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Sudanese Christian freed, “safe and well” in US Embassy

Jun 27, 2014 9:04 am By Robert Spencer

Meriam Ibrahim Daniel WasiOne would hope that even in this age of Obama, Meriam Ibrahim can safely get out of Sudan now that she is in the US Embassy. Still, free people and those who oppose Sharia can breathe easy only when she is out of the country.

“Sudanese woman Meriam Ibrahim ‘safe and well’ in US embassy,” The Guardian, June 27, 2014:

The husband of a Sudanese Christian woman facing threats after her apostasy death sentence was overturned has expressed relief that the family has been given refuge at the US embassy in Khartoum.

“Really, it’s good,” Daniel Wani, the American husband of Meriam Ibrahim, told Agence France-Presse by telephone on Friday, adding that embassy staff had been “very helpful and very nice”.

He said his wife and two children, who could be heard in the background, were doing well at the heavily guarded facility.
Sudanese woman Meriam Ibrahim holds her baby in a car shortly after her release in Khartoum Ibrahim holds her baby in a car shortly after her release in Khartoum. Photograph: EPA

Ibrahim, 27, went to the US embassy on Thursday after being detained at Khartoum airport as she tried to leave Sudan. Her arrest came days after her release from death row.

Wani confirmed they had sought the embassy’s protection because of death threats against his wife.

A US state department spokeswoman, Marie Harf, said the family were in a safe location and Sudan’s government had assured the US of their continued safety.

Ibrahim was detained with her husband and two young children at Khartoum airport on Tuesday over allegations she had forged travel documents. But she was discharged from a police station, on the condition she remained in Sudan, after the government came under pressure from foreign diplomats.

Ibrahim, whose father was Muslim but who was raised by her Christian mother, was last month convicted of apostasy and sentenced to hang. She was also sentenced to 100 lashes for adultery after a court ruled her marriage to Wani, a Christian, was invalid.

Under Sudan’s penal code Muslims are forbidden from changing faith, and Muslim women are not permitted to marry Christian men. Ibrahim insisted she had been brought up as a Christian.

The case prompted outrage, with more than a million people backing Amnesty International’s campaign for her release.

On Monday the appeal court annulled her death sentence and freed her, after which she went into hiding because of death threats.
Link to video: Christian convert Meriam Ibrahim freed again from Sudanese prison

Wani, a US citizen since 2005, said he hoped the family could start a new life in America. But 24 hours later security service agents apprehended the family, including a baby girl born while Ibrahim was shackled to the floor of her cell, claiming that her travel documents were forged. Ibrahim’s lawyer, Elshareef Mohammed, said more than 40 security officers stopped them boarding a plane to Washington.

The US state department said its envoy then met Sudanese foreign ministry officials at their request and told them the family needed to be able “to depart as swiftly as possible from Sudan and that we are happy to help in any way we can”.

Wani has claimed that those who triggered the case against his wife, whom he married in 2011, were attempting to muscle in on her business interests, including a hair salon, mini-mart and agricultural land.

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  1. miriam rove says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 9:11 am

    while this is great news, I am wondering how many of our federal tax $$$ did it take for this Jazieh? M

    • James Foard says

      Jun 27, 2014 at 10:30 am

      I don’t quite understand the point of your comment.

      • John C. Barile says

        Jun 27, 2014 at 10:42 am

        Miriam wonders how much jizya money–bakhsheesh–it took from the U.S.–we taxpayers–to secure release of this family from wretched Sudan. Am I right, Miriam?

        • mariam rove says

          Jun 27, 2014 at 11:06 am

          you are indeed my freedom loving anti Jihadist friend!!!!!!!!!

        • John C. Barile says

          Jun 28, 2014 at 9:11 am

          I am!!!!

    • harbidoll says

      Jun 29, 2014 at 12:13 am

      isn’t that what muslams do??? take hostages & then demand ransom?

  2. Angemon says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 9:23 am

    “Still, free people and those who oppose Sharia can breathe easy only when she is out of the country.”

    Indeed.

  3. medina says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 10:29 am

    I would consider the embassy to be a bombing target from this point forward.

    • John C. Barile says

      Jun 27, 2014 at 10:45 am

      Their embassy in Washington, D.C., or ours in Khartoum, Sudan?

      • medina says

        Jun 27, 2014 at 11:12 am

        I was referring to the U.S. embassy in Sudan where Meriam is being safeguarded. But what embassy is safe from jihadists? I am sure in Sudan it’s a real rub that a *woman* especially a Christian apostate, married to an American, is getting away. Muslims have done a lot more for a lot less.

        • John C. Barile says

          Jun 27, 2014 at 2:59 pm

          I misunderstood. I thought you meant our bombs, not theirs. Our east African embassies have been bombed before. In this case, I don’t think an Al-Qaida affliate has as much freedom to detonate a bomb–not without the Muslim host state’s knowledge and complicity.

        • Jay Boo says

          Jun 27, 2014 at 11:40 pm

          Innocence of Muslims Part II
          Obama would have to do another internet search to find a different obscure film to blame.

        • Angemon says

          Jun 28, 2014 at 4:51 am

          I’d say he could blame in on the Muhammad and Aisha trailer but that has the sources for what’s being depicted written in it and he couldn’t risk having a potentially large number of people searching the muslim texts and learning the first hand accounts of muhammad’s child abusing exploits. People becoming aware of what islam permits? Perish the thought!

  4. CogitoErgoSum says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 11:03 am

    Here is a model worth emulating. This woman has shown tremendous courage and strength in the face of persecution. I hope she is able to make it all the way safely to the land of the free and the home of the brave. She most definitely already posseses the bravery along with the will and the heart to get to the Shining City on the Hill. Now for the freedom that awaits her and her family….and may they live long and happy lives in peace.

    • harbidolls says

      Jun 29, 2014 at 12:02 am

      perhaps the number 1 enemy of islam is ‘women”, mainly because its mutual. islam hates women! (as well as all mankind).

  5. medina says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 11:25 am

    I, too, await the arrival of this brave woman. Want to hear her story from her lips. Wonder how the media, CAIR, and the political class will react (sarcasm). Maybe she will be asked to tell her story on The View, Rachel Maddow, or Melissa Harris Perry, because these are platforms for women’s interests, especially women of color, yes? Or maybe she’ll live under a threat in the most powerful nation in the world because it is overrun with filthy barbarians like Nidal Hasan, Tsarneavs, etc.

    I hope and pray that she and her family get out alive.

    • Lawrence says

      Jun 27, 2014 at 2:08 pm

      You needed another “(sarcasm)” after “Maybe she will be asked to tell her story on The View, Rachel Maddow, or Melissa Harris Perry”.

      • Jay Boo says

        Jun 27, 2014 at 11:49 pm

        911 apologist Rosie O’Donnell would likely cohost in order to interrupt Meriam Ibrahim whenever Meriam mentioned that Islam is to blame, with “Isn’t Christianity just as violent as Islam”

  6. Burt says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 12:24 pm

    Great news. Well done US embassy staff. Now get her out of there safe to the freedom she deserves.

  7. Mo says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 12:46 pm

    I won’t breathe easily until she’s in the U.S.

    And even then, I wouldn’t put it past Muslims to make an attempt on her life.

    She’s one brave lady, that’s for sure!

  8. Lawrence says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 2:03 pm

    Let’s not be naive. When this women and her two American children were sentenced the Obama administration did done nothing except the political heat was too intense.

    Even after the press protested her arrest and sentencing the Obama people did nothing to condemn the Sudanese. And we can be sure she was released because of the widespread condemnation.

    When she was re-arrested – even under such provocation – this administration said nothing.

    That Obama, in hot water because – essentially – of his support for Islam threatened too many Democrats – who owe an explanation why they ever and continued to support him – might well have brought pressure.

    I think we can all see through this.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 27, 2014 at 11:21 pm

      Obama was granted permission by Islamic heads of state only because the stink of Islam was being traced back to the source nations.
      They likely wanted to hold out and claim it as an ‘act of mercy from Islam’ during Ramadan but the stink was just too overpowering to deny its Islamic source any longer.

  9. Mirren10 says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 3:43 pm

    ”When she was re-arrested – even under such provocation – this administration said nothing”

    Heaven knows, I have not the least desire to defend Obama. However, even if the administration has *said* nothing, it is the US Embassy in Sudan that is sheltering Meriam and her family.

    Surely they wouldn’t/couldn’t do that, without express orders from Obama ?

    I don’t know enough about American diplomacy to argue the point; perhaps someone more knowledgeable, Kepha ? Could fill in the blanks.

    Anyway, thank God Meriam and her family are at last out of the clutches of sharia. But I won’t rest easy until she and her family are actually **in** the US.

  10. Daphne Donges says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 6:22 pm

    I find it interesting that the only reason she was taken in the first place was officially because her father was a Mohammedan but perhaps the real reason was as “Wani has claimed that those who triggered the case against his wife, whom he married in 2011, were attempting to muscle in on her business interests, including a hair salon, mini-mart and agricultural land”

    Perhaps she had declined to pay the right amount of Jizya

  11. gravenimage says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 10:15 pm

    Sudanese Christian freed, “safe and well” in US Embassy
    ……………………………….

    This is very heartening news—but, as noted, the family will not really be safe until they are able to get out of Sudan.

    More:

    The US state department said its envoy then met Sudanese foreign ministry officials at their request and told them the family needed to be able “to depart as swiftly as possible from Sudan and that we are happy to help in any way we can”.
    ……………………………….

    I am *so* pleased to hear this—this is the very first I’ve heard of US authorities taking an active interest in protecting these American citizens.

    Perhaps all those letters and phone calls and media attention helped after all—both with getting Sudan to back off, and the US to really take an active role.

    I’ll be so glad when Meriam Ibrahim and her family arrive here in the States.

  12. Jay Boo says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 11:12 pm

    ‘safe and well’ in US embassy,”
    ———————-

    Where have we heard that before?

  13. Foolster says

    Jun 28, 2014 at 5:14 am

    This is indeed good news, and will be great once they are actually out of that country. Sadly, I could only sign and think “typical” when I heard they were re-arrested at the airport. Muslims have done this before where they bend to political pressure, and then contenue doing whatever it was again once everyone is distracted by something else.

  14. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jun 28, 2014 at 9:07 am

    Take her – and her husband and the two little ones – out with the stealth copters they used in the raid on Osama Bin Laden.

    Just get her out.

    Sort out the rest of the paperwork at a safe distance.

    And …advice for all of us, each in our separate countries…let’s all write to our wretched, grovelling news media outlets, both public and private, and ask them very, very pointedly why, in covering this case, not *one* of them, so far as I can see, has ever done Mrs Wani the honour of referring to her by her lawful married name.

    One and all, they have used her *maiden* name. Never, never never have they called her “Mrs Wani” or “Mrs Daniel Wani” or “Meriam nee Ibrahim, Mrs Wani”.

    And in so doing they have, between the lines, signalled or promoted an acceptance of the Muslim BS that denies the reality and validity of her marriage.

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