American Apostate Rifqa Bary: "I knew what the consequence was, which was death"

In a conference call with a prayer group, Rifqa Bary made these remarks:

I gave my heart to God, that's when I was thirteen. At this point I knew what the consequences were, which was death, and my family, I knew it, but of course I wouldn't tell anyone because who would believe me, this is the US. I hid my Bible in my house, I would wake up in the middle of the night and cry out to God in the bathroom, ....and God would sustain me...I would cry out to him there and I would be ok because that would be enough. I would pray on the balcony when my parents were asleep, but for four years I hid as a secret Christian, and the Lord was simply good at sustaining me and setting my heart ablaze for his kingdom every step of the way.

The Islamic community there is very strong, and that's how my parents ... I had a facebook community, the mosque found out that my name was related to Jesus and I had things about God in there, Jesus, and was screaming about Jesus and talked he talked about Jesus, and phone call and emails started pouring in and threats were made by my father, and that was when I had to make the decision to either leave or denounce my faith.

So I wrote my parents a letter that Jesus Christ is my lord and saviour and that I refuse to deny him, that I pray and find their mercy and forgiveness, and that I love them very much, and I put on a backpack with no clothes, the lord told me to leave everything behind. So I ran for my life and God brought me here to Florida, and now my dad and the Islamic community want me back home, so there's a whole court proceeding going on in trying to get me back to Ohio. So yeah, that's my story, but I'll go wherever the Lord leads me. Thank you for all the prayers, I mean I'm not even supposed to be here.

She the goes into a  fervent prayer which the soulless media will go off on, but frankly, if you are going to take on the forces of evil, the Islamic machine, the corrupt media, you are going to need a helluva belief system.

Here is something. KGS just got this in: the words of a woman who's an apostate (I presume from Australia) who writes some very interesting things that dovetail with Rifqa's case. That being that her father was under pressure from the Islamic community "to make things right".

"I have heard it argued by a young Muslim teenager that a hijab or a burqa denotes a female as a “girl or woman of dignity”. My gentle reply was that demeanour and deeds denote dignity, not a piece of fabric.  The Koran mentions modesty, but does not describe a burqa or a hijab.

Which brings me to another point, it is most often the strictures imposed by the fathers and husbands within the Islamic communities that lead women to take up the hijab or the burqa.  The social pressure on the males, their fear of perceptions within male circles, leads to the demand that their female relatives cloak themselves in what they perceive to be the trappings of honour to ensure, and demonstrate their trustworthiness and prove a lack of feminine sexual sophistication. In other words, the worth of a man is valued in how they control their womenfolk. Frankly, it’s a rather akin to preserving the wrappings on valuable goods before they’re purchased.

And here is an American apostate on Rifqa Bary:

Comments

[dented]

Rifqa must feel like a caged animal about to be thrown to the Lions.
Keep strong little Rifqa.

[dented]

She the goes into a fervent prayer which the soulless media will go off on, but frankly, if you are going to take on the forces of evil, the Islamic machine, the corrupt media, you are going to need a helluva belief system.

In Rifqa's case, it is the only thing she has got to cling onto in these circumstances. I am not religious, but I can understand that this is what keeps her going, and where she draws her strength from.

Me, I would have cracked up by now.

[lilredbird]

Would I be out of line in suggesting that Islamic males as a whole are in dire need of having their delusions of masculine power and supremacy crushed in the same manner as was that of the Nazis and the Empire of Japan? The way things are going there is little point in pretending that it won't come to that eventually, and as we saw at the end of WWII the only way to make "peace" with such men is to defeat and humble them to the point where they become dependent upon our mercy if they ever hope to even stand upright again.

lilredbird/rra

[Xavier]

Well after reading what Rifqa had to say I am at total loss
of words and I feel pretty much useless.

[gunjam]

What a brave, young woman. Her faith is a source of encouragement to me.

[twitter.com/satchmoshello]

We are not useless!!! That is why we are here!
We must continue to take action as Pamela has encouraged and we must continue to PRAY, PRAY, PRAY both with and for precious Rifqa!

Here is the info Pamela posted:
Contact Gov. Crist and the FL DCF for them to ask the court to keep her in Florida state custody.

Governor Charlie Crist's office: Phone: (850) 488-4441, (850) 488-7146
Fax: (850) 487-0801
Email: Charlie.Crist@MyFlorida.com

Florida Department of Children and Family:
George H. Sheldon, Secretary
1317 Winewood Blvd.
Building 1, Room 202
Tallahassee, Florida
Phone: (850) 487-1111
Fax: (850) 922-2993