You be the judge
Again, what does anyone expect Rifqa Bary’s parents to say? “Yes, please send her home so we can chop her into little pieces”?
“Muslim Parents Deny Threatening Daughter With Honor Killing Over Christianity: Statement From Lawyer Indicates Rifqa Bary’s Parents Blame Pastors for Creating Story,” by Sarah Netter for ABC News, August 13 (thanks to James):
The Muslim parents of an Ohio teenager who fled to Florida fearing an “honor killing” for converting to Christianity today blamed their daughter’s fears on the husband and wife pastors who took their daughter in and didn’t report her presence for more than two weeks.
“Neither Mr. or Mrs. Bary have ever threatened the life of their daughter, and patiently await their daughter’s safe return,” Craig McCarthy, a lawyer for Mohamed Bary and his wife, said in a statement issued today to “Good Morning America.”
Fathima Rifqa Bary, who goes by Rifqa, left home in New Albany, Ohio, last month and hopped on a bus to Orlando to meet with husband and wife pastors Blake and Beverly Lorenz, who she met through a Facebook prayer group for the couple’s non-denominational Global Revolution Church.
The couple have become the 17-year-old girl’s biggest allies, saying she has told them that her father threatened to kill her when he found out she had secretly become a Christian.
“To anyone’s knowledge, Rifqa never told anyone that she was frightened while living with her parents in Ohio. Those words only came out of her mouth after being missing for two and a half weeks and surfacing in the tight embrace of Mr. Lorenz, who had not promptly reported that the runaway had been in his home,” the parents’ statement read….
Her brother and friends ought to be able to contradict that, if what she says on the video above is true.