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Follow Up Regarding MR's post and Fathima Rifqa Bary:
National Catholic Register:
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Parents of Rifqa Bary ask court to hold her in contempt to force her to attend counseling sessions with Muslim counselor From Jawa (click on the title above to see the whole thing): ...and the counselor they demand she attend filed an affidavit in...
- Judge Orders Rifqa Bary Returned To Ohio
From Associated Press: ORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida judge says he plans to order the teenager who ran away from Ohio to Florida because she feared physical harm for converting from Islam to Christianity sent back to Ohio.The Orlando judge said Tuesday...
- Rifqa Bary: An Fbi Agent's Assessment
[Note: John D. Guandolo is a 12 ½ year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. At the request of the Center for Security Policy, he prepared an assessment of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s (FDLE) investigation of the Ohio-based...
- Atlas Interviews Rifqa Bary's Friend
I am glad to say it sounds like there is more corroboration that Rifqa is absolutely telling the truth. As we discussed the other day, I have been concerned that this story might blow up in the faces of Spencer and Geller. But, I've always been about...
- Rifqa -- Update (with Addendum From Always On Watch)
stuck topside for a bit. scroll down for newer postsALL -- I grabbed this from Atlas Shrugs. If you think you can help or have advice or ideas the best thing to do may be to follow the link to Atlas and leave the info there. She seems to read most of...
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Catholic Newspaper Slams Honor Killings
Follow Up Regarding MR's post and Fathima Rifqa Bary:
National Catholic Register:
Islam’s Ugly Side
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:59 PM
CNN currently is running a series of articles about Islam in America, in conjunction with an investigative feature about “Generation Islam” by Christine Amanpour that will air on CNN tonight.
So far, the articles seem to have had the general intent of challenging the stereotype that American Muslims are mostly a bunch of violent zealots.
And clearly the large majority of American Muslims aren’t. But as demonstrated by this video of a terrified Muslim teen from Ohio tearfully explaining why she believes her father intends to kill her for converting to Christianity, it’s simply not possible to portray Islam as a “religion of peace” that can be situated comfortably in the American mainstream.
Media reports indicate that the Muslim father denies his daughter’s charge that he plans to take her life in an “honor killing” because of her conversion to Christianity. And certainly he could have no intention of committing such a heinous act.
But it’s not fanciful on the part of Fathima Rifqa Bary — who fled the family home in Ohio last month to seek refuge with a Christian couple in Florida — to believe that her father might intend to do so; the death penalty remains the punishment for apostasy in some Muslim jurisdictions. And honor killings of Muslim women by other family members are by no means unknown in North America.
Bary bravely declares in the video that she’s willing to be martyred for her Christian faith, should it come to that. But she’s overwhelmed by fear over this possibility. And she insists that non-Muslims who would dismiss her fears as unfounded “don’t understand” the ugly reality that these sort of killings are regarded as acceptable and indeed as virtuous by many devout Muslims.
Like it or not, that’s another aspect of the contemporary face of Islam.
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Parents of Rifqa Bary ask court to hold her in contempt to force her to attend counseling sessions with Muslim counselor From Jawa (click on the title above to see the whole thing): ...and the counselor they demand she attend filed an affidavit in...
- Judge Orders Rifqa Bary Returned To Ohio
From Associated Press: ORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida judge says he plans to order the teenager who ran away from Ohio to Florida because she feared physical harm for converting from Islam to Christianity sent back to Ohio.The Orlando judge said Tuesday...
- Rifqa Bary: An Fbi Agent's Assessment
[Note: John D. Guandolo is a 12 ½ year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. At the request of the Center for Security Policy, he prepared an assessment of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s (FDLE) investigation of the Ohio-based...
- Atlas Interviews Rifqa Bary's Friend
I am glad to say it sounds like there is more corroboration that Rifqa is absolutely telling the truth. As we discussed the other day, I have been concerned that this story might blow up in the faces of Spencer and Geller. But, I've always been about...
- Rifqa -- Update (with Addendum From Always On Watch)
stuck topside for a bit. scroll down for newer postsALL -- I grabbed this from Atlas Shrugs. If you think you can help or have advice or ideas the best thing to do may be to follow the link to Atlas and leave the info there. She seems to read most of...