Posted on 12/24/2009 7:13:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There is a war of attrition going on in the Rifqa Bary case. Rifqa is the girl who converted from Islam to Christianity and fled from her family in fear for her life -- and the Islamic machine is attempting to wear her down, grind her down by constant mental abuse. The persecution is so obvious, and yet so mundane that no one seems to take notice. The banality of evil.
Some sources say that a Muslim psychiatrist was assigned to Rifqa while she was in Florida, where she fled from her Ohio home (now she has been returned to Ohio, where she is in foster care.) How cruel and inhuman. And Omar Tarazi, the CAIR-linked lawyer for Rifqa's parents, asked the court to hold her in contempt to force her to attend counseling sessions with a Muslim counselor. The counselor that her parents were demanding she see also filed an affidavit in support of Rifqa being held in contempt. Psychological abuse, that's what that was.
The Barys' lawyer had also demanded that all the Christmas cards sent to Rifqa in the Christmas card campaign for Rifqa that I originated at my website AtlasShrugs.com be banned and seized. Rifqa has received hundreds, perhaps thousands of cards -- and the Islamic machine saw every one of them as a threat. They wanted Rifqa isolated from everyone except those who will break down her resistance and run roughshod over her conscience and her religious freedom. The judge ruled against them on that one Tuesday. But the fact that it was even an issue was the real issue.
The Barys, in league with the Islamic machine, are now prosecuting their pious, straight-A honor student daughter on a fallacious charge of "waywardness." Further, they hope to prosecute any friend of Rifqa who helped her. Why? Because she converted out of Islam. The pastor who took Rifqa in and provided her shelter when he fled to Florida is constantly being threatened by CAIR-appointed attorneys with some trumped-up charge. Why? Clearly to discourage anyone from helping apostates escape Islam.
The latest warning is that Brian Williams, a missionary and the pastor in Ohio who baptized Rifqa, may very well be arrested. He was, at one time, a big brother to her -- unlike her actual brother Rilvan Bary. Rifqa has made no secret about not wanting to see her brother and has repeatedly refused, and with good reason. Rilvan Bary is a hooligan who in October leaked her whereabouts to a Muslim stalker-blogger. Rilvan gave the address of Rifqa's Florida foster family to San Francisco-based Islamic blogger Davi Barker, who then bragged at his blog that he knew Rifqa's present location and issued this veiled threat: "I'll tell you one thing reader... if she's not safe in Ohio, she's not safe in Florida."
No one involved in Rifqa's case in Florida or Ohio took note of this threat, or of Rilvan's role in it. But Brian Williams and the Florida pastor who took Rifqa in may very well be arrested; they have been so warned. Making this even more ironic is the fact that Rilvan Bary has been arrested -- for underage drinking -- and brags in lurid language about his sexual prowess on his Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live pages. Typical of Islamic misogyny, misplaced priorities and encouragement of the worst behavior in males is the fact that Mohamed Bary was enraged by his daughter's conversion to Christianity, but seems to have had nothing to say about his son's sleazy sexual trolling on the Internet.
Rifqa was betrayed in Florida, and now she is being betrayed in Ohio. Her hapless legal counsel in Florida was almost slapstick in its ineptitude. Her Ohio counsel is proving to be more of the same, if not worse.
And meanwhile CAIR, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood in America, is marshaling all of our legal safeguards and laws to stifle this lone voice, to suffocate Rifqa. Where are decent elected officials? Why aren't the Feds protecting Rifqa's civil rights? Why is American jurisprudence crumbling before our very eyes? American courts are bowing to Islam, and it is systemic, nationwide. Why is the U.S. government coming down decidedly in favor of Islamic Sharia law? Justice is blind except in the case of Islam. Then it is bowed down. Is that where this leftist Islamic cabal has taken America? How many runaway girls are selling their bodies on the street in full view of law enforcement and yet go unmolested (pardon the pun), unafraid that they will be rounded up, arrested and sent back to their parents?
Instead of doing something to stop the spread of Sharia in the U.S., the federal government spends millions on corrupt, racketeering organizations like ACORN that aid and abet child traffickers, child prostitutes and sex rings (and continues to fund them even after they've been busted).
But the courts get tough with Rifqa's Christianity. Why is Rifqa so special, so deserving of this manhunt? Because she converted out of Islam. Across the world, free men and women are going on trial for our unalienable human rights. From obscure trials like that of Rifqa in Ohio to that of Geert Wilders, the world's leading statesman who will soon go on trial for "hate speech" in the Netherlands for speaking the truth about Islam, these are our proxies. They are fighting our fight, for our civilization.
-- Pamela Geller is the editor and publisher of the Atlas Shrugs Web site and is former associate publisher of the New York Observer. She is the author (with Robert Spencer) of the forthcoming book The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America (Simon and Schuster).
I’m get the same helpless, kicked-in-the-gut feeling I had with Terry (Schiavo) Schindler. Are we really letting this happen in our country? Do we even have a country anymore?
Any American citizen should have the right to choose their own religion and not be forced by the state or federal government to endure counseling on Islam when that is not their wish. Religion should be voluntary, not mandatory. Furthermore, this is a just another case of political correctness taken to extremes. We have seen what rampant political correctness has wrought like for example the murder of the four off duty police officers, the moving of the terror trials to New York instead of military tribunals, the shuttering of Gitmo, our president apologizing to everybody he meets for America and a litany of many other activities by our Congress and this president.
Muslims have mastered using the charge of discrimination or islamophobia to accomplish their agenda. Compare this to Islamic countries where non-Muslims have no rights.
I am praying for Rivqa! She represents so much for our country and for people of all faiths who came here to be free to worship as they see fit.
The last time I checked they do. But first they need to be an American citizen and second they need to not be underage.
Great article, only it’s a PERsecution as much as it is any kind of preosecution. What’s happening to her is an outrage and it’s alarming that this kind of thing can be happening here. Thank God for the people like Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and these pastors who are standing up for her. If it weren’t for them, there would be no one.
If her parents were fundamentalist Christians, and she wanted to leave to become a pagan/Wiccan earth worshiper....
By Now:
She'd be free to live anywhere with anybody
The parents would be under a microscope from a dozen different “protection” agencies.
So. . .what happens when she turns 18, and is legally an adult ? Can’t she just walk away at that point ???
And then they wonder why there is a war against radical Muslim terrorists...
More proof that Islam is the Faith of Hate and the Cult of Insanity. Nothing but pure evil
As another FReeper already mentioned....if Rifka Bary had converted to Islam from Christianity.....and the Christian parents were not happy with it....the Christian parents would have been told to stuff it...probably be arrested for abuse.
Islam is evil....those who practice it are evil....those who sit and do nothing while Islamics terrorize one and all, are evil.
Yes, but she has to be alive to make it to 18 first. If she is turned over to her family before then there is a good chance that could happen, not necessarily by them but by local Muslim extremists who see her conversion as a terrible offense against Islam and know where they can find her.
The question is: will the government give her a head start?
Mind you, if I was a local pastor, I’d have a chain of unmarked vehicles ready to go: she walks out the door on her birthday and. . .disappears.
In some states, 17 is THE LEGAL AGE. If I were her I would move to one of those states, find a job and start making a living while also attending school and graduating and getting a degree.
re: Sure, we’re a free country, but has it been our tradition that minors have a right to choose what they want to believe in ?
Your point is well taken, but, though I am no legal expert by any means, the practice of some Muslim families to do bodily harm to their own family members who convert to Christianity is well established - not only in Muslim countries, but also this heinous practice has unfortunately occurred several times in the U. S.
Rifqa has expressed repeatedly her fear that she will be harmed or even killed. There is a well established basis to justify her fear.
Also, it’s one thing for the state to step in and “take” a child away from his/her parents - but, in this case, Rifqa has asked or even begged for protection.
She is not 5 or 8 or 12 years old. She is 17. Her character and accomplishments as a student are well documented. She is not some runaway, love sick child - no, she has demonstrated a pattern of responsible behavior. I think this must be taken into account by the authorities when determining whether or not her fears are justified.
I understand the parental issues as well, but when dealing with Islam, or any other religion - the pattern of behavior by practioners of that religion must be taken into account as to the validity of a perceived threat.
We’ve seen what muslim counseling looks like. Think Ft. Hood and the muslim counselor himself.
The right isn’t restricted to citizens. And, underage or not, if one chooses atheism, there are no such measures as those Rifqa faces.
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