In “Prosecuted for Saving A Girl’s Life” in the American Thinker, February 27, Pamela Geller discusses the plight of Brian Williams, a Christian pastor who is being targeted by Ohio authorities for helping ex-Muslim teenager Rifqa Bary when she ran away from home in fear that her father would kill her for leaving Islam.
[…] Brian Williams was helping a girl who was afraid she would be murdered. Yet Rifqa’s legal team seems unable to do anything to head off his, or to compel the court to punish Tarazi’s duplicity in reneging on the deal. If the Islamic death penalty for apostasy were explained in court in light of Rifqa’s situation, the Franklin County prosecutor would not pursue Brian Williams. Instead, Rifqa’s legal team urged him to plead guilty to these outrageous charges at enormous personal expense. Who are they working for? CAIR?
They are wrong. Williams should not plea it down. Why should Brian Williams have a record for helping Rifqa? Yet the dhimmi media is right there reinforcing this outrage, like the cheering crowds at the gallows. The sharia-compliant Columbus Dispatch ran an AP story about Williams retaining counsel. The incompetent AP reporter, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, wrote: “The girl claimed she could be harmed or killed for converting to Christianity, a charge her parents, immigrants from Sri Lanka, have denied.” The girl “claimed” — got that? Everything that the unindicted co-conspirators at CAIR and the lawyer they chose for Rifqa’s parents is reported as gospel. But a young girl terrified for her life whose words are supported by the sharia mandate of death for apostasy only makes “claims.”
What kind of nation, what kind of society are we living in, when someone who helps a girl whose life is in danger is prosecuted for it? An Islamic one. Not so fast, buster.
I am proud to say that Robert Spencer and I were able to connect Brian Williams with the Thomas More Law Center. The Thomas More Law Center will be representing Brian Williams pro bono. The Islamic supremacists pursuing Rifqa Bary and the Christians who helped her will be met with a vigorous freedom of religion defense.
What wonderful news, that as he is prosecuted Brian Williams will be defended by legal counsel who understand that this is enforcement of sharia and are unafraid to fight the oppression and intimidation of the Islamic machine. This is in contrast to Rifqa’s lawyers, who naively made numerous back door deals with her parents’ CAIR-appointed attorney. Every underhanded dirty deal that Rifqa’s lawyers made with the attorney for her parents was broken.
Why should CAIR be able to use our judicial system to send a message to non-Muslims that they will be punished for helping a Christian? Brian Williams, and Rifqa Bary, must prevail. If the Islamic machine succeeds in making an example of them, we are all in trouble.