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Sudan: Christian woman’s family to go to court to prove she was Muslim

Jul 2, 2014 11:50 am By Robert Spencer

MeriamIbrahimIf her family succeeds in proving that she was once a Muslim, she will almost certainly be killed, as per Islamic law’s death penalty for apostates. Why would her family want that fate for her? Because Islam is paramount over all other loyalties and affections. The Qur’an’s 60th chapter depicts Abraham telling his pagan family that there is now “enmity and hatred” between them and him until they worship Allah alone (60:4).

“Sudanese Christian mom holed up in US embassy, facing new charges,” by Perry Chiaramonte, FoxNews.com, July 1, 2014 (thanks to Kenneth):

The Sudanese mom who was freed after being sentenced to death for refusing to renounce Christianity remains holed up with her family in the U.S. embassy in Khartoum, unable to flee the war-torn nation and facing new charges instigated by her own relatives, sources told FoxNews.com.

Meriam Ibrahim and her family are waiting for new travel documents to be issued by the U.S. after being detained last week for what Sudanese authorities alleged were forged South Sudan papers when she tried to leave the country, a source close to the family said. Making matters worse for the mother of two are a new set of charges raised by her own Muslim relatives.

“There are new charges relating to her relationship to her father,” said the source. “Possibly to prove that she is Muslim, but nothing has been served so it’s unclear.”

Muslim relatives intend to take her to court to prove that she belongs to their family, according to Ibrahim’s supporters. The new charges were filed in a Sudanese family court, with a trial date set for Thursday, according to her attorneys.

Ibrahim’s case first came to the attention of Sudanese authorities back in August, after members of her father’s family complained that she was born a Muslim but married a Christian man. The relatives—including her brother– claimed her birth name was “Afdal” before she changed it to Meriam and produced a document that indicated she was given a Muslim name at birth. Her attorney has alleged the document was a fake.

Ibrahim says her mother was an Ethiopian Christian and her father a Muslim who abandoned the family when she was a child.

“I was never a Muslim,” she told the Sudanese high court during her apostasy trial. “I was raised a Christian from the start.”

Sudan’s penal code criminalizes the conversion of Muslims to other religions, which is punishable by death. Muslim women in Sudan are further prohibited from marrying non-Muslims, although Muslim men are permitted to marry outside their faith. Children, by law, must follow their father’s religion. Ibrahim was sentenced to death on May 15, but allowed to give birth while in prison. On June 24, a higher court freed her, but she was arrested at the airport when she tried to leave. Although she was once again freed, she faces the new charges and has been forbidden to leave the country….

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  1. mariam rove says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 12:01 pm

    Muslims, unless they get/or see some blood, they are not going to stop. M

    • harbidoll says

      Jul 3, 2014 at 3:57 am

      will a glass of pig’s blood do?

  2. Jay Boo says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 12:04 pm

    Debating PROPERTY RIGHTS

    Islamic ‘marriage’ is about claiming that one or more women as (property).

    The whole purpose of the Qur’an was and is to commit robberies, kidnappings, and institutionalize slavery.
    Islam cannot allow a slave to escape to freedom.
    It would set an example for others to follow.

    • Kevinr says

      Jul 2, 2014 at 12:15 pm

      A tree that will not bend will eventually break.

  3. John C. Barile says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 12:11 pm

    Holed up in the U.S. Embassy and unable to leave? What a farce. Any U.S. President with any gonads would have circumvented “diplomatic protocol” and airlifted this woman and her children out of that pestiferous country by helicopter, accompanied by an armed fixed-wing escort.

    • John C. Barile says

      Jul 2, 2014 at 12:14 pm

      Grow some, Barack.

      • mariam rove says

        Jul 2, 2014 at 12:29 pm

        Not happening any time soon. M

        • John C. Barile says

          Jul 2, 2014 at 2:06 pm

          A pity.

      • Jay Boo says

        Jul 3, 2014 at 8:02 am

        double standard

        It is not just Obama
        NPR runs cover for Obama
        They run a matter-of-fact impassionate story on this followed by (in contrast) moral indignation about the MB terrorist sympathizing journalists jailed in Egypt.

    • Mackykam says

      Jul 2, 2014 at 7:17 pm

      Just have to appoint her as a member of the diplomatic corps. Like Ambassador. Temporarily.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jul 3, 2014 at 2:51 am

      Yes.
      Where are the stealth copters that were used when the SEALs raided Osama bin Laden’s compound?

      They should be used again. This time, to **save** life – four innocent lives.

      Swoop in, scoop them up, and whisk them away…all the way to the USA.

      Then all the mohammedan lies and BS become moot.

      Strikes me that it’s time for a standing demonstration in *Washington*, out the front of a/ the White House and b/ the Capitol.

      “Rescue the Christian Wani Family”.

      And y’know what? – I think a straightout unapologetic show of strength, of that sort, would make an impression on the Mohammedan Mob. A total refusal to play their nasty little games.

      “She’s *ours*, she’s with us, and we’re taking her husband and her and the kids. Now. And be damned to you”.

    • citycat says

      Jul 3, 2014 at 10:31 am

      Male muslims are stuck in their gonads, and not allowed to ascend above their second chakra, except for some in the hierarchy, where power is sex, and who are stuck at third chakra level, and cannot ascend to the love chakra, for what compassion is there is rape?

      • citycat says

        Jul 3, 2014 at 10:46 am

        for what compassion is there IN rape?

  4. Reality Check says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    “Why would her family want that fate for her? Because Islam is paramount over all other loyalties and affections.”

    That sums up Islam.

  5. Mirren10 says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 2:16 pm

    ” Why would her family want that fate for her? Because Islam is paramount over all other loyalties and affections”

    It’s not *just* that; there’s a whole lot of greed involved here, too.

    Mrs Wani was a successful businesswoman, and landowner. If they can prove she was once a muslim, and the Court sentences her to death, they get her property.

    Thank God she and her family are safe in the Embassy.

    Can any Americans here, Kepha ? tell us what the situation will be if the Court succeeds in proving its case ?

    I cannot imagine, given the world-wide publicity, that the Embassy will retract its protection, and throw her to the wolves. Surely even Obama would recoil from the negative publicity that would ensue ?

  6. Burt says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 2:49 pm

    Gonna make with the hashtags Michelle? For the sake of decency get her out of there Obama! If you ever want to have a single thing that God might listen to as you beg not to go to Hell it might be that you rescued Meriam from the savages who hate God, and those who follow Him.

  7. Brian says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 3:48 pm

    This poor woman is faced with road block after road block its sickening that her astranged family wants her dead so badly commanded by the satanic book of islam truly a sadistic ideology God Bless Meriam and her family.

  8. Gail Griffin aka Duituturaga says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 8:39 pm

    Where is her mom?

  9. PJG says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 10:56 pm

    “Our family is not convinced by the decision of the court,” he said [her brother]. “The law has failed to maintain our rights, and now it is a matter of honor. Christians deface our honor, and we know how to take revenge for that.”

    Yes, don’t you now? Charming people. They wanted her “home”, where they could kill her.
    What Islam does to the soul is tragic. Long ago this man’s ancestors converted to Islam for some reason which probably had nothing to do with spirituality (unless they were conned by well-trained sufis). Would those long-ago Christians and pagans have converted if they knew what Islam would make of their families? Of their country, now torn apart by war? Of the world, hosting refugees from that country who are now tearing apart their host countries?

  10. Cindy Mccoy says

    Jul 3, 2014 at 4:15 am

    Why would her family do this?? I was thinking about that, why after she is out and going to leave that place would they want her rearrested and want her killed?? Do they find favor with the bad guys when they turn their family??? Don’t they realize it is only a matter of time before they come after them. Even if they don’t change and become a Christian they will find a different reason to come after them. Look the way the sunni and shitte groups kill each other and they are supposed to be the same religion!!!! They are cruel people who like to hurt each other!!!!!

  11. Unveil says

    Jul 3, 2014 at 8:33 am

    I have tried to post this comment on Jonathan Turley. It is being blocked. The degree of censorship in this country is downright scary.

    Obama could just give his brother Malik Obama a call. Malik has excellent connections with Sudan’s President, Omar Al-Bashir. Malik serves as the executive secretary of the Islamic Da’wa Organization IDO, which is an Arm of Sudan’s Government and which is overseen by Al-Bashir. One of the objectives of the IDO is to spread Wahabist Islam across Africa.

    Malik’s own web page shows a picture of him speaking at the Board of Directors Conference 2010 in Karthoum, Sudan. Al-Bashir presided. He is the guy in the black suit.
    http://www.barackhobamafoundation.org/project_photos_8.html
    Here are the connections explained:
    http://freepatriot.org/2014/02/15/watch-irs-scandal-lois-lerner-malik-obama-finance-terrorism/
    Al-Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court on seven counts relating to crimes against humanity. Sudan is officially designated a State Sponsor of terrorism since 1993.
    The brothers are close. Malik was Barack’s best man at his wedding and has visited him several times at the White House.

  12. citycat says

    Jul 3, 2014 at 10:31 am

    Male muslims are stuck in their gonads, and not allowed to ascend above their second chakra, except for some in the hierarchy, where power is sex, and who are stuck at third chakra level, and cannot ascend to the love chakra, for what compassion is there is rape?

  13. gravenimage says

    Jul 5, 2014 at 1:02 am

    Sudan: Christian woman’s family to go to court to prove she was Muslim
    ………………………………..

    Pious Muslims don’t want *anyone* to escape their foul cult, and will even claim those who were never Muslim to begin with, living or dead.

    God, I hate Islam.

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