A wrongheaded legal strategy. "Rifqa Bary Facing Shariah, Deportation," by Pamela Geller at Newsmax, March 11:
Rifqa Bary is the 17-year-old girl who converted from Islam to Christianity and fled from her family in fear for her life. For over nine months now, the Islamic machine has been trying to make an example of her, as a warning that even in the U.S., those who try to leave Islam will fail.Rifqa's entire legal strategy, meanwhile, has hinged on ignoring the Islamic aspects of the case, although Islam's death penalty for apostasy is the only thing that makes sense of why she is in danger.
Instead, they're trying to obtain for her Special Immigration Juvenile Status (SIJS). And in this, yet again, her parents' aggressive and manipulative attorney, Omar Tarazi, has outfoxed them.
This was her lawyers' objective, the end run: If they could keep Rifqa out of her dangerous home environment and secure immigration status, then it didn't matter how they did it, as long as the goal was achieved.
What her legal team did not understand was the nature of the threat and the enemy Rifqa faced. They were playing by a set of rules that were inapplicable to the challenge they faced. By pretending that Shariah was not the elephant in the room, they were out-strategized....
I think that's what CAIR and the Barys want: for the whole family to go back to Sri Lanka, which was the plan after members of the Noor mosque spied on Rifqa and told her parents of the conversion. The bags were packed.
And in Sri Lanka, as Rifqa herself has said, she could be killed or institutionalized with no unwelcome scrutiny interfering in the application of Islamic law.
Rifqa is still not eligible for Special Immigration Juvenile Status, and the Rifqa's legal strategy has been reactive, not pro-active. They are being kept busy responding to motions Tarazi, who was chosen for the Barys by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group under suspicion of funding the terrorist group Hamas.
The worst example of how Tarazi fooled Rifqa's lawyers was that he compelled them to have Rifqa plead guilty to "unruliness" to secure dependency, and then reneged on his part of the deal once the guilty plea had been entered.
The guilty plea continues to have negative ramifications for those who love Rifqa and helped her. Using the "unruly" plea as a pretext, criminal investigations are proceeding and charges are pending against Brian Williams and Blake and Beverly Lorenz, who helped Rifqa when she fled from her home.
Why hasn't Rifqa's legal team demanded an investigation by child services into the abuse and death threats in Rifqa's home? The eligibility requirements for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status demand it. The immigrant minor must not be able to reunite with her parents "due to abuse, neglect, abandonment, or a similar basis found under state law."
All Rifqa's lawyers have is a guilty plea to unruliness from Rifqa, and no establishment of abuse at all. In fact, in the stipulation to dependency, the lawyers on both sides were at pains to put on the record before the court the fact that the stipulation was not based upon abuse or neglect.
To support Rifqa's abuse claim they'd have to get into Islamic apostasy law, and they don't want to do that.
And Pamela has more, including a statement from Rifqa's friend Jamal Jivanjee, here.
Robert,
Tme to add a new "read my lips" comment into the world dialogue:
Read my lips, "No new Shariahs" ... and get rid of all the other shariahs, for that matter, just say no to the damn things ... who needs 'em?
While I agree that Rifqa Bary should be emancipated and allowed to remain in the US, I am not clear as to why she would be at such great risk if deported to Sri Lanka. The dominant religion in Sri Lanka is Buddhism, the main religious minorities Hindu and Christian. Muslims constitute only a small fraction of the population and are not particularly influential. It would be far cry from being deported to a Muslim country.
Why in the world does Rifqa have to keep the lawyers that she has? Can she not fire them and have her friends and those trying to protect her hire lawyers who will do the right thing? What is happening to her is truly a travesty of justice. And Bill if you haven't noticed, muslims tend to get away with murder all the time!
What The Farouk here? How did this thing get so mucked-up?
If we're gonna' slay the beast we've gotta' do better than this!
The authorities should be one hundred percent behind this girl; a child so frightened by her own father that she fled. HELLO? Is anyone listening to HER?
If islam is the reason...let's put that on the table! Present the several documented recent cases of daughter-killing by MUSLIM FATHERS right here in this country. Demonstrate that people in her situation are potential murder victims--don't be afraid--say it--because of ISLAM! Put it out there for all to see! The truth is best for her and best for our society.
It's a win-win.
And now this frightened child is under virtual solitary confinement, denied contact with her friends? While they face possible prosecution for their good intentions on her behalf? This is the USA? This is a DISGRACE!
What a sorry state we've sunk to...
billposer sez:
"...Muslims constitute only a small fraction of the population and are not particularly influential. It would be far cry from being deported to a Muslim country.:"
Hey Bill, her deportation would not put her in a Hindu, Buddist, or Christian home....and Muslims, whether they are a minority or a majority will always abide by "their" rules...Muslims have been killing apostates where ever they find them and can get to them. It matters not if the victim is a family member..
And through intimidations, extortions, threats, violent behavior....Muslims are always "influential" in one way or another...being in a minority status does not remove the threat ....it only temporarily slows them down..Islam doesn't care about being peaceful..that's not the plan.
What happened to the thread yesterday about the Muslim in Florida attacking the journalist? This was in Tallahassee on "Muslim Capitol Day."
What happened to it???
Thank you Pulsar. What part of Sri Lanka is a third world country don't people understand? Third world laws, third world media coverage and third world customs mean third world "Shit Hole" treatment of Rifqa!
Hey rico - don't forget "Third-World" treatment of girls and women. Which ain't nuthin' nice.
To billpozer or anyone;
The Sri Lankan govenment seems to have made nice with Islamic countries. Many heads of Islamic states have visited there including the Chief Thug of Iran.
Also please send some St. Patrick's cards and/or Easter cards to Rifqa.
What happened to our once certain ally FOX News? They now hate Wilder and say nothing about Rifqa at all. No one mentioning that FOX news is now irresistibly being pushed around by it's Arab and Muslim big stock holders? What does anyone expect? Of course Crystal and fellow travelers suddenly hate Wilders. They got ordered by the power of Oil Money Bribes, and the thought and the mental image of their loved ones lying dead in their beds with their heads cut off with a slow, sawing motion - the world belongs to the savages now - who would have thought that funny and out of it Ben laden could have in such a short time brought the most powerful county that ever existed to it knees, economically devastated, whining and whimpering and begging to be "understood" by an entire amazed world. Looks like the Savages are at the door and we will all soon kiss free-speech goodbye forever and ever. Who is going to save us? Not FOX and it's fellow travelers.
Why Syariah? Let practice the law of the bible
Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
Kill Witches
You should not let a sorceress live. (Exodus 22:17 NAB)
Kill Homosexuals
"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
Kill Fortunetellers
A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death. (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)
Death for Hitting Dad
Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:15 NAB)
Death for Cursing Parents
1) If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming of darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 NAB)
2) All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)
Death for Adultery
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
Death for Fornication
A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
Death to Followers of Other Religions
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB)
Kill Nonbelievers
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Kill False Prophets
If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, "You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord." When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through. (Zechariah 13:3 NAB)
Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins On Their Wedding Night
But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB)
Kill Followers of Other Religions.
1) If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)
Ladies and gentlemen
observe the Mohammedan boggart, 'janeabraham', above, attempting threadbare tu quoque.
There are five rejoinders to be made.
The first is that these texts are from the most ancient portions of the TaNaKh: they refer, all of them, to a time from before the Babylonian Exile.
The second is that the standard of proof required among the Hebrews, in any case requiring a death penalty, was far, far more exacting than the standard of 'proof' that is required in similar cases among Mohammedans...indeed, it is pretty clear from the many, many reports that we read here daily, that in practice there is no such thing as a standard of proof among Mohammedans... mere accusation alone seems on most occasions to suffice as 'proof', especially when someone is accused of having apostasised or 'blasphemed', or a woman is accused of sexual misconduct. It should be noted, moreover, that the penalty of stoning for adultery seems already to have been abandoned altogether, among Jews, by the time Mohammed came along.
The third rejoinder is that 'janeabraham' must bring forward at least five cases, dating from the past two years, in which any one of the texts she (?) has cited from the TaNaKh has been enforced to the letter either by Jewish individuals acting as vigilante enforcers, or by a Jewish religious *or* civil court. I make this demand because it is very, very easy to find, from just within the past two years or so, a multitude of examples of Muslim threats against, and public execution (in some Muslim countries) or actual or attempted murder of (in other countries), persons whom Muslims have accused of committing immoral sexual acts, or apostasy, or 'blasphemy'.
If Rifqa Bary had been the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish family, rather than of a Muslim family, and had converted to Christianity, her family would have been distressed by this, even angry, and might well have chosen to disown her; but I doubt very much that she would have felt herself in imminent danger of being murdered out of hand.
I will add only this: that among Christians, the first followers of Yeshua of Nazareth - who were all of them people who had been born and brought up as good first-century Jews - made it clear, very early in the piece, that *Gentile* Christians did not have to observe every part of the Israelite civil and ceremonial law (that law which in the Hebrew scriptures is set out primarily in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) in order to be accepted as followers of Yeshua. These Gentiles did not have to become Jews. They did not have to be circumcised; they did not have to keep kosher; and although sexual immorality, sorcery, and other moral and/ or spiritual sins are clearly condemned by the (Jewish-origin) writers of the pastoral epistles, and it is clear that they are grieved if someone falls away from the faith, the idea that the Christian community should execute people for either apostasy or blasphemy, or for sexual immorality, is found nowhere in the Christian scriptures.