"I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need? And then people tell me about pilgrimages to some dank pesthole in a jungle where they go to do homage to a crumbling temple, to a leering stone monster with a pot belly, created by some leprous savage. Is it beauty and genius they want to see? Do they seek a sense of the sublime? Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window - no, I don't feel how small I am - but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body." Ayn Rand
Another young woman tortured and murdered to add to the gruesome
gallery..... The horror of these young girls terror stricken victims,
who live in homemade concentration camps
is given the imprimatur of the West in its complicit silence - the
urbane face of bloodthirsty savagery. The West looks away and more
girls lead desperate, brutal lives. The "Feminists" look away and
pretend it is outside the realm of women's rights- leftists tools of Islamic jihad.. These useful idiots are on someone's payroll or
they fear Islam. Either way, get out of the way. Shame on all of you
for failing our women, our children, our girls, our very way of life.
How dare they throw our superior culture with both hands.
Harry
Potter star, Afshan Azad, badly beaten by her father Abdul Azad,
and his son Ashraf attempted honor killing earlier this month because
of her relationship with a Hindu man.
November 2, 'o9: Noor Almaleki is Dead Run over
by her Muslim father for being too "westernized", she lingered for days.
Police in Kingston, Ontario, charged three Montrealers, Mohammed
Shafia, his wife Tooba and their 18-year-old son Hamed with a shocking
crime. The trio are accused of mass murder, the killing of three of the
couple's teenage daughters, including their eldest child, Zainab, 19,
(above left, in a photo taken in 2007 in the United Arab Emirates with her friend Zubaida
Siddique) and Rona Amir Mohammed, a 50-year-old woman who was Shafia's
secret, first wife.
Honor killings on the rise in the West. The media gags itself and
throws women under the bus.
Sandeela
Kanwal, 25, was found dead on her bedroom floor last July. Her
father told police he strangled his daughter with a bungee
cord because she wanted a divorce.
Morsal Obeidi (stabbed to death 23 times by her
brother - for
"turning away from her family").
Hatin Surucu Germany Muslim brothers gunned her
down for adopting Western ways.
Hina Salem Italy ("Mohammed Saleem cut his
daughter’s throat because she
refused an arranged marriage and
instead wanted to integrate into
Italian society".)
Methal Dayem, a 22-year-old Cleveland State student, USA.
Zahida Peeveen at
29, before the malicious attack by her husband. At the time of the
attempted honor killing, she was six months pregnant. After attack: WARNING GRAPHIC
The
killing of Ghazala Khan in Denmark by her brother may be the only
instance where an 'honour' killing has been photographed while being
perpetrated. This picture was captured on cell phone camera and shows
the woman's brother aiming the gun at his sister, lying on the ground.
Her fiancee, also seen, was wounded, but survived. The killing was
planned by her entire family, and Pakistani taxi drivers were used as
spies to spot her and alert her family.
As a 13-year-old girl in Turkey, Rojda was raped, then
forced to marry her rapist under Islamic law. Her face was
mutilated by her "husband's" family when she refused to prostitute herself after he was imprisoned for
raping another child.
Rim Abu Ghanem 19 (Dr.
Suliman Abu Ghanem, a 33-year-old pediatrician
at
Assaf Harofeh Hospital, who along
with his three brothers decided to murder his sister for refusing an
arranged marriage) Israel
1/3 of the women murdered in Jordan are a result of
Islamic "honor" killing. And yet I could not find one picture of a
murdered girl in Jordan.
"It was a brutal scene. One
victim's head was nearly cut clean off," an official is quoted as
saying. (here)
And the thing is, this is the end - the final act, the culmination
of the subjugation, oppression, violent abuse
of women in Islam. The
terror that precedes the murder is almost unimaginable. Living in fear,
every day, living in fear of physical and mental abuse and
still, standing up and living their own lives -- only to be murdered for
it.
UPDATE:
Sabia Rani 19 UK (not only did four members of her
husband's family do nothing to help her, they
turned a blind eye as he continued the beatings and ultimately murdered
the
helpless young woman at the house they all shared).
QUEENS, NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) – A Queens,
New York man pleaded guilty to stabbing his wife to death, prosecutors said
Friday.
Mohammad Solaiman, 51, of Jamaica, Queens who worked as a bus boy at a diner,
stabbed his wife, Shahida Sultanna, 32, multiple times throughout her body,
killing her on December 22, 2007, while their daughter was asleep. An autopsy determined that the victim
had been stabbed approximately 251 times and strangled.
Solaiman began knocking on doors of several neighbors, alerting them of what
had happened which prompted them to call police. When police arrived to the apartment, Solaiman opened the door covered with blood,
standing with his four-year-old daughter and his wife’s body lying on the
bedroom floor clearly visible to police from the doorway. He was immediately
arrested.
“This brutal crime not only took the life of
a young woman it left a small child without a mother. The helpless victim
died violently. The defendant should be kept behind bars for the rest of his
life,” District Attorney Richard A. Brown
said.
Solaiman will face 15 years to life in
prison when he is sentenced in April.
Yup. That's what the Islamic honor killers do. They brutally murder, drop the
weapon, alert the neighbors or the cops to the kill, and go quietly.
Seven women were killed in the Palestinian territories because of "honor
killings” in the first month of the year 2010. These news were released by
Palestinian human rights organizations interested in women's issues, but
according to my sources, this statistic was falsified and the real number of
women who were murdered, only in the cities of Ramallah and Hebron since the
beginning of the year 2010 has exceeded 13. The sources confirm that these seven
women, who were registered in the statistics of human rights organizations as
victims of "honor killing”, were left in public streets and in fields after
being killed and (...)
The real suffering is caused by sharia law and the Islamic totalitarian
ideology.
But peroxide Phil Keating over at FOX news says honor killings are very rare
so ....never mind. Nothing to see here.
The only thing more vile, more horrific than the crime is the complicity of
the West concerning Islamic gender apartheid. The silence of the West, the
silence of the feminists and the media's corrupt silence advances Islam.
"Yet another "honor" killing...in Schweinfurt, Germany. Father stabs 15 year old daughter 68 times with a 30 centimeter
butcher knife while she slept. He first claimed he thought that the "sleeping
person" had "broken into" the house. The girl's grandmother found her dead on
the sofa. They were Turks. After his arrest the father now says
because "she didn't follow the Muslim way." He is a salesman, came to
Germany in 1991, and needed to speak via a translator. It was first published
in Welt (World) On-line. In their article they are calling it a "bloodbath."
(Blutbad) The Prosecution "believes that it was an honor killing."
"An open process provides some level of assurance that
there is no appearance that a Christian is seeking to execute a Muslim for
racial, political, religious or cultural beliefs," Little wrote, referring to
County Attorney Andrew Thomas' Christian faith.
You got that? A Muslim father runs over and kills his daughter
with his car because she wasn't Muslim, but we can't seek the death penalty "for racial, political, religious
or cultural beliefs". Got that? He can kill for his religious and political
(sharia) beliefs, but we cannot exact the just punishment for this egregious and
horrible crime.
Prosecutors said Almaleki
has admitted killing his daughter because she disgraced the family by not
following traditional Iraqi or Muslim values.
This is an outrage.
He should be executed. And we should be ashamed of this
dhimmitude. Special rights for Muslims. This is Islamic supremacism.
The Iraqi immigrant is accused of killing his daughter,
20-year-old Noor Almaleki, for being "too Westernized."
Police say he used his Jeep Cherokee to run down his daughter
and another woman in a Peoria parking lot Oct. 20. Noor later died of her
injuries.
Almaleki is charged with first-degree murder, aggravated assault
and two counts of leaving the scene of a serious accident. He has pleaded not
guilty to all charges.
The decision not to seek the death penalty comes after
Almaleki's attorney, Billy Little, a public defender, asked a judge to take
special precautions to ensure the County Attorney's Office wouldn't wrongly seek
the death penalty because Almaleki is a Muslim.
Little requested that the office make public the process it uses
to determine whether to seek capital punishment.
"An open process provides some level of assurance that
there is no appearance that a Christian is seeking to execute a Muslim for
racial, political, religious or cultural beliefs," Little wrote, referring to
County Attorney Andrew Thomas' Christian faith.
Laura Reckart, a county prosecutor, responded that
Little's concern about the "supposed bias" of the office's death-penalty-review
process was "without legitimate factual or legal basis."
She wrote that the state can seek the death penalty for
any person convicted of first-degree murder if it can prove the existence of at
least one aggravating factor, not because of religion.
However, the debate stopped there. On Tuesday, Reckart filed a
motion indicating prosecutors would not seek the death penalty.
Mike Scerbo, a spokesman for the County Attorney's Office,
declined to comment on the decision.
Prosecutors said Almaleki has admitted killing
his daughter because she disgraced the family by not following traditional Iraqi
or Muslim values.
They liken the case to honor killings that occur in the Middle
East, Africa and other parts of the world. In tribal societies where the
practice occurs, male family members feel they must kill a rebellious relative
who shames them by not adhering to traditional values.
Noor had reportedly married a man in Iraq and returned to
Arizona to live with a boyfriend and his mother in Surprise, police
said.
Where is the outrage against Islamic culture? Where is the rebuke of the
Organization of Islamic Conference and their
quisling organization, Alliance of Civilizations?
Where are the pathetic excuses who call themselves "feminists" in the West?
Why haven't they staged marches on the mall? Where is Naomi Wolf, who enjoys all
of the riches of Western civilization, while waxing poetic about the burka?
I am going to throw up.
Despite all the the scientific progress and technological and advancement,
man is as he ever was, barbaric and violent. Today, voices are only raised
against the good - the United States, Israel, Australia, Marshall islands, Honduras, ................... and Geert
Wilders.
A 16-year-old girl was buried alive by relatives in southeastern
Turkey in a gruesome honor killing carried out because she reportedly befriended
boys, the Anatolia news agency reported Thursday.
Acting on a tip, police discovered the body of the girl, identified only as
M.M., in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a 2-meter-deep hole dug
under a chicken pen outside her house in Kahta, a town in the southeastern
province of Adıyaman, the news agency reported.
The body was found in December, around 40 days after M.M. went missing. She
is being identified by her initials because she was under the age of 18. Her
father and grandfather are suspected in the murder.
A subsequent postmortem examination revealed that M.M. had a
significant amount of soil in her lungs and stomach, indicating that she was
buried alive and conscious, forensic experts told the news agency. “The autopsy
result is blood-curdling. According to our findings, the girl – who had no
bruises on her body and no sign of narcotics or poison in her blood – was alive
and fully conscious when she was buried,” one anonymous expert
said.
The girl’s father and grandfather have been formally arrested and jailed
pending trial over her killing, according to the agency. The father is reported
to have said in his testimony that the family was unhappy that M.M. had male
friends.
The girl was reported as missing and no clues about her disappearance were
found for 40 days. Her mother was arrested along with the father, Ayhan, and
grandfather, Memi, but later released. The two men were sent to prison by a
local court and did not speak in the court.
Police had found the body of the girl using an anonymous tip saying that M.M.
had been killed based on a decision by a family council and buried under the
chicken pen, daily Milliyet reported. The family has nine children, including
the girl, and was reported to have told neighbors that she was missing.
The girl had made a complaint to police about her grandfather two months
before she went missing, saying that he beat her because she talked to
boys.
Family councils consist of family
elders; honor killings are usually decided by such
groups.
Nidra Poller just translated this article for Atlas (with
no editorial comment). Nidra writes me, "Trust me, the translation is
faithful. It's hard to believe that an article can be so badly written. But
that's part of the story! It was published in Le Parisien, picked up by Le
Figaro more or less as is, and one reader commented on how badly it was written.
The story will be dropped today and we'll never hear any more about it.
Of course we can't miss the Rifqa Bary resonance. They always go for the
head. Particularly the throat and the eyes."
Indeed.
Translation by Nidra Poller Le
Parisien
Violence
She surfs on the Net, her brothers beat
her
Frédéric Naizot | 23 January 2010, 07h00
A 16 year-old girl may lose her eye as punishment for chatting on MSN. Caught
while she was on the computer one day in December, she was beaten and held
prisoner in the family apartment in the Raguenets housing project in
Saint-Gratien (Val d'Oise). The victim was punished by her two brothers had with
the approval of their strict Muslim parents. The four of them had held a family
counsel to escape from legal consequences. Yesterday, the brothers and parents
were arraigned before a magistrate in the court of Pontoise, charged with
deliberate violence, sequestration for more than seven days, and depriving the
victim of medical treatment.
The investigation was triggered when the young woman consulted an
ophthalmologist one month after the incident, when she was finally able to leave
the apartment. Suffering from injury to one eye, she was able to consult a
specialist who did not fail [sic] to note that she had been struck. She is in
danger of losing the injured eye.
Sequestered for eight days under terrible conditions
At best, according to certain information, she will be left with radically
diminished sight in that eye. Yesterday it was suggested the visual acuity would
be no more than 1/10th [= 10/20 ?]. The specialist immediately notified
authorities and the case was opened.
The court charged the Enghien police department to investigate the case. A
preliminary investigation led to the arrest on Wednesday of the victim’s parents
and her two brothers. The older brother, who is in his thirties, is suspected of
playing a major role. The family kept the teen prisoner in the apartment for
eight days under terrible conditions.
The mayor of Saint-Gratien, Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio—of [Sarkozy’s] UMP
party—said: “This cannot be tolerated in France in the 21st Century. You do not
put out the eye of a child for religious reasons. The parents have to understand
that this is a very serious act.”
The cannibals at the UN were unavailable for comment. Too busy were they
working on a resolution to kill free speech, criminalize defamation of Islam,
and annihilate the Jews.
Feminazis were insisting that Islamic misogyny empowers women. Clitorectomies
await them. Naomi Wolf first!
An innocent little girl, Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, aged only 13yrs was stoned to
death in Somalia. She pleaded for her life, a witness explained. "Don't kill
me, don't kill me," she cried, according to the man who wanted to remain
anonymous. Numerous eye-witnesses say she was forced into a hole, buried up to
her neck then pelted with stones by over than 50 men until she died in front of
1,000 jeering spectators. She had been accused of adultery in breach of Islamic
law, but sources told Amnesty International that she had in fact been raped by
three men, and had attempted to report this rape.
Aisha was killed on Monday 27 October in a stadium in the southern port of
Kismayu. None of men she accused of rape were arrested.
She was detained by militia of the Kismayo authorities, a coalition of
Al-shabab and clan militias. During this time, she was reported to be extremely
distressed, with some individuals stating she had become mentally unstable.
Initial reports said she confessed to adultery before a Sharia court. Amnesty
said it had learned she was only 13 and that her father had said she was gang
raped by three men. Yes, that was her crime, she was raped by three savage
Muslim men! When the family tried to report the rape, the girl was accused of
adultery and detained.
Fresh on the heels of the two year anniversary of the brutal islamic honor killing of Sarah and Amina Said, I went
back and reviewed Obama's website. I was shocked and appalled that Barack
Hussein Obama still had a web page paying tribute to a very influential Muslim
advocating for honor killings.
The Obama web site is
hosting a page dedicated to Mohamed Elmougy, who in front of the Dallas Morning News Editorial board, openly
supported honor killings specifically in discussion of Amina and Sarah Said.
Mohamed Elmougy, a prominent North Texas Muslim community leader and Egyptian immigrant, defended
violence, even deadly violence, against women and homosexuals.
Though the term "honor killing" did not come up in either discussion,
Mr. Elmougy explained that violence against sexual outlaws is acceptable
to defend the family and the social order.
"The way we view it, we don't look at it
as violent," he said. "We look at it as a deterrent."
Well. When you have a community acculturated to the belief that women (and
gays) who break taboos deserve to be beaten, even killed, out of some twisted
concept of the common good, you can be sure
there are innocent people enduring silent, anonymous suffering.
And here is the Obama page paying homage to the devout Elmougy:
Well, 18 months later, it is still there under the new banner of Organizing
for America. Screen shot taken 1/17/10:
Mohamed Elmougy helped me understand a little more about what had befallen
us.
I returned several times over the years to visit with the local Muslim
community leader. And this week's fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq seemed a
good time to once again glimpse the world through his eyes.
Mohamed, 49, owns the Pyramids Hotel in Allen. He's Egyptian
by birth and American by choice.
He opposed the war from the start. "You will remember that I
said getting out won't be nearly as easy as going in," he said.
I remembered, particularly since I had bought the argument
that Iraqis would welcome us.
"We were fools to think we were going to be seen as
liberators," Mohamed said. "We are seen as occupiers, and we always will
be."
Fire this maroon! The Muslim terrorist was on a terror
watch list. He had more liquid than my confiscated perfume bottles. The head of
homeland security said "the system worked". Who is she working for, al qaeda? Or
Obama? Uh, never mind.
They failed. Obama is failing, so what's the plan? Punish the American
people.
It take a serious form of delusion to draw these nonsensical conclusions.
This is what is protecting us. She cannot even bring herself to speak of the
motivation behind this wealthy, well educated son of a banjer -- Islam. She
can't even say it.
UPDATE: It gets worse. Ball bomber meet the balless administration.
(hat tip Kenny S via Politico)
Here’s the ‘wrap-your-head-in-Duct-Tape-moment’ from the lovely
and talented Janet Napolitano, the kickinest talininest homeslice securer and
Robert Gibbs, spokesmouth to the most famous Animatron ever to be
built…………………….
“We are winding down a war in Iraq that
took our eye off of the terrorists that attacked us, and have dramatically
increased our resources in Afghanistan and Pakistan where those terrorists
are.”
Bill Burton, with the president in Hawaii, recaps the Sunday shows: "Robert
Gibbs and Secretary Napolitano made clear that we are pressing ahead with
securing our nation against threats and our aggressive posture in the war with
al Qaeda. We are winding down a war in Iraq that took our eye off of the
terrorists that attacked us, and have dramatically increased our
resources in Afghanistan and Pakistan where those terrorists are. We are putting
the pressure on al Qaeda worldwide with all elements of American power, and key
al Qaeda leaders have been taken out in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
Gibbs also made clear the President refuses to play politics with these
issues. As he said in West Point, we must put aside petty politics and
recapture the unity that we had after 9/11.
That's all he does with this issue, this petty poltiician.
"Lastly, Gibbs and Secretary Napolitano announced that the president has
asked that the policies and procedures that have been in place the last
several years related to watch-listing and all information available on
the suspect be reviewed. He has also asked that the Department of Homeland
Security, specifically the Transportation Security Administration, review its
practices and capabilities as he is interested in learning how the explosive
material was brought on board the aircraft and steps that can be taken to
enhance the ability of airport screeners to detect and interdict such materials
in the future.".
We have had more Muslim plots against the United States the past 4 months
than the last four years of the Bush adminstration.
Now it appears her murderers will not come to trial until 2007.
Unmercifully murdered in 2007. Trial to being in 2011. Gender apartheid in Islam
is ignored.
Atlas readers joined me in an effort to purchase a stone for Aqsa. The cemetery worked with
me up until the murdering family put a stop to the headstone. When we attempted to
purchase a plot, any plot, near Aqsa's poor, beaten body, we were told we could
not. Everything was owned by the Islamic Society of North America.
Our struggle continued. For the full story go here.
Alleged ‘honour killing’ trial won’t start until 2011A Mississauga father and
his son charged in the 2007 alleged "honour killing" of Aqsa Parvez will stand
trial in 2011. (here)
“She was scared of her father: He was always controlling her,” said
Dominiquia Holmes-Thompson, a friend and classmate at Applewood Heights
Secondary School, where both were Grade 11 students. “She wasn’t allowed to go
out or do anything: That’s why she left.”
Because of western fear of Muslim violence, the dhimmi apologists in the
media refrain from even speaking the name of .....Islam. Asian is the euphemism
for Muslim.
This Muslim woman, something of a reformer it seems, openly discussed family
problems in the Islamic community and challenged views of women in Islam.
Nasim Jamil: May have known killer as there was no evidence
of forced entry
Police are investigating whether a murdered Asian [Muslim]
radio agony aunt could have been bludgeoned to death by a listener angered by
her on-air involvement in family feuds.
Nasim Jamil, 54, whose blood-covered body was found by her daughter at their
home, had stated on Awaz FM’s website that it was her dream to reunite
relatives.
The Asian community in Glasgow, where she lived, fear Mrs Jamil was murdered
over her role in disputes, Mohammad Sawar, a high-profile Muslim MP said
yesterday.
Mr Sawar, who represents Glasgow Central constituency, said: ‘This is only my
opinion but I think the most likely motive may be the radio show.'
It also emerged yesterday that Mrs Jamil, called 'Aunty' by listeners, may
have known her killer as there was no evidence of forced entry at her flat in
the city's West End district.
Mr Sawar added: ‘I have spoken to people in the village where Nasim’s family
come from and my own gut feeling is grievances between families she dealt with
could have led to this.
‘Problems between husband and wife can have serious implications and
I have been involved in some very intense situations involving families in the
community.
‘If there were issues between them, it could be they were the most serious
kind. There could be some ill feelings in some quarters.’
It has also emerged that a former colleague of the widowed mother of
two left the Glasgow-based radio station after receiving anonymous
threats.
The 42-year-old, who did not want to be named, left the
network, which serves the Asian [Muslim] community, in 2005 and said
he and Mrs Jamil had concerns about some of the hostile reactions of
some listeners.
He said: 'It was because I challenged
people about their views of women in Asian [Muslim] culture.
'There are some in the community who are very aggressive and threatening if
programmes do not fit their religious views.'
The agony aunt’s body was found with severe head and neck injuries in her
kitchen just before 8pm on Wednesday.
Her daughter, Nazia Jamil, 35, who lived with her mother, made a hysterical
phone call to a friend after discovering her body.
Shock: Daughter Nazia Jamil found her mother's body in their
flat's kitchen
She called for help and held her mother until medics arrived.
Miss Jamil called Javed Sattar, of Awaz FM.
He said: ‘When I got there Nazia was hysterical. She basically phoned me and
said: “Javed, my mum’s dead and I need you”.
A 20-year-old
woman divorcee accused of committing adultery in Somalia has been stoned to
death by Islamists in front of a crowd of about 200 people.
A judge working for the militant
group al-Shabab said she had had an affair with an unmarried 29-year-old man.
He said she gave birth to a
still-born baby and was found guilty of adultery. Her boyfriend was given 100
lashes.
It is thought to be the
second time a woman has been stoned to death for adultery by al-Shabab.
The group controls large swathes
of southern Somalia where they have imposed a strict interpretation of Islamic
law which has been unpopular with many Somalis.
'Lenient'
According to reports from a small
village near the town of Wajid, 250 miles (400km) north-west of the capital,
Mogadishu, the woman was taken to the public grounds where she was buried up to
her waist.
The Islamists want to impose a strict version of Sharia on
Somalia
She was then stoned to death in
front of the crowds on Tuesday afternoon.
The judge, Sheikh Ibrahim
Abdirahman, said her unmarried boyfriend was given 100 lashes at the same venue.
Under al-Shabab's interpretation
of Sharia law, anyone who has ever been married - even a divorcee - who has an
affair is liable to be found guilty of adultery, punishable by stoning to death.
An unmarried person who has sex
before marriage is liable to be given 100 lashes.
If they can't deal with our ways, then DON'T COME HERE. Why the hell did the
police chief apologize? Don't come here. We live under our just rule of law, not
sharia law. We pat down. Deal or leave.
I get patted down every third time I travel. I hate it. I get patted down
because of jihadis in our midst. I am offended by it. No one apologizes to me.
Either I get patted down or I don't travel. I can't go into a building in NYC
without being screened. If I don't like it, too bad.
That's how it is. Who the hell died and made Muslims the ruling class? No
special rights for special classes. This is an outrage.
Windsor's police chief has
made a public apology to the local Muslim community for the "embarrassment"
caused by his tactical officers when they conducted an arrest operation. But the
head of the city's police union is unrepentant.
"In my belief, this isn't a
cultural issue," said Constable Ed Parent, president of the Windsor Police
Association. "These officers had a warrant to arrest someone. They went in, and
they arrested this person."
The controversy stems from arrests
made by the Windsor police tactical team last month.
On Oct. 31, the team acted
on a request by the RCMP and FBI to arrest Windsor residents Mohammad Al-Sahli,
33, and Yassir Ali Khan, 30, in connection with a radical Islamic group based in
Detroit.
According to Patrick Ducharme, the
lawyer for the two accused, the officers "patted down" a Muslim woman --Mr.
Khan's wife -- who was not a part of the arrest warrant.
"It was never the
intention for Windsor police officers to offend or embarrass the families of our
Islamic community," wrote Police Chief Gary Smith yesterday. "The actions taken
did cause embarrassment and did offend their religious beliefs. I sincerely
apologize to the families and the Islamic community."
This coward should be fired. He is afraid of a seventh century
barbaric system of nonsense?
A review of the incident
highlighted the need for additional "cultural sensitivity
training," a news release said.
But Const. Parent said he does not
know what the officers should have done differently.
In Canada, they jail the Muslim fathers of runaways who threaten their
daughters. In Ohio, they move to return them to their fathers. Perhaps Rifqa
ought to go to ....Canada. Oh yeah, I forgot, she is under house arrest, sharia
law enforced in Ohio. (slaps head)
The city’s taxi union boss was
handed a year in jail Tuesday for what a judge deemed an “honour crime.”
Yusef Salam Al Mezel, 44, had
pleaded guilty to criminally harassing his 23-year-old daughter, Eman, over
three weeks in July 2007.
“Mr. Al Mezel has
threatened his daughter with serious violence and has caused her to fear for her
safety in the name of honour,” Judge Lynn Ratushny wrote. “He has
committed the crime of harassment against her in the name of honour.”
Al Mezel admitted to
pushing his daughter, threatening to break her legs and kill her and smashing
her computer. When she fled marriage to a Syrian man for a $9,000
dowry, he stalked her to a shelter and a friend’s home.
He sent her e-mails threatening
her uncles and cousins would go “crazy” over the family’s honour and to come
home before someone got hurt.
Police spirited the young woman —
and the family sheltering her — out of Ottawa.
There’s no evidence Al Mezel would
have killed her but his threats “invoke a seriously dangerous belief system that
can and has led to violence against women,” Ratushny wrote.
The judge noted that Al Mezel, who
came from Kuwait 20 years ago, is a community leader — a founder of his mosque,
city council candidate and representative of 1,500 taxi drivers.
But she wrote that a year is the
minimum to denounce what he’s done and deter others.
The Crown had asked for up to two
years.
Eman Al Mezel testified she’d
stained the family “sharaf” by running away and shedding the hijab and killing
her was the only way to clean it.
Just as Rifqa Bary's father warned her that he would kill her for her
apostasy: “If you have this Jesus in your heart, you’re dead to me. You’re not
my daughter . . . I will kill you.”...........In this case, "a London father of
a schoolgirl allegedly murdered for falling in love threatened to kill her the
day before she disappeared, a court heard."
Just as Mohamed Bary flew into a rage after he heard from the Noor mosque
that his daughter had converted out of Islam, "Mehmet Goren, of Woodford Green,
flew into a 'rage' after he caught 15-year-old Tulay trying to escape from the
family home, her older sister, Nuray Guler, told the Old Bailey."
The sister of an alleged honour killing victim let out a long piercing howl
of anguish at their father as she faced him across a courtroom today.
Tulay Goren, 15, went missing in 1999 after falling in love with an older man
her parents did not approve of. Her body has never been found.
Her father Mehmet Goren, 45, was the last person to see his daughter alive
and is accused of her murder.
As she gave evidence against him at the Old Bailey his eldest daughter Nuray
Guler, 28, broke off in the middle of a sentence to scream at her father in
Turkish.
-- "Mehmet Goren
threatened to kill daughter Tulay days before she disappeared" --
"The London father of a schoolgirl allegedly murdered for falling in love
threatened to kill her the day before she disappeared, a court
heard." -- "Mehmet Goren, of Woodford Green, flew into a 'rage' after
he caught 15-year-old Tulay trying to escape from the family home, her older
sister, Nuray Guler, told the Old Bailey." -- "She said later that
evening she heard Goren on the phone saying: 'Don't worry, I won't allow her to
shout.'" -- "Mrs Guler, 28, wiped tears away as she described her younger
sister as a 'child looking for happiness.'" -- "She told the
court that her father previously made her own life 'hell' and tried to kill
himself when he heard she had been holding hands with her fiance." --
"Tulay Goren, who disappeared in January 1999, is alleged to have been
the victim of an 'honour killing.'" -- "Her father Mehmet is said to
have killed her after consulting with his brothers Ali and Cuma. Tulay's body
has never been found."
Another victim of Islamic honor killing. Her Muslim father ran her over with
his car. She hung on for weeks. She succumbed, she did not submit. Respect
Islam.
Her father was apprehended in the UK. The muslim underground that serves
jihad made sure he got away like Yaser Said, father of double honorcide murder
victims Sarah and Amina Said. He is still at large, in Canada, I hear.
"A 20-year-old Peoria woman has
died of injuries sustained in what prosecutors are calling an 'honor killing.'"
-- "Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, of
Glendale, is accused of running over his daughter, Noor Almaleki, and another
woman in his Jeep Cherokee because he was infuriated with his daughter for
becoming 'too Westernized.'"
-- "Noor Almaleki died Monday of
injuries she received during the Oct. 20 attack." -- "Peoria police said charges
against Almaleki, who is in a Maricopa County jail on two counts of aggravated
assault, will be upgraded, though a spokesman wasn't sure what the exact charges
would be."
-- "Speaking before a
Maricopa County judge over the weekend, state prosecutor Stephanie Low said
Almaleki has admitted purposefully running down his daughter." -- " 'By his own
admission, this was an intentional act and the reason was that his daughter had
brought shame on him and his family,' Low said. 'This was an attempt at an honor
killing.' "
UPDATE: Dhimmi reporter at Arizona paper calls it a hit and run: Woman in Peoria hit-and-run incident dies (the
reporter Dustin Gardiner must swap spit with Michael Kruse).
It's a first. Big media is violating the big media taboo. Islaaaaaaaaaaam.
They label it "Muslim unrest" but at least it's a beginning. Did CAIR file a
lawsuit from their jail cell yet?
In what may be the first
recorded instance of a Muslim wife attempting to murder her husband for not
being pious enough, a Staten Island woman was charged this week with attempted
murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. Rabia Sarwar, a 37-year-old
Muslim, said she did it because her husband, a 41-year-old Pakistani native,
enjoyed booze and pork and wanted her to dress in revealing clothes. (She held
fabric over her face and threw a shawl over her head before leaving court on
Thursday.)
While the Sarwar case is
sensational by dint of the role-reversal and the method of attempted murder
(throat-slitting), it’s also pedestrian: Over the past two years, there have
been about a dozen attempted or successful honor killings committed in the
US.
Rabia Sarwar allegedly stabbed her husband because he made
her break Muslim laws.
Last week in Arizona, an
Iraqi-born man tried to kill his 20-year-old daughter because she wanted out of
her arranged marriage; he escaped.
In July, a 17-year-old named Rifqa
Bary ran away from home because, she said, her Muslim family would literally
kill her for converting to Christianity. (She has been ordered by a Florida
court to return to her home state of Ohio, where she will appear before another
judge.)
So: Why is there such a recent
spate of honor killings in America? What does it mean when a woman tries to
exact the same vengeance that’s been wreaked upon her gender by men for
centuries?
“This is not a reverse
honor-killing — it’s martyrdom,” says Islamic apostate and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, herself the target of death threats. “It’s a
ticket for heaven for her, to clear her books. The only exception that’s made
for a wife or daughter to disobey her husband or father is if he forces her to
do something that’s un-Islamic. This is a message to other Muslims: ‘This man is
defying God. What am I supposed to do?’”
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A
37-year-old wife from New Brighton tried to slit her husband’s throat as he
slept because he was not the devout Muslim she believed she married, and
pressured her to eat pork and drink alcohol, authorities
allege.
In a rambling, four-page handwritten confession, Rabia
Sarwar laid out the “mental and emotional cruelty” that led to her trying to
kill her husband, Susan Wagner High School teacher Sheikh Naseem, early
yesterday morning, a law enforcement source said. “I tried my
best to cut his throat,” Ms. Sarwar admitted, according to court papers. Except
Naseem woke up during the attempt, and took the knife from her, authorities
said.
According to Ms. Sarwar’s attorney, Joseph Licitra,
Naseem “was a cruel person, he preyed on her.”
The day before the
incident, “he literally threatened to have her parents
mutilated,” Licitra said.
The way the law enforcement source
describes it, Ms. Sarwar, who is Pakistani, told investigators that Naseem, who
is half-Pakistani, had presented himself as a devout Muslim before the
two had wed five months ago.
But after the marriage, she
discovered more about him, she told investigators — before meeting her, he had
only dated non-Muslims, and he considered Salman Rushdie to be one of his
favorite authors.
Rushdie’s book, “The Satanic Verses,” was
reviled by hard-line Muslims for what they considered an unflattering portrayal
of the prophet Mohammed, and in 1989, Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued
a fatwa against Rushdie calling for Muslims worldwide to kill him.
Ms. Sarwar also told investigators that Naseem pressured her
into doing things that were against her religious beliefs.
“He
made her do stuff that she didn’t like to do — eating pork, drinking alcohol,
wearing short clothes. She did all of that to make him happy,” the
source said.
At about 3 a.m. yesterday, inside the couple’s 80 St.
Mark’s Place apartment, Ms. Sarwar “snapped,” the source said, cutting
his neck, right cheek and right hand.
PEORIA, Ariz. — Police in a
Phoenix suburb say they have arrested a father suspected of hitting his daughter
with his car because she was becoming "too Westernized" and was not living
according to their traditional Iraqi values.
Police in Peoria are releasing few
details, but say 48-year-old Faleh Almaleki is in custody. Police aren't saying
where Almaleki was arrested or where he's being held.
Almaleki's daughter, 20-year-old
Noor Faleh Almaleki, is hospitalized in serious condition. According to police,
the Almaleki's moved to the suburb of Glendale from Iraq during the mid 90's. (Fox
news)
UPDATE: Like Yaser Said (father of the two Muslim girls
murdered in Texas), Faleh Hassan Almaleki is still at large. Arizona License
Plate ADS-9192. Call Silent Witness or the Peoria Police Tip Line at
623-773-7045.
It will get worse and worse as the oppression and suppression of women in
Islamic societies seeps into our culture, unchecked and sanctioned by media,
leftists, women's organizations and other head-in-the-sand cultists.
PEORIA, Ariz. — Police in a Phoenix suburb are looking for a father
suspected of running down his daughter because she was becoming too
"Westernized" and was not living according to their traditional Iraqi values.
Police say 48-year-old Faleh Hassan Almaleki of Glendale
allegedly ran his daughter down Tuesday at an Arizona Department of Economic
Security parking lot in Peoria.
The victim, 20-year-old Noor Faleh Almaleki of Surprise, remains
hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
A second woman, 43-year-old Amal Edan Khalaf, also of Surprise,
suffered non-life threatening injuries. Police say the women are
roommates.
The media always show the killers and jihadists. If anyone gets a picture of
the victim, Noor Faleh Almaleki,
please send.
As Islam encroaches ..............it is the women who feel the effects. You
can judge the health, morality, ethics and enlightenment of any society, any
nation, by how they treat their women (and children).
Immigrant women in Finland are increasingly the
victims of violence perpetrated in the name of family honour. In Helsinki, twice
as many immigrant women have sought protection this year from violence than in
previous years.
Nasima Razmyar,
who herself came to Finland as a refugee from Afghanistan, has been taking in
growing numbers of immigrant women and girls at the Monika House shelter in
Helsinki's Sörnäinen district. Some of these women have been forced into
marriages, some beaten for disobedience or even threatened with
death.
This year, within just six
months more than 30 women have sought refuge from honour violence at the
facility. That is as many as during the whole of last year. As the coordinator
at Monika House, Nasima Razmyar has the impression that the rise can be
explained by growing numbers of women of marriageable age.
"Second generation immigrants are at just the age,
around twenty and marriageable, when the situation starts being strongly seen,"
says Razmyar.
(..) However, police believe that only a small
fraction, probably less that 5% of all honour violence incidents come to light.
The seriousness of the phenomenon is not understood, even by the officials
dealing with it. "More
familiarity by officials with other cultures is needed. Women and family members
from certain cultures come to tell of these problems, of the violence or that
they are being frightened and threatened. They should be met by with a different
attitude," says Chief Inspector Veli Hukkanen.
And everyone will pretend that this has nothing to do with Islam. And the
girls will keep dying, and women will be further degraded in Western societies.
It is an abomination, the murders and the complicity of Western media,
politicians, activists and academic asshats.
A Jordanian man was charged on
Sunday with premeditated murder after allegedly stabbing to death his
22-year-old daughter because she became pregnant outside wedlock, police said.
"The father and his
brother took the girl on Saturday to a doctor because she suffered stomach
pains, and everybody was surprised to learn that she was six months pregnant," a
police spokesman said.
"On their way home, the
father stabbed the girl with a sword 25 times in her stomach, killing her
immediately as well as her unborn baby boy."
The source said the suspect has
confessed to the crime following the murder, which took place in the Jordan
Valley.
"His brother was also charged with
premeditated murder, while the victim's boyfriend is being held in custody for
his own protection," he added.
Murder is punishable by the death
penalty in Jordan but in such cases of the so-called "honour killings" a court
usually commutes or reduces sentences, particularly if the victim's family urges
leniency.
In the past, parliament has
refused to institute harsher penalties.
Around 15-20 women are murdered each year in Jordan in the name of honour,
despite government efforts to fight such crimes. So far this year, 17 cases have
been reported.
Perhaps someone could start sending these honor killing stories over to Phil Keating at FOX news.
Send them to him daily, as he insists in his conversations with me that
these murders are so "rare".
Rajneesh was a small trader
from Jammu often going on business trips to Srinagar. He fell in love with a
girl and married her.
He wanted to be faithful to his beloved from
Srinagar, who was beautiful and had unflinching trust in her life partner. It’s
difficult, if not impossible, to have love bloom between Jammu and Srinagar. But
it was more than that. The boy from Jammu was a Hindu and the girl from
Srinagar, a Muslim. Ameena was her name and she changed her name to Anchal
Sharma after marriage.
A month after the marriage the boy was picked up
from his Jammu house by the Kashmir police and taken to Srinagar for
"investigation". The police never registered his name, Rajneesh Sharma, as the
accused who is being taken to Srinagar, but instead named his brother Pawan
Sharma in police records, to confuse and hide the real identity.
The
smell of a plot was there the moment they took the boy hustled in a jeep and
covered with a blanket.
The boy never returned home to celebrate his
first Diwali with Anchal nee Ameena.
He was found dead hanging
with an iron grill in his Srinagar cell. Police said he committed "suicide". An
inconsolable Anchal alleged that her parents bribed police to murder her beloved
because he dared to marry a Muslim girl from the valley. Anchal’s father works
in Srinagar’s police department, hence the influence was
obvious.
This week Anchal would have been celebrating Diwali
with her husband Rajneesh but for if this ultimate Taliban act. Surprisingly the
incident, so brutal and tragic hasn’t found an echo in the elite human-rightist
circles of Delhi and the self-righteous media which had taken up the Rizwan case
of Kolkata at a greater war footing than it has shown regarding Chinese
incursions.
Sweden had a lot of honour
killings. During 2007 I think it was 7-8 girls that "fell" out from balconies.
Several of them died. One or two is now in wheelchair. Not a single person was
sentenced for the killings/crimes. A few year ago on guy died of stabbing
and because they poured boiling oil in his throat.
The killer family
did get away. Blaming each other and a brother that fled to another country.
Then we have the most known girls. Pela and Fadime. Also killed by members of
their family. /FS
A 15-year-old schoolgirl
allegedly murdered for falling in love told her boyfriend that she had been
'tortured' by her father, a court heard today.
She is alleged to have been killed
by her father Mehmet Goren, after he consulted with his brothers, over her
relationship with Halil Unal.
A week later Goren, 49,
plunged an axe into Mr Unal's neck in a desperate bid to restore his
family's honour, the court heard.
Mr Unal, speaking from behind a
screen, told the Old Bailey about a time when they met up at Stratford bus
station in east London.
He said: 'When I saw Tulay there I
looked at her face and I saw that she had bruising to her eye.
'She told me that her father
tortured her and beat her and that her uncle Cuma was pressuring her.
'I said 'all this will pass, don't
worry'. She said to me, "really, genuinely, I hate these people, I hate the
house".
'In fact she said she didn't have
much time, she said she had to go. She said "because my father follows me all
the time".'
Mehmet Goren, 49, of Navestock
Crescent, Woodford Green, and his brothers, Cuma Goren, 42, of Evesham Avenue,
Walthamstow, and Ali Goren, 55, of Brettenham Road, Walthamstow, deny murdering
Tulay on January 7 1999.
They also deny conspiracy to
murder Mr Unal, between May 1998 and February 1999.
Mr Unal, who came to Britain from
Turkey in 1992, told the court how he first met Tulay when she worked at a
clothes factory in Hackney, east London, during her summer holidays in 1998.
Her mother also worked at the
factory, where Mr Unal was a supervisor, the court was told.
Mr Unal, now 41, said Tulay told
him that she was 17 and he said he was 29.
'Tulay said "age isn't important,
what is important is mutual love",' said Mr Unal, speaking through a Turkish
interpreter. 'She was unhappy, she wanted to have someone that she could embrace
as a husband.'
The court heard that she told him:
'Halil, I like you a lot, I hate
my family and I want to run away from that house. I am looking for a man who
will love me and marry me.'
Hundreds of attacks are to
be treated as 'honour' crimes in a new drive by police to prosecute more
offenders.
[....]
The horrific consequences of
honour violence were highlighted by an attack in Leytonstone in July in which a
24-year-old Danish man of Asian origin had acid poured down his throat and was
repeatedly stabbed because of his relationship with a Muslim woman.
In January 2006 Banaz Mahmod was
killed after falling in love with a man her family did not want her to marry.
The 20-year-old, who had left an
arranged marriage and started a relationship with Rhamat Sulemani, 29, was
strangled with a bootlace at her home in Surrey in January 2006.
Her father Mahmod Mahmod, 52, and
uncle Ari Mahmod, 50, of Mitcham, were convicted of the killing.
The pair decided she must pay "the
ultimate price" for bringing shame on them.
Ms Mahmod had made a series of
complaints to police and agreed to press charges a day before she was killed.
The Independent Police Complaints
Commission investigated how police dealt with her.
[...]
The new approach will be unveiled
tomorrow at a London conference organised by the Association of Chief Police
Officers and the Crown Prosecution Service.
There will also be a new attempt
to persuade victims of female genital mutilation to come forward following the
failure of legislation passed six years ago to outlaw the practice to result in
a single conviction.
Under the new approach, which
mimics the detection techniques used to tackle race-hate crime following the
Stephen Lawrence murder, reports from friends or relatives about possible honour
violence will be taken seriously, even if the victim has failed to raise the
alarm.
Other indications such as a girl's
sudden disappearance from school will also be seen as significant.
Announcing the new measures, Nazir
Afzal, the Crown Prosecution Service's legal director, said: 'It will be about
making sure we look for the signs so that we don't miss cases.'
On the issue of male victims, Mr
Afzal said one vulnerable group were gay men, who were sometimes forced into
marriage because of a desire from their families to hide their sexuality, while
other cases arose when relatives wanted to divert a male family member away from
criminal associates.
The number of specialist
prosecutors tackling the problem will also be increased with the number employed
in London, which currently has 10, scheduled to double over the coming month
Tuesday is D-day for Rifqa. Contribute to her legal fund here. And make the
calls!
Free people, please keep the heat on. This is America, fight for Rifqa, fight
shariah law.
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
In Europe, they protect Muslim girls who fear 'family prestige' killing
(shariah killing) and killing because they are apostates. Here in America,
teenage apostate Rifqa Bary's life hangs in the balance, and it looks like they
will be sending her back to the devout Muslim family at the next hearing on
Tuesday, the 13th. It appears that authorities will be sending her back to the
father who threatened to kill her if she "had this Jesus in her heart", the
father who gave her private diaries and letters to un-indicted co-conpsirators
CAIR and major newspaper outlets; back to the brother who took out her eye, who
leaked information about her whereabouts to a muslim stalker-blogger; and back
to the radical Noor mosque that spied on her and told her family that she was a
convert and to "straighten her out or else"............. that is what
America is doing.
Obama wants to make sure to make it safe for girls who want to wear the
burka. What about girls who don't want to wear it, you numskull?
This from Italy: The video below (from an online Italian newspaper) is in
Italian. The 15-year-old girl fled home claiming that her Muslim father was
going to kill her because she was in love with a non-Muslim. She is now
in a secret location, care of the Italian social service.
The segment is very short, but
here is what it says in essence. Nothing of any significance has been left out.
“He wants to kill me.”
That is what a 15-year-old Moroccan girl says about her father, who frequently
beat her, so she left home.
Her father is a Moroccan worker
who has lived in Italy for 25 years. He beats her up because she has an Italian
boyfriend, and he keeps reminding her that she is Muslim – “Tu sei musulmana” –
and she should not have an Italian boyfriend. His beatings, and his attitude,
became so worrisome that she fled from the house and is now staying in a
“comunita” (a kind of group-home that serves as a refuge for those who flee
their family situation).
At the end of the very
short item, there is a brief interview by phone with a politician who discusses
how how one political party, the Northern League or Lega, wants to have a
national law passed that will ban the niqab, for at present the situation
depends on the local officials, the mayor, of reach town, to decide for himself
how to deal with the niqab problem as he sees fit.
UPDATE: QK has more, and translated this: “Il Giornale”
Amo un italiano, papà mi uccide"
Marocchina di 15 anni sotto scorta “
I love an Italian, daddy wants to
kill me” Moroccan 15-years-old under protection
(in Italian)
«Her request for help is
heartbreaking: «Help me, I do not want to end up like Hina and Sanaa». She said
in tears to the Carabinieri of Pavia, just a few hours ago, a Moroccan
fifteen-years-old escaped from his home in Voghera. And the soldiers have moved
immediately: "Now the student is in a protected location in Lombardy, away from
the parents herself accused of having threatened to give her the same end of
Sanaa. Besides, its history, for some months now, is similar to that of two
girls, had their lives took for the only "guilty" of loving an Italian, and not
a Muslim, man. A script already seen.
The young girl knows an Italian,
they liked one another, they start to go out together. He has the same age: a
clean story. Yet parents do not go at all well. The father, as soon as he
discovers it, screams her again, and again, that she must break off this story.
Finally, a bit for filial obedience, much more for fear the teenager obeyed. But
only briefly. Finally she cannot bear it no more. She takes up to frequent the
Italian kid. And unfortunately she is eventually discovered. The mother in fact
found a note in his pants, thrown in the basket of dirty laundry for the washing
machine. It says: "I cannot forget the past with you." From there, the hell with
the family.
The harassment starts. Her father
beat her repeatedly and threaten her of death: "I'll give you the same end of
the others ..." alluding to the most horrific cases of poor Muslim girls
massacred because they were trying to break free from a fundamentalist and dull
world. Beatings and threats that the mother have witnessed as well, without
blinking, but rather sharing this "method of education”. The girl tries to cling
to whatever is around her, had her friends contact the Social Services, as she
will explain later to the police too. But everything remains as is. Nobody took
her away from that family that now beats and insulted her almost every day. The
angry phrase she hear is always the same: «Raki daimen Muslima u-maghribiyya
(you are still/forever Muslim and Moroccan). These are your roots, you must not
forget, and that is why you cannot attend Italian boys who are not Muslims. Your
father feels dishonoured». Then the blows.
The emphasis that the media have
given to cases of Hina and Sanaa moves her react. Thanks to what she saw she is
conscious of what can be the end. She rebels and saves herself. And the parents
lose a daughter. When she decides to run away from home is disoriented, does not
know what to do or where to go. But she proved stronger than she has ever
suspected. Thinks of one Italian friend of her. Contacts her and goes to her
place. She stayed there a night. The next day she took the train with her,
destination Pavia. Once they arrived in the [provincial] capital the decision
triggers: to get help from whom, certainly will not underestimate their cry of
despair.
So she enter the barracks of San
Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, and tells all. She knows that to rebel could win her a
life without regrets, where she can freely decide her own fate. And at
the sentinel that stops her at the entrance she says, without hesitation: «I
want to make a complaint." Allegation that begins with tears, but ends with a
half smile. Because at once she is told that she will not return in that house.
Finally her terror is listened. Now, of this case, will take care the Juvenile
Court».
blasphemy against Islam, that is. As the German
press is reporting:
Dusseldorf – A German publisher has cancelled plans to publish a mass-market
novel out of fears that it might face violent protests due to a rude reference
to the Koran, Der Spiegel magazine reported Saturday. The crime novel – about
the “honour killing” of a Muslim woman – had been scheduled for September
publication, but the Droste publishing company of Dusseldorf decided not to
print it after all, the magazine said in a story to appear in its Monday
issue.
It said the publisher had first asked the author, Gabriele Brinkmann, writing
under the pen name WW Domsky, to tone down dialogue in “To Those Worthy of
Honour” which might be construed as offensive, but she had refused.
Spiegel reported that the offensive phrase in question was a character
saying: “You can shove your Koran up …”
Publisher Felix Droste had asked an expert on Islamic society to study
whether the crime story’s text could compromise the safety of his firm or his
family, and the expert suggested the phrase be modified.
But the author refused to alter it to “You can shove your honour up …”
Droste wrote back that riots over Danish cartoons that poked fun at the
Prophet Mohammed in 2005 showed that anyone publishing insults to Islam was
putting their safety at risk, Spiegel said.
Over the weekend I heard Mark Steel on the wireless mocking the idea that
there was an “Islamisation” of Europe, doing an impression of a call to prayer
on Radio Surrey. Funny as always, but wrong – Islamisation does not mean waking
up one day to find the newsreaders sporting a massive beard and a hook on his
hand, or the local hoodie having his hand cut off in public, any more than
climate change means immediate and dramatic Hollywood-style disasters.
Islamisation refers to small but significant erosions of our freedom, bit by
bit, demand by demand, concession by concession. The initial victims are Muslims
themselves: for many Muslim women and girls living in Britain, especially those
20,000 said to be at risk from genital mutilation or the smaller number
threatened with honour killings or with being murdered for apostasy,
Islamisation is already a reality.
For the rest of us it is less immediate and less noticeable, but a little bit
of our freedom dies every time someone is cowed into silence.
A RALLY FOR RIFQA'S CIVIL RIGHTS ON THE DAY OF HER NEXT HEARING NOVEMBER 16TH FRANKLIN COUNTY JUVENILE COURT Franklin County courthouse Franklin County juvenile court 4th
floor 373 S. High street Columbus, Ohio 43215 Time to be determined
Phone:
614.462.4411, Franklin County Juvenile Court clerk
THERE WILL BE SPEAKERS, FELLOW APOSTATES FROM ISLAM, INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS FIGHTING BLASPHEMY LAWS AND DEFENDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE AGE OF JIHAD. I IMPLORE YOU TO STAND WITH THIS GIRL. SHE REPRESENTS AMERICA IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ENCROACHING SHARIA LAW.
Directions to the Franklin County Courthouse & Rally:
Franklin County Juvenile Court, 373 South High Street, Columbus
(Ohio).
Rally Site. The Rally will be held at the
Dorrian Commons Park, lying East and immediately adjacent to the Franklin County
Courthouse, where Rifaq Bary’s Juvenile Court Hearings will be held later in the
day. For those wishing to attend that public hearing, assuming room in the
Courtroom, hearings are scheduled to begin at __.__ _.m.
Courthouse
Address. The Franklin County Courthouse is located at 373 South High
Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215.
By Automobile. The Franklin County
Courthouse lies just East of the intersection of Interstate highways I-70 and
I-71, off of exit 100A on I-70 (near the confluence of the Scioto
and Olentangy Rivers). Exit the freeway North, just a block until W. Mound
Street, and turn East, to your right onto W. Mound. Drive East on W. Mound for
just 4 blocks until you reach South High Street. Turn South, to your right, and
you will see the Courthouse and rally site.
High Street, by the way, is
the dividing line between E. & W. Columbus, so don’t be alarmed if you see
streets with E. & W. designations: things are literally just “across the
street” from each other, in relation to all of the events described
herein.
Event Parking. The Courthouse is served by several large
parking lots immediately to the North across W. Mound Street. The parking lot is
bound on the West by S. Front Street, to the North by Main Street (which appears
to be Ohio Highway 62), and to the East by S. High Street, upon which the
Franklin County Courthouse fronts.
Another major parking lot lies to the
North of the event, north and south between E. Main Street and E. Rich Street,
and east and west on South High and South 3rd.
Hotel
Accomodations. A link has been provided below to help you look for travel
accommodations. Less than a block North of the Courthouse, and immediately to
the South of the large parking lot described above, there is the Westin Columbus
Hotel on the Southeast corner of the intersection of South High and East
Main.
By Air. Port Columbus International Airport (CMH) is just 6
or 7 miles Northeast of downtown. At the link below, the map also has off to the
left margin an interactive service for securing flights in and out of Port
Columbus.
After she lost her virginity she was viewed as a "valueless
commodity." I have many times spoken about how Islam relegates women to
the status of commodities, and here is proof. And of course the usual
chorus of Islamic apologists will appear to assure us that honor
killing has nothing to do with Islam and is a cultural practice
followed by a wide variety of peoples -- and yet Muslim girls keep
getting killed in disproportionate numbers. No one, of course, dares to
confront the root of the problem by pointing out such inconvenient
truths as the fact that a manual of Islamic law certified by Al-Azhar
as a reliable guide to
Sunni orthodoxy says that "retaliation is obligatory against anyone who
kills a human being purely intentionally and without right." However,
"not subject to retaliation" is "a father or mother (or their fathers
or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring." ('Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2).
In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty
under Islamic law. In accord with this, in 2003 the Jordanian
Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to
stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that "Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values."
"Missing girl was victim of honour killing, claims mother," by Lucy Ballinger for the Daily Mail, October 8 (thanks to all who sent this in):
A mother broke a ten-year silence to claim her teenage daughter was murdered in an 'honour killing', a court heard yesterday.
Tulay
Goren, 15, was allegedly killed by her father and buried in his garden
after he learnt she was in a sexual relationship with a man twice her
age.
Mehmet Goren, 49, with the help of at least one of his
brothers, then allegedly dug up her remains in Woodford Green, East
London, and disposed of them a week later. Her body has never been
found.
Tulay's mother Hanim lived with the dark family secret and
at first misled police because she was scared for her safety, said
Jonathan Laidlaw, QC, prosecuting.
Tulay's
father and his brothers Ali, 55, and Cuma Goren, 42, both of
Walthamstow, East London, yesterday appeared at the Old Bailey accused
of the schoolgirl's murder on January 7, 1999, and the attempted murder
of her boyfriend Halil Unal, now 41. All three deny both charges.
Tulay was living with Mr Unal and had even tried to marry him, but was too young.
But after losing her virginity Tulay was seen as a 'valueless commodity', the court heard....
The Islamic machine is in full swing. Their priority is to separate Rifqa
from her supporters, her friends, her fortress against the jihad against her.
The belligerent, hostile new Islamist lawyer for Mohamed Bary has tried
vigorously to get John Stemberger (Rifqa's lawyer) removed. He shrieked in the
court room that Rifqa's guardian ad litem was in cahoots with Rifqa's legal
counsel (and what is their evil agenda? Rifqa's well being?). The Muslim offense
is to restrict Rifqa's visitation with her close friends and Shayan Elahi (the
Islamic lawyer) recommended to the judge that "medication" be administered to
Rifqa. Do you see where this is going?
But they can't attack that dear little girl every day, can they? No. So they
switch off between Rifqa, "the right wing" extremists protecting and defending
her (myself, Robert Spencer et al), Rifqa's lawyer (a Christian conservative
activist!), Christianity itself and the good Pastor who took her in.
The corrupt and utterly debased media is only too happy to do the dirty work
for jihad. Check out this disgusting editorial written by a Muslim accusing the
church of "getting rich off Rifqa". First off, the Rifqa Bary Trust was only just established a couple of days
ago. And Rifqa will be receiving all proceeds. This is an attempt to smear
the church and keep money out of Rifqa's hands much needed for defense. She
needs to hire various professionals for her defense. The lawyer that set up the
trust did it pro bono. Believe me, there is no money cache.
Where are the Muslims defending Rifqa? Where are Muslim feminists (oxymoron?)
coming to the defense of Rifqa. Every apostate has spoken fiercely in Rifqa's
defense. How come we don't see those faces on television?
This case is about apostasy. Period. All this confetti is a
trick to take the focus off the brutal punishment for apostates.
To keep Fathima Rifqa
Bary in Florida, the argument is being made in court that not only is her family
a danger to her, and not only is the entire Muslim community in Columbus a
danger to her life, but that the state of Ohio is incapable of protecting her
("Christian activists rally behind runaway teen," Dispatch
article, Friday). As crazy as this position sounds, the group that is trying to
keep her there has gotten a lot of political support in Florida, including from
the governor.
Not a single politician stood up for truth and justice in this case until
Wednesday, when Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien issued a
statement that, in 31 years, he has not heard of a single case of "honor
killing" in the area. So the claim that the Muslim community of central Ohio,
which numbers more than 60,000 people, is dangerous to people who leave the
religion is nothing but hate propaganda.
Ron O'Brien ought to look beyond his lakeview townhouse where
there are large concentrations of Muslims.As far back
as 2004,UK police were re-examining more than
100 murders in England and Wales they suspect could be so-called honour
killings. It has gotten so bad in the UK that the Parliament has taken it up as a critical issue. Last month
a man, his wife, and son are accused of killing four young women, including the man's three daughters
in what Canada police are describing as a savage honor killing disguised as a
car accident.
O'Brien is an ignoramus. Do your homework before you sentence a
girl to death.
Ohio child-welfare officials also issued a report stating that it is
safe for Rifqa to return to Ohio. Rifqa Bary's family already has
agreed to let her come back here and immediately be put under the protection of
Franklin County Children Services.
I have spoken to a number of folks on Ohio and this girl has been
living in fear for years. Terrified. As one of her best friends described her
secret conversion, "It's an Ann Frank Story".
In response, the Florida court sealed the findings of its own law-enforcement
investigation into the alleged "Ohio threat," because obviously there isn't one,
and so far has refused to let her come back to Ohio.
Why not let her come here? Because Global Revolution Church, the fanatical
group that targeted this minor on the Internet and put her up in the home of a
male "pastor" in Florida without alerting the authorities for two weeks, is out
to make money off this story.
I have met them, talked to them. They are lovely, G-d fearing
Christians. The salt of the earth.
The church has succeeded in injecting bigotry and ignorance into the halls of
justice in Florida. But I believe the hate that has infected Florida politics, a
cancer that Americans soundly rejected in the last election, ultimately will be
defeated in this case.
It is about time for Gov. Ted Strickland to do the right thing and take a
stand in defense of our state and in the defense of justice and the rule of
law.
OMAR TARAZI
It's disgusting how the smearing of the church is almost sport. But speak the
truth about the extremism mosque, the Islamic terrorist that preach and plan,
the vile sermons and teaching and you are committing .....blaspheme. And the
lapdog media laps it up like the good dogs that they are.
These are the victims of Western apathy and silence, and it's only
getting worse:
What follows are recent victims of honor killings in the West..... someone
ought to email this to the maroon O'Brien as he throws Muslim girls and their
right to love under the bus as he serves his Islamic masters.
Sabrina Larbi-Cherif, performing "It's only life". She wrote: this is my
first video here and its one of my favorite songs of kate voegele so i hope i
didn't do too bad.
Feroz Mangal and Khatera Sadiqi were shot by Khatera's brother as they sat
in a parked car at the Elmvale Acres shopping plaza .
Sandeela Kanwal, 25, was found dead on her bedroom floor last
July. Her father told police he strangled his daughter with a bungee cord
because she wanted a divorce.
Morsal
Obeidi (stabbed to death 23 times by her brother - for "turning away from her
family").
Hatin Surucu Germany Muslim brothers gunned her down for
adopting Western ways.
Hina Salem Italy ("Mohammed Saleem cut his daughter’s throat
because she refused an arranged marriage and instead wanted to integrate into
Italian society".)
Methal Dayem, a 22-year-old Cleveland State student, USA.
Zahida Peeveen at 29, before the malicious attack by her
husband. At the time of the attempted honor killing, she was six months
pregnant. After attack: WARNING GRAPHIC
The killing of Ghazala Khan in Denmark by her brother may be the only
instance where an 'honour' killing has been photographed while being
perpetrated. This picture was captured on cell phone camera and shows the
woman's brother aiming the gun at his sister, lying on the ground. Her fiancee,
also seen, was wounded, but survived. The killing was planned by her entire
family, and Pakistani taxi drivers were used as spies to spot her and alert her
family.
As a 13-year-old girl in Turkey, Rojda was raped, then forced to
marry her rapist under Islamic law. Her face was mutilated by her
"husband's" family when she refused to prostitute herself after he
was imprisoned for raping another child.
Rim Abu Ghanem 19 (Dr. Suliman Abu
Ghanem, a 33-year-old pediatrician at Assaf Harofeh Hospital, who along with his
three brothers decided to murder his sister for refusing an arranged marriage)
Israel
1/3 of the women murdered in Jordan are a result of Islamic
"honor" killing. And yet I could not find one picture of a murdered girl in
Jordan.
"It was a brutal scene. One victim's head was nearly cut clean off," an
official is quoted as saying. (here)
And the thing is, this is the end - the final act, the culmination of the
subjugation, oppression, violent abuse of women in Islam. The terror that
precedes the murder is almost unimaginable. Living in fear, every day,
living in fear of physical and mental abuse and still, standing up and living
their own lives -- only to be murdered for it.
UPDATE:
Sabia Rani 19 UK (not only did four members of her husband's
family do nothing to help her, they turned a blind eye as he continued the
beatings and ultimately murdered the helpless young woman at the house they all
shared).
I have said from the very first that Rifqa Bary is the highest value target
in America. Apostasy is the most egregious crime against Islam. Her
crime is not just against the family. it is against Islam.
I know Ohio law
enforcement and Florida law enforcement found no threat to Rifqa
but perhaps they can put down the kool aid for five minutes and do their job.
There is a pro-Islamic site on Facebook that threatens Rifqa Bary with
death. Will everyone stop the PC, religion of peace nonsense, pull ther heads
out of ther asses and get serious. Is law enforcement going to stop playing
games and protect this young girl or what? Salman Rushdie did far less.
A US judge, Friday,
ordered that Sri Lankan born Rifqa Bary (17), who fled to Florida from Ohio on a
bus last month because she believes her parents will kill her for converting to
Christianity, gets to stay in Florida as courts settle who gets custody of her.
He also ordered mediation to start after the next hearing.
What I don't understand is
that Facebook disabled my account
for two weeks at least as I spoke the truth about Islam as far as our Saviour
Jesus is concerned.
Surely these people should be
arrested?
Rifqa needs asylum by the US
authorities NOW!!
UPDATE: They pulled the site as soon as I posted ........
Violated yet again - first by her uncle, her mother's silence on the sexual
abuse, her father's death threats, her community, the system, and now those
that are supposed to protect her. Much thanks to reader David. I strongly urge
all readers to express their outrage.
6 Sep '09
Dear Gov Crist
This is my third letter to you
in the matter of Rifqa Bary.
My previous two letters
were written to appeal to you as a man of conscience to allow Rifqa Bary to
remain in the State
of Florida, safe from the dangers she fears, and in all events to allow
her to stay there until she reaches the age of 18.
Now, I am
appalled to learn that this fine young woman was
subjected, seemingly against her will and better instincts, to three and a half
hours of interrogation by your department (FDLE) without the presence of her own
lawyer, and that FDLE even refused her permission to have her lawyer present
despite (a) her having requested so herself a short while into the interview,
and (b) her guardian
ad litem having specifically asked DCF and/or FDLE that both she and
Rifqa's attorney be given advance notice of any such interview, which they were
not -- which surely is a violation of Rifqa's rights.
Evidently, DCF was partner to
these decisions and, as the agency responsible for protecting Rifqa;'s welfare,
is even more at fault than FDLE.
This is an extremely disturbing
development. Ms Bary was quite obviously subjected to intimidation and abuse by
FDLE (and DCF) by being denied her rights and by being subjected to FDLE's
harassment and intimidation, and was not given the protection DCF sbould have
ensured. In fact, she was accorded not even the basic rights to which a
criminal is entitled! All this, in AMERICA? For shame!
Gov Crist, the buck stops with
you!
I urge you to make sure
that Ms Bary is given every protection under the Constitution, that you
personally apologise to her for this poor treatment, and that she be fully
compensated by the State
of Florida for any and all deprivations and mistreatment at the hands of
those on your watch.
We the public at large are
watching this case very closely and intend to make sure Rifqa Bary remains
safe.
Will they depose the uncle who allegedly sexually abused her? Her mother
knew about it and did nothing. I am sure the father didn't know, as Rifqa would
have been punished unmercifully. The female victim is always at fault. How many
lashes do rape victims get in Islamic countries? 99.
Add this to all the many stories I broke in the Rifqa Bary case on the
physical abuse of Rifqa and the parents' financial situation. No media picked
them up. The media only ran the CAIR narrative (they are working with the family
according to anti-Rifqa, pro Islam websites).
Not only is the media criminally negligent in not telling Rifqa's story, but
they use this terrible case to seize the opportunity to smear and rank on
Christianity. Christianity is the evil in all this, according to the media. The
vilification of the good Christian folks who took this girl in turns my stomach.
It is evil.
On several occasions friends of Rifqa would bring her down to the school
counselor because of bruises on her legs and her arms, beatings suffered at the
hands of her father and brother (sounds like Islam Said). The middle school, in a serious dereliction of
duty, did not report these beatings to child welfare services. Beatings were
random, violent, unprovoked. Take, for example, when Rifqa and her father
Mohammad were driving in the car. He would force her to wear the hijab, which
she hated. In her discomfort she would slouch down, embarrassed, and her father
would haul off and sock her in the face so that she never forgot to sit up
straight in her costume. The beatings were regular and so much a part of the
landscape of Rifqa's life that she became inured to them, just like Amina and
Sarah and Aqsa and every "honor" victim. (more here)
Rifqa: "He took that laptop and waved it in the air and he was
about to beat me with it, and he said, “If you have this Jesus in your heart,
you’re dead to me. You’re not my daughter.” And I refused to speak but he said,
“I will kill you. Tell me the truth.” In these words, bad words, cuss words. So
I knew that I had to get away"
I told you that the Islamists, un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR (which is
working closely with the family), the extremist NOOR mosque and the Islamic
machine were caught off guard when Judge Daniel Dawson ruled that Florida had
jurisdiction over Ohio in Rifqa's first hearing back on August 21. They thought it was a
done deal that Rifqa would be returned to Ohio.
She wasn't. They are making up for lost time now. They have brought in the
big guns. They have revved up their media and political machine. They fired the
old lawyers and brought in their lawfare specialists. First order of business is
to get Rifqa's lawyer removed and replaced with an "attorney ad
litem".
The second hearing with the new legal team was hostile, ugly and tense (my observations here).
Shayan Elahi, the new Islamist lawyer for Mohamed Bary, is filing for
"psychiatric" evaluation of Rifqa. They can't say she is an "unruly delinquent,"
as she has no history of promiscuity, drug abuse or alcohol. So they will say
she is crazy.
Will they depose the uncle who sexually abused her? Her mother knew about it
and did nothing.
"The Bary father's attorney, Shayan Elahi, states that he will be
filing a Writ of Prohibition in the 5th District Court of Appeals in the state
of Florida to stop the current proceedings in the case as it is now at the
Thomas S. Kirk Juvenile Justice Center."
Judge Daniel Dawson is fairminded and is obviously placing Rifqa's well being
above all else, so the Islamic machine is going to try everything in its power
to get her out of his court room.
One of the bombshell developments from
yesterday's hearing in Florida family court in the case of would-be honor
killing victim Rifqa Bary is that the Florida Dept of Law Enforcement (FDLE)
conducted a three and a half hour
interrogation WITHOUT HER ATTORNEYS present - showing that Rifqa
has less rights than a captured Al-Qaeda terrorist in Guantanamo Bay. The only
thing FDLE stopped short of was waterboarding
Rifqa.
Rifqa's court-appointed advocate/guardian
ad litem was livid as she had requested that the Dept of Children and Families
(DCF) notify her and Rifqa's personal attorney before an interrogation, which
never happened. DCF and FDLE - both controlled by FL Gov. Charlie Crist -
colluded to make this inquisition happen in the absence of her attorneys.
According to news reports, the guardian ad
litem said that 15 minutes into the interview, Rifqa asked about having her
attorneys present at which point the three adult male FDLE inquisitors told her
that since she was the "victim" in the case, she wasn't entitled to have her
attorneys present. Needless to say, her abusive parents had their attorneys
present during their interview.
Contact Gov. Charlie Crist and tell him to
end the inquisitions by his FDLE and DCF goons:
Wow. Check out the CNN headline - if anyone is not a Muslim, it's Rifqa Bary.
Four years a devout Christian, but CNN respects their master's shariah law.
allalua quid pro quo.
Four Christians working in Somalia to provide services to orphans
have been executed by beheading by al-Qaida-linked interests who told their
families that is the penalty for apostasy.
The report on the outrage
comes from International Christian Concern, which said the executions took place
sometime after the kidnapping of the Christians July 27, but it only discovered
the tragedy recently.
The organization identified the Christian orphanage
workers as Fatima Sultan, Ali Ma'ow, Sheik Mohammed Abdi and Maaddey Diil. They
had been kidnapped in the coastal Somalian town of Merca, about 50 miles from
Mogadishu.
According to ICC, al-Shabaab, an Islamic extremist
organization, claimed responsibility and said the Christians were killed when
they refused to renounce their faith in Jesus.
The ICC report said a
junior al-Shabaab militant notified the families Aug. 4 the four were beheaded
for ap... more
The extremist agitator who disrupted the press conference before the Rifqa
Bary hearing seems to have a soft spot for Osama bin Laden. Imagine that. The
media swooned for him and called those of us fighting for Rifqa's religious and
individual freedom from shariah (Islamic) law the extremists. They followed him
everywhere, lapping up every stinking lie.
Spencer took him on here. Lutfi also expressed his admiration for CAIR and Hamas
at yesterday's press conference. He called himself an 'honor
member'of CAIR (video coming soon).
Guesss who he wrote the oped for - the Islamist Orlando Sentinel.
Now that's rich.
Imagine that you are an Arab living in Saudi
Arabia, Syria, Morocco, Egypt or Jordan. Perhaps you are a Muslim living in
India, Iran or Indonesia. You are listening to two voices.
One voice comes from George W. Bush, president of the United States. He led
what I consider an illegal invasion of Iraq, which has led to the deaths of
innocent civilians. He led an intervention in Afghanistan, which also
contributed to the killing of innocent people who had no relation with al-Qaeda
or with politics in general. Bush tells you, an Arab, how peaceful Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon is. He's warning Iran, one of the world's largest Muslim
nations, to surrender its peaceful nuclear program while recruiting the United
Nations and allied nations to impose sanctions against Syria and Iran. Yet in
the heart of Arab and Muslim land, Bush justifies maintaining Israel's weapons
of mass destruction. He also threatens Syria. The United States and Israel claim
that Hamas' offices in Syria pose a threat even though, to my understanding,
these Palestine resistance fighters have refused to declare war on America.
Bush accepts the idea of at least some Israeli settlements, which Iconsider
illegal in the occupied West Bank. The International Court ofJustice -- commonly
known as the World Court -- has condemned Israel'ssecurity wall and land
grabbing. It has demanded that Israel remove the wall, return the property and
compensate the owners for their hardships. Bush has downplayed the court's
order. In fact, the United States has vetoed many U.N. resolutions against
Israel through the years.
On the other hand, you have Osama bin Laden, a Muslim Arab, saying
that the United States is evil, anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and interested in
controlling Arab land and oil and in maintaining brutal Arab dictators in power.
Bin Laden is recruiting Muslims and Arabs to stand up and fight against their
enemies -- that's Israel and America. As an Arab or Muslim listening to both
Bush and bin Laden, whom should you believe and whom should you
trust?...
Mohammad Y. Lutfi is an Arab-American businessman in
Orlando.
UPDATE: A Jew hater from waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back -- 1988. A Yaser Arafat
lover:
Today, we are witnessing an
Israeli policy that has killed at least 300 Palestinians since Arabs began their
uprising over Israeli rule in occupied lands Dec. 8.
The Florida Security Council set up a press conference before the
hearing. Tom Trento, Jamal Jivanjee, Robert Spencer and I addressed the press.
CAIR sent an agitator plant who was screaming names ("pathological liar!") as
soon as we tried to speak. I'll address that in a separate post.
CAIR, Noor, and the Islamic infrastructure were caught with their pants down
at the first hearing. They assumed Rifqa would be sent back to Ohio because of
jurisdiction. They are making up for lost time now. They have brought in the big
guns. The Hearing
Mark of the Florida Security Council via Spencer secreted a press pass to me
to get inside the hearing. G-d bless him. I am in. Handwriting my notes - no
blackberries, laptops, or recording devices. Judge Daniel Dawson presides over
the honey colored oak courtroom and sits beneath the large letters: "equal
justice under the law". What he doesn't understand is that this is a
landmark case - shariah law vs. American rule of law and individual rights.
Rifqa Bary, wearing a white top with a brown cardigan over her shoulder, is
tiny. She was dwarfed by the overwhelming number of adults in that courtroom,
there to determine her fate. As tiny as she was, she towered over the courtroom.
She wore a silver Christian cross dangling from her neck and clutched her Bible.
She looked over the press corp searching for a friendly face and became happy
and animated when she saw members of a young church group she obviously knew. I
was overwhelmed when she recognized me, broke into a big smile, mouthed my name
and waved to me. It was a moment I will never forget.
Rifqa's parents were not there today. Mohamed Bary's new attorney, Shayan
Elahi, shows himself during the proceedings to be a rabid Islamist. He jumps up
and down, back and forth across the courtroom like a caged panther. He glares at
Rifqa. She does not meet his eye. While he did go to a "Christian" school in
Pakistan (St. Pats High School, Karachi 1983-1987), he is not a Christian....in
this 2005 opinion piece he clearly labels himself a Muslim American.
Attorneys for Rifqa, her parents, FDLE, DCF and a media outlet are in the
courtroom. Judge Dawson repeatedly requests mediation, asking why no date has
been set. Judge Dawson presses attorneys to move forward on mediation and not
wait for depositions. Mohamed Bary's attorney says mediation is pointless,
futile, no reason for it. Judge differs, says even minor points can be worked
out that don't have to take up the court's time.
Shayan Elahi rebukes mediation throughout the entire hearing, insisting there
is "no room to maneuver".
The Orlando Sentinel petitions the court (!!) They want to be a party in the
dependency case. I am stunned. The Orlando Sentinel, which single handedly has
done everything in its diminishing power to ruin Rifqa Bary and anyone tied to
her case, wants special exception.
The judge takes up the request. The media outlet is responding to the judge's
decision to seal an FDLE report on the claims made by the teenager. If they are
a party, Atlas is going to file, too.
Judge refuses the Orlando Sentinel request. If he does it for them, he'll
have 800 media outlets asking for the same [not to mention the blogs].
Dawson declares, "the media has no right to be a party". The
Orlando Sentinel dares to be named a party. They are ghouls.
FDLE wants the seal order clarified, since both parties have not seen it.
The attorney for Bary's father says "there is a need for information out
there," and requests the judge allow the media more access to the family court's
documents.
Her attorney argues against it, saying this is a "private matter."
They judge denied the Sentinel's request to be notified of proceedings in
this matter. He did not curtail each party's right to talk publicly about the
case, including the release of documents filed in this case.
Judge Daniel Dawson also decided to seal Florida authorities report on
findings of Rifqa Bary's allegations that her parents in Ohio would kill her
because she converted from Islam to Christianity.
Rifqa's attorney, John Stemberger, said he prefers the court see the FDLE
report, just completed today, and choose whether to release it to the parties.
However, the judge said legal documentation usually works the opposite way, with
the parties getting it first.
DCF requests each party receive the FDLE report, but the contents not be
allowed to be leaked to anyone else.
The Florida Law Enforcement Department conducted a lengthy interview with
Bary and released a transcript to the lawyers.
Judge Dawson ordered the report released to the parties and has given them 10
days to say why they would want to release it or keep it from others. After
that, the documents would be made available under the normal restrictions of
juvenile court.
A video tape of FDLE's
questioning of Rifqa is part of the report.
The problem with Rifqa's is
that Rifqa did not have a lawyer or her guardian litem (Or anyone for that
matter when the deposition was taken by the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement). She asked for counsel but her request was dismissed.
In a gross attempt to have Stemberger removed from the case, Shayan Elahi is
calling for an "attorney ad litem" in place of Stemberger. He badgers the
judge.
After a meeting at the bench, the judge said, "We have plenty of attorneys in
this case, I'm not sure adding more would assist this."
She doesn't need another attorney. It's the opposition's attempt to isolate
Rifqa. Judge Dawson says no to an attorney ad litem. There is no need for an
AAL. Rifqa's big sigh was heartbreaking.
He is taking up a gag order requested by the girl's guardian.
The
attorney for the Sentinel is being allowed to address the request. He is telling
the court that gag orders are usually approved in jury trials. In this case,
there is no jury and the judge will make the decision on Rifqa's
request.
The gag order would not restrict the media from the court, but
would limit what the parties can say about this case.
A DCF attorney says
she is getting calls from children who are distraught about the media's
coverage.
"There are adults who are parading this about the media," she
said.
"This is absolutely causing problems in this case," she
added.
Shayan Elahi goes off. He screams "the hypocrisy is clear": "right wing
organizations" have been out there, promoting a political agenda. He has the
audacity to whine that only Rifqa's story is being told. Uh, Elahi, meet the
Orlando Sentinel, the Columbus Dispatch, Fox news, The NY times. He calls the
judge's consideration of a gag order "ridiculous". He bullies. He stomps. He
claims the Barys' name has been "dragged through the mud".
He said Stemberger is calling news conferences to make claims against the
family, but now wants a gag order that would keep the parents from defending
themselves.
"Where is his (Bary's) right to stand up and say, "Look not at my religion
but look at how I raise my family'?"
"If you agree with this gag order, you are saying the other party cannot have
their story told."
The attorney for Bary's mother, Roger Weeden, then breaks the gag order and
declares that "there's nothing in this (FDLE) report that supports the girl's
claim." Rifqa grabs the GAL's arm.
The Guardian ad Litem, Crista Bartholomew, says, "I can't believe you just
said that". She demands that it be stricken from the record. His statement
violates the judge's order not to release anything about the report for at least
10 days.
Judge Dawson quietly responds, "The state's concern is for the safety of the
child". Based on media attention, Dawson says no one side has gotten the "best
coverage". But the more media attention, "the less safe the child will be".
Shayan Elahi says the Barys are being denied their rights. He says that
English is their second language and they must be able to have their lawyer
(him) speak for them. Dawson says it is not the court's responsibility to
provide the Barys with an English translator for their media interviews.
Elahi slanders the GAL (Guardian ad litem), saying she is working in cahoots
with Stemberger. Bartholomew (GAL) insists she is not. "The state's concern is
for the safety of the child. My take is what is in the best interest of the
child". This is not a holy war.
Elahi continues aggressively. He demands that Rifqa's visit with the Lorenzos
[sic - he doesn't even know their names] stop. He insists that Rifqa's best
friend Jamal Jivanee be banned. Rifqa starts crying. The DCF are the final word
on who can see Rifqa. They agree that the Lorenzes will not visit but their
three children can, as they are close to Rifqa in age and she is so fond of them
and they of her.
Next issue was Rifqa's immigration status. Apparently Shayan Elahi did not
provide the court requested papers (passport etc) for Rifqa. Rifqa came here on
her mother's visa - the documentation of which expired in 2005. Rifqa is in the
country illegally and so is the family. The judge wants this addressed quickly
so that Rifqa's "continued presence [is] in the US". Shayan Elahi has 10 days to
present the family's immigration documentation.
The judge wants dates for mediation. He again re-affirmed that both parties
need to have a mediation to see if they could agree on any issue and to expedite
moving forward in an orderly fashion. Elahi once again says it's a waste of
time. Judge Dawson's experience in these matters have shown just the opposite
and he is becoming concerned that he is "not getting cooperation". Elahi backs
off.
Shayan Elahi will be reopening jurisdiction. He threatens to file a motion
calling Rifqa "an unruly delinquent" if there is no proof of abuse or danger.
There is talk of counseling for Rifqa and the family. Shayan Elahi wants it
in Ohio. Stemberger wants some input on the psychologist's philosophy. The Judge
says absolutely not. Perhaps the guardian ad litem should have some say. An
anonymous source tells me that the one session Rifqa had with a counselor was a
Muslim who spent a good portion of the session proselytizing Islam.
Nuts.
UPDATE: Thanks to Dee
St. Petersburg Times at TampaBay.com 9/1 article by Michael Kruse:
Shayan Elahi, the new Orlando pro
bono attorney for Mohamed Bary. "Religious bigotry," he said, "is unacceptable
and un-American." Roger Weeden, the new Orlando pro bono attorney for Aysha
Bary, called the memo hearsay and totally inadmissible, and said it was
"designed to inflame passions and generate fear without any relevance towards
resolving the issues." Noor Center director Hany Saqr. . .denied all the
allegations in the memo, according to the Associated Press. "Based on our
religion, we think that there's no compulsion to religion. So Barys don't have
to pay legal fees after all? And there's no compulsion in their religion as that
would be unAmerican, and the mosque is not relevant.
I have a number of videos to load on this press conference. On this video of
me addressing the press you'll hear Mohammad Lutfi, the Orlando Muslim who
loudly proclaimed his support for the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic
Relations, screaming in the background. What was most disconcerting is that this
extremist who hijacked the press conference was the darling of the press. They
followed him everywhere. It was disgusting. But Spencer took him on and was the
bomb. Loading that video now.
The dhimmi reporter I was arguing with in this video was the FOX news
reporter in Florida. The blonde male airhead's name escapes me. But he is
rooting for the bad guys.
UPDATE: The FOX maroon is Phil Keating (thanks Bic for ID-ing the
tool). The beachboy covered the first Rifqa Bary hearing from ...Miami. Way to go, Phil.
Robert Spencer:
Here is video of the CAIR plant. They are pulling out the stops.
The media swarming the extremist (who later spoke of his admiration for Hamas
- Trento should have that video).
I noticed in Ms Geller's interview
that the CAIR representive was shouting a bunch of things, so I put on my head
phones and gave a listen. Here is what I discovered. "a(un audiable) year old is
not capable of making up her own mind... If she converts to islam, islam will
reject her automaticaly... you kidnaped a 17 year old girl... you kidnapped
her... brainwahsed...." So lets get this straight. If a teenage girl converts to
islam, islam will reject her becasue she is not capable of making up her own
mind. However if a muslim man wants to mary and have sex with a 9 year old thats
ok, becasue she is fully formed and developed?
I was in the courtroom - no laptops or BBs or recording devices allowed. When
Rifqa saw me, she waved enthusiastically and mouthed PAMELA! She was so happy.
She is tiny. Her relationship with her guardian ad litem is precious. Thank
g-d for that woman.
Robert was in the outer room and he liveblogged
here. I will have a full report and video later.
The new lawyer for Mohamed Bary is a shark, Shayan Elahi. He tried like hell
to get Stemberger removed and replaced with an attorney ad litem.
He tried to stop Rifqa's visitation with her friends (that's when she began
to cry).
I'll have more as soon as I get puter time. Here is Robert's
report:
I'm in Orlando, Florida, at the Rifqa Bary hearing. Tom Trento of the Florida
Security Council, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs and I held a press conference
outside the courtroom a little while ago, for a skeptical and sometimes hostile
press. The press conference was disrupted several times by Muhammad Lutfi, an
Orlando Muslim who declared his support for the Hamas-linked Council on
American-Islamic Relations; he has clearly taken a great interest in this case.
We explained about the jihadist connections of the Noor mosque, about Islamic
apostasy law, and about Islamic honor killing. The mainstream media flocked to
Lutfi, because he was telling them what they want to hear, but he was lying
openly about Islamic apostasy law, denying that Muhammad had said, "If anyone
changes his religion, kill him," and when I pointed out that this was in a
hadith in Bukhari, the collection of traditions of Muhammad that Muslims
consider most reliable, he denied that also. I'm in an overflow courtroom
now, with the proceedings from the main courtroom on closed-circuit video. Rifqa
is in the courtroom now, and it will all be beginning soon. I'll keep up with
what I can here, but my laptop is running out of juice, so I may not be able to
liveblog even though laptops are allowed in here. In any case, I'll keep you
posted. Pamela is in the main courtroom and I'm sure she will have extensive
coverage.
I've met many heroic people here -- converts from Islam and others who have
come out to show their support for this courageous and threatened girl, whom
every lover of freedom should be supporting.
-- We are now embarked. Rifqa's parents, Mohamed and Aysha Bary, are both
present via phone. Their lawyers are in the courtroom. They are discussing a
date for a mediation hearing. The judge is explaining that there are "issues
beyond what the facts are" -- jurisdictional issues and others. And they are
sorting out the status of the mother's attorneys; the family clearly has
lawyered up since the first hearing. They are apparently no longer "indigent,"
as they had previously claimed.
The Orlando Sentinel has put in a notice of appearance, which would give them
notice of certain documents in the case; Rifqa's lawyer wonders who provided
confidential information to the Sentinel so that they knew to do so. Good
question. The Sentinel rep is arguing that historically when proceedings have
been closed, the media has been given access to documents that are otherwise
sealed to the public. Mohamed and Aysha Bary's lawyer is arguing that since this
case has been "blown out of proportion" on the Internet (heh), the Sentinel
should have access to confidential documents, presumably to set the record
straight.
My battery is running out!
The court has denied the Sentinel's request, but the judge is assuring the
media that in any issues related to closing future hearings he would allow them
to be heard.
A representative of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is present and
has a report. He is, perhaps significantly, sitting with the lawyers for the
parents. At the adversarial press conference reporters were shouting that law
enforcement had investigated and found that Rifqa was not bat any risk in
returning to her family in Ohio; this perhaps was what they were referring
to.
One of Rifqa's lawyers is saying that they were given no opportunity to be
present when Rifqa was interviewed by law enforcement. Neither her attorney nor
her guardian ad litem were present, which seems highly irregular. The other side
responds that because Rifqa is not a suspect but a victim, she had no right to
have counsel present.
Alas, my battery is running out; must shut down. Will take notes on paper and
update you asap.
UPDATING from Blackberry now, as long as it holds out. Now, over a question
regarding mediation, the lawyers have approached the bench, and the mics are
off.
Now they're back. The judge is saying that there are enough attorneys in the
court room (and there are many), so he is not inclined to appoint an atty ad
litem for Rifqa, as she has private counsel.
Now they're discussing a gag order for the case. The judge is allowing the
Sentinel rep to argue against the gag order. The Sentinel guy is saying that gag
orders are for jury trials, but in this case there is no jury, so no one
influenced by coverage will be making the decisions. He says that gag orders are
to keep people from being prejudiced as to the case, and so no gag order is
needed here.
The guardian ad litem is saying that Rifqa understands why a gag order is
needed, and says that many times she and others connected to the case have been
distraught by the coverage. And looking at the Sentinel's coverage, that is
understandable.
Rifqa, says her lawyer, says that "This case is not about me, but about
thousands like me," but understands why the gag order is needed.
Now the parents' attorney is attacking John Stemberger, Rifqa's attorney, for
his hypocrisy. He says that Stemberger has been lying and attacking the Ohio
mosque and Muslims, and now he wants a gag order. He is saying that a gag order
would be saying that people can use the media for their benefit and that they
would have no right to respond. He is saying that Stemberger's report on the
Ohio mosque was based on lies from right wing sources and had no value.
Weeden, one of the parents' lawyers, then contrasted Stemberger's supposedly
baseless report with the FDLE report that says she is in no danger. Then Rifqa's
guardian ad litem asked that he be removed from the court, as he released
material from the FDLE report after they just sealed it. They went to the bench
to talk that over. When they returned, Weeden was still there.
The parents' lawyer is attacking Stemberger and the Lorenzes for publicizing
the case. He also earlier mentioned an attack on Islam and Muslims.
The judge is saying that both sides have gotten plenty of media coverage. He
agrees that the more media attention Rifqa gets, the less safe she is. He grants
the gag order, but only the attorneys. They are to discuss only procedural
issues with the media. The parents' lawyer says English is their 2nd language,
and he is gagging people who can speak for them. Judge replies that it is not
his job to provide interpreters for people who want to talk to the media -- and
that they can get other people to speak for them. After the case is resolved, he
said, you can write your novel or produce your miniseries or do whatever you
want to do.
Now they're discussing Rifqa's citizenship status. And now on to the question
of jurisdiction. The mother's new attorney has just filed a new motion saying
this court has no jurisdiction. The guardian ad litem says that has already been
decided, and you don't get 2 bites of the apple. Now the parents' lawyer says
that Ohio Child Protective Services won't file a case because they don't think
she is in danger, but FL only has jurisdiction because Ohio has not filed a
case, setting up a catch 22. He says that if they have to, they will file a case
in Ohio charging that Rifqa is an unruly delinquent. The judge says essentially
that if another case is filed, jurisdiction will be reconsidered.
Now they're discussing procedures regarding visitation rights. She has had
supervised contact with her brother. The department (not sure of what) is
seeking to limit visitation with Pastor Lorenz and his wife. Now the parents'
lawyer is saying that the Lorenzes and their children and the Global Revolution
Church should be restricted from seeing the child. He says that because of the
gag on attorneys, Stemberger, who has a habit of grandstanding, will use the
church to do his "dirty work."
Stemberger says Elahi -- the parents' lawyer -- is the one who is
grandstanding, and that he has provided accurate information. He says that the
Lorenzes' children are Rifqa's friends and provide her comfort. The judge says
he will allow them to continue to visit Rifqa. Parents' lawyer says Mohamed Bary
has not lost his parental rights, and he has a say in who sees his child. He
says the Lorenzes hid Rifqa for two and a half weeks while Ohio was looking for
her. The judge says that no allegations have actually been made against the
Lorenzes' children. And he adds that even her own siblings should not be
discussing this case.
The parents' lawyer says that mediation will be useless. "I'm trying to help
the court" by saying this, he says. The judge says that he doesn't see how he is
helping the court by complaining that mediation won't work. They agree to set a
date for mediation. Also the guardian ad litem asks that the child start
counseling, and that should later expand to family counseling. Some say she has
already started it. The judge suggests medication, and the guardian says Rifqa
objects to that. One of Rifqa's attorneys wants to know the perspective of the
counselor.
The parents' attorney wants the judge to appoint an attorney ad litem for
Rifqa. He says Stemberger is agenda-driven. The judge says he should file a
motion to that effect, but that Rifqa wants Stemberger and he will respect that.
He says that it seems that Elahi wants a new attorney who will have a different
view from Stemberger's of what is in the child's best interests. But he will not
appoint one now.
Jamal has been friends with Rifqa for over a year. Here is evidence of Rifqa
living in secrecy and fear. Her parents did not know she was a Christian. She
worshiped in secret and she was terrified. Jamal Jivanjee is currently
serving as the executive director of Illuminate. Illuminate was founded in January 2007, but prior to that
Jamal served as the lead pastor of newlife-osu, a collegiate church at The Ohio
State University.
Hey we're here in Orlando for the hearing for Rifqa Bary, and we are here
with Jamal Jivanjee, who is Rifqa's friend from Ohio, and you're here. First of
all, why are you here?
JJ: I'm here to help set the record straight about
who she is, her faith, her real faith is being maligned.
Atlas: How so?
I mean I know from my perspective of covering the media, but you're her friend.
JJ: Yes
Atlas: She's being maligned personally. Does she live in
fear?
JJ: Yes
Atlas: Was it a brand new fear, was it a brand new
conversion?
JJ: Absolutely not. I met her over a year ago (unclear) we
come from a similar background, I come from a Muslim background and my father
became a Christian, several years ago, so I'm a pastor in the Columbus area
speaking at church and my sermon made it online, and Rifqa listened to that
sermon and was moved..
Atlas: I bet..
JJ: ..in her heart, so she
contacted me, and said "I too am a Muslim my family came from Sri Lanka and I
want to know more about your dad's story because I'm living in hope, I've been
living a secret life as a Christian for three years and she stated that in a
message to me..
Atlas: This is long before there was any Global
Revolution Church, this was long before
JJ: Oh yeah...this was over a
year ago....
Atlas: So why is the media concentrating on where she went,
not why she went? I'm sure you picked up on that
JJ: Oh absolutely,
that's why I think that it's right to set things straight that, they don't want
to address the real issue, and the real issue is that she's a Christian and that
thus whole problem is because she's a Christian. Had she not been following
Jesus we wouldn't be talking about the story, but she's been a christian, she's
been living a secret life for over a year, and when I heard about her story, I
thought that I've got to meet this girl.
So my daughter, I have a
daughter, the same age as her, so my daughter and my wife we went from New
Albany Ohio which is just a suburb of Columbus, met her at a Starbucks and had
coffee and I wanted to hear her story. And her story absolutely moved me. I
mean, I went to bible college, I've been around a lot of pastors, and Rifqa
had...I've never been around with somebody with stronger faith in Jesus, and I'm
a bold person for Jesus, and this was a year ago, and it challenged me, I
thought, I've never seen anybody like this.
Atlas: I'm Jewish and I was
moved,
JJ: Yeah, it's..
Atlas: It's a beautiful
thing...
JJ: Her faith is very real, and as a matter of fact it's more
real than my own faith. And it challenged me, so I stayed in contact with her
and my daughter stayed in contact with her because she mad a tremendous impact
in my daughter's life, but I knew it, and she told me a year ago.
Atlas:
They keep saying it's her word against the father's, it's the narrative. I mean
FOX was a disaster today, FOX was an outlet for the Noor Mosque practically, I
mean they had the Noor spokesman on, and who's payíng that fancy lawyer, I mean
hello, but we won't go there. So, you're saying that she was definitely
threatened, she expressed that to you..
JJ: Oh absolutely,
Atlas:
From when, the beginning?
JJ: From the very beginning, and I have the
original message that she sent me, that told me she was living a secret life and
that was over a year ago. I kept that message, I still have it. Amazing that I
kept, I don't keep any of my Facebook messages, except for that
one.
Atlas: It was because you were so moved. Now let me ask you
something, do you think that she should go back to Ohio, even in foster care? Do
you believe that she would be in jeopardy from not only, because listen, with
all the honor killings, even in Iraq, and Aqsa Parvez and Hassan, you know, who
had her head chopped off by her moderate Muslim husband, it always the dishonor
to the family. This is a dishonor to Islam, is it not far more egregious
apostasy?
JJ: Yes it is, and what people don't understand about Islam,
you know, there are verses in the Koran, their holy book, that actually give
permission to kill, that's not my word, that not my
interpretation,...
Atlas: You were a Muslim...
JJ: Yes..this is
documented, now I want to say this, my family, most of my family are still
Muslims, they are not all bad people, but it is written in their holy books and
there are Muslims that take this very seriously
Atlas: That's
right.
JJ: And there's plenty of evidence, and you've done a lot of work,
with this, there is plenty of evidence that the mosque would be the type of the
people who are associated with that mosque, some of the leadership there, it is
evident that they would believe those kinds of things. They've made statements
advocating murder. So, with just that I think that you have to be careful,
obviously she fears for her life..
Atlas: Even if you don't understand,
there's a lot of taqiyya, there's a lot of deception to advance Islam, even if
you don't understand, you err on the side of caution, in the welfare of the life
of a minor child. It's a no brainer.
JJ: She's a seventeen year old girl,
she understands....
Atlas: And she knows her own mind
Atlas: I
want to thank you so much, this is very brave of you. Very very brave of you,
thank you so much...
JJ: It's an Ann Frank situation..
Atlas: It's
an Ann Frank situation....see you inside..reporting to you live, it won't be
live when you guys see, but I'm always live...
At the Rifqa Bary hearing in Orlando Florida, Robert Spencer is here, so let
me tell ya, rest easy tonight fellas.. the Dynamic Duo!
Another hearing for looms Rifqa Bary, the girl who converted from Islam to
Christianity and fled from her family after she said her father threatened her
life. Florida must do the right thing and not return her to her family in
Ohio.
I just landed and lo and behold, my alter ego is on da yob! Have no fear,
Atlas and jihad man are here. We will be covering the Bary haring this
afternoon. The hatchet job FOX is doing on Rifqa today is unforgivable and
completely uninformed.
The Orlando Sentinel -- judge, jury and teen girl would-be executioner -- is
out there shilling for jihad on the day of Rifqa Bary's hearing. Note how the
tools at the Orlando Sentinel always call her "Fathima," though Rifqa never
calls herself that. Rifqa goes by Rifqa.
Meanwhile, Ohio child welfare officials have already concluded it's
safe for Rifqa to return. They want to place the girl in therapy and reunite her
with her family.
That, however, may not be the conclusion of Florida
officials who have had to deal with a flood of e-mail and reaction from
thousands of people, many of them including anti-Muslim sentiments, who say the
runaway is a hero.
Gov. Charlie Crist has received more than
9,000 e-mails about the runaway, his office said.
ATLAS READERS
ROCK!!
For the past two weeks, the
Florida Department of Law Enforcement has been investigating whether there are
any credible threats to Rifqa, 17, a native of Sri Lanka. Agents will present
their findings today, something that could signal what happens
next.
If they conclude no threats exist, Circuit Judge Daniel
Dawson could send the girl back to Columbus, Ohio, where her parents have agreed
to place her in foster care for at least a month.
If agents conclude Rifqa is in
danger, the judge could leave her here in foster care, her status since Aug. 10
when another judge ordered her temporarily into the care of the Florida
Department of Children and Families.
No matter
what FDLE says, Rifqa will fight to stay here until next August, when she turns
18, said her attorney, John Stemberger, a conservative Christian activist. He
said Rifqa is in a stable home with a Christian foster family and is
happy.
[...]
Eric Fenner, executive director of Franklin
County Child Services in Columbus, Ohio, said Wednesday that his agency has
investigated the girl's complaints and believe she can safely return
home.
"We think by getting the family with a therapist ... hopefully,
we can salvage this family," he said.
I think Fenner's report should be made public.
"We think by getting the family with a therapist ... hopefully, we can salvage
this family," he
said. He has NO idea who or what he is dealing
with.
A Muslim family will discard its faith on the advice of a kuffar
therapist?
What a total idiot.
Rifqa is expected at today's
hearing. Her parents are not.
Stemberger filed paperwork on Monday,
alleging that the mosque attended by Rifqa's family is home to terrorists and
Muslim extremists. He is expected to make the same argument today.
The
mosque, Noor Islamic Cultural Center, issued a statement Wednesday to say those
allegations are lies and that hate groups are using Rifqa's case to attack
Muslims.
Rifqa boarded a bus to Orlando and sought refuge with
husband-and-wife pastors Blake and Beverly Lorenz of Global Revolution Church.
She met Beverly Lorenz through a prayer book page on the Internet social network
site Facebook.
Although Rifqa's family was searching for her and had
filed a missing persons report with Columbus police, the Lorenzes kept her for
two weeks without notify [sic] authorities.
Why don't Rene and Amy ask why it took close to two weeks for the
Barys to file their missing persons report? No. Rene and Any take
dictation.
FDLE will not say whether the
Lorenzes are under investigation. It is a crime in Florida to shelter an
unmarried juvenile for more than 24 hours without the consent of her parents or
notifying authorities.
The rubes are dying for good Christians to get thrown to the
lions for the crime of saving a young girl's life. This is how far the left has
descended into immoral madness.
The Lorenzes say they
were trying to protect a frightened teenager who was convinced her life was in
jeopardy.
It's enough. The girl has suffered enough. Leave her be.
Tomorrow is the hearing for Rifqa Bary. Let's review the case for Rifqa. (Her
words and video of her statement are here.)
Rifqa converted to Christianity in secret four years ago while
living in a devout Muslim household. Knowing what we know about honor killings and apostasy, there is real danger for the
welfare of this child. Are we going to throw the dice with a child's life?
If Rifqa had converted and her parents were "cool with it" as they claim, why
would she run thousands of miles? Why would she implore strangers to take her
in? Why run? Why is she terrified? She has refused to see her parents while she
is under foster care, and while she did want to see her siblings, her parents
allegedly did not comply and she has not seen her younger brother.
Why was Rifqa forced to lie about her eye? She did not have an accident. Her
brother threw something at her.
Why did the parents lie about their "indigent" status? Why did Mohamed Bary,
Rifqa's father, dissolve his business in July? The Barys were
still renting two homes, owned two businesses and traveled a lot up until the
very end of last month. Why the distraction of a sudden missing luggage story that led to ..... bankruptcy? And why have the
Barys hired a whole new legal team? Who is paying for it?
According to one family law attorney who reviewed the court
documents, Rifqa suffered years of psychological and physical abuse. Many times
punishment was meted out by her brother.
Alex Grey was removed from his mother's care because he
was overweight and the South
Carolina authorities blamed the mother, because she was not preparing
healthy food. Further, the mom, Jerry Grey, has been charged with neglect
(and put in jail) for allowing her
14-year old son, Alexander, to reach a dangerous weight (more here).
Why did the parents choose a radical mosque a half an hour from
their home when there were at least three that were closer? Why would Mohamed
Bary force Rifqa to attend the "Halaqah" Noor Center youth gatherings, which
lasted about five hours?
Rifqa said, "My father was very
intent on making sure that his children, and especially me, were raised deeply
in the faith of 'Original
Islam' which was taught at the Noor Center"
Patrick Poole has comprehensive coverage of the NOOR mosque and more on this rat pack shot:
Yes, that’s our local terror
sheikh, Hilliard resident Salah Sultan (right) hamming it up with Qaradawi
(center) and Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood leader Faisal al-Malawi (left). Sultan
serves on the board for two of Qaradawi’s organizations along with al-Malawi,
the International Association of Muslim Scholars and the European Council for
Fatwa and Research. Qaradawi and Malawi are both banned from the US for their
open support of HAMAS and other terrorist organizations, as well as for issuing
fatwas allowing for suicide bombings against civilians. In 2004, Qaradawi,
Malawi and Sultan issued a fatwa in the name of IAMS calling for jihad against
American troops in Iraq.
Sultan is also a member of the Fiqh Council of
North America, which bills itself as the top Islamic ruling body in the
US.
Here’s another shot of them laughing it up:
Rifqa cannot be returned to this town in Ohio where the local scholars glad
hand with the likes of a jihadist Islamic supremacist genocidal sheikh like Qaradawi.
The Noor Center's release says
that "hate groups appear to be using this family matter as an
opportunity to attack the Muslim community and Islamic organizations in order to
further their religious and political goals."
Uh, we have no religious or political goals - but certainly shariah does.
Islamic law does. Accusing truth tellers of what they are guilty of. It is their
modus operandi.
Rifqa told her story to as many as twenty adults before she fled. No one
would listen.
This girl has been abused enough. When she was brought into
custody in Florida, this tiny bit of a thing was shackled at the ankle and waist
and incarcerated with the juvenile
criminals. Shame on them.
Rifqa Bary is an honor student, a cheerleader - a good girl. Like Amina and Sarah Said, she lived two lives: she was a happy
productive successful student in school and a tortured, oppressed and brutalized
victim at home. Many in her school were shocked to hear that Rifqa, the
quintessential good girl, had run away from home; those close to her were not
surprised at all.
Many people ask, if her father was devout, how come she was a cheerleader?
Muslim girls who live in the West lead two lives. Just as Amina
and Sarah Said were honor students, star athletes, soccer players, tennis
players, etc., so was Rifqa. Amina and Sarah did it all. But their lives at home
are a polar opposite of the outside life. There is a constant struggle. The
murder always happens when the parent/family sees they have lost control of the
child. In the case of Amina and Sarah, the girls ran away. The mother lured them
back, and they were both dead less than 24 hours later. Aqsa Parvez had left the
house and was staying with friends when she too was lured back, only to be
murdered. Aasiya Zubair Hassan had filed for divorce from her moderate Muslim
husband Mo, a pillar in the community, when he chopped her head off back in February in Buffalo, New
York.
The girls live in a constant state of war, negotiating the terms of
surrender. The tug of war, the back and forth, goes on for years. The
negotiation precedes it for years. It is only when the parent loses control of
the child -- either they run away, file for divorce, leave the faith, etc., act
independently in some way -- that they are murdered in the final act of control.
They "win" and cleanse the family of the dishonor of their daughter's un-islamic
behavior.
Bary is a middle-class jeweler
with no documented history of abuse and no record of radical actions or beliefs.
Whatever his disagreements with Rifqa — and what parent of a teen hasn't had his
or her share? — he obviously had invested a lot in her care and
upbringing.
Most of the girls who are honor murdered in the West suffer abuse unknown to
law enforcement authorities. But the friends know. Teachers know. Amina and
Sarah told teachers, friends, etc. So did Rifqa ....for years.
I broke many stories in the Rifqa Bary case on the physical abuse of Rifqa
and the parents' financial situation. No media picked them up. The media only
ran the CAIR narrative (they are working with the family according to anti-Rifqa, pro Islam websites).
Not only is the media criminally negligent in not telling Rifqa's story, but
they use this terrible case to seize the opportunity to smear and rank on
Christianity. Christianity is the evil in all this, according to the media. The
vilification of the good Christian folks who took this girl in turns my stomach.
It is evil.
On several occasions friends of Rifqa would bring her down to the school
counselor because of bruises on her legs and her arms, beatings suffered at the
hands of her father and brother (sounds like Islam Said). The middle school, in a serious dereliction of
duty, did not report these beatings to child welfare services. Beatings were
random, violent, unprovoked. Take, for example, when Rifqa and her father
Mohammad were driving in the car. He would force her to wear the hijab, which
she hated. In her discomfort she would slouch down, embarrassed, and her father
would haul off and sock her in the face so that she never forgot to sit up
straight in her costume. The beatings were regular and so much a part of the
landscape of Rifqa's life that she became inured to them, just like Amina and
Sarah and Aqsa and every "honor" victim. (more here)
Rifqa: "He took that laptop and waved it in the air and he was
about to beat me with it, and he said, “If you have this Jesus in your heart,
you’re dead to me. You’re not my daughter.” And I refused to speak but he said,
“I will kill you. Tell me the truth.” In these words, bad words, cuss words. So
I knew that I had to get away"
That said, Rifqa Bary faces death. We
have seen these 'honor' murders spiking in
the West, partly because the West refuses to acknowledge the motivation
behind these heinous crimes. Despite societal denial, these crimes are taking place. Why wouldn't the welfare
of this child be the only consideration before the
court?
There is a very simple argument that must be made: (props to
Robert)
So it's her word against his. Will Mohamed Bary murder
his daughter, or bring about her death? Of course there is no way of
knowing. But we do know some things:
1. Mohamed Bary and his wife, pictured above right, appear to
be devout, observant Muslims -- Mrs. Bary, after all, has her head covered,
indicating that they respect at least some, if not all, Islamic laws.
3. Other Muslim fathers, as I point out here, have appeared to be credible, gentle
fellows as they lured their wayward daughters back home -- after they had run
away in fear for their lives. And then once they were back home, they murdered
them.
In light of those facts, the court would be foolish in
the extreme, when it convenes again on August 21, to expose Rifqa Bary to risk.
There is no doubt that this would not be done in other child welfare cases --
any reasonable suspicion that the child could be in physical danger is acted
upon immediately, and the child removed from the home. For what conceivable
reason should this case be different?
Further, what is being done to secure Rifqa's safety? She is, hands down, the
highest value target in America. She needs 24-hour protection. I hope a petition
to the court is being made for such protection.
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
I thought Atlas readers would find it very telling to read the question and
answer session from yesterday's Rifqa Bary press conference. Notice how so few questions
address Rifqa. Why so little on the abuse? Why no questions on the Qaradawi
connection? Why no questions on Sultan? Why no questions about apostasy in
Islam? Why no questions on the very real danger Rifqa is in? Why no questions on
what a high value target Rifqa is? Why no questions on Mohamed Bary's claims of
poverty? Questions on Rifqa's friends? No. Teachers? No.
Why are the media so in the tank for the Islamists?
Mike Schneider from the Associated Press: "Just a quick question. A
lot of what you described kind of seems tangential to the case, I mean, has her
parents ever proclaimed support for the Muslim Brotherhood or supported
terrorist organizations? I mean, shouldn't the focus be on her
family?
John Stemburger: Well, her family are members of this mosque, they are
involved with these types, that's the problem, and they associate with people in
their home and on a regular basis are involved. It's obvious they're being
influenced by the unique teachings, which would be highly observant teachings of
this particular center. That should be a major concern to the court I would
think especially since its directly tied to their household.
Mediator: Does that answer your question, Mr.Schneider?
Mike Schneider: Oh yeah, there is a follow up if I could, um, given
the attention this has gotten from the Florida authorities, Ohio authorities,
the media, can you honestly say that you think that she'll be harmed if she goes
back to Ohio?
John Stemburger: Based upon everything that we have researched, and all the
experts that I have listened to, I think that there is no question in my mind
that if she is sent back to Ohio, it is only a matter of time before she slips
away into the night. The United Nations has reported that there are over 5000
honor killings or apostate killings a year, and so this is not something that
want Rifqa to be a statistic of. And we believe that it's in her best interests,
clearly to retain her stable placement here in Florida and to not have her
return to Ohio.
Mike Schneider: Thank you.
Wall Street caller: Question: Hello, I would like to know if you know
anything about the contact between the local CAIR chapter and the Orlando
Sentinel? Is this where the Orlando Sentinel is getting its version of the
case?
John Stemburger: I have no idea if there are any special relationships
between CAIR and the Orlando Sentinel, I think they are in cue too to ask a
question, so perhaps they can answer that question directly, so, but I don't
have any information for you.
Wall Street caller: Thank You
[Rene is the rube over at the Sentinel - Atlas]
Orlando Sentinel,
Rene Stutzman: Yeah, this is the Orlando Sentinel, Rene
Stutzman. Can you give me the names of the people at Noor Mosque that want Rifqa
dead?
John Stemburger: Rene, I think that after you read our brief the totally of
the circumstances present a direct danger to her. Obviously in this kind of a
situation you are not going to identify a specific person. Her father made
specific threats to her, that's a significant threat.
Orlando Sentinel, Rene Stutzman: Mr. Stemburger, also, could you tell
me, have you seen the report or gotten the summary of the FDLE's findings in
regards to its charge from the court?
John Stemburger: No, but I would eager to see those, do you have a copy of
those?
Orlando Sentinel, Rene Stutzman: Yes, sir.
John Stemburger: I do not have a copy of that but I would look forward to
seeing their findings. I imagine a lot it would be consistent with what we have
alleged here, but I have no idea of knowing that.
Orlando Sentinel, Rene Stutzman: Thank you.
Rachael WKMG: Can you tell me if she has spoken to her parents, and
does she still feel that they would be the ones to take action against her if
she went home or is more a concern of the more larger community from the Noor
Center?
John Stemburger: I am not aware that Rifqa has spoken
with her parents since she's been here in Florida, and Rifqa, in her statement
in court indicated that she definitely loves her family, but is threatened
because of the past beatings from her father, and the threats from her father.
My primary concern has to do more with the community which surrounds her
household and their daily lives as a result of this incident. I'm certain that
both are real and serious, but it's hard to know which would be more
serious.
Rachael WKMG: Ok, thank you.
Danielle Cangelosi, Fox News channel: Mr.Stemburger: I want to ask you if
Rifqa ever recalls her father using the language of "dishonoring the family" or
"dishonoring Islam". In the affidavit he threatened to kill her, I just wonder
if he ever specifically said that he would, he needed to take care of her
because she was dishonoring Islam or the family.
John Stemburger: I am not aware that she has indicated those specific
words
[Cangelosi was the FOX producer I worked with on their Honor Killing special back in June 2008 - Atlas]
Danielle Cangelosi, Fox News channel: So where did she, I mean did
she just base on her studies and what she knew about the faith is how she came
to the conclusion that it would be an honor killing if she
returned?
John Stemburger: She knew when she stepped into the Korean Methodist Church
years ago that she was doing something that would be viewed very very, with
great hostility, rather, and she had fear back then and continued to live with
fear until she escaped to Florida.
Danielle Cangelosi, Fox News channel: Um..also in the affidavit it
also, there also at the end, her mother threatened to send her back to Sri Lanka
to be dealt with there. Did she ever explain exactly what her mother meant by
saying "to be dealt with in Sri Lanka"?
John Stemburger: No, she did not explain it in detail, but the implication
was that she knew that Sri Lanka did not have the kind of protections the United
States had, and that it would not be a pretty situation.
Danielle Cangelosi, Fox News channel Ah, one more question. In the
household, was it, did her father uh, was it a strict Muslim household? You know
that in lot of the pictures on TV, she seemed to be very Western in that, it
looked like she was on the cheerleading team, because she didn't appear to have
to wear a burka or anything like that. I was just wondering if it was a strict
household? I mean in what ways?
John Stemburger: Ah, certainly.
It appeared that her father was encouraging all members of the family as
adherent as possible under the circumstance. If you look at the two young girls
that were killed in Texas in January of last year, they were modernized, they
were not devout Muslims at all, and so in a lot of these situations you have
kind of a tipping point where the child or the spouse becomes so westernized in
a variety of ways or so unadherent to certain traditions or practices, that
there's a tipping point and there's the ultimate demise.
Question: (UNCLEAR)
John Stemburger : We have literally gotten hundreds of communications from
Christians who were former Muslims. We've gotten communications from a variety
of types, people who just love her and want to pray for her, I mean it's really
difficult to keep up with the influx of communications, but there's a number of
people who have an interest in the matter.
Same Questioner: What about other Muslims (UNCLEAR)
John Stemburger: None specifically that I'm aware of. I'm sure that they are
out there but none that I'm aware of.
Same Questioner: Has Rifqa been able to visit at all with her brother or her
family..(UNCLEAR)
John Stemburger: The court allowed for her to visit with her younger brother
after the last hearing, however for some reason that visitation never took
place. It's possible that the parents just denied visitation with her, but we
have no way of knowing why it did not go down.
Mike Schneider, Associated Press: Hi John, Mike Schneider from the
Associated Press, I just hope that you could clarify something for me you said a
few minutes ago about past beatings, what did you mean by that?
John Stemburger : Her father has slapped her with such force that just
knocked her over. Her father asked her to wear the official headdress of Islam,
and because she, I guess, lowered her body down in the car so she couldn't be
seen, he punched her on the side of her face, with great force, because she was
ashamed of that.
John Stemburger : I do not have that specific information, it's not in the
affidavit, but it was in our original petition.
Mike Schneider Associated Press: Ok, thank you. Morry Radio:
Thank you very much. Mr. Stemburger, what is Rifqa'a emotional and spiritual
state right now, knowing all that has been at stake for her, in converting to
Christianity? Where is she now in her spiritual journey, and how is she
maintaining her faith despite the media attention and the horrendous threats
presented to her life
John Stemburger : I have to tell ya that Rifqa is a remarkable young lady,
she is petite in stature, almost stunningly petite, but she is robust and big in
heart, and it's just, while she has great moments of fear and apprehension, has
great hope and trust and joy. Her faith is very very real, much more than most
of ours, and that's a great source of hope and comfort to her.
Morry Radio: What kind of a future is she looking at, remaining in
foster care indefinitely, what will happen when she turns eighteen when other
legal matters may present for her to live an independent life? What is the
outlook of her future
John Stemburger: Those questions are beyond our, you know, the scope of this
conference. Obviously her goal is trying to get the state to protect her, at
least over the next year. Obviously when your free and you're a minor, you can
hire body guards, you can move about on your own, you can protect yourself, you
can move around to other parts of the country, you can freely go about in order
to protect yourself. Because of the circumstance now, we're trying to get her to
be , to remain under the custody of the state of Florida until she reaches the
age of maturity.
Morry Radio: Ah, very good. And have other people shown interest in taking
her under their wing, so to speak, into their households and would this be
permissible?
John Stemburger: Right now the court has specific orders that she's to be in
a licensed foster care home, and so that's where she will stay until the court
orders a new location.
Thank you very much for participating in this conference, this is very
important information, and we hope that you all will provide to the public, we
believe that much of the coverage, but not all of it, but much of it has been
one sided. And it's really been not focusing on the problem, and the problem is
not Islam, the problem is Noor Center, because this in a unique mosque, that has
unique beliefs and is extremely dangerous. Thank you very much for your time and
for participating.
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
Thank you for attending this press event over the phone, we believe this
matter is of significant public interest. we appreciate your covering this
story.
My name is John Stemburger, I'm a Orlando trial lawyer, I've been practicing
for the last 14 years here in Orlando and throughout the state of Florida. I'm
an AV rated civil trial lawyer, I practice in the areas of personal injury,
commercial law and litigation. In addition to that I serve as a guardian ad
litim, volunteer for ten years, representing abused and neglected children, and
I've seen the silliest reasons for ripping kids out of their homes, like being
overweight, and I've seen the most horrific reasons like feeding babies cocaine
and locking them up in closets. so I have a little bit of the sense for the
background for the process of dependency and what's going on here with juveniles
when the state takes custody of them.
I am also a leading advocate in Florida for issues relating to family,
parents and children as well. I am here though however in my representation of a
private personal lawyer on the behalf of my firm, in representing Rifqa Bary and
not with any group that I might be affiliated with. We are announcing today the
filing of two documents which most of you have been provided......
But we are announcing the filing over an hour ago, two documents were filed.
First one was a special investigative, an intelligence memorandum, which is
supportive of the petition for dependency which is currently before the court,
and then secondly there is an accompanying affidavit, which the very first sworn
statement that's been filed in this case on the behalf of our client Rifqa
Bary.
Part of the reason for doing this announcement today is because some of the
media coverage in this matter has been at best, inaccurate in parts, and at
worst, just completely missing the point in the real issues in this case. They
have focused on a young pastor and his wife, Beverly and Blake Moran, who have
been pastors of a Methodist Church in this community for over 25 years. I don't
personally know them, I know of them, and they did probably what any of would do
in taking someone in who has indicated that their life was in danger. And we
also have had one-sided soft stories on just the parents point of view that
didn't ask any of the hard questions, or report on any of the allegations made
in our original petition.
The primary issue in this case, is the clear and present danger that is
presented by the Noor Center Mosque, and its ties to terrorist activity, and the
parents, that is the Bary parents' devotion to, and relationship with, and
regular weekly participation in the Noor Center. The memorandum we submitted in
support of the petition of dependency that is before the court, just to give you
some legal jargon, dependency actions are when the state is declaring whether or
not the state is to declare a minor child dependent because of its need for
protection. ...because of abuse, abandonment or neglect. And so when that
happens, it doesn't mean paternal rights are terminated, it just means that the
state takes custody of the child for the protecting them from the parents and
the home environment.
Our office and legal staff have been working around the clock to document the
materials we have provided, so first I'm going to draw your attention to the
investigation and intelligence memorandum we filed. Together with Rifqa's
affidavit, the documents we've presented demonstrate the parties to this cause,
namely Rifqa's parents, along with the family's physical relatives are directly
connected to the Noor Islamic Center, and that the Bary family has been and will
continue to be devoted members and follow leaders of the Noor Center.
The second issue that we have with the Noor Center, that its former Islamic
scholar Dr.Osama Sultan has been photographed with terrorist leaders designated
by the United States government. He has recently appeared on television inciting
violence against Jews, and he's previously appeared at an event in support of
designated terrorist organizations, while at the same time as an active member
of the Noor Center Community. Currently we believe with the best knowledge that
we have that he's been banned from reentering the US, because his citizenship
application has been denied.
The third issue with the Center is that they have had a number of extremist
speakers that have been featured at the Noor Center. Such speakers where the
Bary parents go to hear on a regular basis weekly, and sometimes bi-weekly, and
these speakers are on the record making statement in support of violence,
terrorism and extremism. And the evidence even indicates that some of these
speakers, and we've detailed it extensively in the body of the memo, have been
directly involved in the funding raising and supporting of this particular
Mosque since its inception.
And then the final issue is the Noor Center has also been tied to a nation
wide FBI terror investigation, and we've outlined that as well. CNN has covered
this, it has identified Columbus as the main center of the FBI investigation,
and the story was also the subject of a recent lengthy five page article in the
New York Times, which we've cited for you in the bottom of the memorandum as
well. This is the primary issue. Now we also have submitted an affidavit by our
client, Rifqa Bary, and this establishes, ok, we understand and I believe that
the facts are there to support the allegation that this Mosque has ties to
terrorist activities.
Rifqa's affidavit indicates that these parents, her parents were regularly
involved with this Mosque, and she makes several statements in her affidavit
including the fact where she arrived to the Columbus area, that her father and
her family visited two other Mosques in the area. They chose the Mosque that is
the one farthest away from home, there's only one Mosque out of the eight in the
region that is farther away than the Noor Mosque. She was required to attend
Halaqvah at the Noor Youth Center gatherings that last about five hours, and on
three separate occasions those activities were held in her home, official,
regular Noor Center gathering held in her home with other members of the Noor
Center present.
It's significant to realize that parents are encouraged to come with their
children, so at these youth meetings, it's not just young people, but were also
devoted members of this particular center as well, inside of Rifqa's home during
those times that they met there. During the summers, the primary gathering of
the Mosque is on Friday afternoon, and so Rifqa was not able to attend during
school, but during the summer she would also attend with her family because her
father required this and those meetings would last approximately three
hours.
Their family regularly socialized with other families from the Noor Center,
including eating with, including doing activities with. And finally it's
significant to recognize that while Rifqa believes that her parents may have
suspected that she had an interest in Christianity, they found a book in 2007
that was written and distributed by Rick Warren, it wasn't until the members of
the Noor Center community, the leaders contacted her father and informed that
they need to deal with this matter immediately, and that's when the big
confrontation came with Rifqa. And then finally once her mother found another
Christian book in her bedroom and threatened to send her back to Sri Lanka to be
dealt with, and that's when she escaped her home in fear for her life.
Let me say in closing, that this is not a case against Islam, and I want to
make this extremely clear, I was highly disappointed at the article in the
Orlando Sentinel today, which quoted only half of my quote. The vast majority of
Muslims in this country are peaceful, they're law abiding citizens and they
should be protected by the Constitution, embraced and really welcomed as
contributors to the great diversity that makes up what America is. But
unfortunately, a discredit to those moderate peaceful Muslims are a growing
number, a minority, but a growing minority of radical Islam members, of which
the Noor Mosque is associated with. We believe that this is significant, we
believe that the court will take judicial notice of this, and we believe that
the media should please let this information be known as well because this has
been such a matter of public interest.
After today's bombshell press conference - Rifqa Bary's statement and mosque
investigative report - there was not one, not two, but
three CAIR-fused anti-Rifqa articles at the Orlando
Sentinel today. Three. The shills at the Orlando Sentinel are
on the warpath against Rifqa Bary.
It's like watching a train wreck in slow moe. It is jaw dropping how vested the
media is in advancing CAIR's fallacious narrative against Rifqa and those
speaking in her defense. So much so they print the most ridiculous trash without so much as a question mark. They
ignore everything that validates Rifqa's claims.
Armaros wrote in a previous thread:
But what
horse does the media have in this? Are they so afraid that their
kids might be lured into Christianity by on line predator missionaries?
.....they fear them
more than AL Queda, as Al Queda was "exaggerated" by Bush and Cheney. Christians
are the enemy. Their bibles, guns and pick up trucks. Hell if it weren't for
them and "their president" Bush, Muslims would be in deep love with us.
They have latched on
to the religious euphoria, which Rifqa is obviously exhibiting, and assume as if
it was unique or somehow due to the Pastor couple who have taken her in. All
converts go through this phase. Especially if met with such adversity which also
happens to revolve around their new faith. How many shills have we heard
about John Walker Taliban Lindt? The explanations for his "misguided yet
well meaning" euphoria he felt about Islam were so many I lost count. As well as
concerns for his safety.
Will he be devoured
by inmates in prison? Should he get extra protection...?
And above all, how
he must be able to continue practicing his faith. All that while the real
question should have been whether to hang him or shoot him for his treason.
It is
striking how the media let themselves be played. They ignore everything and
anything relating to the Barys. Nothing even seems odd to them. Their suspicion
is 100% with the other side. Not 60% or 80%. 100%.
The US immigration
paper Pamela posted indicates that Mr Bary violated the conditions required for
permanent residency in the USA. That being, the 6 years continuous presence on
US territory. It appears from his own accounts that he was going on business
trips while he was supposed to stay put in the US. Not that this makes one a
murderer or reveal sinister things.
Still strikes me as odd when papers
so kindly miss this, and all the other shenanigans like if this was the 08
election campaign.
I think the Bary
side is already playing a field ahead. I believe they resigned to the
possibility that the Florida court will move in favor of a child's welfare,
especially given her age of 17. It will be judged that she was old enough to
assess danger if she saw it.
-At least I hope
that.
So the Bary camp is
already setting up the narrative for the next round. For this they have
enlisted the sympathetic, naive and politically correct media. The narrative
being, their poverty, misfortune and victim hood to Islamophobia and a right
wing christian conspiracy after the economic misfortunes of Mr Bary having lost
his shipment in 2001 and his unfair treatment by the INS.
[Needless to say ..... the Barys were still renting two homes, owned two
businesses and traveled a lot. Up until the very end of last month. Ignoring his
business dissolution and distracting with this luggage story says more about the journalism at the Sent
and StP Times than the Bary camp who is trying to win a fight.]
These new
"revelations" are readying them to face off at a higher venue. This is why they
re feeding the media with these stories and this is why the christianophobic
liberal establishment is taking up their cause. Such cause being based in a lie,
that Rifqa was converted and brainwashed by child stealing christian fanatics.
Leaving behind in shatters the Bary family after all the other injustices they
have suffered, including being refused permanent status in the USA because of
silly and archaic immigration rules. Those "un american" rules Pelosi was
pontificating about when pimping herself for the "legalize them all"
crowd.
[Rifqa Bary] claimed in court
documents Monday that her family's mosque in Ohio has terrorist ties — a
charge disputed by the Islamic center's leader.
What did the tools at the Sentinel expect? That the mosque would say, Oh yes,
we are extremists tied to Hamas! Such stupidity takes the breath away. Here is
the evidence of the terror ties here, here, and here.
In a 35-page memorandum filed Monday in Orange County family
court, attorney John Stemberger claims Fathima Rifqa Bary, who will remain in
foster care in Florida at least until a hearing on Thursday, should not be
returned to the custody of her parents, Mohamed and Aysha Bary, because of their
connection to the Noor Islamic Cultural Center near Columbus, Ohio.
"The leader of the mosque, Dr. Hany Saqr, was previously an imam
for another area mosque at the same time the largest known Al Qaeda cell in the
U.S. since 9/11 was operating out of the mosque," the document read.
"Additionally, Dr. Saqr was identified in exhibits submitted by the Department
of Justice in a recent terrorism finance trial in Texas as being one of the
leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America — an international
organization responsible for birthing virtually every Islamic terrorist
organization in the world, including Al Qaeda."
The center also is affiliated with Dr. Salah Sultan, a "cleric
alleged photographed with terrorist leaders designated as such by the U.S.
government," according to the document, and frequently hosts "extremist
speakers" who have allegedly made statements supporting violence and
terrorism.
Back to the dhimmi Sentinel:
Rifqa Bary, 17, said in a sworn
statement her family regularly attended gatherings at the Noor Islamic Cultural
Center in suburban Columbus, Ohio, and her attorney said in a memo the
mosque hosted extremist speakers and supported a scholar with ties to the
militant group Hamas.
One can only imagine what a Hamas ideologue mosque would do with a
little girl like Rifqa Bary. I mean, think about it.
Hany Saqr, director of the Noor
Center, refuted all the allegations raised by the teenager's
attorney.
Shocka!
[...]
"At our center we
know that people accept Islam, some people accept Christianity, some people
accept Judaism," Saqr said. "Based on our religion we think that there's no
compulsion to religion. Everybody has the right to choose whatever religion he
wants to."
This is, of course, how Islamic
groups in the U.S. have reacted to every act of violence and every threat that
any Muslim has issued in recent years: they've raised fears of a non-existent
"backlash" and claimed they're being persecuted, rather than address the root
causes of the violence and brutality within their own community. And the
bemused, befuddled multiculturalists in the mainstream media go along with it
happily, every time.
The Orlando Sentinel has been
engaging in a full-scale campaign to discredit Rifqa
Bary and her defenders. Pamela Geller skewered a few of their recent
propaganda pieces here, here, and here. And here's the Sentinel's latest fresh steaming pile of
Rifqa coverage:
"Muslims fear runaway girl's
case will fuel religious hatred," by Jeff Kunerth for the Orlando Sentinel, (more at Jihadwatch
here)
Rifqa said, "My father was very intent on making sure that his children, and
especially me, were raised deeply in the faith of 'Original Islam' which was
taught at the Noor Center"
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
Finally, Rifqa gets a chance to tell her
story - PDF here. As Modernist pointed out in the comment section, Rifqa has
never changed her story, while her father has changed his story continually.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ORANGE
COUNTY, FLORIDA
State of Florida County of Orange
BEFORE ME, the undersigned
authority, personally appeared, Fathima Rifqa Bary, deposes and says: 1. My
name is Fathima Rifqa Bary. I am seventeen years of age having been born on
August 10, 1992 and I am of sound mind and personal knowledge of the facts
herein;
2. My family and I moved from Sri Lanka to the Hollis/ Queens are
in New York in 2000;
3. When I was twelve, in 2004, our family moved from
Hollis/Queens, New York to Gahanna, Ohio; 4. Upon arriving in the
new area, my father began to research Mosques in the region;
5. After
visiting a couple of other Mosques in the area, including the "Islamic Center"
in Columbus, my father decided that our family would join and become active in
the "Noor Islamic Culture Center" (Noor Center) located in Dublin,
Ohio;
6. The Noor Center was a twenty five minute drive from our house
and there were eight other Mosques that were closer to out home in the Columbus
area;
7. My father was very intent on making sure that his children, and
especially me, were raised deeply in the faith of "Original Islam" which was
taught at the Noor Center;
8. Our family attended the Noor Center
gatherings as much our schedules would allow;
9. Every Saturday my father
required me to attend the "Halaqah" Noor Center youth gatherings which lasted
about five hours. My father and mother would often attend these meetings with me
as all Noor Center parents were encouraged to attend youth meetings,
10.
On three separate occasions, the regular official Saturday Noor Center youth
gatherings were held in our home with other members of the Noor Center
present;
11. In the summers, my Father required our whole family to also
attend the Noor Center major gatherings held every Friday afternoon. This was
the main meeting of the week which members were required to attend which lasted
about three hours;
12. My father also required us to attend the major
Islamic holidays such as Ramadan at the Noor Center;
13. Our family
regularly socialized with other members of the Noor Center community;
14.
My father was a committed member of the Noor Center and required our family to
attend as much as possible;
15. I became a Christian on Friday, November
18, 2005 at the Korean United Methodist Church in Columbus, Ohio;
16. I
hid my Christian faith from my parents as best as I could and had to sneak
around to attend Christian campus meetings, I also hid my Bible at home in
various locations;
17. In about 2007 my father discovered a copy of a
book entitled the "
The Purpose Driven Life
" by Rick
Warren that I hid in my bedroom. My father had a serious talk with me about the
importance of retaining the Islamic blood line in my family but I did not tell
him about my conversion;
18. In June of 2009 my father confronted me with
several questions about whether I had become a Christian, whether I was
baptized, if I was going to church. Out of fear I remained silent;
19.
Then my father told me that he received numerous emails and phone calls from the
leaders of the Noor Center community who informed him that he needed to deal
with this matter immediately;
20. In a fit of anger that I had never seen
before in my life, he picked up my lap top, waived it over my head as if to
strike me with it and said "if you have this Jesus in your heart, you are dead
to me! You are no longer my daughter." I continued to remain silent and then he
said to me even more angry then before, I will kill you! Tell me the
truth!"
21. On July 17, 2009, my mother confronted me about another
Christian book she discovered that I hid in my bedroom. She had just spoken with
my father was on the phone who was out of town. She was very upset, in tears,
and almost grieving and told me I was going to have to be sent back to Sri Lanka
to be dealt with.
I am on a 2 pm live press conference call right now. These two documents were
just filed, Rifqa's statement and the investigation of the NOOR center here .
The primary concern for Rifqa's wellbeing deals with the terror tied NOOR
Islamic Center: the fact that her parents joined the most radical mosque (the
furthest away from her home). Meetings for the NOOR were held at Rifqa's
home.
I am listening to John Stemberger make a major announcement that relates to
the Rifqa Bary case. Please see the text below for more information. I am
recording so you can hear the whole thing.
"Part of the reason for doing
this announcement today is because some of the media coverage has been at best,
inaccurate, in parts and at worst, just completely missing the point and the
real issues in this case."
2:20 pm: Renee the rube (Orlando Sentinel) wants the names
of those at the NOOR mosque who "want Rifqa dead". John Stemberger declines to
name names and urges Renee to read the investigative document.
The Orlando Sentinel plans on running a shill piece on the parents everyday
until the hearing Thursday. Here's today's dhimmi piece, and they are not ashamed(!)
Nidra Poller (we love huh!) asks about the connection between the Orlando
Sentinel and CAIR.
Thank you for attending this press event over the phone, we believe this
matter is of significant public interest. we appreciate your covering this
story.
My name is John Stemburger, I'm
a Orlando trial lawyer, I've been practicing for the last 14 years here in
Orlando and throughout the state of Florida. I'm an AV rated civil trial lawyer,
I practice in the areas of personal injury, commercial law and litigation. In
addition to that I serve as a guardian ad litim, volunteer for ten years,
representing abused and neglected children, and I've seen the silliest reasons
for ripping kids out of their homes, like being overweight, and I've seen the
most horrific reasons like feeding babies cocaine and locking them up in
closets. so I have a little bit of the sense for the background for the process
of dependency and what's going on here with juveniles when the state takes
custody of them.
I am also a leading advocate in Florida for issues
relating to family, parents and children as well. I am here though however in my
representation of a private personal lawyer on the behalf of my firm, in
representing Rifqa Bary and not with any group that I might be affiliated with.
We are announcing today the filing of two documents which most of you have been
provided......
But we are announcing the filing over an hour ago, two
documents were filed. First one was a special investigative, an intelligence
memorandum, which is supportive of the petition for dependency which is
currently before the court, and then secondly there is an accompanying
affidavit, which the very first sworn statement that's been filed in this case
on the behalf of our client Rifqa Bary.
Part of the reason for doing this
announcement today is because some of the media coverage in this matter has been
at best, inaccurate in parts, and at worst, just completely missing the point in
the real issues in this case. They have focused on a young pastor and his wife,
Beverly and Blake Moran, who have been pastors of a Methodist Church in this
community for over 25 years. I don't personally know them, I know of them, and
they did probably what any of would do in taking someone in who has indicated
that their life was in danger. And we also have had one-sided soft stories on
just the parents point of view that didn't ask any of the hard questions, or
report on any of the allegations made in our original petition.
The
primary issue in this case, is the clear and present danger that is presented by
the Noor Center Mosque, and its ties to terrorist activity, and the parents,
that is the Bary parents' devotion to, and relationship with, and regular weekly
participation in the Noor Center. The memorandum we submitted in support of the
petition of dependency that is before the court, just to give you some legal
jargon, dependency actions are when the state is declaring whether or not the
state is to declare a minor child dependent because of its need for protection.
...because of abuse, abandonment or neglect. And so when that happens, it
doesn't mean paternal rights are terminated, it just means that the state takes
custody of the child for the protecting them from the parents and the home
environment.
Our
office and legal staff have been working around the clock to document the
materials we have provided, so first I'm going to draw your attention to the
investigation and intelligence memorandum we filed. Together with Rifqa's
affidavit, the documents we've presented demonstrate the parties to this cause,
namely Rifqa's parents, along with the family's physical relatives are directly
connected to the Noor Islamic Center, and that the Bary family has been and will
continue to be devoted members and follow leaders of the Noor Center.
INVESTIGATION AND INTELLIGENCE
MEMORANDUM
IN SUPPORT OF PETITION FOR
DEPENDENCY
COMES NOW the minor child Fathima
Rifqa Bary by and through her undersigned counsel and files this “Investigation
and Intelligence Memorandum” in support of the Petition for Dependency before
this court. Together with Rifqa Bary’s Affidavit attached as “Exhibit A” the
documents demonstrate that that parties to this cause, namely Rifqa’s parents,
along with the family’s physical residence are directly connected to the Noor
Islamic Center and that the Bary family has been and will continue to be devoted
members and followers of the leaders and teachings of the Noor Center. The
following memorandum presents extensive documentation establishing ties to the
Noor Center has with terrorist groups and the extreme danger this presents to
the minor.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Noor Islamic Cultural Center
(hereinafter the Noor Center) in the Columbus, Ohio area is wholly owned by the
American Islamic Waqf, an Ohio corporation. It is controlled by a self-appointed
board and operates an extensive facility in the Columbus suburbs. The mosque LAW
OFFICES OF JOHN STEMBERGER, P.A. 4853 S. Orange Avenue, Suite C Orlando, Florida
32806 Telephone (407)
251-1957
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membership is quite diverse in
ethnicity and background; however, it has been identified as one of the primary
sources of Islamic extremism in Central Ohio. As this facility is the spiritual
home and directly connected to the Bary family’s daily and weekly life as set
forth in Rifqa Bary’s Affidavit, (Exhibit A) concerns about the mosque’s
leadership and ideology are critical to understanding the potential threat to
Rifqa Bary and this Honorable Court’s decision about whether she should be
declared a dependent of the state and or whether or not she should she be
returned to her family.
I. THE NOOR CENTER CEO AND THE MUSLIM
BROTHERHOOD
The leader of the mosque, Dr. Hany
Saqr, was previously an imam for another area mosque at the same time the
largest known Al-Qaeda cell in the U.S. since 9/11 was operating out of the
mosque. Additionally, Dr. Saqr was identified in exhibits submitted by the
Department of Justice in a recent terrorism finance trial in Texas as being one
of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America – an international
organization responsible for birthing virtually every Islamic terrorist
organization in the world, including Al-Qaeda. One of his subordinates
identified in those trial exhibits was identified in a FBI memorandum as
providing $735,000 to Hamas while under Dr. Saqr’s direction.
II.
THE NOOR CENTER SCHOLAR AND TERRORIST LEADERS
A former Islamic scholar
associated with The Noor Center is Dr. Salah Sultan, a cleric that has been
photographed with terrorist leaders designated as such by the U.S. government.
Dr. Sultan has recently appeared on television inciting violence against Jews,
and he has previously appeared at events in support of designated terrorist
organizations while an active part of the Noor Center community. Following his
departure to Bahrain, unconfirmed reports indicate that his US citizenship
application has been denied and that he has been banned from reentering the
US.
III.
THE NOOR CENTER AND EXTREMIST SPEAKERS
A number of extremist speakers
have been featured at recent Noor Center events who are on record making
statements in support of violence, terrorism and extremism. Evidence also
indicates that some of these speakers have been LAW OFFICES OF JOHN STEMBERGER,
P.A. 4853 S. Orange Avenue, Suite C Orlando, Florida 32806 Telephone (407)
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3 directly involved in fundraising
and supporting the mosque since its inception. One regular speaker and
fundraiser for the Noor Center was listed by federal prosecutors as an
unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing trial.
IV.
THE NOOR CENTER TIED TO NATIONWIDE FBI TERROR INVESTIGATION
The Noor Center has also been
directly tied to the ongoing nationwide investigation into Somali-American
youths who have left the U.S. to train in terror camps operated by the
Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab terror organization. CNN has identified Columbus as
one of the main centers of the FBI’s investigation. This story was recently the
subject of a lengthy front-page New York Times story. One Minneapolis mosque
leader who has been named by others in the Somali community as allowing
Al-Shabaab recruiters to operate in his mosque was a featured speaker at a Noor
Center Somali youth conference just last November. And a Noor Center Somali
youth has appeared repeatedly with another Minneapolis imam who has been
questioned by the FBI regarding more than a dozen of mosque attendees who have
left under such circumstances and been placed by the Department of Homeland
Security on the no-fly list. Additionally, there are also other extremist
elements in the Central Ohio Muslim community that raise concerns about Rifqa’s
potential safety in light of the national media attention to this case. One
example already mentioned is the Al-Qaeda cell that had been operating in the
area. The nationwide FBI investigation into the missing Somali youths has
focused on Columbus as one possible hotspot for terrorist recruitment, as the
city with the second largest Somali population in the country.
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
Notice how the shills are going after everyone and everything surrounding
Rifqa except the truth. They write fallacious reports as to the who and the
where, but never the why. Never the why Rifqa ran. The St. Petersburg Times
is getting in on the return Rifqa to terror movement.
What is beyond the pale is that the media and the Islamists are calling for
charges to be brought against those that provided sanctuary to the teen who
begged for shelter from a family and a community that takes no prisoners. No one
is talking about bringing the the parents up on child endangerment charges or
conspiracy to commit murder charges. Why is that?
This entire article is about prosecuting the Pastor for providing sanctuary.
Of course the Pastor didn't break the law. That's not the point. It is to
discourage anybody from taking in a Muslim girl who runs from Islam. That's what
this is about.
Have you ever seen a pimp who prostitutes teen runaways persecuted the way
the Pastor and his lovely wife Beverly have been? The most foul accusations have
been hurled at these fine people. Smears manufactured by the leftist Islamic
machine. Has anyone in the press asked Rifqa what she thinks of the people that
took he in?
Rifqa Bary, the Ohio teenager who
ran away from her Muslim family, lived in the Orlando home of evangelical
pastors Blake and Beverly Lorenz for 16 days before authorities knew where she
was.
Florida law says you can't shelter
an unmarried minor for more than 24 hours without calling either the authorities
or the parents or guardians of the minor.
Sheltering an unmarried
minor is a first-degree misdemeanor. First-degree misdemeanors are punishable by
up to a year in prison.
The language of the law is clear.
What's not clear is whether authorities are investigating the Lorenzes and what
they did or didn't do when they took in the young Christian convert in late
July.
The Orlando police say their
involvement in the case is over.
State Department of Children and
Families officials say they're not investigating. They asked the Florida
Department of Law Enforcement to do that.
Prosecutors in the State
Attorney's Office in Orlando say they're waiting to see what the FDLE
concludes.
"At this point," FDLE spokeswoman
Kristen Perezluha said, "we're not going to be in a position to say if what the
pastor did was breaking the law or not. We might be able to comment later."
The Bary parents want something
done.
"The 21/2 weeks that Rifqa was
missing were a living hell for the parents. Was she dead? Was she alive?" said
Shayan Elahi, an Orlando lawyer who's serving as a spokesman for the family.
"The Lorenzes, under the statute, had the obligation to go to the authorities
and they did not.
"They didn't follow the law,"
Elahi said.
Rifqa, 17, fled from her family's
home near Columbus, Ohio, because she believes her parents must murder her in an
Islam-mandated "honor killing" due to her conversion to Christianity.
She has been a Christian for four
years. She has also accused her parents of past mental and physical abuse.
The parents, Mohamed, a jeweler,
and Aysha, a homemaker, deny all the allegations, saying they love her and want
her back home, and that she's free to practice whatever religion she wants.
The case for many people has
turned into a high-pitched, polarizing battle between religions. The court
system sees a dependency matter.
Last Friday, a judge in Orlando
decided that the girl should stay in Florida with a foster family, while the
FDLE looks into the legitimacy of her claims.
The next hearing is Sept. 3.
Last month, the girl came to
Orlando because she had met Beverly Lorenz through a Facebook prayer group,
United States of Prayer. They exchanged messages during the spring and early
summer, and late one night in early July talked for 15 minutes on the phone,
praying together.
The girl's first full day in
Orlando was July 22.
Blake Lorenz, 53, said last week
in phone interviews with the Times that at some point he might have
asked the girl if she should call home. "I may have," he said. He said she said
no.
He said his first call to the DCF
was in late July. The DCF says it can't confirm that the caller was Blake Lorenz
— it's an anonymous tip line — but can say that it got a call about this matter
on July 29. Blake Lorenz said he didn't give the girl's name.
"They told me they were going to
send her back to Ohio, probably, and I said, 'I'm not going to give her name,' "
he said. "We didn't want her to go back to Ohio. We were trying to protect her
life."
He said his second call to the DCF
was sometime in the first week of August. The DCF says it got that call on Aug.
6, two weeks after Rifqa arrived in Orlando.
That's the call that triggered a
sequence of calls from one law enforcement agency to the next and ended with the
Orlando police showing up on Aug. 7 at the Lorenzes' four-bedroom house in a
gated community to pick her up.
"There was no criminal intent,"
Blake Lorenz told the Times last week. "This girl came fleeing for her
life."
There have been a good number of lies circulated by big media to counter what
has recently been discovered about the Bary family finances. Today we saw the
Orlando Sentinel paint the "doting father" - here is what Renee the rube
reporter wrote in the Orlando Sentinel:
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Mohamed Bary is
a doting Muslim father, intent on giving his daughter the best
education he can. But he says he made a terrible mistake last
October: He bought her a laptop computer.
A source very close to Rifqa told me that Rifqa bought that computer
out of her own money. It is so interesting (and disgusting) that the
'doting' dad is now claiming he should have never bought the computer.
I am hearing that the Bary parents have a new legal team. Who is paying for
that?
Rifqa told the judge she'd been
a Christian for four years. Her parents learned of her conversion a year ago —
and that she had kept her new faith a secret from them. She proclaimed
herself a Christian on her Facebook page in 2007.
People who know the Barys say
Rifqa's allegations are crazy.
So these "people" say Rifqa is "crazy". Would you send Rifqa back
to a town where they say she is crazy?
"There is no way this man would
hurt his daughter," said Neil Javery, 52, a Hindu and family friend in
Westerville, the Columbus suburb where the Barys live. [...] Away from
home, though, Rifqa was open about her faith. She gathered with other students
for "See you at the Pole," an annual prayer service held at schools around the
country. Until about three months ago, she attended a youth group at the tiny
Korean United Methodist Church in Columbus.
She carried a Bible to
class. That upset her parents, who told her they were afraid — not that
she had converted to another faith but that she'd get in trouble for violating
the separation of church and state.
The devout parents were worried about the separation of church
and state? Say what? And if it was so "safe" for Rifqa to
practice her Christian faith, why did she run? Why did she spend 20 hours on a
bus? Why would she speak of such abuse?
When Rifqa was born, her family
was wealthy and lived in Galle, Sri Lanka. They owned a large house and enjoyed
the benefits of a driver, a cook and a maid.
Rifqa was a tiny newborn,
just 5 pounds, and very quiet, Aysha Bary said. When Rifqa was 5, she fell onto
a toy airplane. It left her blind in the right eye.
This story is a lie. She did not
fall.
Her father insisted she get
medical care in the United States. He feared her care would mean a long
separation from his wife and son, so he moved the family to Queens, N.Y., in 2000.
In 2004, he moved them to the
Columbus area because of its excellent public schools.
By the time the
Barys moved here, though, they were no longer wealthy. Two months after
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Mohamed Bary was on a business trip, flying with
a bag of gems, as he often did. This time, the airline ordered him to check the
bag. It was lost. It contained nearly $400,000 worth of jewels, said David
Leung, 48, of Worthington, Ohio, a close family friend. Financially, the family
has not recovered, he said.
Here is the same amount being cited in Mohamed Bary's application to the US
Citizenship and Immigration Services. His application was denied. I wonder
why.
The Barys live in a small,
two-bedroom apartment and own one car, an 11-year-old Honda station wagon that
has 225,000 miles on it.
A week ago, Rifqa's parents and brothers, ages 5
and 18, climbed into that car and drove 16 hours to Orlando for a court hearing.
They had hoped the judge would order Rifqa back to Ohio.
What judge would order a child back to such a dangerous
situation?
But by then thousands of people
had seen Rifqa on YouTube, crying and saying that her father, because he is a
Muslim, has no option but to kill her for abandoning Islam. Gov. Charlie Crist's office received hundreds of e-mails —
much of it anti-Muslim — urging him block her return to Ohio.
Anti-Muslim as opposed to life saving. How low will these trolls go?
He did not, but he sent his general counsel, Rob Wheeler, and DCF Secretary
George Sheldon to the Aug. 21 hearing. While they sat watching, a DCF lawyer
asked the judge to put off a decision on returning Rifqa to Ohio until Sept. 3.
He did.
DCF also asked the judge to let the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement investigate whether Rifqa's father and other Muslims in Columbus are
a threat to her. The judge said yes to that, as well.
FDLE agents and
child welfare workers inspected the family's home and questioned Rifqa's parents
last week.
"I'm happy they came," her father said. "We have nothing to
hide."
He and his wife are modern Muslims, he said. Now, during the holy
month of Ramadan, a time of prayer, they eat nothing between sunrise and sunset.
Until this year Rifqa fasted with them.
Their prayers this year, her
father said, are that Rifqa will come back to them.
"We want our daughter
back home," he said. "She can practice whatever religion she
wants."
Salam al-Marayati of the Muslim
Public Affairs Council, a thoroughly unpleasant character with whom I have
appeared on many radio shows (on which he invariably likens me to Osama bin
Laden, although I have never flown any planes into buildings, beheaded anyone,
or exhorted anyone to do so), attacks Rifqa Bary, the seventeen-year-old girl
who converted from Islam to Christianity and fled from her home and father after
he threatened to kill her (as she explains here),
and her supporters in a contemptuous, dishonest, condescending and arrogant
piece at the Huffington Post, "Rifqa, the Reverand [sic] and Apostasy"
(August 18).
Hugh
Fitzgerald and Andy Bostom have already weighed in on this utterly
contemptible article, but I have a few things to add.
Al-Marayati is intent on impugning
Rifqa's
own testimony in favor of her father's protestations that he does not intend
to kill her -- and indeed, it is her word against his, and the only price we
will have to pay if al-Marayati turns out to be wrong is a murdered teenage
girl. To support his case, al-Marayati makes essentially two points, both
encapsulated in this sentence: "Mohamed Bary allowed his daughter to become a
cheerleader and says she can practice any faith she wants -- clearly, he is not
a fundamentalist."
His first point is thus that
Mohamed Bary, by allowing his daughter to prance around in skimpy cheerleader
costumes, clearly was not the sort to insist on the finer points of Islamic law
like the death penalty for apostasy (which al-Marayati implies does not exist
anyway, so it's hard to see why it would be a feature of "fundamentalism" in the
first place). However, honor killing victims in the West have invariably been
girls who have been Westernized, adopting Western non-Muslim mores to the
growing dismay of their male relatives. Al-Marayati's point is that if Mohamed
Bary were a "fundamentalist," he would not have allowed Rifqa to become
Westernized in the first place. Real life, however, is not always that simple.
Honor killing victims like Amina and Sarah Said in Texas and Aqsa Parvez in
Canada appear to been quite Westernized for a considerable period before their
relationships with their fathers reached a tipping point, and they were
murdered. Rifqa Bary fled before that could happen, but the fact that she was a
hijab-less cheerleader indicates nothing. Pamela Geller explains further in responding to the same claim from Mike
Thomas of the Orlando Sentinel:
Victims are generally beautiful, Westernized, and dressed in a manner that
perhaps Thomas would term “provocative.” Muslim girls who live in the West lead
two lives. Amina and Sarah Said, allegedly murdered by their father in Texas on
New Year’s Day 2008 for having non-Muslim boyfriends, were honor students, star
athletes, soccer players, tennis players, etc. Rifqa was the same way in Ohio
before she fled. These girls led double lives. The murder always happens when
the family sees they have lost control of the
child.
Al-Marayati's second point is
that, contrary to Rifqa's own claim, the Qur'an says nothing about killing
apostates:
She claims that her parents "love God more than me" and therefore have to
perform an honor killing on her. She argues "it's in the Quran". No it's not,
sweet little Rifqa. It's not in the Quran. Whoever told you that is either
ignorant or a liar. You should look it up yourself before claiming it's in the
Quran.
Rev. Lorenz is then quoted in a local television station report saying that
if a Muslim leaves his religion and does not return to Islam in a couple of
days, then he must be killed. He claims that someone showed him the verse. There
is no such verse, Rev. Lorenz. In every faith, apostasy is shunned but ultimate
judgment is left to God, not people.
Two things are being confused
here: honor killing and the death penalty for apostasy. Honor killing is not
discussed directly in the Qur'an, although it is given strong implicit support
by 18:74, 80-81, when the mysterious figure known in Islamic tradition as Khidr,
traveling with the prophet Moses, kills a young man Moses terms "innocent"
(18:74). Khidr explains: "And as for the lad, his parents were believers and we
feared lest he should oppress them by rebellion and disbelief. So we desired
that their Lord would give them in exchange (a son) better in purity (of
conduct) and closer in affection." The young man is murdered because he is an
unbeliever, so that his parents may be given a believing child in exchange. (Why
the unbelieving son has to be killed before the believing son can be given to
them is not explained.) Thus the precedent is set: a child who is an unbeliever
is killed for his unbelief.
The death penalty for apostasy is
found more directly in the Qur'an -- Islamic authorities generally root it in
two Qur'anic verses, 2:217 and 4:89, as Hugh has noted. Here is 2:217:
They ask thee concerning fighting in the Prohibited Month. Say: "Fighting
therein is a grave (offence); but graver is it in the sight of Allah to prevent
access to the path of Allah, to deny Him, to prevent access to the Sacred
Mosque, and drive out its members." Tumult and oppression are worse than
slaughter. Nor will they cease fighting you until they turn you back from your
faith if they can. And if any of you turn back from their faith and die in
unbelief, their works will bear no fruit in this life and in the Hereafter; they
will be companions of the Fire and will abide therein.
What does it mean that the works
of those who "turn back from their faith and die in unbelief" will "bear no
fruit in this life" as well as in the next? Let's go for an answer to the
Tafsir al-Qurtubi, a classic and thoroughly mainstream exegesis of the
Qur'an. About 2:217, Qurtubi says this:
Scholars disagree about whether or not apostates are asked to repent. One
group say that they are asked to repent and, if they do not, they are killed.
Some say they are given an hour and others a month. Others say that they are
asked to repent three times, and that is the view of Malik. Al-Hasan said they
are asked a hundred times. It is also said that they are killed without being
asked to repent.
Did you notice one option that
Qurtubi never mentions? That's right: he never says anything like "some say the
apostate should not be killed." The only point of contention seems to be how
long the Muslim must wait before he kills the apostate.
Meanwhile, 4:89 says this:
They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the
same footing (as they). But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in
the way of Allah (from what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize
them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or
helpers from their ranks.
Just for the record, Rifqa had no laptop when she converted four years
ago.
Rifqa Bary says: "And I had a laptop and he took that
laptop and waved it in the air and he was about to beat me with it, and he said,
'If you have this Jesus in your heart, you’re dead to me. You’re not my
daughter.' And I refused to speak but he said, 'I will kill you. Tell me the
truth.' In these words, bad words, cuss words. So I knew that I had to get
away.
The deception to cover and advance Islam is staggering over at the dhimmi
Sentinel. Decrying Christian extremists and diabolical laptops, everyone and
everything is to blame, but Islam and the laws mandating the death penalty for
apostasy are never called into question. This is Nazi propaganda.
And this is the case they are going to make to the courts. There is a reason
such trash is being printed. The Huffington Post printed a giant lie about
apostasy today in regards to Rifqa (look for Spencer's piece later on that).
Let me first digress and dispense with Al-Maryati’s crudely unsophisticated
taqiya [3]. Yes, despite Al-Maryati’s denial, apostasy is mentioned in the
Koran—Koran 4:89 [4] most prominently—and the punishment is death, as noted for
example by two of the most important classical Koranic exegetes, Baydawi and Ibn
Kathir, in their commentaries on this verse. Al-Maryati’s crude taqiya fully
ignores the fact that punishment by death for apostasy from Islam is firmly
rooted in all the most holy Muslim texts—both the Koran, and the hadith—as well
as the sacred Islamic Law (the Shari’a). Koran 4:89 [4] states, “They desire
that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all)
alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes)
in Allah’s way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever
you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.” (Andrew
Bostom)
When it comes to the welfare of a minor child, you err on the side of
caution. But not according to the shills in the media. This has nothing to do
with years of abuse and shariah law; the laptop made her do it. Anyone,
anything, but never dare speak ill of Islam
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Mohamed Bary is
a doting Muslim father, intent on giving his daughter the best
education he can. But he says he made a terrible mistake last
October: He bought her a laptop computer.
Because
of that laptop and access to the Internet, he says he lost his daughter to Christian
extremists.
If that were true, why would she make up all that stuff? And if
he is so doting, why would she run away at all? And if she is
such a Christian, she wouldn't lie so. Lying is not part of Christianity. There
is no taqiya in Christianity.
Fathima Rifqa Bary, 17, is 800
miles away, living with a Christian foster family in the Orlando area. She is a
runaway who has become a cause célèbre among evangelical
Christians.
But I'm Jewish.
She fled Ohio last month,
saying her father had threatened to kill her because she had converted to
Christianity.
Not true, Mohamed Bary
said.
"I still cannot believe she would think that," he
said.
But somebody planted that idea in her head, and he is convinced it
was someone she met on the Internet.
Facebook, an online social network in which users select
"friends" from anywhere and everywhere, is where Rifqa met Blake and Beverly
Lorenz, the Orlando husband-and-wife minister team who took her in after she ran
away.
In the weeks before she fled, her parents noticed she would sleep
all day and stay up all night exploring the Internet.
Until this spring,
Rifqa was a model student, an obedient daughter. She earned good grades, worked
part-time at a Chinese restaurant and called home even if she were running just
10 minutes late.
But about the time school ended in May, she began
all-night Facebook sessions. She started withdrawing from family members and
longtime friends, her parents said.
Many of her chats were with
evangelical Christians, her father said. They turned her against him, he
said.
People who know the Barys say
Rifqa's allegations
are crazy.
"There is no way this man would hurt his
daughter," said Neil Javery, 52, a Hindu and family friend in Westerville, the
Columbus suburb where the Barys live.
Aysha Bary is a
stay-at-home mom who speaks little English but breaks into tears over what has
happened.
What about the business she runs? Why no mention of Custom Bridal
Veil?
"My heart goes out to them,"
said Holly Easton of Plain City, Ohio, who owns a wedding gown business
and pays Rifqa's mother to stitch beads onto gowns. "It's horrible. ... I hope
they're able to reconcile, and she comes home and they can be a family
again."
The Barys are not radical Muslims, friends and associates say.
Their household is as normal as any other.
"It's just typical," Easton
said. "Kid comes in, looks at parents, rolls her eyes and goes
upstairs."
How would Easton know? Do we take some plant's word over Rifqa? Read the whole bloody mess so you can see what Rifqa and,
frankly, the whole of the West is up against.
Two religious icons, Faith J. H. McDonnell, director of The Institute on
Religion and Democracy’s Religious Liberty Program and Church Alliance for a New
Sudan, and the author of Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern
Uganda’s Children; and Ruth King,representing Americans for A
Safe Israel, have taken up the cause, the fight for Rifqa's safety.
I had hoped that one Muslim would stand for Rifqa -- the moderate Zuhdi
Jasser, perhaps? His silence is deafening. Perhaps he is too busy writing about
the lessons of Ramadan for the Puff ho.
But here we have a Christian and a Jew representing their respective
organizations standing and fighting for Rifqa's religious liberty and her
unalienable right to be free.
We stand against Islamists, dhimmis and
supremacists.
The indomitable Faith McDonnell :
“She has committed a crime
against the Ummah, or nation state of Islam.”
Gabriel went on to explain that apostasy was punishable by death according to
all four schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence, as well as the Koran, the
Hadith – the words of Mohammed himself, and particularly the Shafi’i school of
Islamic jurisprudence which guides Islam in Sri Lanka. “She is in dire danger
not only from her family because she has soiled the honor of the family, but
from the Islamic community in Columbus, Ohio who feel it is their duty to kill
her according to their religion,” [...]” Blogger Katelyn Beaty
frowns that Rifqa’s story is being used by Christian bloggers and media “as
proof of Islam’s violent roots and the cost of following Christ.” Following
Christ is costly “no matter who’s doing the following,” comments Beaty, equating
high school ridicule and social ostracism with say, beheading . She adds that
the evidence of Islam’s violent roots “is disputable” in the case of Rifqa.
Just as the secular media did, Beaty throws suspicion on Pastors Blake and
Beverly Lorenz of Global Revolution Church. Inadverently, she uses several of
the same key talking points that the Council on American Islamic Relations
(C.A.I.R.) has put forth in their efforts to discredit Rifqa. She quotes the
Bary family attorney who claimed that Bary was not afraid until she met Pastor
Lorenz. Beaty adds signficantly that Lorenz “holds Bary tightly throughout the
video.” Beaty also notes that the famous scholar of Islam Sgt. Jerry Cupp of the
Columbus missing person’s bureau “disputes Bary’s claims, telling The Columbus
Dispatch that Mohamed Bary has known about his daughter's conversion for months
and appears to be caring.” Guess what, Sgt. Cupp and Ms. Beaty. Appearing to be
caring is called taqiya. And Beaty does not mention, that other sources say that
the police talked to friends and teachers of Rifqa who informed them that Rifqa
was in fear for her life and had been the victim of abuse already. Beaty does
cite author and founder of Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer, who calls Rifqa’s
situation a “slow-motion honor killing,” but then exclaims that The Christian
Post “audaciously lists Bary’s story in its ‘persecution’ news file.” I wonder
where she would suggest they list it.
Beaty concludes that believers can rejoice that “this teenager has come to
Christ in a cultural context in which it would be difficult to betray her
parents' teaching.” Describing conversion to Christ as betrayal of the teachings
of Islam is a rather odd way for a fellow Christian to phrase the situation, but
not unheard of. A speaker on religious persecution at the General Assembly of
the National Council of Churches some years ago spoke similarly when she stated
disapprovingly that the only Christians who “experience difficulties” in Iran
were those who “have chosen to leave the communities of faith into which they
were born.”
Finally, says Beaty, “none of this requires that Christians be quick to use
Bary's claims to prove that Muslims — in this case, her parents and mosque
leaders — are intent on killing Bary because their beliefs make them inherently
violent.” She instructs incongruously that “we should also remember the
Christians worldwide who actually risk death by Muslims for following Christ:
like those in Pakistan and Nigeria.” But the words of Mohammed, "If anyone
changes his religion, kill him" (Hadith – Sahih Al-Bukhari 9.84.57) mean the
same thing in Ohio that they do in Asia, and Africa.
Perhaps Beaty and others like her should consider that many of those who have
been “quick” to believe Rifqa Bary are not interested in proving a point about
Muslims, but in protecting a vulnerable girl, convinced that when it comes to
honor killing and apostasy it is better to err on the side of caution than to
add another name and face to the list of the dead. The best assessment of most
of the American Christian church’s comprehension of life under Islamic law came
from Rifqa herself. Trying to explain the danger she faces from her Muslim
parents, the Islamic community in the Columbus, Ohio area, and the entire Ummah,
she exclaimed despairingly, “I’m fighting for my life, you guys don’t
understand. You don’t understand.”
Putting children first is a
bipartisan national policy that mandates legal protection and shelter for minors
in harm’s way. It is the way of all civilized nations.
Why do we not apply this policy to
the treatment of Arab and Moslem children who are routinely used as shields and
props on battle fields; routinely brainwashed to hate; offered as martyrs for
suicide missions; killed in the name of a barbaric code of “honor” by relatives
including siblings and parents?
Rifqa Bary is a seventeen year old
girl who faces danger, abuse and possibly death if she is forced to return to
her parents. Her crime under American standards of law? None. Her disrespect for
American law? None. Anti-social behavior as dictated by the mores of our
society? None.
Why then does Rifqa Bary fear her
parents so that on Thursday September 3rd, a Florida Circuit Judge will decide
whether to send her home to her family or be given a haven and freedom?
What do her parents and her mosque
and Islam see as her crime and violation of law and social behavior and honor?
Her conversion to Christianity four years ago. While her conversion remained
secret her parents thrived economically in Columbus, Ohio where they worshipped
in a local mosque where sermons offered the strictest interpretation of the
Koran.
When the mosque, which has been
under suspicion for abetting terrrism deliberately “outed” Rifqa's conversion to
her family she was subjected to bruises and death threats and fled from her
home. In Florida, an Evangelical church gave her shelter and guidance in filing
for restraint.
Initially, the muted media
interest in her story deliberately ignored the Islamic faith driven death
punishment for apostasy. They chose instead, to smear and defame the church as a
“cult” and accused them of brainwashing Rifqa.
Americans for A Safe Israel joins
a distinguished list of individuals and organizations and journalists who have
come forward in support of the right of Rifqa Bary to seek shelter and
protection to practice her faith and enjoy all basic freedoms guaranteed by our
constitution.
Over at Google Raudensah, an anti-Rifqa, pro-Islam blog that I referenced here last Sunday, the following has been posted (and was
subsequently published at Facebook a couple of days later). I am not going
to fisk it, of course, because everything in this post is a lie, from the basic
-- 'blaming the Global Revolution Church for Rifqa's conversion (Rifqa converted
to Christianity four years ago and had only recently come into contact with the
Global Revolution Church) -- to the ridiculous: "kidnapping" "brainwashing" and
standard operating procedure of obfuscation in Islam.
Dear Brothers & Sisters,
I am sure that you are all well
aware of the case of Rifqa Bary, the daughter of a Sri Lankan brother named Bary
living in Ohio, USA.
Rifqa Bary is converted to
Christianity by a group named Global Revolutionary Church. The media is
manipulating the story in support of this group by producing a video clip where
the girl says that her parents are going to kill her and they refer it to as
"Honor Killing" in Islam. She also continues to say that she would be sent to
her country where Honor Killing is taking place everyday. Even her attorney who
is a Cuban Lady goes on to say that Honor Killing by the Muslims takes place in
USA everyday.
The Global Revolutionary
Church is not only trying to gain recognizance from the public but they are
Insulting Islam by having coached the child to give wrong information about our
religion. Her instructors doesn't know that Sri Lanka is a Buddhist
country therefore they have coached Rifqa Bary to mention that there are 100's
of Honor Killing taking place in Sri Lanka. This proves that her trainers does
not know whether Sri Lanka is a Muslim country or not . If anyone listen to the
video clip with a good headphone you can listen to the instructions given to the
girl by the Pastor who was holding her very tight throughout the whole
interview. The girl looks very upset and feared.
I was able to talk to Br.
Bary few times and he said that his daughter has been influenced by people from
this Revolutionary Group to attend classes conducted in their Church. He said
that his daughter was missing for three weeks and he informed the Ohio police
with regard to that. After three weeks the police have informed that
his daughter was in Orlando. He said that a Pastor named Brian Williams from
Ohio has arranged with another Pastor in Orlando to transport the girl from Ohio
to Orlando and now they are giving a different story to the Media. They have
brainwashed the girl for three weeks and now she is giving a different story to
the media with fear.
According to Ohio State
Law this is a kidnapping case and the lawyers from Bary's side are trying to
bring this Revolutionary group to Justice. We need to support Br. Bary
and his phone number is (347) 247-6568. Please talk to him for further
information. Also CAIR is supporting Bary and they are involved in this
case. CAIR in Ohio is handling this case.
Please forward this email to
everyone you know.
While I was not aware of who "Brian Williams" was, I knew he was not involved
with Rifqa at all. Well, it seems Brian Williams' name was planted quite
deliberately by Islamic leadership and smear merchants in the hopes that they
could befoul and besmirch Christianity (while sanctioning the murderous acts
mandated in Islam and not once addressing the substance and terror Rifqa was
facing). Barbarossa wrote that:
The identification of "a
Pastor named Brian Williams from Ohio" gives us some indication of how
the Bary family and their supporters in the Muslim community intend to respond
to this situation with possibly fabricated claims. The apparent "Pastor
Brian Williams" they are invoking was convicted last year of sexual assault
charges, sentenced to eight years in prison and has been in prison ever
since. There is absolutely no indication that Rifqa had any contact with this
Brian Williams or his church. Rather, reports indicate that Rifqa had
been attending a large evangelical mega-church in the Columbus area. If they
have some other "Pastor Brian Williams" from the Columbus area in mind (a Google
search turned up nothing), they are letting the ambiguity hang out there.
Thus, it seems that they
intend to float this name out there in the hopes that their allies in the
lamestream media pick up this association meme, at which point they can further
embroider their fabricated narrative verifying this pedophile Christian clergy
conspiracy and point to the media reports as proof!
Get it? We must not get sucked into the propaganda campaign of Islamic
supremacists. Honor killing and the penalty of death for the far worse crime of
apostasy strikes fear into the heart of any Muslim girl or woman who wants the
freedom to choose a life of her own. James Morton makes a very salient point in
the Toronto Sun here:
But honour killing kills
the deceased and threatens others. An honour killing uses violence as theatre to
intimidate others. It stands to enforce a sexual code of conduct by violence and
threats.
An honour killing is part
of an organized effort to subjugate women to a specific and oppressive view of
society. Although the total number of honour killings in Canada is
still relatively small, probably less than 50 in total to date, the impact on
the community as a whole is huge. When compared to a worldwide figure of perhaps
5,000 honour killing a year the implied threat is heightened.
But numbers alone do not tell the
story. Even at its height, the number of lynchings in the American South was
fairly small (probably less than 100 a year) but the intimidation huge. Southern
blacks knew the danger of speaking up for their rights; with honour
killings, women can see the risk of behaving outside their place.
Under Canadian law, terrorism
includes an act taken for political, religious or ideological purposes which
threatens the public or national security by killing, seriously harming or
endangering a person. Terrorism is violence designed to intimidate for an
ideological purpose.
That's what an honour
killing is -- violence intended to subjugate and intimidate women.
In the United Kingdom ,the Crown
Prosecution Service has found links between honour killings and terrorism.
Nazir Afzal, the CPS's
spokesperson on honour crime, said a terror group threatened to kill a
woman, now in hiding, for her sexual behaviour.
"They told her husband that if he
didn't put his wife in her place then they would do it themselves," Afzal said.
[...]
Let's call honour killing what it
really is.
Call it terrorism.
And it's why Rifqa must be kept in Florida with a new identity and a new
family. Columbus, Ohio and the extreme Islamic center that Rifqa escaped pose a
grave threat to her life. The dhimmis at Florida's most embarrassing newspaper
are calling for Rifqa to be returned to Ohio here.
Thank G-d for Z Street. They are proud Jews like me, ashamed when American
Jewish organizations grovel at the feet of those planning the destruction of the
Jewish state, the Jewish people.
Today Z Street issued this defense of Rifqa Bary:
THE MEDIA ISN’T INTERESTED WHEN
MUSLIM PARENTS MAKE CREDIBLE DEATH THREATS AGAINST THEIR TEENAGE CONVERT TO
CHRISTIANITY, BUT THEY ‘RELIGIOUSLY’ CONDEMN PRAYER IN SCHOOL AND OTHER
NON-MUSLIM RELIGIOUS EXPRESSIONS
On Thursday, September 3, Florida
Circuit judge Daniel Dawson will decide whether a 17 year old girl can practice
her chosen religion in a safe environment, or if she will be shipped back to her
family where she faces imminent danger and possibly murder.
Z STREET, a new Zionist
organization committed to opposing terrorism and oppressive Muslim law, stands
behind this teenager and supports her decision to both choose her own religion
and to choose freedom from harm, even - especially - from her own family.
Rifqa Bary chose to clandestinely
practice Christianity approximately four years ago. She kept her religious
choice private because she knew her parents, strict Muslims who attend a local
mosque just outside of Columbus, Ohio, would never permit her to leave Islam. A
former scholar at her parents’ radical mosque, a Hamas cleric, was eventually
banned from the United States. Columbus is a suspected nucleus of al Qaeda
activity in the United States.
Mosque members informed Rifqa’s
parents about her Christianity. Bruises on her arms and other parental abuse -
including death threats - led Rifqa to flee her home and run to the security of
a church in Florida. While in Florida, Rifqa filed a legal petition to remain
there and not be shipped back to Ohio.
Much of this story’s (relatively
scarce) media attention has prominently mentioned that the church leader from
whom Rifqa sought refuge is an evangelical Christian. Reverand Blake Lorenz was
accused by Rifqa’s father of kidnapping and brainwashing his daughter. Lorenz’s
church has been called a “fringe cult.”
“The media’s willingness to
publicize smears against conservative Christianity, while failing to focus on
the centuries-long dictates of Islam which demands converts be killed and which
honors those killers, usually family members, is appalling,” said Z STREET
co-founder Lori Lowenthal Marcus.
The choice of the Florida court on
September 3 is to allow Rifqa to freely and safely practice her chosen religion,
or condemn her to return to her family who are strict adherents of a religion
that officially considers it an honor for a family member to kill an apostate -
someone who chooses a religion other than Islam.
Rifqa recognizes the immensity of
the court’s decision: “I want to worship Jesus freely, that’s what I want. I
don’t want to die.”
The press has largely ignored this
life and death decision which pits Muslim parents against their teenage daughter
who chose Christianity over Islam. Islam dictates the parents’ actions - let’s
hope judicial sagacity and respect for human life guide the judge’s. And that
the love of our country’s First Amendment and respect for International human
rights guides the press.
FP:
The liberal and feminist Left is once again shamelessly silent, not coming to
the defense of Fathima Bary. Give us some of your thoughts on this
silence.
Geller: I am profoundly anti-feminist
because it is a phony movement. It is rooted in Marxism-Leninism, and does not
genuinely represent women. It clings to its dogma of multiculturalism, and
embraces the leftist ideology du jour, which in our own day is
Islam.
They are frauds and
liars. High minded leftopathic feminists cloak themselves in self- righteousness
and scorn genuine feminists like Sarah Palin. These women call themselves
feminists and stand on the mall in DC, righteous in their indignation in defense
of late term abortion and the right to kill viable babies (btw, I am pro-choice
-- early that is), while turning the other cheek in the face of Islam's
misogyny. Rifqa Bary's case is just the latest example of this
myopia.
But other people are
taking up the slack. Thank goodness for brave, courageous leaders like Florida
House majority leader Adam Hasner. Hasner issued a statement in defense of Rifqa
Bary. No feminist did.
FP:
How can we better help Muslim women in our own society who face this
oppression?
Geller: By standing up to honor
killers, by calling an honor killing an honor killing, and ending the mainstream
media's covering up for the Islamic roots of the practice.
When Muslim girls like Rifqa Bary, the most courageous girl in
America, see
what happened to Amina and Sarah Said, Aqsa Parvez, and so many others, they're
forced to live out their sentence in their homemade concentration camps, because
they see that there is no escape. If the West will not stand up for its values,
its own unalienable rights, then these girls have no chance.
Do you have any idea
how many Muslim girls are watching, and watching very closely, the case of Rifqa
Bary? She represents their hope of freedom. That's why the Islamists want to
kill her. If she succeeds, she will give other Muslim girls hope. That is why we
must do everything we can to support her and other Muslim girls in danger of
honor killing, by building shelters, creating an underground railroad, and
supporting their attempts to be free.
I am very pleased to the Washington Times is running it. Rifqa Bary
is a landmark case, and the battle is taking place in the media in the war of
ideas and opinion. So go read the whole thing and leave a comment over there.
Indigent or dishonest? Excerpt:
Yet in a Dun and Bradstreet report
filed by Mr. Bary himself for his business, Bary Gems, he states his business
does $237,561 yearly. Mrs. Bary makes high-end bridal gowns (that income may be
off the books, but she works every day). It would appear she works for Custom
Bridal Veil -- a company owned by a Risana Bary, who works with Mr. Bary at Bary
Gems. Risana is apparently Mohamed's wife -- but why is she listed under
different names in different places? The questions regarding their honesty are
inevitable.
Rifqa is a prayer warrior and is very strong in her faith, but could use
encouragement from those who support her. If you want to send her a note of
encouragement or a prayer, they will be compiled into a notebook and given to
her. You can email your notes to info@grcorlando.org or mail them to the church
at P.O. Box 533961, Orlando, Fl 32853.
The church that gave Rifqa
sanctuary is setting up a trust fund for Rifqa and her cause. All monies
collected will go towards Rifqa, her legal defense, and her cause. Not one dime
will be retained by Global Revolution Church and all funds will be administrated
and disseminated by a third party.
If you would like to financially
contribute to Rifqa and her cause, you can do so in a couple ways.
1. By credit card or debit card on
the GRC website. Make sure to designate in the comments section that the funds
are for 'The Rifqa Bary Trust'.
2. By mail. Send check or money
order (no cash please) to the church at P.O. Box 533961, Orlando, FL 32853. Be
sure to designate the check for 'The Rifqa Bary Trust' on the memo line.
You could also arrange for your
church, Bible study, local organizations, etc to take up a collection for Rifqa.
UPDATE: I am waiting on information from the attorneys to
direct donors to a Rifqa Bary Trust Fund that will be administrated separately
from the church. As soon as the info is available, I will post it.
No surprise here, but it is revealing of how Islamists hope to frame the
Rifqa Bary argument. Read the letter by Ahmed M. Rehab Executive director, Council on American-Islamic Relations, to Mike
Thomas, breathtaking shill for the leftist Islamic alliance (my take here).
Does un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR mention the death threat to Rifqa? Does
un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR discuss apostasy in Islam? Does un-indicted
co-conspirator CAIR discuss Rifqa's fears? Does un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR
speak to the danger Rifqa is in? Nah. It's all about "nuance," "perception,"
insulting the ummah, etc. Nothing about the minor child's abuse, fear or peril.
What a sleight of the hand, eh?
It is amusing and ironic that Ahmed Rehab would dare invoke the "public's
ignorance of Islamic history, culture and contemporary affairs" and of Islam's
1,400 year history. It is that very ignorance that makes possible the
advancement of mendacious, fallacious and utterly wrong propaganda such as his.
Bat Ye'or, the world's leading scholar of Islam,
describes the 1,400 years this way:
"over a millennium of jihad wars, land expropriations, enslavements, and
humiliations of the conquered non-Muslim populations on three
continents."
Even the headline is a complete lie. "Rare"? The media never questions Islam,
its teachings, misogyny, and violent acts. It promotes the taqiyya. Name the
last time you saw Ibn Warraq, Dr. Andrew Bostom, Wafa Sultan, Robert Spencer,
etc. in the mainstream media. Name one media outlet that published the Danish
cartoons. Who is the victim and who is the victimized?
Thomas's column on teen rare for
Muslims ...I was pleasantly surprised to note the level of perception and nuance
in Mike Thomas's column about Fathima Rifqa Bary ("Anti-Muslim bias obvious in
girl's case," Orlando Sentinel, Sunday). Such professional
journalism is sorely missing from the usual media treatment of Muslim-related
articles that are too willing to assume the worst.
Thomas is absolutely
correct; the mass incrimination of Muslims is common practice in places where it
would be far-fetched for followers of other faiths. Muslims receive special
flak, not only because we have nut cases in our religion that have given our
religion a bad name — though nut cases exist in all faiths — but because the
media's coverage of Muslims seems to be limited to those nut
cases.
Pundits often portray Islam as a crazy, murderous cult. Because
they rely on the public's ignorance of Islamic history, culture and contemporary
affairs, they do not have to be bothered about their simpleton views being
irreconcilable with 1,400 years of solid civilization by Muslims from China to
Spain, or with the fact that 7 million American Muslims live among their
neighbors in this country as proud, upright citizens.
For those pundits
who are pressured to reconcile the two, the escape clause then becomes,
"American Muslims may seem admirable on the outside, but they are really stealth
jihadists on the inside." And so Rifqa's parents are judged not by who they are
but by what the pundits say they are.
This serial mischaracterization
will not be duly challenged unless more columnists exhibit the journalistic
integrity and cultural smarts of the likes of Mike Thomas.
Express your concerns to the Department of Children and Families at the
contact information provided below:
Department of Children and Families 1317 Winewood
Boulevard Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0700 Website: http://www.myflorida.com/cf_web/
The contact information for the Ohio Child Protective Services is:
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services 30 East Broad Street, 32nd
Floor Columbus, Ohio 43215 Telephone: 1-866-635-3748 Website: http://jfs.ohio.gov/ocomm_root/contactUs.stm
Thank you for contacting Attorney General McCollum's Office.
Rifqa's parents, Mohamad and Aysha Bary, signed affidavits declaring
themselves indigent. That's why the Florida court appointed a lawyer
for the father and a lawyer for the mother. Both their lawyers are being paid by
the taxpayers of Florida. Worse still, Aysha and Mohamed Bary's lawyer asked the
court for more money at Rifqa's custody hearing last Friday, so
that they could wage a campaign to get Rifqa back home -- a campaign involving
depositions, legal docs, filings etc.
Yet in a Dunn and Bradstreet report filed by Mohammad Bary himself for his
business, Bary Gems, he states his business does $237,561 per annum. When I first reported the story, and Risana Bary's name kept popping
up in Mohamed Bary's various business dealings, I thought Mohamed's partner
"Risana" was another family member. She's not. She is his wife, Rifqa's mom.
Aysha Risana Bary makes high-end bridal veils.
According to this website at WESH,com, Aysha is Risana
Bary. That means that Rifqa's mom is a small business owner.
Rifqa's father is a gem dealer and her mother, Aysha Risana Bary, is the proud
owner of Custom Bridal Veil.
According to sources close to the family, Aysha Risana works long and hard
at home every day, making all kinds of high end bridal veils.
Hi there! I am a 7 yr experienced
embellishment in Columbus OH. I have a workroom in my home.. I have a passion
for embellishment. I am willing to work with out of state customers. You can
visit www.custombridalveil.ecrater.com If you have a need for a embellishment...
please contact me. custombridalveil@yahoo.com
Did they sign affidavits stating in front of G-d and man and the law
that they were indigent?
So, let's recap. The Barys own two businesses. The Barys
live in a very affluent neighborhood in Westerville, Ohio, in a house they rent.
They rent because pious Muslims aren't supposed to take on mortgages -- that
would be usury, and is forbidden in the Koran.
According to Dunn and Bradstreet, the business operates out of an address
different from their home address in Westerville - 4282 Nafzger Dr, Columbus OH
43230 (below).
UPDATE: THIS IS THE BUSINESS ADDRESS - PUBLIC ON ALL BUSINESS DOCUMENTS (which is how my readers and
I found it) - I have kept the Bary home address private
I am sure the industrious Barys will claim poverty because they have to pay
taxes on this income -- tax evasion is a federal offense, and so is perjury. So
expect the inevitable denials. But clearly it calls into question their honesty,
their character and the lengths they will go to.
Lie, cheat, steal -- obviously indicative of what we are dealing with.
The leftist Islamic alliance is pulling out all the stops to crush the power
of authenticity, the gospel truth, the word of a just turned 17
year old girl, Rifqa Bary. The Islamic spin machine was slow on the media
spin uptake, as they thought for sure that they had the cat (or in this case
Rifqa) in the bag when they went into the jurisdiction hearing on Friday. They
assumed Rifqa would be sent back to Ohio and dealt with
accordingly.
But the candor and integrity in this girl's desperate
plea set freedom loving people alight. Furious flurries of emails, faxes, and
phone calls from blog readers, talk radio listeners, etc., were frantically made
in a lifesaving plea for this brave girl's life. And G-d bless, she was saved (in more ways than one). And if you haven't
dashed off a note of thanks to Governor Crist, by all means do it.
But
now, the cultural jihadists and their infiltrators are furiously at work. The
media puppets are called to do their masters' bidding. And so they are. I called
the shills over at The Orlando Sentinel to task here and here and here. But that was only the beginning. That was small
taters.
Now, a larger context comes into play. Those who question the violent
teachings of Muhammad are being painted with the racist brush. The objective is
to smear those who dare speak the truth and validate,
with scholarship and historic evidence and accuracy, Rifqa Bary's claims. The
left's weapon - ridicule and smear. If you destroy a person, their analysis and
work is destroyed as well, rendered worthless.
Today, Kos, the largest left-wing blog on the net, went after
"anti-Muslim" blogs and pundits. Robert Spencer, best selling author of nine
books (his latest is "The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran," which is about
to hit the book stores), renowned scholar on Islam and great friend of Atlas,
beheaded Kos's fallacious and intellectually dishonest argument.
This is the strategy. It is no accident that Kos decided to do a counter
jihad smear today. You can't attack a little girl every day and rally the folks.
So now it's time to take down her defenders.
Leftist/Jihadist Alliance Update:
"LoonWatch Explores the Underworld of Anti-Muslim Blogging," by Devon Moore at
the Daily Kos, August 24:
The anti-Muslim blogosphere is a cesspool of some of the most vile hatred and
misinformation on the internet.
It is not "hate" to report
accurately on how Islamic jihadists use Islamic texts and teachings to justify
violence against non-Muslims. Nor is it "anti-Muslim" to do so. If the Kos gang
is interested in actual "hate," they should write about those who kill
unbelievers and oppress women in the name of Sharia. It is not "hate" to defend
the equality of rights of women with men, freedom of speech, and other rights
that are denied under Sharia.
The anti-Muslims cover a wide spectrum though most can be found slithering in
the Right-Wing. They range from academics such as Daniel Pipes, self-declared
scholars like Robert Spencer and his JihadWatch, to open racists such as Debbie
Schlussel, Pamela Geller and the blog Gates of
Vienna.
"Open racists"? When the Left
can't argue (which is most of the time), they smear and lie. Schlussel and
Geller are freedom fighters, warriors for human rights. Only to a Leftist would
that be "racist." They are not open racists or closet racists or any kind of
racists.
It should be noted that the anti-Muslim blogosphere is not a monolith, they
come from various, mostly conservative backgrounds but are only united by a
hatred of Islam and Muslims. So it is no surprise that this bloc has in the past
turned on one another. The most glaring feud being the one between Charles
Johnson (Little Green Footballs) and JihadWatch's Robert Spencer; a feud that
broke out over whether or not the anti-Muslims should join forces with European
neo-fascists.
Just for the record, the "feud"
did not break out over "whether or not the anti-Muslims should join forces with
European neo-fascists." It broke out over a couple
of weblinks. No one was or is saying that anti-jihadists (which is not the
same thing as "anti-Muslims") should join forces with European neo-fascists. The
question was whether one could find wanting Johnson's "proof" that certain
groups were actually neo-fascist without in turn being defamed as a neo-fascist
and racist by Johnson. The answer turned out to be no. But the issue here was
never whether anyone should ally with genuine European neo-fascists. Of course
no one should.
Various websites have taken up the task of chronicling the exploits and
breaking down the hate of the anti-Muslim blogosphere. There is
Islamophobia-Watch, Islamophobia.org, and a few others though none seem to be as
organized, or updated as their opponents. However, LoonWatch, a site that I have
been following since I learned about it over 3 months ago and which I have
featured as an editor of the Islam page on Topix is one site that gives the
anti-Muslims a run for their money.
For one, they aren't defensive, instead they satirize and poke fun at the
lunacy that is Islamophobia such as: blaming every negative piece of news from
the Middle East on Islam, calls for nuking Mekka, the stereotypes of the
subjugation of covered women, evil Muslim cells lurking around the corner,
leftists colluding with Muslim terrorists, etc.
They "satirize and poke fun." In
other words, they can't answer the arguments presented (not that I do the things
enumerated above in the first place). It's straight out of the Left's playbook.
As Alinsky put it in Rules for Radicals, "RULE 5: 'Ridicule is man's
most potent weapon.' There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It
also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions."
I am pointing this out to you because this is a campaign that is being waged
by the left and the islamists to attempt to control the damage by one little
girl who dared to tell the truth. And this is just the beginning. It will not
end. In order to destroy Rifqa, they must destroy the truth. In order to
destroy the truth, they must destroy the truth tellers.
Not surprisingly, Rifqa is turning into a cause célèbre. Conservative
websites often accused of anti-Muslim agendas, such as the Jawa Report, Atlas
Shrugs and WorldNetDaily, have been lighting up over the Rifqa fight.
No doubt conservative and anti-U.S. Muslim will eventually step into the
media frenzy.
Rifqa is an apostate in America. The icon of freedom vs shariah. In
an Islamic country, she would be history. In America? Well, that is what is at
play here, is it not?
...a secret strategy meeting
conducted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) earlier this week
has conveyed the strategy that the media's favorite Islamist group has devised
to respond to the ongoing public relations crisis. According to my source who
attended the strategy session, CAIR officials handed out copies of this Orlando Sentinel article and want supporters to push the meme
that Christians have brainwashed and abducted this gullible teenage girl. They
have also instructed supporters to circulate rumors that Rifqa had been
carousing with infidel boys and engaged in acts of immorality. This CAIR
strategy takes the focus off the near-universal Islamic legal precepts and
Quranic injunctions that demand death for apostates and impugns the character of the
innocent girl at the center of this controversy who appears to be in genuine
fear for her life if she is returned to her parents.
Rifqa Bary faces death for her
apostasy from Islam, while the media ignores the solid religious and
institutional grounding for the practice. Today. In America.
Magdi Allam, is an intrepid
Egyptian-born writer and vociferous critic of jihadism who was publicly converted to Christianity from Islam by Pope Benedict
XVI during an Easter eve service in St Peter's Basilica broadcast worldwide,
Saturday March 22, 2008. Writing at the time of his public apostasy, Allam
highlighted the West's weakness and flaccidity, foremost, its stifling
multiculturalism.
Allam decried the multicultural
ethos for blandly asserting the "equality" of cultural and religious mores, even
abjuring rational criticism of Islamic religious bigotry -- such as
authoritative Islam's living, consensus jurisprudence that those who apostasize
from Islam must be killed -- lest the tender sensibilities of Muslims be
offended. He noted how in his adopted homeland of Italy, every Muslim can go to
a mosque, but in the Muslim world there is ongoing and long-standing
discrimination against religious minorities -- notably Christians -- entirely
ignored by Western multiculturalists, of all ilks. Allam
observed, moreover, the perverse phenomenon that in Western countries,
"When a Westerner decides to convert to Islam, that's fine, but
when a Muslim converts to Christianity, it is suddenly the end of the world.
Everyone condemns him, as though he has done something of which he should be
ashamed."
"I say that it is time to put an end to the abuse and the violence of
Muslims who do not respect the freedom of religious choice. In Italy there are
thousands of converts to Islam who live their new faith in peace. But there
are also thousands of Muslim converts to Christianity who are forced to hide
their faith out of fear of being assassinated by Islamic extremists who lurk
among us. If in Italy, in our home, the cradle of Catholicism, we are not
prepared to guarantee complete religious freedom to everyone, how can we ever be
credible when we denounce the violation of this freedom elsewhere in the world."
The unassuming and previously
unknown Rifqa
Bary, has now become, arguably, America's most conspicuous apostate from
Islam to Christianity. Truncated, grossly warped media depictions of her plight
demonstrate that the American chattering classes remain stubbornly unwilling to
even acknowledge, let alone confront Islam's malevolent doctrinal intolerance,
ignoring Magdi Allam's plaintive appeal.
Just for knowing, Rifqa Bary is the most courageous person I know. I
stand in awe of her and will protect her right to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness as steadfastly as I would protect my own.
These assclowns will be exposed every time they pull this. It looks
awfully bad to keep going after a little girl. Even these depraved evildoers
know that. So they alternate -- ruin the girl, then ridicule the truth tellers.
Labels, labels, labels. "Racist!" "Anti-Muslim Bigot!"
"Islamophobe!"
Everyone can breathe easier now that we have put Mike Thomas of the Orlando
Sentinel's feet to the fire. He is on da job, doing research the
Orlando Sentinel way! Rifqa Bary is in good hands with the dinosaur media.
Atlas reader Craig has been exchanging emails with the brain:
I am a resident of Orlando,
Florida. Have been here over 50 years.
I contacted
Mike Thomas by email and got these replies:
After I told
him that Honor killings were happening daily, all over the world, he said:
"Criag, when
did you become an Islamic scholar?"
He even
spelled my name wrong. It is Craig.
Then, after
I told him that I've spent the last two years investigating these things, and
have a hisitory of learning ancient langages so as to read religious texts in
the original as much as possible, he said,
"I
talk to Muslims, look at their crime rate compared to other faiths and read the
Bill of Rights."
Those intrepid geniuses over at The Orlando Sentinel are working
overtime! They haven't gotten off their fat asses and done any work, mind you.
But they are running more ads, asking you to do their work for them again on the Rifqa Bary case --
especially the anti-Muslim angle, as opposed to the "save the girl's life"
take.
May I recommend that my expert readers and pundits contact the vegetables and
leftools at the O.S. and see if you can edumacate 'em some :)
6. RELIGION: Teenage Convert from Islam to
Christianity Seeking Sanctuary -- Orlando Sentinel (FL)
I'm seeking expert insight (e-mail observations are welcome) regarding an
Ohio teenager who ran away to Florida, saying she was afraid her father would
kill her for converting from Islam to Christianity. She had been living with a
husband/wife pastor team, whom she met through a prayer group on Facebook. They
took her in after she ran away, rode a bus from Ohio and popped up unannounced
in Orlando. I'm looking to discuss the prevailing issues of sanctuary, religious
freedom, anti-Muslim bias, honor killings, jurisdiction, propriety of clergy
housing a teenage runaway, etc. The full story is found at:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-bk-rifqa-bary-ohio-teen-runaway-082109,0,2812365.story
Contact: Darryl Owens, dowens@orlandosentinel.com
UPDATE: Atlas Reader David H has more knowledge in his pinky
toenail than all of the useful idiots at the Orlando Sentinel. David was
responding to this editorial in the Orlando Sentinel
Mr. Thomas, your article asks a
number of questions and also contains some inaccurate information. I will do
what I can to address all the issues I take with it. First, I am not personally
involved in the case with the exception of advocating the life liberty and
pursuit of happiness for Rifqa Bary. I take the position of not returning Rifqa
to her parents or Ohio based on 10 years of living and working with the
officials and local populations in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan
and Afghanistan. I have also visited Jordan, Egypt and Kuwait for periods of
three to four weeks.. I have taught Middle Eastern Studies at a government
institution.
First, calling the struggle to
protect Rifqa Bary a “Second Crusade” shows a lack of history as well as a lack
of objectivity on your part. The Crusades were an attempt to retake land and
sites sacred to Christianity that had been conquered and occupied by the Muslims
since the 760's CE. To equate the attempts to retake those lands with genuine
concern for a young lady's safety is ludicrous. The Crusades were bloody as were
the wars wages by Muslims both prior to and following the Crusades. The efforts
to safeguard Rifqa Bary are peaceful and with the intent to prevent bloodshed.
The claim that her father wants to
murder Rifqa is a serious allegation and one that needs to be taken seriously by
the authorities. If you look at the recent honor murders in the US, Canada and
other countries you will find that in many cases there was no report of violence
with the perpetrators' until the actual murder, so you have to ask yourself what
prompted the murderous act? They all came about because a female member of the
family crossed a line in Islam that demanded their death as punishment. In Islam
the concept of shame holds the same significance as guilt does for Christians.
Usually the attack occurs when something the female has done becomes public
knowledge and this public "shame", whether it was filing for divorce, a
pregnancy brought about by rape or public knowledge of a relationship with
non-Muslims, no matter how innocent, is what sparks the murder.
In bringing up the Elian Gonzalez
case you are incorrect. According to Federal law, once that child reached our
shores, he was entitled to stay in the US. Elian was sent back by a Justice
Department and Administration wanting to curry favor with the Marxist regime in
Havana. Do you really think that Elian's father had a free choice in whether he
asked for him to be returned or not? Your words used in the Terri Shiavo case
shows your bias. Where was it proved that her mind was not working? The
husband's lack of following his stated purpose for the settlement should at
least have been cause for further scrutiny by the press, funny how no serious
follow-up investigations occurred.
The stereotyping Mr. Thomas, is
being done by you. You extrapolate the concern for Rifqa's life into an attack
on all Muslims. Should all Christians now attack you, Rene Stutzman and the
Orlando Sentinel for the "insult to all of Christianity" you have made in
questioning the motives of the pastor and the alleged hatred that Christians
bear for Muslims? Yet this is the rationale you use in saying that the concern
for Rifqa's safety is an attack on all Muslims.
In your article I do not see any
concern for Rifqa's safety whatsoever. You throw out her concerns due to your
and most of America's ignorance or complicity with Islamic doctrine and values.
If Rifqa was trying to get away from her family's strict Christian of Jewish
beliefs (even there would be no threat to her life as you have admitted in your
article) you would be championing her cause. Why is it in all of these
proceedings you do not wish to possibly err on the side of caution? Do you not
understand that the dictate to murder Rifqa is incumbent on every member of the
Islamic community and not just her parents? You admit you do not know the Bary
family dynamics, yet you are willing to risk Rifqa's life on your ignorance, how
generous of you.
The state of Ohio has the 9th
largest Muslim population in the US, following close behind Texas, Virginia,
Michigan and Indiana. The Noor Islamic Center is a documented center of Jihadist
support. If Ohio's public servants are so ignorant and inept that they can not
perform the mental arithmetic to conclude that a community that hosts speakers
who want to turn this country into an Islamic state with the possibility that
they will also follow the other tenants of their doctrine, then those
authorities DO need to be investigated. If you have not investigated the Noor
Islamic Center and discovered their Jihadist ties, then shame on you.
As for the activities that Rifqa
has been allowed to participate in at school: this is where each family has
exercised leeway, at least in countries not ruled by Islamic governments. A vast
number of Muslim men living in countries like the US do set different standards
for their daughters' conduct. But once that line is crossed, the response is
deadly. For the Said sisters in Texas, it was dating non-Muslim boys that
prompted their father to shoot them and leave them dying in his cab on New
Year's Eve two year ago. For Muzzammil Hassan it was his wife filing for divorce
that caused the man who had founded a TV station dedicated to showing how
moderate Muslims are, to chop off her head. Rifqa has alleged that her father
threatened to murder her. Do you think that her father is going to come out and
admit this freely? Especially when it is permissible for him in the Koran to lie
to Non-Muslims?
According to Rifqa, her parent
only recently found out about her becoming a Christian, again you are taking
sides instead of presenting Rifqa's side of the story as well. You sarcasm is
really inappropriate, your analysis one dimensional and your investigation
non-existent. So I will help you a little. First, the Bary's have sold their
jewelry business. Why would they choose this moment to liquidate their assets
and have a ready reserve of cash on hand? Since Rifqa is a minor she can be
taken back to Sir Lanka or another Muslim country and murdered there, where even
if the father does turn himself over to the police, the sentence will be light.
Rifqa could "run away again" and in fact be taken away by several young men from
the Mosque, this time never to be heard from again. The sorrowful parents would
then garner sympathy from the press and country about how they did everything
possible but "that Christian cult must have taken her away". All you have to do
is look at other murder cases which involve family members as the perpetrator or
accessory, including those who have fooled authorities for months or years. A
certain former policeman with deceased ex-wives and a missing wife comes to
mind...
Comparing the followers of the
Koran to Christians not following the dictates of the Old Testament is another
false analogy. Christian doctrine for the most part does not follow most of the
dictates of the Old Testament, not in the calendar, holidays, personal or
congregational practices. There is nothing in western Christian teachings that
calls for members of the faith to kill those who leave the faith certainly not
in the New Testament and not in theological writings of mainstream Christianity
for the last several hundred years. But killing apostates does exist in the
Koran and in the teachings and commentaries throughout the history of Islam and
are currently endorsed by Islamic Religious leaders and institutions around the
world.. Evidence of its practice can be seen almost daily around the world if
you care to look. Anything that can be seen as an affront to Islam can result in
death, especially when it comes to women.
hear is an example: Last year in
Pakistan three teenage girls announced that they would go to the magistrate and
file proceedings that would allow them to marry whoever they wished. The mother
and aunt walked with them to the magistrate. They were intercepted by an
official car carrying the uncle and several men. All the women were shot and
buried alive along the road. Their uncle is a member of the Benazir Bhutto's
Pakistan Peoples’ Party in Baluchistan Province. One of the PPP’s MP in the
national Parliament even spoke out in favor of the murders saying it was
justified.
I am not saying every Muslim
abides by the "dark saying of their faith". What I am saying is that those who
attend Muslim controlled education have these ideas drilled into their heads to
some extent. Whenever "shame" is brought to the family by a female, the
inclination is to remove the stain from the family honor. This inclination is
reinforced to the same extent that the larger Islamic community surrounds and
exerts control over the family. This is the true danger of sending Rifqa back to
Ohio, especially since the authorities are clueless as to what they are dealing
with.
My question to you is where is
your concern for Rifqa to be protected from Islamic religious teachings and does
the rule of law apply to her rights as well? The rule of law has not prevented
honor murders yet, just as it has not stopped murders for any other reason. Once
the crime is committed, any concern or outrage will be too late to help the
victim.
Here is a "French" take on media malfeasance in the Rifqa Bary coverage.
Nidra Poller responds to this Atlas post exposing the shills over at the Orlando
Sentinel:
Dear Pamela, I wanted to
give Amy Edwards a chance to reply to my letter before eventually forwarding a
copy to you. But to my surprise and astonishment I received an "out of office"
reply.
Rifqa Barry's case is going to
be heard today, and the journalist who is "covering"
it for the Orlando Sentinel isn't available until Monday. She asked people to
send her information...and closed her doors and windows.
So
here is the letter, which you are free to publish.
I
understand that you have been covering the Rifqa Bary case. You claim that there
have been exaggerations "on both sides." I assume that you don't know how these
situations are handled in France.
We
have the largest Muslim population of any western European country. France has
made major concessions to Muslim demands on all levels while at the same time
taking a firm stand on certain questions, such as the prohibition of hijab in
public schools and government offices.
Both sides, you might say, are discontented. No
matter how many accomodations made by French authorities, the Muslim Brotherhood
is never satisfied . But liberated free-thinking Muslim French women are
constantly urging the government to offer greater protectionagainst extremists
who want to impose sharia.
That, in a few brief words, is the context.
Now for the specifics: on the question of
runaway Muslim girls and women, French authorities consistently provide refuge.
Offering refuge to Muslim girls and women who flee oppression and death threats
from their families is so commonplace it rarely gets into the news. I can't
imagine a French social worker refusing to believe that the woman'who seeks
refuge is not truly in danger.
Because we have a huge Muslim population and
extensive experience with these situations, the danger of "honor" killings is
taken seriously. Runaway girls and women are housed in secret locations where
family members can not reach them.
Rifqa Bary would be given refuge without a
sliver of a doubt.
Muslim families often try to marry their
teenage daughters to men in the home country during school vacations. When the
girl's classmates--Muslim or not--suspect this has happened because the girl
doesn't return to school after the vacation, they report it to the authorities
who investigate and intervene when necessary. These Muslim girls are French
citizens--as Rifqa Bary is American. As citizens they are entitled to the
protection of French authorities. Whatever their origin or religious beliefs,
families do not have the right to deprive their children of the freedom granted
to all citizens.
It
is curious to observe the ignorance of American authorities and media on such
fundamental issues. And it is troubling to see that the freedom of a young woman
is taken so lightly in the United States, the land of liberty.
Finally, FOX news has someone on that knows what they are talking about.
Atlas props to Brigitte Gabriel, who kicks the clueless to the curb. Go
Brigitte! Holding my breath waiting for Spencer's appearance on FOX (right
behind Ibn Warraq, Sultan, Bostom). My kingdom for Bat Ye'or!
Killing Rifqa Andrew
Bostom Rifqa Bary faces death for her
apostasy from Islam, while the media ignores the solid religious and
institutional grounding for the practice. Today. In America. More
Rifqa Bary’s public apostasy from
Islam is a watershed event which will gauge just how far into the depths of
stultifying Islamic correctness we have descended.
The mainstream media narrative, in
stark contrast to Pamela Geller’s hardboiled (while patent) shoe leather
reporting, was apparently developed via inept, lazy and uninformed
pseudo-investigation, and imbued with an impenetrable “see no Islam” mentality.
Hence the repeated media portrayals of Rifqa Bary as a delusional teenage rebel,
“brainwashed” to leave her loving middle-American Muslim home by a Florida-based
fringe Christian cult. Although Fox News television has at least reported the
story, it has also been a (the?) major purveyor of this warped narrative, and
its coverage has been devoid of the critical Islamic context—in legal theory and
practice—regarding apostasy.
Fox News legal analysts—with the
exception of one who hosted a pellucid ~ 4-minute discussion by security expert Frank
Gaffney—have blathered endlessly regarding “jurisdiction,”Florida versus Ohio, yet they appear incurious about the corpus of
germane Islamic jurisprudence—which remains applicable in our era—sanctioning
the killing of apostates. Fox News has ignored moving and informed written
public appeals in support of Rifqa Bary by two prominent, remarkably courageous
Muslim apostate intellectuals who have sought refuge in America , Nonie Darwish, and Wafa
Sultan. Fox News has also failed to provide its vast audience with the
insights of the most authoritative contemporary scholar on apostasy in Islam—Ibn Warraq , author of the definitive modern work on the
subject, “Leaving Islam.” Mr. Warraq is also
a refugee from lethal Islamic intolerance now living in America. All
three of these individuals—Nonie Darwish, Wafa Sultan, and Ibn Warraq—are readily accessible
to Fox News, but the media giant has thus far chosen not to interview them and
share their views.. ...
...The media’s ignorance (or
denial) of relevant Islamic jurisprudence on apostasy is compounded by
its obliviousness to public pronouncements by North American Muslim
legal scholars and clerics urging draconian punishments for Muslims who renounce
Islam in Canada, or the US.
Syed Mumtaz Ali, the ate architect of Canada's Sharia (Islamic Law)
tribunal, and law professor Ali Khan, for example both advocated extending
Islamic apostasy laws to the West. Mumtaz Ali, in a disturbing essay, affirmed
the traditional Islamic legal viewpoint that apostates must “choose between
Islam and the sword,” arguing further that if Canada were to act in accord with
its own Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Canadian government must grant the
country’s Islamic community authority to punish those Muslims who apostasize, or
malign their faith. Washburn (Topeka, Kansas) University Law Professor, Ali
Khan, another practicing Muslim, provided a more original, but no less chilling
rationale for Muslims in the West to violate—fatally—the basic freedom of
conscience of their co-religionists. Khan argued in The Cumberland
Law Review that apostasy from Islam is an “attack” upon
“protected knowledge,” which if deemed (i.e., by some Islamic tribunal one must
assume!) to be “open, hostile, and voiced contemptuously,” justified punishment
by death. Ali Khan is convinced that traditional Islamic law precepts
antithetical to freedom of conscience nevertheless trump this foundational
Western freedom, because,
“Islam is the truth beyond doubt.
[And] [t] hese rules preserve the dignity of protected
knowledge, discouraging an ‘easy in, easy out’ attitude toward Islam.”
“There is great wisdom
(hikma) associated with the established and preserved position (capital
punishment), and so, even if it makes some uncomfortable in the face of the
hegemonic modern human-rights discourse, one should not dismiss it out of
hand.”
Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wafa Sultan, Geert Wilders ........ these
truth tellers live under 24-hour guard because of Islamic death threats against
them, which they received because they spoke the truth about Islam. Rifqa Bary's
crime of apostasy is far worse. Her testimony is far more egregious.
Rifqa Bary is the highest value target in America.
She should be under 24 hour guard. Period.
There is an almost incomprehensible, misogynist column over at the Orlando Sentinel that is so inaccurate, so misinformed, so
dangerous, that "columnist" Mike Thomas ought to be charged with incitement to
violent honor killing.
This tool, who wrote this at the behest of his masters, got nothing right.
Not one detail. Further, at no point did he consider Rifqa's testimony. At no
point did he consider the consequences of Rifqa's testimony. At no point did he
consider the risk to Rifqa's life.
Mike Thomas decries an "anti-Muslim" bias in the media coverage. I posit the
opposite. There is an anti-Christian bias. They are vilifying the good
Christians who provided sanctuary to Rifqa, who sought only to escape a promised
violent end. They have been reporting only the parents' Islamist
narrative -- giving Rifqa's story no air time or ink. They repeat the lies
over and over again. Folks have to go to you tube to hear Rifqa in her own words. Why has not one
media outlet had on an expert/scholar on apostasy in Islam? Why hasn't Ibn
Warraq or Wafa Sultan been called? This borders on criminal. I heard that the
completely uninformed Walid Phares was on today. The man is a political pundit,
he is clueless. Robert Spencer, wherefore art thou? The only responsible expert
who weighed in was Frank Gaffney here.
Not one scholar on Islam. Anywhere.
The Islamic machinery is in full swing. The ruling on Friday was unexpected.
They never expected that G-d, Rifqa and the people would prevail upon the powers
that be in Florida. So now they are in overdrive. Just watch.
CAIR officials
handed out copies of this Orlando Sentinel article and want supporters to push
the meme that Christians have brainwashed and abducted this gullible teenage
girl.
Dr. Andrew Bostom states in tomorrow's American Thinker, "Rifqa
Bary’s public apostasy from Islam is a watershed event which will gauge just how
far into the depths of stultifying Islamic correctness we have descended".
Fathima Rifqa Bary is playing a
familiar role in Florida's latest cultural clash, a symbol who
personalizes a much
broader conflict.
Claiming her Muslim
father is going to kill her for converting to Christianity, Rifqa fled her Ohio
home and was taken in initially by Blake and Beverly Lorenz, who head the Global
Revolution Church. Blake has been quoted as saying Christians are at war
with Islam and that Islam is evil. And those who share that view have embraced
this case.
It brings back memories of Elián González, the Cuban
boy whose arrival in Miami caused a furor as the exile community tried to block
his father from bringing Elián back to the island. And then there was the
right-to-life battle over Terri Schiavo, waged between her parents, who wanted
to maintain her mindless body on a feeding tube, and her husband, who wanted the
tube removed.
And the left was wrong on both issues. Elián Gonzalez was
never given a shot. Clinton went in there with guns and kidnapped this child
from his loved ones. His mother died trying to escape Fidel's Cuba. It was a
crime against humanity to send Elián back to that hellhole.
And Terry Schiavo was murdered by the left. Murdered. Are they bragging that
they ripped this girl from her loving family's arms and killed her? (Check out
all of Atlas Shrugs' Terri Schindler Schiavo coverage here). The left loves
to instruct us on whose life is valuable and whose is not.
It's clear that Mike Thomas is a mental vegetable, but you don't hear me
advocating for euthanasia in his case :)
Rifqa, 17, is a symbol
for those who believe we are fighting Round 2 of the
Crusades.
For them, the stereotype falls
perfectly into place: Conniving Muslim extremist plans to murder his innocent
daughter for turning to Jesus.
The case went to court last
week. And in a rather
surprising twist, rather than send Rifqa back to Ohio, Circuit
Judge Daniel Dawson decided to investigate Ohio. And so the Florida Department
of Law Enforcement is off to determine her survival chances there.
And in a "rather surprising twist," Governor Crist stepped in to
save a child's life. SHOCKING!
One assumes this had something
to do with the intervention of Gov. Charlie Crist, who faces a conservative challenge from Marco Rubio in the Republican U.S. Senate primary. Not to be left out, Rubio promptly issued
a statement in support of Rifqa and spammed it to the
media.
Left
unanswered is what business Florida has involving itself in this
matter. The people best suited to determine the threat level to
Rifqa are the cops and social workers in Ohio familiar with the Bary
family and the Muslim community. It appeared they had worked out a good
compromise plan, allowing Rifqa to go into foster care while they ensured her
safety.
Yes, that's why Florida needs to investigate. The corruption of Ohio law
enforcement deserves a special prosecutor. OHIO Law Enforcement COVER-UP on Rifqa Bary's Abuse. A
police officer involved in this case from Columbus told my source that he had
talked to 20 people, and almost all 20 said she was in fear for her
life.
One of Rifqa's out of state friends used to talk to Rifqa frequently on the
phone. She said they had to use code words (that they had established earlier)
when talking about Christianity, so that her parents would not know what she was
saying on the phone.
And one of Rifqa's teachers said she knew Rifqa's life was in danger, but
became very frightened when told by the school to "stay out of this"...
If there is evidence that the
folks in Ohio are incompetent and need Florida's assistance, I would like to
hear it.
I just presented it, asshat. And it was published here and also here by International Christian Concern. Why don't you get off
your fat ass and get to Ohio and do something really cutting edge - like
questioning Rifqa's friends or doing some actual reporting?
I do not know the Bary family's
dynamics.
Bingo! Investigate, man!
From what I have read, Rifqa's
father, Mohamed Bary, brought his family to America from Sri Lanka in 2000, at
least in part to seek medical treatment for Rifqa after she lost the sight in
one eye.
Did Mike Thomas bother to find out the circumstances behind the loss of the
eye? Does Thomas know that Rifqa was forced to lie by her parents on how
she lost that eye?
He sends her to a top
high school, where she has excelled and where she is a
cheerleader.
Somehow I can't imagine a Muslim extremist
allowing his daughter to wear short skirts and shake pompoms in front of a crowd
of infidels.
This is America, the West. Not an advanced Islamic state (at least not yet).
You knew this was coming because Thomas is utterly clueless. This man knows
nothing of honor killings in the West. Look at the girls here -- all of them beautiful, Westernized,
dressed in a manner that perhaps Mr. Thomas would term "provocatively", eh?
Those misogynists all have the same vocabulary.
Muslim girls who live in the West lead two lives. Just as
Amina and Sarah Said were honor students, star athletes, soccer players, tennis
players, etc., so was Rifqa. Amina and Sarah did it all. These girls led double
lives. The murder always happens when the parent/family sees they have lost
control of the child. In the case of Amina and Sarah, the girls ran away. The
mother lured them back, and they were both dead less than 24 hours later. Aqsa
Parvez had left the house and was staying with friends when she too was lured
back, only to be murdered.
The girls live in a constant state of war, negotiating the terms of
surrender. The tug, the back and forth, goes on for years. The negotiation
precedes it for years. It is only when the parent loses control of the child --
either they run away, file for divorce, leave the faith, etc., act independently
in some way, that they are murdered in the final act of control. They "win" and
cleanse the family of the dishonor of their daughter's un-islamic behavior.
Bary is a middle-class jeweler
with no documented history of abuse and no record of radical actions or beliefs.
Whatever his disagreements with Rifqa — and what parent of a teen hasn't had his
or her share? — he obviously had invested a lot in her care and
upbringing.
Most of the girls who are honor murdered in the West suffer abuse unknown to
law enforcement authorities. But the friends know. Teachers know. Amina and
Sarah told teachers, friends etc. So did Rifqa ....for years.
Yet last month — long after
learning she had become a Christian — he suddenly decided to kill her over
it.
He forced her to take Islamic classes. She promised she would try to
"return". Rifqa said here: "A couple of weeks later, after I told my
dad that I would follow -- I wouldn’t follow Islam, but would learn more about
it. Then he put me in
class after class after class after class, thinking that, you know, that my mind
was gonna be back in it, but of course not, I’m a follower of
God, Jesus, the true living Jesus! But a couple of weeks later my mom found a
Christian book and I knew right then that it was over for me. I had to
leave.
So Mr. Thomas, you lie. Her mother discovered
her journal. She called the father home -- he was on a business trip which he
abruptly cut short to "deal with Rifqa". Her mom packed the bags and Rifqa
.........ran for her life.
I think ole' Mike ought to take the boys out for a beer (non-alcoholic, of
course).Yaser Said, Chaudhry Rashid,Mohammad Parvez -- all dear men. And so was Mohammed Shafia............. lovely men all, "obviously
invested a lot in the care and upbringing of their daughters".
And Rifqa had to flee for her
life to the Lorenz family, whom she first met on Facebook. By coincidence, her flight apparently
followed a
confrontation with her mother over her coming home
late.
Lie.
Not content to just be rid of
their apostate daughter, the parents immediately contacted police to bring her
back so Mohamed could carry through with killing her. Mom and dad put on a good
act, fooling the investigators, who reported they were like any typical,
concerned parents worried about their daughter.
Obviously, this murder wouldn't
be a whodunit. So Bary would wind up on death row, leaving behind a wife, sons
and life he worked hard to build for his family in America.
When a moderate Muslim, Mohamed Hassan, chopped his wife's head off, he called police
and said, I killed my wife. He was a pillar of the Muslim community, a
television producer who started a TV network called Bridges because he "wanted to improve the image of
Muslims." He ripped a sword off the wall when his wife filed for divorce,
and beheaded her. And then he called the cops and said, I did it. It's what they
do. Who says Bary would run away?
13 February
2009:Muzzammil “Mo” HASSAN, the founder and
chief executive
officer of Bridges TV, a Buffalo, NY based Islamic
television
Network he helped pioneer in 2004 amid hopes that it would help portray
Muslims in a more positive light, reportedly admitted to police
that he beheaded his
wife at the television
station yesterday afternoon.The victim was identified as
Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37, who just last
month, filed for and received an order of protection against her
husband.
According to police, HASSAN
walked into the Orchard
Park police station shortly after 6:00 om.
Frankly, I think the Bary bags were packed to flee the country, with the
killing of Rifqa taking place shortly before or after their speedy departure.
Nobody would possibly
believe such a scenario if not for the fact Bary is a Muslim.
Exactly. Because Christian and Jews do not kill apostates. Muslims do.
The anti-Muslim groups that have
embraced Rifqa say his faith requires that he kill her, as if he has no say in
the matter. As proof, they point to a passage in the Quran mandating death to
Muslims who reject Islam. They back this up citing "honor killings" in Muslim
countries.
Rifqa's father is not judged as
an individual. He is judged by the actions of others and quotes in a religious
text.
There is no individualism in Islam. There is only the Koran, the immutable
word of allah. No one can reform it or reinterpret it. To do so is be a
"hypocrite", punishable by ... death. Secular Muslims do not subscribe to this,
but devout Muslims do, and clearly Mohamed's Bary's mosque, The Noor Islamic Center, was fundamentalist and extreme.
I could go through the Old
Testament and cherry-pick any number of quotes demanding death for nonbelievers,
nonvirgin brides and blasphemers. No Christian I know endorses that, yet it
seems every Muslim abides by the darker writings in the faith.
What difference does that make. The Christian and Jews are not killing their
daughters and wives to restore their honor. Muslims are. Christians and Jews
have not conducted close to 14,000 (it changes daily)
Islamic attacks since 911 in the name of their g-d. These facts are
.....irrefutable.
Imagine if Rifqa fled a
Christian family and wound up in the home of an anti-Christian imam in Florida.
And like Blake Lorenz, he delayed notifying authorities about her arrival. She
would be on the next flight back to Ohio.
Fortunately, we have a rule of
law to protect individuals from the political passions and religious doctrine of
others. It is what separates us from Iran and Saudi
Arabia.
The man just made the case for Rifqa. This is lefopathic mental
illness.
The rule of law blocked
Gov. Jeb
Bush from imposing his personal beliefs in the Terri Schiavo
case.
The rule of law sent Elián González back to his
father. And ultimately, the rule of law
will send Rifqa back to Ohio.
Here's a google map of the business - looks residential:
4282 Nafzger dr, Columbus OH 43230
This flies in the face of what he and his wife testified to in the case of
the thwarted honor killing of Rifqa Bary. Mohamad Bary and his wife signed
affidavits declaring themselves indigent, and that is why the Florida court
appointed a lawyer for the father and a lawyer for the mother. Both their
lawyers are being paid by the taxpayers of Florida. Worse still, Aysha
and Mohamed Bary's lawyer asked the court for more money at the hearing on
Friday, so that they could wage a campaign (depositions, legal docs, filings
etc.).
The above is a copy of the Dunn and Bradstreet report filed by Mohammad
Bary for his business, Bary Gems. He states his business does
$237,561 per annum.The wife, Aysha Bary, makes high-end bridal
gowns (that income may be off the books, but she works every
day). It would appear that she works for CUSTOM BRIDAL VEIL -- a company owned by Risana
Bary. The same Risana Bary who works with Mohamad (Rifqa Bary's father) here at Bary
Gems. There's more on this thriving bridal company here.
My name is Risana, I have been
doing crochet hand beading since 2000. and making custom bridal veils, bridal
dress and broadway show costume bead work for many Bridal Stores. One of a kind
Custom bridal veil with illusion tulle,crochet hand beaded and individual
design, High end quality with reasonable price.feel free to call me
614-934-2212. E-mail custombridalveil@yahoo.com Columbus, OH 43081 FREE SHIPPING
Is Mama Bary reporting this income?
http://www.sewingwishlist.com/
07/06/2009 : Hi
there! I am a 7 yr experienced embellishment in Columbus OH. I have a workroom
in my home.. I have a passion for embellishment. I am willing to work with out
of state customers. You can visit www.custombridalveil.ecrater.com If you have a
need for a embellishment... please contact me. custombridalveil@yahoo.com
(Much thanks to Kitten, who researched the various businesses, and Armaros,
who furthered the story) Any Atlas readers who can provide more financial data,
please get to work.
Dee notes (in
the comment section):
Custom Bridal Veil's
phone number at My Party Planner above is the same as the one for Bary Gems as
shown at the Intergalactic Bead and Jewelry Shows screen shot posted
yesterday.
Bary Gem's My Party
Planner post phone number (posted here yesterday) is the same as shown above in
the screen shot from the islamic website.
If he dissolved the business in early July, where are the proceeds? Where is
the inventory? They owned a gem import business. If they liquidated, they must
have had some inventory or orders or cash on hand. Some of his money may be
overseas, as when you import/export, you try to save on taxes (not necessarily
illegal). In order to qualify for Gem shows, you need some background and
ability to deliver goods. We know he attended these. We know he is still
attending these, because he went to one earlier this summer in Georgia. It seems
he even attended them overseas. He was more of a gem dealer than a retailer. That means bigger numbers and a
faster supply chain.
Each state requires filings from LLCs and Corps. They need to state income
there. They have to file taxes. The fact that the NY company was alive for at
least nine years shows there was income, as otherwise, why file? And if you
don't file, your company loses registration. The rules for this are similar but
not the same in each state. (hat tip to Armaros for that background)
The Barys live in a very affluent neighborhood in Westerville, Ohio, in a
house they rent. Practicing Muslims aren't supposed to take on mortgages. They
either pay cash, rent or buy through a Sharia schedule which is usually like a
"rent to own" program you see for buying TVs. In other words, title will be in
the name of whomever "lent" to them.
Here is a screen shot of their neighborhood. Pretty ritzy.
Things began to disintegrate at home fairly rapidly once the parents were
aware that Rifqa had converted to Christianity (watch her here). Her parents threatened her, but she never left
Christianity. In mid July her mother went through Rifqa's private things and found her journal. It was then
revealed to her mother that Rifqa was a practicing Christian. Rifqa's mom, Aysha, called the father and alerted him that Rifqa was still practicing Christianity in secret. Mohamed cut
his business trip short in order to return home immediately while Aysha packed
the family's bags to go back to Sri Lanka. Whether Rifqa would have been honor
murdered before or after they returned to Sri Lanka is known only to the Barys.
He dissolved his business in early July when it became increasingly clear
that Rifqa was a true convert to Christianity. It was at that time
that he waved her laptop at her and said, "You are dead to me. "You are not my
daughter". And he promised, “'I will kill you.
Tell me the truth.' In these words, bad words, cuss
words." He filed to dissolve his business, which was registered in New
York, but did not file in Ohio. Is he doing business in OH without a
business license? Why didn’t he file for a business license in OH when he
submitted his request to dissolve the business in NY? (thanks to
Paula)
I was threatened by my dad.
When my dad found out – I had a Facebook, that’s how he found out – and phone
calls from the Muslim community started coming in with emails that
confronted me. And I had a laptop and he took that laptop and waved it in the
air and he was about to beat me with it, and he said, “If you have this Jesus in
your heart, you’re dead to me. You’re not my daughter.” And I refused to speak
but he said, “I will kill you. Tell me the truth.” In these words, bad words,
cuss words. So I knew that I had to get away.
A couple of
weeks later even, I told my dad that I would fol — that I would begin to learn
more about Islam, because I was scared. And I said that because when I had come
to know the Lord, I dropped everything about Islam. I mean, I had to hide my
Bible for years, I would go outside to pray. When my dad was asleep was when I
went outside to pray. I snuck out to Christian prayer meetings in fear of my life. And
finally this day had come, when I was confronted by my dad. A couple of weeks
later, after I told my dad that I would follow -- I wouldn’t follow Islam, but
would learn more about it. Then he put me in class after class after class
after class......
[...].
.....
it was Saturday night. In the morning I left to go to a friend’s house. And I
asked her, I begged her to take me to church. I needed to get to church. I
needed to pray, I needed to seek the Lord to know what to do. And so that entire
day from seven in the morning to late at night I prayed and prayed and prayed,
and finally I was able to get a ride back home to that person’s house. And I stayed there
Saturday, Sunday night because my dad was coming back home from his trip
that night, and so I stayed there that night and I just left. I hitchhiked to a
bus station and I got a ticket to Florida because I had met them through a
prayer ministry on Facebook. And this was the farthest away from Ohio – you
don’t understand, if I had stayed in Ohio, I wouldn’t be alive.
According to one anti-Rifqa pro-Islam website (hat tip Kitten):
CAIR is supporting Bary and are involved in this case. CAIR in Ohio
is handling this case.
a secret strategy meeting
conducted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) earlier this week
has conveyed the strategy that the media's favorite Islamist group has devised
to respond to the ongoing public relations crisis. According to my source who
attended the strategy session, CAIR officials handed out copies of this Orlando Sentinel article and want supporters to push the meme
that Christians have brainwashed and abducted this gullible teenage girl. They
have also instructed supporters to circulate rumors that Rifqa had been
carousing with infidel boys and engaged in acts of immorality. This CAIR
strategy takes the focus off the near-universal Islamic legal precepts and
Quranic injunctions that demand death for apostates and impugns the character of the
innocent girl at the center of this controversy who appears to be in genuine
fear for her life if she is returned to her parents.
According to Ohio
State Law this is a kidnapping case and the lawyers from Bary's side are trying
to bring this Revolutionary group to Justice. We need to support Br. Bary and
his phone number is (347)
247-6568.
Please talk to him for further information. Also CAIR is supporting Bary
and they are involved in this case. CAIR in Ohio is handling this case.
Rifqa Bary is the cross to CAIR's dracula -- I
expect they'll create a huge negative campaign to destroy this child.
Rifqa Bary's testimony validates what every scholar on Islam has been
writing for years. All those "Islamophobes" and "anti-Muslim bigots" who write
of the violent ideology have been exculpated. CAIR must destroy this young girl
as she has destroyed them with her words of truth and of ..... Christ.
She is an apostate.
Bukhari (84:57) - "[In the words of] Allah's Apostle,
'Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'"
Quran 4:89 "If they turn back from Islam, becoming renegades, seize them
and kill them wherever you find them".
Quran 4:115 "If anyone
contradicts or opposes the Messenger after guidance has been conveyed to him,
and follows a path other than the way, We shall burn him in Hell!"
Why
has not one media outlet had on an expert/scholar on apostasy in Islam? Why
hasn't Ibn Warraq or Wafa Sultan been called? This borders on criminal. I heard
that the completely uninformed Walid Phares was on today. The man is a political
pundit, he is clueless. Robert Spencer, wherefore art thou?
In other
Rifqa related news:
The dhimmi Orlando Sentinel is running a poll. They are dying for
Rifqa to be sent back to that hell hole. VOTE NOW. How in the bag is the Sentinel? Check out the tool
Mike Thomas today in the Sentinel. Whose payroll is he on?
Rifqa, 17, is a symbol for those who believe we are fighting
Round 2 of the Crusades. For them, the stereotype falls perfectly into place:
Conniving Muslim extremist plans to murder his innocent daughter for turning to
Jesus.
The case went to court last week. And in a rather
surprising twist, rather than send Rifqa back to Ohio, Circuit Judge
Daniel Dawson decided to investigate Ohio. And so the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement is off to determine her survival chances there
BTW, she
does not call herself Fathima, ever. She is Rifqa (like in the Bible). And if
there has been any bias at all, it has been an anti-Christian bias. It's been
vile. I may have to fisk this fool in another post; it is rich in dhimmi
subservience.
Is it any wonder that the press is biased against Rifqa?
The reporter loves the hijab. Barbarossa's got it here. It's
no wonder that CAIR-Ohio thinks they got it (uh, Rifqa) in the bag:
Last week Columbus Dispatch
reporter Meredith Heagney (mheagney@dispatch.com) published an article attacking the credibility of potential honor killing
victim Rifqa Bary. In that article, Heagney quoted a Columbus Police official
who assured the public there was NOTHING to worry about, flatly contradicting
her claims of potential danger from her family. This quote has been reprinted
and widely circulated by her parents' supporters, including the Council of
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in their claims that she has been brainwashed and
abducted by Christians.
But speaking to sources in the
Columbus area, it seems that Ms. Heagney is more than just a neutral or
objective observer. According to these sources, Heagney has used her position
with the Dispatch to serve as the de facto press agent for the
extremist Noor Islamic Cultural Center, where Rifqa's parents attend (the
mosque's ugly ties to terror covered here
at Jawa a few days ago).
One such example is an article in the Dispatch yesterday where Heagney promotes
Noor's current "Holy Month" celebrations. Earlier this year, Heagney penned a glowing account of the Islamic hajj featuring the outreach
coordinator for the Noor Center. Last November, she plugged the mosque's Somali conference, failing to note the
presence of Hassan Mohamud, who has recently been in the news for a promotional
video complaining about "the hell of living in America" and for his advocacy in
support of suicide bombings (something a real reporter, Katherine Kersten of the
Star-Tribune, has been willing to cover) . Mohamud and his mosque have been mentioned
in connection with the current nationwide counterterrorism investigation
concerning young American Somalis who have left the country to train in the
Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab camps. But no need to worry - the Dispatch waved off any Columbus connections to the terror case long
ago.
And during last year's Eid al-Fitr
celebrations, Heagney authored a whining piece about the mosque's services
entitled, "Muslims still look for acceptance". While conducting her
reporting at the mosque she was photographed sporting her hijab along with her
Dispatch ID card:
UPDATE: Thanks to Kristie who tracked down the video:
Muck-it-up-a-bee was spouting nonsense about Rifqa Bary.
Mike Huckabee weighed in on Rifqa Bary yesterday and displayed an almost
breathless stupidity and deliberate delusion that speak to the deeper inadequacy
of this man.
Atlas reader Palin opined,
I just watched Huckabee on Fox. He, like everyone else, is completely
clueless about this. He started by emphasizing that most Moslems are peaceful,
trivialized her conversion to Christianity, raised concerns about sexual
predators on the Internet luring kids with religion, stated the family has no
history of violence, and stressed that this is "a very complex case."
Huck - this is not about an "angry family." This is about Islam, which loves
death and which demands death for apostasy. Rifqa faces death from any and all
devout Muslims. Moderate Moslems are simply unserious Moslems - they are
irrelevant. This is about blind, clueless people who would send a girl to her
death without even realizing the nature of the problem.
I understand now how the holocaust happened.
If anyone has a copy of Huckabee's dhimmitude, send the embed
code.
It is important to point this out. Huckabee is surely on the
2012 radar screen. And so is rampant Islamic supremacism and the West's refusal
to acknowledge the enemy within and without. Islamic domination is the defining
issue of this young century.
Honor killings (outside of Islamic countries where the practice is rampant)
in the United States, Canada and Europe are increasing dramatically as Islamic
(shariah) law continues its creep apace. These brutal murders are well documented, even as the media caves to
Islam by their refusal to cover them. The New York Times finally did a piece on Rifqa and never once
mentioned "honor killing".
Swami points out in "Her father, Mohamed Bary, told the judge
that Rifqa would be able to practice Christianity if she returned home."
Allah has no
partner. To ascribe a partner to Allah is a great sin. It is called 'shirk'. 'I
and my father are one'...is shirk. Shirk is also apostasy. All Christians are
shirkers. It is unlikely that Riqa's parents are going to tolerate a shirking
apostate under their roof. This will cement the fathers loss of honor, and cause
him to be scorned at mosque.Not only is he a failure at his family
responsibilities, he is a failure to Allah. There is only one Islamic way to fix
that and regain his lost honor, as well as getting right with Allah and we know
what that is...
The thing is, how can a man who makes this commentary on the
ideology that motivates devout Muslims who practice jihad disconnect so
thoroughly on Riqfa Bary's plight? It is the same book, the same ideology.
Devout is devout is devout.
UPDATE:Den transcribed the Huckabee video for us:
Title of Video: Rifqa Bary Maligned and Islam defended? Mike Huckabee's
unbelievable comments
Transcript, skips straight to the interview with Huckablahblah....
Interviewer: She claims that she was afraid of an honour
killing, being the victim.
H: Yep.
Interviewer: Of an Honour Killing at the hands of her
parents, for converting, in this day and age, an Honour Killing? This seems so
impossible to believe
H: It would be very very difficult to believe, in the
culture of the United States, it would not be difficult to believe in cultures,
lets say, in the Middle East and the Far East and other parts. But, let me be
very quick to say, there are millions of Muslims across the World and not all of
them believe in killing their children. And it is very important to separate
radical Islam from the really more, eh, traditional and peaceful practice of
Islam. So, I think it very important not to act like not every Islamic parent,
eh, could, on any given day, could get a knife and hack up their child. Thats
just not what is going on here (indistinguisable word - anyroads?).
Interviewer: Furthermore her parents say they don't believe
in Honour Killing, they say they have never threatened her whatsoever. This must
be a real pickle for the authorities in Florida to figure out if she is a
run-away and she just wanted to leave home and go to Florida or if she really is
in danger.
H: Well if you are 17 years old and you want to get away
from your parents one of the things you do is you create the best barrier you
can, and saying I think my parents are going to kill me, cos being an Honour
Killing, would do it.
Now, the Florida authorities have to take that seriously, they can't just
say, ah, it's just a kid talking. If they send her back and something
happens then they are going to really feel horrible about it. So you have
State Law in Ohio, State Law in Florida, you have parents rights, you have
childrens rights, this is a very complicated case. The implications are much
larger and it is very important that they get it right.
I think what they are doing is the right thing, and thats taking it slow,
step at a time. Do all the investigations of the eh eh, child's home situation
and see if there is any indication whatsoever that these parents have ever given
an indication that they are radical Jihadists. Because that again, you just
can't go around saying, oh eh, they are muslim, therefore they are liable to
kill their children, that is an insult to all the muslims who love their
children as much as I love my children.
Interviewer: It is also complicated because she disappeared
from her home and the Police tracked her, eh, using phone and computer records,
she went to be with this church group, the Global Revolution Church, who she had
met online through a facebook Prayer Group.
All of this scares parents of teenagers, because you don't want your teenager
heading off to be with strangers, even if they are a Christian Prayer Group.
H: Well, and, eh, and a lot of things, in the, eh eh, I
don't know about this group, so I am not going to say anything good or bad about
them, I mean I am divorced from that group.
But, lets face it, religion is often used as a lure, to say that, look, we
really love you, we really care...We just had a case in Arkansaw in which a man
will spend the rest of his life in prison, and Tony Alamo(?), err, a horrible
case there, its been nationally known, but here is a case where he sexually
abused children, he used his religion to take kids as young as, 8, 9 years old,
marry them, eh, it's a horrible thing, so, just because somebody waves a flag
and says I am religious and I am a christian you still have to ask in what
manner, and how does that relate to you.
Interviewer: Rifqa is in foster care, right now, until this
next hearing on 3rd September, so we know that she is safe at the moment. This
is really in the hands of Governor charlie Crist of Florida, to decide whether
or not she is going to go back home. Here is his statement, let me tell you what
he said:
"I am grateful for the good work of Department of Children and Families...for
personally advocating the administrations position by attending (the) Hearing,
we will continue to fight to protect Rifqa's safety and wellbeing as we move
forward"
Interviewer: Does that go far enough?
H: It's all he can say at this point, because the interest
of the child is what matters, BUT you can't ignore the parents rights to be
parents. If everytime a kid doesn't like what's going on at home, and runs away,
and say, oh and by the way my parents are religious nuts and are going to kill
me, eh, you know, you would have most children in America cos they didn't get to
go out with their friends, or they didn't get to use their computer when they
want to...
Interviewer: What happens though if the Authorities do
determine that her parents are extremists at some level?
H: If that were to happen then she would most likely end up
in Foster Care and until she meets maturity age, where she would make her own
decisions
Interviewer: it's scary stuff.
H: Strange stuff. No doubt about it, no easy answer here,
none at all.
Interviewer: I bet you are glad you are not the
Governor?
Much thanks to Diane and Julie for uncovering this information. Mohamed Bary,
Rifqa Bary's father, is a jeweler. His company is Bary Gems, of Columbus
(apparently near Gahanna, OH). According to very recent documentation, Muhammad
Bary dissolved his business on July 29,2009 - after Rifqa ran for
her life (fearing an honor killing for her apostasy) and was discovered in
Florida.
He moved the business from New York to Columbus in 2004. It was dissolved it
on July 29, 2009 the same time frame as Rifqa's disappearance.. Rifqa's story hit the papers August 3rd (go here).
And this was not insignificant business (click here for Dunn and Bradstreet report). Bary had over 20 employees and was doing
$100,000-350,000 a year in sales. I registered at D&B and got the
actual figures Bary submitted. Annual sales: $237,561 per
annum and three employees. That's a lot to give up
.... why? He obviously did not expect Rifqa to prevail in Florida court. Like
all the pundits, he expected that Rifqa would have to go back to Ohio.
INACTIVE - Dissolution by Proclamation /
Annulment of Authority
(Jul 29, 2009)
BARY GEMS INC. 3434 75TH STREET JACKSON HEIGHTS, NEW YORK,
11372
Registered Agent
NONE
It's no wonder that Muhammad and Aysha are so
anxious to get Rifqa back to the state of Ohio. Her parents had signed papers in
Ohio with Franklin County Children Services, saying they would be okay if she
was brought back to the state and placed in a foster home for at least 30 days.
They just want to get her back in Ohio and out of Florida and Floridian
interference.
30 days in foster care in Ohio (and what good does
that do?) and then they wing her to Sri Lanka. Rifka said here:
....in 150 generations of my
family no one has known Jesus. I am the first one. Imagine the honor in killing
me. There is great honor in that. Because if they love Allah more than me, they
have to do it. It’s in the Koran. And you can, like, give them knowledge about
it [gestures to someone off camera, who says something unintelligible]. He
really will explain it and break it down. They have to do this. They just have
to. Either they do that or they send me back to Sri Lanka. There’s an asylum
there where they put people like me, like, think I’m
crazy.
Mohamed Bary of Bary gems inc
selling gem stones and jewelry in new york. And in 2004
we have moved to Columbus oh as our head office. Most of our gemstones
are from Sri Lanka and most of them are natural and unheated, and cut in our
lapidary. Most of the jewelry are hand made pices one of a kind with unique
designs which creates a good value for the finish product. selling gem
stones and jewelry in new york. And in 2004 we have moved to Columbus oh as our
head office.
INACTIVE - Dissolution by Proclamation / Annulment of Authority (Jul 29,
2009)
Information to reinstate a corporation that has been dissolved by
proclamation or annulment of authority by proclamation is available on the New
York State Department of Taxation and Finance website at
www.tax.state.ny.us keyword TR-194.1 or by writing to NYS
Department of Taxation and Finance,Reinstatement Unit/Bldg-8, Rm
#958,W.A. Harriman Campus,Albany, NY 12227 or
by telephone at 1-800-972-1233
Selected Entity Address Information
DOS Process (Address to
which DOS will mail process if accepted on behalf of the
entity)
BARY GEMS INC. 3434 75TH STREET JACKSON HEIGHTS, NEW YORK,
11372
Registered Agent
NONE
This office does not require or maintain information
regarding the names and addresses of officers, shareholders or directors of a
corporation.
*Stock Information
# of Shares
Type of Stock
$ Value per Share
200
No Par Value
*Stock information is applicable to domestic business
corporations.
Name History
Filing Date
Name Type
Entity Name
JUL 03, 2000
Actual
BARY GEMS
INC.
UPDATE:Bary dissolved his business in early July
when it became increasingly clear that Rifqa was a true convert to Christianity. It was at that time
that he waved her laptop at her and said "you are dead to me. "you are not my
daughter" and then promised, “I will kill you.
Tell me the truth. In these words, bad words, cuss words."
Mohamed Bary filed to dissolve his business, which was
registered in New York, but did not file in Ohio. Is he doing business in OH without a
business license? Why didn’t he file for a business license in OH when he
submitted his request to dissolve the business in NY? (hat tip
Paula)
Rifqa Bary reads a Bible during her court
proceedings
Rifqa is a good friend of mine.
I met her just before she became a christian, and even then she was talking
about how she had to hide her bible, and her religion from them. she is
authentically afraid and scared for her life. I agree with you all the way. God
be with her and the decisions that are going to be made about her.
Despite the media's deliberate silence on Rifqa Bary's terrible story,
either they didn't report it or when they did they deceived to advance Islam,
Rifqa prevailed. The media demonized Christianity ("brainwashed by a cult")
while inaccurately reporting the facts in order to avoid the violent ideology of
Islam, at any cost, even the life of Rifqa Bary. They have become as depraved as
the murderers they cover for.
Rifqa has been given a reprieve. SHE
WILL NOT BE SENT TO OHIO! Praise G-d. She will not be
sent back to her terrorized home in Ohio, at least not for now. Next
hearing September 3rd at 2:30 p.m.
Staying in Florida, her
legal team argues, would keep her safe.
Judge Dawson said he has had no
contact with Ohio courts, so he doesn't know if Ohio wants jurisdiction in this
case.
"Rifqa wants to be here,"
said one of her lawyers.
He told the court the teen's safety
would be compromised back in Ohio, referring to some 'terrorist activity' in the
region where she lived. He did not elaborate.
Judge Dawson says "at
first blush" it appears his court has jurisdiction in this custody matter, since
no Ohio court has taken up the matter.
Obviously, they will start a motion in Ohio. So get ready for the
next battle.
Attorneys for the parents are
citing a ruling that Judge Dawson could request an Ohio court to initiate a
hearing, but Dawson said he didn't feel that was the case, although he
appears willing to make contact.
The judge says he's inclined to refer this
matter to mediation and keep this matter in his court.
Update: A hearing is set
for September 3rd at 2:30 p.m.
A dependency petition
will be argued at that time.
Update: Rafqa is making her
statement to the court. "I've been a Christian for 4 years of my
life. I
love my parents but I am in fear of my life because of the past abuse. I
assure your honor Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. I am a Christian, a
believer."
Consistent with her previous testimony.
I was threatened by my
dad. When my dad found out – I had a Facebook, that’s how he found out – and
phone calls from the Muslim community started coming in with emails that
confronted me. And I had a laptop and he took that laptop and waved it in the
air and he was about to beat me with it, and he said, “If you have this
Jesus in your heart, you’re dead to me. You’re not my daughter.” And I refused
to speak but he said, “I will kill you. Tell me the truth.” In these words, bad
words, cuss words. So I knew that I had to get away. (more of Rifqa's statement)
First, let me thank each and every one of you who took the time to write,
call, email, fax, Governor Crist and the Attorney General and the Secretary of
State to save this girl's life. You made a difference.
UPDATE: STATEMENT BY HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER ADAM HASNER ON
THE RIFQA BARY CASE
House Majority Leader Adam Hasner
issued the following statement on today’s court ruling regarding Rifqa Bary, a
young Christian convert who fled her parents’ home in Columbus, Ohio. She is
currently in Orlando, Florida.
“I appreciate the efforts of
Secretary Sheldon and the Department of Children and Families, Attorney General
Bill McCollum, and the countless advocates who have worked tirelessly to put the
safety of Rifqa Bary first. The court’s decision and the forthcoming involvement
of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement – facilitated by the Attorney
General – to investigate this young girl’s safety if she is forced to return to
Ohio may save her from an unthinkable fate.”
“No one, child or adult, should
have to fear for their lives because of their religious choices, and I am
hopeful that Rifqa’s best interests will be safeguarded as this process moves
forward. I will continue my communications with General McCollum and Secretary
Sheldon, and will be closely monitoring the ongoing investigation and
developments in this matter until there is a final resolution that guarantees
the permanent safety of this young girl.”
UPDATE: And this from MARCO RUBIO COMMENTS ON RIFQA BARY
CASE (Rubio is running for Senate this fall, if I was a Floridian, he'd
get my vote);
Miami, FL–U.S. Senate candidate
and former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio today issued the following
statement regarding Rifqa Bary's court case:
"America has a rich tradition of
religious freedom that is enshrined in our First Amendment. Today in Florida,
this freedom could be at stake as a court considers the case of 17 year-old
Rifqa Bary.
"This young woman fled from Ohio
to Florida, fearing she would be killed for converting from Islam to
Christianity. As the court weighs the facts of this case, I hope it will take
her expressed fears seriously and not rush to an irreversible decision that may
ultimately endanger her.
"It is imperative that state
officials use every legal tool at their disposal to properly evaluate Rifqa's
best interests. Florida has a responsibility not only to protect her innocent
life, but also to defend her sacred right to worship freely."
GOVERNOR CRIST: THANK
YOU!
Thank you for contacting Governor
Charlie Crist. The Governor asked that I respond on his behalf.
Governor Crist today
expressed his gratefulness to Circuit Judge Daniel Dawson for his decision to
grant Fathima Rifqa Bary the right to remain in Florida. In this case, the first
and only priority of Governor Crist's administration is the safety and wellbeing
of this child. The Governor also expressed gratitude for the good work of
Department of Children and Families Secretary George Sheldon and his General
Counsel, Rob Wheeler, for personally advocating the administration's position by
attending today's hearing.
Please be assured Governor
Crist will continue to fight to protect Ms. Rifqa Bary's safety and wellbeing as
this case moves forward.
Thank you again for taking the
time to contact Governor Crist.
"heavy Media coverage" "maybe 75 people" "A handful of demonstrators
outside" "No recording allowed"
Others milling around the courthouse and inside the lobby said they were
praying for the judge to keep her away from her parents.
Usama Dakdok, an ex-Muslim, was one of them. He came from an organization in
Venice that tries to help Muslims who convert to Christianity.
"We have people all over
the country praying for this," he said in the parking lot.
"Honor killing is not a joke,"
said Usama Dadok, who says he's a Muslim evangelist specialist speaker. "It's
real, it's practiced, it's fact in the Koran."
He said he would rather see the teenager in a foster home than with her
family.
Rifqa walked in after her parents
sat down with their attorney Craig McCarthy at one table.
She is seated at another, but
facing her mother, who is wearing a scarf and wiping her eyes with a tissue.
Rifqa wants to make a
statement before the hearing begins.
The attorneys are huddling before
the judge for a decision on whether he will allow that.
UPDATE: Judge Dawson has
decided to let her speak, saying it his policy to let anyone speak in open
court.
This case is about jurisdiction,
whether she can stay in the care of the Florida Department of Children and
Families, or whether she has to be turned over to Ohio authorities.
A representative from DCF has told
the court that the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement has agreed to investigate the matter, because DCF fears she is in
danger.
An attorney for Rifqa's
parents said Ohio has investigated this matter and if there's any question about
her safety, then Ohio is the place for that to be determined.
"There is no basis," the attorney
said, for her to stay in Florida since her life is in Ohio.
McCarthy said it would
"enormous prejudice" to try this matter in Florida.
They want to get her back there in the worst way.The fact
is that Rifqa is dead to her devout parents. Now it's about
honor.
A legal representative for Rifqa
says since Ohio has no prior legal proceeding in this case, then Florida can
claim jurisdiction.
Staying in Florida, her
legal team argues, would keep her safe.
Judge Dawson said he has had no
contact with Ohio courts, so he doesn't know if Ohio wants jurisdiction in this
case.
"Rifqa wants to be here,"
said one of her lawyers.
He told he court the teen's safety
would be compromised back in Ohio, referring to some 'terrorist activity' in the
region where she lived. He did not elaborate.
UPDATE: Rifqa is sitting with her
attorneys, reading a book that she brought in. She glances at the judge
and her legal team, but not her parents.
Judge Dawson says "at first
blush" it appears his court has jurisdiction in this custody matter, since no
Ohio court has taken up the matter.
Attorneys for the parents
are citing a ruling that Judge Dawson could request an Ohio court to initiate a
hearing, but Dawson said he didn't feel that was the case, although he
appears willing to make contact.
The judge says he's inclined to
refer this matter to mediation and keep this matter in his court.
update: A hearing is set
for September 3rd at 2:30 p.m.
A dependency petition will be
argued at that time.
Update: Rafqa is making her
statement to the court. "I've been a Christian for 4 years of my life. I
love my parents but I am in fear of my life because of the past abuse. I assure
your honor, Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. I am a Christian, a
believer."
Her mother cried, "I need my
daughter back."
He father said "I love my
daughter, I have no problem in her practicing another religion."
She is free to come and practice
what she likes in my home," he said.
Rifqa will spend some time with
her younger brothers, but does not want to meet with her parents at this
time.
The court will allow it.
Update: Rifqa is staying
in a foster home. Her foster parents are not willing to allow supervised
visitation of Rifqa's family or friends right now. The judge is recommending
DCF take charge of the issue and hold these meetings in an outside location
where it can be videotaped.
Update: Rifqa is staying in a
foster home. Her foster parents are not willing to allow supervised visitation
of Rifqa's family or friends right now. The judge is recommending DCF take
charge of the issue and hold these meetings in an outside location where it can
be videotaped.
Judge Dawson asked if Rifqa is a
legal immigrant. She was born in Sri Lanka. Her attorneys say they are trying to
determine that and need the parents' cooperation.
Her father, Mohammed, said she
arrived in the U.S. on a visa. Since she has turned 17, her legal status is in
question.
CAIR officials
handed out copies of this Orlando Sentinel article and want supporters to push
the meme that Christians have brainwashed and abducted this gullible teenage
girl.
I am not sure if you read the Orlando Sentinel today, but here is a portion:
The incident has left her family
in suburban Columbus befuddled. "Honestly," said her father, Mohamed Bary, "we
didn't know why she left."
There is no evidence, according to
Columbus-area authorities that her father poses any threat.
The girl's father, a jeweler,
insisted he never threatened to kill his daughter.
A police officer involved in this case from Columbus, told my source
that he had talked to 20 people and almost all 20 said she was in fear for
her life.
Rifqa Bary said in her interview that she left a note for her parents telling
them why she ran away. They are questioning why she would run away? Did they not
read the note?
Rifqa
Bary: I ran away from home. I wrote my parents a note, I said, I
refuse to deny Jesus and He’s my Lord and Savior and I pray you find His
forgiveness and mercy and I love them both dearly. I wrote that, but they never
showed it to the police
officers. They want me back
home, I can’t go back to Ohio,
you guys don’t understand. That community,
they’re like – I will die within a week. My life is at stake. My dad threatened
me.
One of Rifqa's out
of state friends used to talk to Rifqa frequently on the phone. She said they
had to use code words (that they had established earlier) when talking about
Christianity so her parents would not know what she was saying on the phone.
And one of Rifqa's teachers said she knew Rifqa's life was in danger, but
became very frightened when told by the school to "stay out of this"...
Personally, I think this is a giant cover-up by the city of Columbus.
Thank you for contacting
Governor Charlie Crist and sharing your concerns about Ms. Fathima (Rifqa) Bary.
The Governor asked that I respond on his behalf.
Governor Crist is committed to
protecting Ms. Bary's health, safety and welfare. Governor Crist directed the
Secretary of the Department of Children and Families, George Sheldon, to
petition the court for placement in shelter and custody under the Florida
Department of Children and Family Services (Department). As a result, the court
placed Ms. Bary in protective custody and she has been placed in a licensed
foster care home under the supervision of the Department.
The Secretary of the
Department of Children and Family Services and the Governor's General Counsel
will be at today's court hearing. Please be assured Governor Crist will make a
decision that is in the best interests of and ensures the continued health,
safety and welfare of Ms. Rifqa Bary.
Thank you again for taking the
time to contact Governor Crist.
Attention Atlas readers, going forward I will be calling "Gaza" and the
egregiously stolen from the Jewis people "Palestine" and any other
"Palestinian" stolen land by its rightful name - Islamic occupied
Israel.
On September 18th (18 is chai [life!] in Hebrew), the dedication for
the Aqsa Parvez Memorial Peace Park will take place at
4:30.
This is so wonderful. If you are nearby, come! Today, Scott and the city of
Pelham honored Atlas readers who contributed to Aqsa Parvez's memorial. The
city of Pelham included a list of all the Atlas readers, installed at the foot of Aqsa's memorial.
For those of you who have written and wanted to attend, it is recommended to
me that the best place to stay is in Niagara Falls in Canada. Lots of cozy
hotels :)
Pelham/Fonthill is about 20 minutes west of Niagara Falls on Highway
20. Here is the video of Sharon Cook and Scott McLeod dropping the
parchment with our names into the footing of Aqsa's memorial. Cook
is the city councilwoman who responded to Scott McLeod's proposal and introduced the Aqsa Parvez resolution. Scott McLeod created a dedication prefaced with the
following:
This memorial is dedicated to
the life of Aqsa Parvez
The
following, is a list of people from around the world who came together to ensure
that this child would not be forgotten. While we have attempted to gather all
who supported this endeavor, however it is likely that some are not noted in the
following. We believe that those unknown hero’s prayers and support are in this
document, as though printed. We have gathered as a family, who cross
religious, ethnic and geographic boundaries to create this memorial
which represent, what we as a global community believe is the ethical and
honorable thing to do. We have included the prayers, comments and statement of
values which we as citizens of the world hold dear. Rest
in Peace Aqsa, you will be remembered
A 10-year old Muslim girl was
married off to a Muslim man, aged 42. The child was so unhappy with the arranged
marriage that she ran away on a number of occasions but was forced by her family
to return to her “husband.” Finally her husband and family had enough of the
child’s disobedience and decided for the sake of her husband and family’s honor
that she should be killed. Which they did by mutilating, dismembering and
finally beheading her. Her body was discovered by a Thai couple out walking in a
public park close to where the child’s family lived.
UPDATE: Much thanks to Micha in Germany for tracking down a picture for us.
Notice that the man's face is protected and the victims of these "honor" murders
are always beautiful. The savage Önder B. and Müjde
Very difficult to track down photos of victims of honor murders. I am still
waiting for pictures of the three young girls and their "aunt" (the murdering
father's second wife), who were honor murdered and found in a submerged car in
Canada. The media doesn't run the photos of the victims. It's rare. They
don't want to humanize these brutalized girls. It's more of the abject
immorality of a corrupt, debased media.
This honor killing is difficult to stomach. This is a culture from some other
planet.
"And because she was 'already so
disfigured from the stabbing and beating that she would hate me for the rest of
her life,' he got into his car and ran over her body several times."
"Muslim man sentenced to life in jail after killing his German-born wife
because she was 'too independent'," by Allan Hall for the Daily Mail, August 20 (thanks to Lazy Buddha):
A Muslim asylum seeker has been sentenced to life in prison after killing his
German-born wife because she was 'too independent', a court in Germany heard
today.
The 27-year-old Kurdish man, identified only as Onder B, was found guilty
today of stabbing his wife in the eyes, beating her with a billiard cue and then
running over her in his car.
His mother-in-law had once told him to be 'strict' with her
strong-willed daughter, Mujde - who was also Onder's
cousin.
On New Year's Eve 2008 he stabbed his 18-year-old wife Mujde 46 times
and beat her with a billiard cue.
And because she was 'already so disfigured from the stabbing and beating that
she would hate me for the rest of her life,' he got into his car and ran over
her body several times.
Bielefeld District Court judge Jutta Albert convicted him on a charge of
murder arising from base motives, and one of cruelty, because the defend ant stabbed his
wife in both eyeballs while she was still
alive.
He stabbed her so hard in
the head with a fruit knife that the blade broke off in her
skull.
The case has pulled into sharp focus the cultural differences between
Western values and the estimated three million Muslim immigrants living and
working in Germany.
Bielefeld District Court judge Jutta Albert clashed repeatedly this week with
family members of both victim and defendant as details of the horrific case
unfolded.
'One more remark from you and you'll be removed!' she told the victim’s
mother. 'Do you think you can behave here as if you were in a Turkish
bazaar?'
The killer arrived in Germany as an asylum seeker, in 2001. He was 19 and
Mujde was 11 at the time.
He married a Turkish woman 10 years his senior, but the couple soon
separated.
He returned home to Turkey in 2003, where he performed his mandatory military
service, coming back Germany in 2006.
Under a deal between their
families a marriage was 'arranged' between him and Mujde, in which he then
viewed her, according to prosecutors, 'as his property'....
Ugh. Note "the refugee camp" from the year of the flood.
Woman Killed in Jabalya to
"Maintain Family Honor"
On
Thursday, 23 July 2009, Fadia Jawdat al-Najjar, 27, from Jabalya refugee camp
was killed allegedly "to maintain family honor."
According
to police sources in Jabalya, at approximately 09:30 on Friday mourning, 24 July
2009, Jawdat al-Najar, from Jabalya, gave himself up to the police station in
Jabalya. He confessed that he killed his daughter, Fadia, inside his home in a
late hour on Thursday. He claimed that he found a mobile phone with his daughter
and she was talking with someone, which he suspected as an illegitimate
relation. As soon as the police have received this confession, the police moved
towards the scene of the crime and examined the victim's body. They found signs
of torture on her body. The police transferred her the victim's body to Kamal
'Edwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, and from there to the forensic medicine
department at Shifa Hospital in Gaza city.
Sources
of the forensic medicine department at Shifa Hospital reported that there were
signs of torture throughout the victim's body, as well as a fracture in her
skull due to her was hit by an iron chain.
According
to PCHR's documentation, the number of people killed allegedly "to maintain
family honor" since the beginning of 2009 has amounted to 9 (6 women, two men
and a child) in 7 crimes. One of these crimes was committed in the West Bank,
whereas the rest of the crimes were committed in the Gaza Strip.
PCHR
strongly condemns this latest crime, and:
1)Expresses concern over the recurrence of murders against
women in the Occupied Palestinian Territory allegedly "to maintain family
honor." Such recurrence may be attributed to the relative impunity granted to
murderers, who are often sentenced to less than 3 civil years of imprisonment,
equivalent to 24 months of effective imprisonment.
2)Calls for suitable deterrent penalties to be applied to
"family honor" murders. These murders must be dealt with in the same manner as
other crimes of willful killing, taking into consideration international human
rights standards. Many murderers use the claim of maintaining family honor as a
justification for the crimes they commit in order to benefit from more lenient
sentences.
These are the victims of Western
apathy and silence, and it’s only getting worse. Almost no one in the dinosaur
media talks about honor killing. All those loud mouthed charlatans talk big when
excoriating and trashing those who fight for these women and
recognize their plight, but they cower when forced to report on Islam. Instead,
they search for benign euphemisms for this most brutal and ugly ideology. Thus
as the Islamists, the leftist apologists, and useful idiots continue to
obfuscate the truth behind these terrible honor murders and attacks, Muslims who
engage in such practices are sanctioned by society at large. As the West bows to
Islamic supremacism, it’s the women and children, who in Sharia states are
nothing more than chattel, who suffer the brunt of it. Our silence, and in
effect complicity, has consequences. Honor killings in the West are on the
rise.
Why don't they run pictures of the murder victims? Take it from someone who
follows these terrible murders, pictures are rare. In the case of Amina and
Sarah Said, they seemed know the fate that awaited them. They almost appear to be posing for their eventual end.
The devout murderers hatched their plan in May.
Canwest News ServiceLeft to right:
Mohammed Shafii, Hamid Mohammed Shafii and Tooba Mohammad Yahya have been
charged with four counts of first-degree murder and four counts of conspiracy to
commit murder, Kingston police said at a news conference Thursday.
Kingston police said
Thursday they are pursuing allegations the murders were carried out as so-called
honour killings, a homicide where the victim is killed by their own kin for a
perceived violation of a religious code.
In an interview with the
Kingston Whig Standard, Diba Masoomi - a woman described as Mohammad's
sister - said that Mr. Shafia "believed his daughter had dishonoured him
and the family by having a romance with a young Pakistani man in Montreal."
Joyce Gilbert, a St. Leonard,
Que., resident and neighbour of the Shafia family, said Zainab ran away from
home for a couple of weeks a few months ago. At issue with her parents was her
relationship with a young man they did not approve of, Ms. Gilbert said.
"It was during the spring," Ms.
Gilbert said. "I don't know where she went. Her parents could not accept it. But
she eventually came home."
Ms. Masoomi, a resident of France,
could not be reached for comment. But she is believed to be the author of an
e-mail sent out to various media outlets and the Kingston police a week after
the submerged vehicle was discovered.
The author of the e-mail obviously
possessed intimate knowledge of the Shafia family, including the fact that
Shafia first married Mohammad in either 1979 or 1980, and then married Yahya in
the late 1980s. Both marriages took place in Afghanistan, where it is legal for
a man to have more than one wife.
The author of the e-mail alleged
Yahya "was the privileged one" because she could have children.
"The
girls were not allowed to go out alone, for example, neither to the cinema nor
to meet friends and they were not able to dress freely. [Mr. Shafia] often
criticized the influence of the Western culture on his family since they were
not living in an Islamic country anymore," the e-mail read.
Photo: This photo is said to show Rona Amir
Mohammed, second from left, and Mohammad Shafia, centre, at their engagement
ceremony in Afghanistan circa 1980. It was emailed to the media by a purported
family member.(Canadian Press)
On Friday, Quebec's Youth
Protection Services confirmed reports that the organization was involved with
the family in the months preceding the murders.
"We can say that Youth Protection
Services did intervene with the family," said Jocelyne Boudreault, a spokeswoman
for the government organization that is now taking care of Shafia and Yahya's
three surviving children, besides their son Hamed.
Ms. Boudreault said Youth
Protection Services was required to intervene in a family matter months ago, but
could not elaborate, citing privacy issues.
Whose privacy? The dead girls? Or the cover your ass cretins at
Protection Services?
UPDATE:Despite the outward
appearance of being a quiet family, there were signs of conflict within Mohammad
Shafia's Montreal-area home in the weeks leading up to the murders of three of
his daughters and his first wife.
