The announcement that she would be freed may have been an attempt to deflect all the negative media attention. They could still murder her once the media has lost interest. It isn’t as if leaving Islam — which Meriam Ibrahim has done in the eyes of Islamic law, since her father was a Muslim — is no longer a death penalty offense according to Sharia (despite the continued denials of this obvious fact from slick Islamic apologists in the West).
“Confusion over news Meriam Ibrahim to be freed in Sudan,” by Paul Bignell and Joe Krishnan, Belfast Telegraph, June 2, 2014:
The case of Meriam Ibrahim sparked international condemnation from world leaders earlier this month after a Sudanese court ruled the then heavily pregnant woman would face the death penalty for refusing to renounce her Christian faith.
The court ruled she was to be given 100 lashes and then hanged after she had given birth.
Ms Ibrahim (27) was brought up as an Orthodox Christian by her mother, and married a Christian, but the court ruled she should be regarded as Muslim because it had been her father’s faith – a charged she denied.
“I am a Christian. I did not convert from Islam,” she told the Haj Yousif court in Khartoum. In refusing to renounce her faith, her Christian marriage in 2011 was annulled and she was sentenced to death for apostasy. Sex outside a ‘lawful relationship’ is also regarded as adultery under Sudanese law.
Over the weekend, the BBC reported that a Sudanese foreign ministry official had said Ms Ibrahim, a doctor, who gave birth to a girl while in prison earlier this week, will be freed from custody “in a few days’ time”. Abdullahi Alazreg, an under-secretary at the foreign ministry, reportedly said that Sudan guaranteed religious freedom and was committed to protecting the woman.
But the foreign ministry issued a clarification on Sunday, saying that only the judicial system could rule on the case.
“The defence team of the concerned citizen has appealed the verdict… and if the appeals court rules in her favour, she will be released,” the ministry said.
Ms Ibrahim’s husband, Daniel Wani, said he had not been told anything about his wife’s possible release, describing the story as rumours.
“No Sudanese or foreign mediator contacted me. Maybe there are contacts between the Sudanese government and foreign sides that I’m not aware of,” he said.
“As far as I’m concerned, I will wait for the appeal which my lawyer submitted, and I hope that my wife will be released.”
Michael Copeland says
Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller”:
“Leaving Islam is the ugliest form of unbelief [kufr] and the worst” (o8.0):
“When a person … voluntarily apostatises from Islam he deserves to be killed” (o8.1).
“if he does [repent], it is accepted of him, but if he refuses, he is immediately killed”
(o8.2).
The Manual of Islamic Law is a free download at http://www.shafiifiqh.com/maktabah/relianceoftraveller.pdf
Mirren10 says
These monsters are deliberately playing a cat and mouse game. Evil scum.
Please everybody, don’t let up. Bombard the Sudanese Embassy, political ‘leaders’, don’t let them rest.
I understand from dda, that the Barnabas Fund is on the case. Do consider sending them a donation, and a message of solidarity.
Her husband is a US *citizen*, bombard the White House etc. Demand that the US rescue this unbelievably courageous woman, and her children.
Ask the ghastly Michelle Obama to start a ‘hashtag’on behalf of this woman, demand to know why she hasn’t done so. These hypocrites need to have their noses rubbed in their vile hypocrisy.
Burt says
“Her husband is a US *citizen*, bombard the White House etc. Demand that the US rescue this unbelievably courageous woman, and her children.”
I understand your asterisks on the word “citizen” Mirren10, but I got to agree in view of that recognized citizenship, it is shocking how little attention seems to have been drawn to this poor woman’s desperate situation in the hands of these barbarians, by your president….Muslim fan, Obama.
Even the insipid Prime Minister of *G*B, David Cameron has been stirred by natural revulsion and disgust at such obviously twisted madness going on in Sudan, to make statements that for at least a time seemed to have caused some lessening of their resolve.
The left is so inherently opposed to Christians they just don’t give a damn. It’s truly shocking.
Michael Copeland says
“When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostatizes from Islam he deserves to be killed” (Manual of Islamic Law, o8.1).
In this case the woman did not reach puberty and then leave Islam. She never knew Islam: she was raised a Christian by her Christian mother.
See “I renounced Islam” http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6429-i-renounced-islam
gravenimage says
Everything you post is correct, Michael—but keep in mind, the whole purpose of these laws is to persecute and terrify Infidels and the “insufficiently Islamic”.
Not only is Shari’ah inherently brutal and unjust, but it is is often used to target the vulnerable even in violation of the “letter of the law”—as in the frequently “abuse” of blasphemy laws, where those *falsely accused* of blasphemy are often prosecuted.
At base, pious Muslims consider *all* Infidels to be apostates, since they hold everyone to have been born Muslim.
Arjay says
So, a father she never knew was a supposed Muslim says the Islamists. A man who abandoned his family. Was he or wasn’t he? It was decades ago so how she prove he wasn’t a Muslim? And how “convenient” that decades later Islamists finally realize a Christian woman married to a Christian man is NOW really a Muslim woman.
Hence, interfaith marriages are not allowed… so the marriage is voided. Yet since she has had children that means these kids are out-of-wedlock and thus she now faces execution for adultery.
Her toddler son was with her in the prison… and though he doesn’t have a Muslim father… he is a “Muslim”???? So, the boy now a Muslim isn’t being given to Christian relatives. Well, that is triple standards.
And this couple, the toddler and newborn ARE ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS.
Yet, the Muslim President Obama… ignores their plight and instead ILLEGALLY does an international prisoner exchange. He certainly wanted to give FIVE vicious blood thirsty terrorists BACK to Islamic world didn’t he? This US soldier is obviously a Muslim, went AWOL, aided the enemy resulting in the deaths of fellow Americans, and HIS OBVIOUSLY Muslim father is praising Islam in ARABIC on national television… AND in his social media… condemns America and supports the Islamists.
WHY ISN’T THE MEDIA ASKING OR QUESTIONING ANY OF THIS? Why isn’t this American family trying to be rescued? This is just a horrific situation. And, yes, I know why the media isn’t asking questions and yes, I know why the Muslim and pro-Islamic administration does nothing to help this non-Muslim American family in Africa.
America is heading towards a tragic future if it continues this romance with Islam.
Arjay says
So, this article also shows the following…
The inhumanity of the Sudanese penal system that brutalizes pregnant women and tosses her toddler in prison with her.
The whole concept of people being arrested for “adultery.” And be threatened with execution for sexual issues AND for leaving Islam.
A nation where inter-faith marriages are not allowed. And women are obviously not even 2nd class citizens… try 3rd or 4th.
Religious minorities have no rights whatsoever.
Yet the Western world, media, politicians, academia and entertainment industry DOES NOTHING about this. This “LET US GIVE A FREE PASS TO A 3RD WORLD BLACK RULED AS WELL AS ISLAMIC NATION” is so incredibly disgusting.
Shouldn’t this nation be held up to basic humanitarian standards? Can you imagine that if in America or Canada or Australia or Great Britain…
Inter-faith marriages were declared invalid.
The Western Prison system coddles murderers and rapists to make them as comfortable as possible. Can you imagine treating these (mostly black men) convicts in US prisons… the same way this woman is being treated.
Can you imagine… a nation declaring someone’s marriage invalid because of the parent’s identity? Can you imagine Western Feminists being treated like this woman is treated?
Sex in the West! Can you imagine if people started getting arrested for their bedroom activities… and that children are judged by their parents doings?
In the West, the populace would go NUTS. Why? Because humanity what? Expects more of White, European-descent, Jews, Christians, Westerners… what? Why are people in the West expected to be “civilized” but 3rd worlders and especially Islamists are given a free pass?
Is it because Westerners think these people ARE NOT CAPABLE of being more humane or “civilized?”
Well, I am NOT WHITE. And let me tell you that this type of mentality is BS. My view is HOLD NATIONS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS… even if the nation is “3rd world” or “not white” or “Islamic.” To think they cannot be held to civilized standards is BUNK. Hold them to this standards… and if they do NOT adhere to them… then punish those nations who commit human rights violations or atrocities with consequences. Harsh if necessary.
3rd World, Non-white and Islamic (or combinations there of) get away with things because they are allowed to.
Trust me, as a non-white… it does not help to let non-whites in this or other nations to “get away” with stuff. It helps no one.
PJG says
Arjay, I was surprised to see in Sudan how the people are “onto” our Western political correctness. It made me cringe to see foreigners fawn over their Islam, even aid workers who should have known they were only there because of the mess ISLAM had made of their country. I always talked to people as if they were secret sceptics; after all, maybe they were already but had no way out.
Just a year or so ago the Sudanese government was whining about the terrible threat to islam because 109 – 109!! – people had apostasised. Not sure what they did to those people, but maybe they were bullied into returning to Islam like good sheep.
Buraq says
When I read the joyful posts under the first article about the release of Meriam Ibrahim, I felt uneasy. Islam’s tactic of ‘bait and switch’ is well practised. Remember the Christian man in Iran who was ‘released’ from prison after international pressure and then promptly rearrested with some other trumped up accusation?
This is exactly the same. ‘Bait and switch’, keep the infidels guessing. Play fast and loose, keep the infidels hanging on, hoping.
These clowns will never let her go, voluntarily. It needs a squad of elite troops to go in and snatch her to safety.
They are clowns in the same image as that clown Mohammed. Force is all they understand!
mariam rove says
you said that right……m
gravenimage says
Buraq, I was worried about bait and switch like Miriam Ibrahim Ibrahim not being allowed to return to her husband, the couple not being granted custody of their children, or the family not being allowed to leave the country.
I was also concerned about some pious members of the Ummah deciding to “finish the job”, as so often happens victims released from prison in Dar-al-Islam on charges of blasphemy of apostasy.
What even I hadn’t been expecting was for the whole story to have been a fake from the beginning.
I’m sure this was just intended to fool the civilized world—how many decent people have breathed a sigh of relief and now turned their attention to other matters?
God, I hate Islam.
Wellington says
On a previous thread on May 31st dealing with this situation I wrote of the woman’s “intended release.” Muslim intent is as mercurial as a heroin addict intending to go clean.
Salah says
“Abdullahi Alazreg, an under-secretary at the foreign ministry, reportedly said that Sudan guaranteed religious freedom”
No Muslim country whatsoever, including my beloved New Egypt, will remain a Muslim country for long if it SINCERELY garanteed religious freedom.
Martin says
Please sign a petition in order to support Meriam Yehya Ibrahim: https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/government-of-sudan-don-t-execute-meriam-yehya-ibrahim-for-being-christian-savemeriam
Mirren10 says
As I said in my first post, *please* don’t let us forget this courageous woman, her children, and her husband.
It is simply not enough to register one’s hatred , loathing, and disgust, on posts on Jihad Watch.
We need to *bombard* the Sudanese Embassy, the UN, so called political ‘leaders’ everywhere, to try to get this unbelievably courageous woman **freed**.
My apoligies to all JW commenters who have already done so; I am not at all implying that those who comment on JW, have not already done the best and bravest thing.
gravenimage says
Remember this story, right after the secession of South Sudan?
“After South votes to secede, Sudan President promises Sharia”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/01/after-south-votes-to-secede-sudan-president-promises-sharia
Bashir had this to say:
“If Sudan segregates I will change the constitution,” he said before the referendum, adding that southerners staying in the North after calling for independence would be treated as foreigners. “All that belongs to the South will go there. The Sharia is the original source of our laws.”
Basing the constitution on Sharia law represents a major change from the current interim constitution, which recognizes the “multi-ethnic,” “multi-cultural” and “multi-religious” aspects of Sudan.
………………………………….
And remember, there was oppression, slavery, and genocide under that old “multi-religious” constitution, as well.
But it doesn’t take much reading between the lines to realize that they were intending to up the persecution of Christians and other Infidels as “revenge” for South Sudan—never mind that South Sudan only seceded because of persecution of Christians and animists in the first place—and this “revenge” is *exactly* what we are seeing with the persecution of Mariam Ibrahim and her family.
PJG says
That interim government, based on the CPA of 2005, was the best time for Sudan with sufficient outside influence to make a difference. It was a time of hope and even of some degree of conciliation which could have gone further. But ONLY under outside pressure. Once that went, pfft went the happy times. Muslims can’t be trusted to rule themselves, let alone rule over others. There is always that howling, baying mob somewhere around, on the prowl for heretics and sinners and brewing terrorism. I believe Sudanese are currently upset about foreign Muslims from Pakistan and Afghanistan being allowed to settle in Sudan. One need not imagine these newcomers are “moderates”.
duh_swami says
You can’t trust a thing these people say…I suspected the buggers would start vacillating and might change their minds…
akafir says
If you are a US citizen please sign this petition. If you know other US citizens ask them to sign as well.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/act-case-meriam-ibrahim-sudan-and-her-baby-and-toddler-prison/D1x1q4VG
WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
Act in the case of Meriam Ibrahim in Sudan and her baby and toddler in prison.
We strongly urge the administration to take action in the case of Dr. Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese mother who with her toddler and newborn baby (who pending the proper documentation are American citizens) is languishing inside a prison in Khartoum. While Meriam awaits execution for the “crime” of converting to Christianity, her children are forced to be at her side in a prison that a 2008 U.N. document reported as having an infant mortality rate of one per day in the summer. No innocent child should be in this situation. We urge you to pressure the Sudanese government to release Meriam and her children so she can escape execution and possible death of her children and be rejoined with her husband in the U.S. Please grant her expedited safe haven in the U.S., where she could seek asylum.
dumbledoresarmy says
Amnesty International have got a campaign going on behalf of Mrs Wani (I prefer to use her married name whenever I can, to emphasise that I recognise her marriage) as well. I signed. And they give a list of addresses people can write to, off their own bat. I quote:
“If you wish to send your own letter to the Sudanese authorities, please write to the contacts below before 27 June 2014:
Minister of Justice
Mohamed Bushara Dousa Ministry of Justice PO Box 302 Al Nil Avenue Khartoum Sudan moj@moj.gov.sd
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ali Ahmed Karti Ministry of Foreign Affairs PO Box: 302, Republic Street Khartoum Sudan Fax: + 249 183 772941
Minister of Interior
Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamed Ministry of Interior, PO Box 873 mut@isoc.sd”.
Now: it may *seem* perfectly futile to send letters and postcards, but if they get inundated with hundreds of thousands of *real letters*, as well as there being petitions of hundreds of thousands, they might at least calculate that all those angry Infidels are *also* pressuring Infidel *governments*; and they may recognise that it’s all very bad PR for Islam.
*I* don’t know how to organise it, but surely it could be possible for there to be *large* and visibly angry (though law-abiding) protests, rallies and sit-ins outside the (North) Sudanese embassies or consulates, where such embassies or consulates are present within the West. And for delegations to personally hand in statements – by the sackful – in support of Mrs Wani, to the (North) Sudanese consul or ambassador.
Pour on the pressure from every side. And *do not* let anybody get away with pretending that what is being done to Mrs Wani is anything other than normative Islam. Every time you talk about this case with friends, family, co-workers, fellow students, on FB, etc, point out – in as flatly factual a tone as you can muster – that death for apostasy, and a ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslim men who havent’ become Muslim, and the refusal to recognise freedom of conscience (that is, the decreeing of a child to be automatically and necessarily and inescapably Muslim if its father is or becomes Muslim, and the *refusal* to allow that child, even when adult, to choose and practise another faith, or no faith), are all bog-standard normative Islam.
Pressure *every* Western government as well, to use every bit of leverage they’ve got, to squeeze the Sudanese regime. Where Sudan (Islamic Sudan) has diplomatic reps in our countries, our heads of state can be told to haul those diplomatic reps onto the carpet and tell them *exactly* what we think of Sudan’s disgusting abuse of human rights, as currently paraded in the case of Meriam nee Ibrahim, Mrs Wani.
dumbledoresarmy says
My third attempt to post this comment.
A good song to sing at rallies held for Mrs Wani, nee Meriam Ibrahim; and also at rallies held for Asia Bibi and other Christians who have been sentenced to death for “blasphemy!!” in Islamic Pakistan; and for those kidnapped Nigerian girls:
PJG says
Has Obama said anything about this case? Awkward for him, of course, as he is the same as Meriam because his father was a Muslim just as hers was. So for him to cry “shame!” would draw attention to his own “apostasy”. How aware of this are the Sudanese, I wonder?
Kereru says
Andrew Bostom nails it.
‘President Obama, More of an Islamic ‘Apostate’ Than Meriam Ibrahim, Must Demand Her Immediate Release From Sudan and Grant Her Asylum in The U.S.’
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/05/30/president-obama-more-of-an-islamic-apostate-than-meriam-ibrahim-must-demand-her-immediate-release-from-sudan-and-grant-her-asylum-in-the-u-s/
PJG says
Thanks, Kereru!
PJG says
Two updates:
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article51206
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article51208
Her mental condition is being considered…this has happened in other Muslim countries as a face-saving exercise in freeing an “apostate”. If she is deemed mad they will let her go (well, of course she must be mad if she rejects Islam….)
brian murphy says
barbaric treatment of wife of U.S. citizen; forced to give birth chained to the wall like an animal and now Sudan changes its mind about freeing this innocent person who was always a Christian as her father deserted the family and her mother who is Christian reared her as a Christian. No humanity or justice from Sudan. Obama should demand her release