It's not too late: you can still send Rifqa a Christmas card, and the CAIR Grinches have failed to prevent her from receiving them. Pamela has the address here.
"Magistrate rules that runaway doesn't have to sit down with parents," by Meredith "Hijab" Heagney for the Columbus Dispatch, December 22 (thanks to Pamela, who has more details here).
The magistrate in the Rifqa Bary case ruled today that the 17-year-old who ran away from her Columbus home in July does not have to sit down for mediation with her parents.There were several issues resolved today at the hearing in Franklin County Juvenile Court, including:
* Mediation. Magistrate Mary Goodrich said issues now being discussed would best be resolved with individual counseling instead of group mediation.
That could be a bad break for Rifqa, if she is forced to see a Muslim counselor, as she has been pressured to do.
* Third-party messages. Bary's parents don't want her to receive any cards or letters directly, and had filed a motion that any messages first go to Franklin County Children Services. Omar Tarazi, the family's attorney, withdrew that motion today.
He should never have filed it. A CAIR lawyer trying to withhold Christmas cards from a little girl could be more damaging in the long run to this unsavory group than its unindicted co-conspirator status in a Hamas terror funding case.
* Rifqa's mental health. Assistant County Prosecutor Chris Julian said that a counselor was trying to determine whether 17-year-old, whose full name is Fathima Rifqa Bary, has post-traumatic stress disorder.
What? Post-traumatic stress disorder? Is just anyone and everyone getting that these days?
In July, Rifqa ran away and moved in with two pastors -- a married couple -- in Orlando, Fla., whom she had met on the Internet.
Rifqa said her father, Mohamed Bary, had threatened to kill her for leaving Islam -- the family religion -- for Christianity.
Authorities in Florida and Ohio could find no credible threat to her safety, and she returned to Franklin County on Oct. 27 and has been living in a foster home....
Some small good news, anyway—Merry Christmas, Rifqa!
May the joy of salvation through faith in Jesus be refreshed this season, Rifqa.
I'm glad the muhammadan grinches didn't succeed in ruining this girl's Christmas.
We're constantly told muslims have higher morals than us infidels....Yeah, stories like these really prove the case.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1237839/Father-jailed-encouraging-teenage-son-rape-marry-cousin-12.html
Yeah Rifqa!!! Next hearing in Jan 19.
I am surprised that the Islamist trolls are not jumping all over this. Is it perhaps too embarassing a story at this point?
Good! It's a step on the right direction, though this is not over yet. She still needs our prayers.
Yes, let's pray unceasingly.
I know some folks who were at the hearing today although not allowed to go inside. One told me that she was able to wave at Rifqa and she waved back. She knows we are there for her and that's got to be a great comfort.
Thank you, Lord, for keeping Rifqa safe and for thwarting evil today.
Good news. Keep on fighting. And show authorities again and again, how brazen, yet uniform the lies of SOP-Islam are, when it comes to luring back women with an islam-induced death warrant on their forehead.
Just google:
One of the results showing up: Sarah and Amina Said
... Classmates remember the girls showing up to school with “welts and bruises”, getting in trouble for talking to non-Muslim boys and for acting “too Western.” Despite these signs of danger, no one intervened before the girls were found dead in their father’s taxicab in Texas...
In December of 2007, the girls and their mother temporarily fled when their father, Yaser Said, was enraged to find out that the girls had non-Muslim boyfriends. They were lured back home by promises that no harm would come to them upon their return.
Part of the post got eaten. Here it is again:
Just google: muslim woman "lured back" killed
Congrats dear Robert, you and Pamela won the battle for Rifqa's life. Carry on. You are the champions.
"What? Post-traumatic stress disorder? Is just anyone and everyone getting that these days?"
Actually, Robert, it's very traumatic to be attacked by one's father. I speak as one who knows.
How do we wise up her lawyers? They are not doing a very good job of getting to the heart of the matter. They need a copy of the case in Arizona. Maybe that will wake them up.
Abscedere | December 22, 2009 7:07 PM | Reply
"What? Post-traumatic stress disorder? Is just anyone and everyone getting that these days?"
Actually, Robert, it's very traumatic to be attacked by one's father. I speak as one who knows.
Same goes if it's the mother as well(I know as well) but that is being used as a tool by her parents and their lawyers. Not really relevant to the case in this particular instance. It's smoke and mirrors, lawfare style.
Great and some what surprising news. Next we will hear that Robert and Ibe Hooper will be exchanging Christmas gifts.
Don't open it if it ticks or has wires sticking out of it
Robert. By the way, I have a suggestion for your next book.
"How to talk to muslims for dummies", or Understanding muslims for dhimmis". That one can be dedicated to congress and the media. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
What fantastic news! Thanks to Pamela, Robert and everyone who has helped. I'm going to try and get my Catholic parish to pray for Rifqa (That will be hard but I must try.)
We must keep up our work as this isn't over yet. But have a celebration as you deserve it.
Abscedere Said
"What? Post-traumatic stress disorder? Is just anyone and everyone getting that these days?"
Actually, Robert, it's very traumatic to be attacked by one's father. I speak as one who knows.
Perhaps this is an attempt to prove or disprove her claims without bringing Islam into the equation.
If she has Post-traumatic stress, the court could then treat this as evidence that she received trauma. If there is evidence of trauma, then where did she relieve it?
It is a very short step to prove she received it not at the hands of the Christians she fled to, but as she states, at the hands of her Family. If that is the case, then the Family can be made to be the impetus for her flight, and subsequent fears, and not Islam directly.
It could therefor be a an attempt to stay both politically correct (it wasn't Islam fault), but get to the fact that she was traumatized by her parents and should not go home.
Half assed and weak, but if it keeps her from returning home, a possible step in the right direction.