In an unsigned editorial entitled only "Fathima Rifqa Bary," September 5 (thanks to Kamala), the Orlando Sentinel once again does its level best to make sure that Rifqa Bary is murdered or institutionalized:
Nine -- count 'em -- lawyers were in court this week in Orlando to continue waging the divisive legal battle over a 17-year-old girl from Ohio. Surely this can't be that hard to resolve.Fathima Rifqa Bary, who fled her Muslim family in July, swears her father will kill her for converting to Christianity if she goes home. He denies that and wants her to come back. But her case has been exploited by evangelical activists and politicians to promote crude stereotypes of Muslims.
Lawyers for the family in this week's hearing cited a report from Florida's top law-enforcement agency that concluded the family does not pose a threat to the girl. Both parents have agreed to place her in an Ohio foster home for at least 30 days if a judge allows her return.
If not for the intervention of opportunists in Florida, this case would've been turned over weeks ago to Ohio, where it belongs.
Yes, of course Rifqa would be in no danger at home. Of course there is no threat. Of course this is all about "opportunists" and "crude stereotypes of Muslims."
Here are some more people promoting crude stereotypes of Muslims in regard to the killing of apostates.
I have written to both the St. Petersburg Times and Orlando Sentinel that, in the event Rifqa Bary gets returned to her family and becomes another "honor killing" victim, the editorial staffs of those papers answer charges of aiding and abetting first degree murder.
The Orlando "Sentinel"--on the "watchtower" against Islamophobia, those "guardians" steadfastly keeping the truth away so it will not harm precious egos.
No Muslim girl has ever been killed to cleanse her family honor. No Muslim apostate has ever been killed for leaving Islam.
If you believe that, I can sell you a bridge in Brooklyn.
No Muslim girl has ever been killed to cleanse her family honor. No Muslim apostate has ever been killed for leaving Islam.
If you believe that, I can sell you a bridge in Brooklyn.
"But her case has been exploited by evangelical activists and politicians to promote crude stereotypes of Muslims."
Strange comment coming from a dangerous Dhimmi activist promoting crude stereotypes of evangelicals and politicians.
What a surprise, the Orlando Sentinel is shilling for Islam yet again. If Rifqa Bary is sent back and killed or harmed in any way, the liberal-left media will bear moral responsibility for her blood. (Of course, the liberal-left media could careless that Muslims routinely murder Christians, converts and otherwise, so I don't expect them to shed any tears for Ms. Bary should, God forbid, harm befall her.)
If Rifqa Barry sought refuge with an Atheist couple there would be no editorials about her. The hatred of Christians in the US is soooo PC now.
Anyone who doesn't want to see Rifqa added to the sad ranks of Amina and Sarah in the United States, and Aqsa in Canada, and Hatun in Germany, and Pela and Fadime and Umea in Sweden, and Hursu in England, and all the unnamed victims of Islamic "honor", in the West and in the Muslim world, must be an "Islamophobe".
Surely, there can be no other reason.
You make a very good point. This story has just as much to do with Christianity (at least to the liberal-left media) as it does with Islam. This is easily observable in the way in which the liberal-left media has gone out of its way to peddle the CAIR-inspired rumors that Rifqa Bary was brainwashed by a "Christian cult", to imply that the pastor which she stayed with was some sort of anti-Islam zealot, and to bring up some unrelated church that had a sign equating Islam with the devil. The fact that Ms. Bary left "peaceful" Islam for "evil and fundamentalist" Christianity is not lost on the media. Hence they refuse to pay any regard to the Islamic practice of executing apostates (which was only recently applied in Somalia) and present the Muslims as peaceful, misunderstood, and oppressed, but are insistent on depicting the Christians in this story as evil, fanatical villains.
There's so many quotes from the Quran, Ishaq, Tabari, Bukhari that apply to the plight of Rifqa.
Haven't any reporters, judges, lawyers, politicians researched this?
Are they submitting so easily to Islam or are they just so blind that they cannot see?
"The Prophet said, 'If a Muslim discards his religion, kill him.'" Bukhari:V4B52N260
"Truly, if the Hypocrites stir up sedition, if the agitators in the City do not desist, We shall urge you to go against them and set you over them. They shall have a curse on them. Whenever they are found, they shall be seized and slain without mercy - a fierce slaughter - murdered, a horrible murdering." Qur'an 33:60
"Believers, take not Jews and Christians for your friends." Qur'an 5:51
"If any turns away from the reminder of his Lord (the Qur'an), He will thrust him into an ever growing torment, and cause for him a severe penalty." Qur'an 72:17
"You are not a warden over them; except for those who turn away and disbelieve, in which case, he will be punished with the severest punishment. Verily to Us they will return." Qur'an 88:21
"We reject you. Hostility and hate have come between us forever, unless you believe in Allah only.'" Qur'an 60:4