Posted on 09/22/2009 7:20:09 AM PDT by CedarDave
Fathima Rifqa Bary may not be a household name to most Americans, but she may soon be the international symbol of society’s willful blindness to the dangers of Islamic radicalism already present.
Bary, a seventeen year-old high school student who previously lived in the Columbus, Ohio area, is of Sri Lankan decent and was raised in a Muslim home with her family in Ohio. Over the last few years, Rifqa, as she is known among friends, was introduced to and chose to secretly convert to Christianity.
During this summer, she saw growing threats to her safety developing within her family and within the local Muslim community of Columbus, and she fled Ohio to Florida, ... Rifqa Bary is a minor who continues to reside in Florida following the ruling of a Florida judge until further investigations can be conducted.
Rifqa Bary’s parents directly told FDLE officials investigating the threat allegations there are no provisions in Islamic Law for “honor killings” for apostasy. ...
The issues of “honor killings” and apostates -- those who leave Islam -- are discussed in detail within Islamic Law, and are two different subjects that should not be confused. ... Rifqa Bary’s issue revolves around her decision to leave Islam, which has now been publicly declared -- making her an apostate under Islamic Law, which prescribes the penalty of death. ... So Bary’s family is correct: there are no “honor killings” of apostates: their death penalty is separately imposed and automatically so.
Apostasy is specifically addressed ... [in a book] by Louay Safi, [associated with the] Muslim Brotherhood ... In it, Mr. Safi notes that individual apostates cannot be killed for a "quiet desertion of personal Islamic duties," but can be put to death as "just punishment" when the apostate deserts Islam publicly.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
Instead, yesterday, the parents attorneys, represented/sponsored by various Muslim groups, such as C.A.I.R showed up with a court order from Ohio which would have Rifqa placed in foster care there by having their daughter declared incorrigible by dint of being repeatedly disobedient. Rifqa's guardian ad litem Krista Bartholomew stated "grave concerns" that should Rifqa be returned to Ohio the legal proceedings there would be swiftly discontinued, thus leaving her with no legal protection against her parents.
What is telling is that the Christian pastor and his wife who took her after she fled Ohio, received a text message that expressed in great clarity her fear and faith in Christ: "Would you please pray for me that I do not deny Jesus' name in the face of death?"
They cannot take any assurances from her parents or others in the Muslim community seriously. Islamic law is clear on this; death is her fate. If they send her back, someone will kill her. And Allaah knows best.
This is the result when “good people” remain quiet, or lazy, or ignorant, or disinterested and permit the left to portray this phony “religion” of sub-humans as the Religion of Peace!
And in Islam, it is acceptable to lie to “infidels” to advance Islamic goals.
Does anyone know when this girl turns 18? If somehow she can hold out til then, the authorities can’t do squat if she decided to leave her family (again).
She turns 18 in mid-August of next year. More court hearings early next month. I doubt if they can delay a decision much past then.
Governor Crist is fully behind his child protection agency in trying to keep her under agency protection in Florida, but comments on stories in the local papers mostly say she go back to Ohio. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement did a report that included an interview with her with her parent’s C.A.I.R attorney present. They concluded there was no evidence of a threat to her safety. Right...
What they would probably do is say that she was a "confused" teenager and "imprison her for life" in her parents' home, exhorted every day to return to Islam and deny Christianity. Imams would pray for her to "return to her senses". She would not be allowed to go to church or to hang out with her friends. She would be in prison.
I get the feeling that with this girl's deep commitment to Christianity, eventually she would publicly rebel and state that she will never return to Islam and she will forever follow Christ. Then someone would have to kill her. It might not be her father; whoever did it would be viewed as a hero in the Islamic community. They can't allow a happy apostate to exist. It sets an unacceptable example for others. After she's dead, CAIR and the other Islamic apologists would strongly protest such an un-Islamic murder. You know the drill. Other Muslims who might be considering converting would be scared to death.
She will be watched day and night by family, male uncles and cousins. She already has accused them of abusing her, including physically. She has appeared at school with bruises but the family denies abuse, just sports injuries, etc.
A ploy to get her case moved back to Ohio where the fix is already in. Her parents are here illegally so ship them back without Rifqa.
If Rifqa’a parents are here illegally, then the authorities who dislike public controversies such as this will arrange for her being forcibly reunited and the deportation of all three back to Sri Lanka where she can be conveniently put to death within the Dar al-Islam and out of sight of American public opinion.
Problem solved and the muzzies win as Christians weep over their latest young martyr for the Faith.
“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
If illegal aliens can get a false identity, than so can she. But it would be better if she could enter a witness protection program, but never going to happen with the current administration. No, she will die if not this year or the next, soon. This sticks in the craw of the fanatics and you are right, she will be hunted down and killed.
I should continue, it’s obvious she will have a better chance to survive if she makes it to 18.
Sad but true, but at least at 18 she can get AWAY from her family, and maybe go back to the christian family that could protect her.
I don’t have much hope in this happening if she doesn’t turn 18 ‘til next August, I’m afraid she WILL be dead by then.
Volume 9, Book 84, Number 57:
Narrated ‘Ikrima:
Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to ‘Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn ‘Abbas who said, “If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah’s Apostle forbade it, saying, ‘Do not punish anybody with Allah’s punishment (fire).’ I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah’s Apostle, ‘Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.’”
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