they will kill her. They have no choice."
I am stunned and amazed.
Truth telling about the religion on peace from a College Professor from a NY University no less.
I don’t know as the brother would kill her. She said in an interview that he knew she was a Christian and covered for her.
You’d think that someone would help her escape and go into hiding.
Elian Gonzalez was the first thing I thought of, too. Our courts, working to protect...Communists and Muslims.
it has come to that
I feel for her, but feel that she made some mistakes. She should have gone completely underground. My guess is that she went to Florida and remained in contact with her family and/or friends. She is now paying the price. On the bright side, others will learn from her mistakes.
You didn’t read the article very well.
The Florida courts will only decide whether or not to return her to Ohio.
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