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Raymond Ibrahim: Sudan Mother’s Case ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ on Islamic Persecution

Jun 7, 2014 11:25 am By Raymond Ibrahim

meriam-yehya-ibrahimOver on CBN News I discuss, and am interviewed on Skype about, the significance of Meriam Ibrahim’s plight in the context of media reporting:

Evidence has again emerged indicting that if Western mainstream media actually reported more on the sufferings of Christians throughout the Islamic world, their lot would likely improve.

Meriam Ibrahim, a woman who is imprisoned in Sudan and sentenced to death on the charge that she apostatized from Islam and converted to Christianity—and who recently gave birth to a baby girl in prison—was reportedly going to “be freed in a few days,” according to a BBC report:

“Abdullahi Alzareg, an under-secretary at the foreign ministry, said Sudan guaranteed religious freedom and was committed to protecting the woman. Khartoum has been facing international condemnation over the death sentence. In an interview with The Times newspaper, British Prime Minister David Cameron described the ruling as ‘barbaric’ and out of step with today’s world (emphasis added).”

Of course, soon after the BBC reported that Ibrahim would be freed, other reports appeared indicating that that is only a rumor—one that the BBC, which regularly tries to minimize the specter of Muslim persecution of Christians, jumped on—that Sudan was merely trying to save face before the international community.

According to the imprisoned Christian woman’s husband: “No Sudanese or foreign mediator contacted me. Maybe there are contacts between the Sudanese government and foreign sides that I’m not aware of.”

At any rate, why did Sudan say Ibrahim was going to be released?  After all and despite what that nation’s under-secretary says—that “Sudan guaranteed religious freedom and was committed to protecting the woman”—Khartoum’s government upholds Islam’s apostasy law, which actually guarantees that born Muslims do not have “religious freedom.”

As just one example, back in June 2012 in Sudan, a Muslim womandivorced her husband after he converted to Christianity.  The court automatically granted her custody of their two sons(according to Islamic law, children of divorced parents are to remain with the father, but if the latter is an apostate, they go to the mother). When the father tried to visit his children, his ex-wifethreatened to notify authorities. “They might take the case to a prosecutioncourt, which might lead to my sentencing to death according toIslamic apostasy law—but I am ready for this,” the Christian man had said.“I want the world to know this. What crime have I done?”

And that’s the whole difference: “the world” did not “know this,” whereas the major media did report on Ibrahim’s plight, thereby exposing Sudan to international condemnation.

Precedents of this phenomenon—international outrage prompting Islamist governments to rethink their abuse of Christians—have occurred in other Muslim countries.

For example, back in September 2012, two other Christians under arrest and awaiting execution in the Islamic world—one, like Sudan’s Ibrahim, charged with apostasy in Iran, the other with blasphemy in Pakistan—were also released, but only after much widespread international condemnation, that is, only after the mainstream media exposed their plight… Keep reading

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Jun 7, 2014 at 11:59 am

    If only George Clooney were to make a pubic service announcement giving ‘permission’ to PC Hollywood celebrities to criticize this insanity.

  2. boakai ngombu says

    Jun 7, 2014 at 12:44 pm

    ” … if Western mainstream media actually reported more on the sufferings of Christians throughout the Islamic world, their lot would likely improve. …”

    perhaps some attention needs be given the antics of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), “a labor union which represents on-line writers, reporters, editorial assistance, editorial artists and correspondents at major new organization,” according to Cliff Kincaid http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-labor-union-that-runs-the-media

    ties to the politicos surrounding POTUS, no doubt … and he ain’t doing much for the church while he seems preoccupied with slaves of the Allah god of Islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers)

  3. PJG says

    Jun 7, 2014 at 9:18 pm

    When I arrived in Khartoum in 2009, my friend told me about a man who had convertd to Christianity and was about to catch a plane out when he was caught, taken into custody and tortured and beaten, and was in hospital recovering. He was chemically castrated as part of his “punishment”. I don’t know what became of him, although I think he was given shelter (as much as is possible there) by the church.
    This went unnoticed by the world, of course; I only read something about it much later in the Barnabas magazine.
    Anyone who converts to Christianity there is advised to get away from their homes and families and districts – fast.
    The Church struggles to support converts, and must be discreet.
    I’ve said all this before; it’s for newcomers who might be interested.
    I only know many Muslims (I don’t know how many, but enough to make a presence on the streets) sympathise with apostates’ plight and struggle endlessly and perhaps hopelessly for religious freedom. Their hope of a secular Sudan collapsed with Sudan’s separation into two countries; their government was supposed to make unity attractive but sharia provisions made that too difficult for it.
    Once Islam takes over, it is almost impossible to remove it. If only the West would realise that its little concessions to sharia are highly dangerous.

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