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Sudan: Muslim family drops suit against “apostate” Christian woman

Jul 19, 2014 9:14 am By Robert Spencer

MeriamIbrahim“The case was brought by 27-year-old Meriam Ibrahim’s Sudanese Muslim father to formally establish her as his Muslim daughter” — so that she could be executed as an apostate from Islam. The dropping of their suit means that one significant obstacle to her leaving Sudan has been cleared away. But she is not safely away from there yet; she is still in hiding in the U.S. Embassy.

“Meriam Ibrahim: Family drops lawsuit brought against Sudanese Christian convert,” by Aislinn Laing, Telegraph, July 18, 2014:

A new lawsuit against a Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for refusing to recant her Christianity has been dropped, paving the way for her to seek exile in the United States.

The case was brought by 27-year-old Meriam Ibrahim’s Sudanese Muslim father to formally establish her as his Muslim daughter. She claimed she was raised by a Christian Ethiopian family and was abducted by the Sudanese Muslim family, a claim they denied.

The lawsuit could have made her marriage to Christian South Sudanese-American Daniel Wani illegal and threatened to further derail Ms Ibrahim’s hopes of leaving Sudan after her death sentence for apostasy was quashed in June.

The sentence, which provoked international outrage, was handed down by the country’s Supreme Court along with 100 lashes for “adultery” because the country’s Islamic law did not recognise her marriage to Daniel Wani, a Christian.

A previous attempt by Ms Ibrahim to leave the country with Mr Wani, an American citizen, after her release from prison late last month was thwarted by the authorities because they said she had “fake” documents.

On Wednesday, Abdel Rahman Malek, the family’s lawyer, said they had dropped the lawsuit before the first scheduled hearing in Khartoum Family Court on Thursday.

“We are no longer proceeding with the lawsuit,” Mr Malek told Reuters, but declined to give a reason for the decision or provide further details.

Mohaned Mostafa, Ms Ibrahim’s lawyer, said his client had not been notified of the development. She, Mr Wani and their two young children have been staying at the US Embassy in Khartoum since her release from police custody.

In a telephone interview from the embassy earlier this month, she said she could not decide whether to leave the country or not. “I want to travel but at the same time I don’t want to travel – There’s a new problem every day about me leaving,” she said.

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  1. Gail Griffin says

    Jul 19, 2014 at 1:00 pm

    Well How can the news not turn up day after day the barbaric religion/ ideology of Islam. Islam is showing its ugly face to the world, story by story. Good!! Too bad the Gaza conflict and Ukraine plane news is covering up the Christian Mosal thing. So in your face Islamic.

    • Mayla says

      Jul 19, 2014 at 1:07 pm

      Yea. Apparently grace. Mercy, compassion are not part if these people’s vocabulary. Not to mention common sense

      • Jay Boo says

        Jul 19, 2014 at 5:29 pm

        “Yea. Apparently grace. Mercy, compassion are not part if these people’s vocabulary. Not to mention common sense”
        —————————

        The reason is simple.
        Lack of accountability due to MSM appeasement.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jul 19, 2014 at 2:19 pm

      Obama called out for JUSTICE in the murder of the Palestinian youth killed but, he referred to the killing of three Israeli teens with the more politically correct to Islam word “senseless” as in (who is to blame?)

      This must also be under Obama’s vague category of ‘senseless’ rather than justice.
      This way Obama can act as if he is helpless to act.

  2. PRCS says

    Jul 19, 2014 at 1:54 pm

    I imagine it would be quite easy for embassy staff personnel to spirit her off to a small, government aircraft at the airport for a quick flight out of Sudan.

    The plausible deniability is that she, her husband, and two children left the embassy in the middle of the night–whereabouts unknown.

    Not sure what the holdup is.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jul 19, 2014 at 10:18 pm

      It shouldn’t even be necessary in the first place to spirit her off though.
      The full weight of world opinion and unabashed condemnation of Islam would shame and intimidate these Islamic bullies. But the MSM like Huff Post bring all the wrath and indignation on Israel and Ukraine rebels while stepping back on this story so not to offend Islamic culture.
      BTW Boko Haram deliberately massacred another 100 civilians and the MSM including Huff Post is indifferent.
      Conclusion: MSM including NPR, BBC, Huff Post are clearly Racists

    • Oliver says

      Jul 20, 2014 at 10:44 am

      To PRCS

      the holdup is, THE US GOVERNMENT, UNDER OBAMA, AND WITH THE STOOGES HE HAS (IN CONGRESS) AND THE BRAIN DEAD AMERICAN PUBLIC

      IS, NO GUTS.

      Remember, nott aht long ago, the US had a President-when Libya, another shithold, killed (I beleive that was the reason) an American, we bombed the country and the Presidential Palace.

      And had no trouble for a few decades.

      Now, when the same slime kill Americans, the US (I will not include myself) apoliogizes and arrests someone who amde a video (placed on the Internet, and said that was the reason.

      The apologies went from the top down.

      —————————————————————–

      So, to do something that MIGHT piss off the leaders of some piece of crap country like Sudan ( where there is a history of killing; mutilation of bodies, etc-going back to when the British ran it–I beleive it was someone name Gordon, a british official, who they beheaded for some reason-in the late 1800’s or early 1900’s–) back to the present– Obama and (now Kethchup Kerry, with Libya it was Shillery) keep quiet.
      Cannot piss off these people, they might get angry and throw a temper tantrum.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Jul 19, 2014 at 2:09 pm

    This does not register in the brains of Leftists.
    What is needed is an “Islam is shameless billboard sign” to accompany this photo. While Leftists and MSM can easily ignore the evil of Islam against Christians they would be forced to comment on the words “Islam is shameless”

  4. Donovan Nuera says

    Jul 19, 2014 at 6:41 pm

    President Obama could, in less than 10 minutes, with a stroke of his Almighty pen and a call on his Almighty phone, instantly confer, by Executive Order, U.S. Citizenship on this poor physician and her 2 children. She then could fly out of that diarrhea-basin (Sudan) immediately and unmolested (and backed up by a SEAL team if any attempts of molestation occur). I mean the President has no problem granting blanket amnesty to 10s of thousands of high-school age MS-13 acolytes/ future Young Democrats held in detention centers who will never contribute any worth to our country and who were never in any mortal danger back in Honduras or El Salvador. But who is going to be the brave U.S. reporter to ask him or Press Sec. Earnest that points out this win-win situation for everyone involved? Why has the President been silent on this on actual prorogative that he can actually do with the public’s moral support?

    • Oliver says

      Jul 20, 2014 at 6:34 pm

      But, not meaning to be mean or facetious, wouldn’t that interfere with his golf game 9of the moment), or whatever vacation he is on? While not, of course, being at a fund raiser.

      • Donovan Nuera says

        Jul 21, 2014 at 3:53 am

        Then again…when “bears are loose”, they typically don’t wear pants or have a shirt with a pocket to hold a pen or a cell phone. (How come President Bear never goes to Jewish Delicatessens?? Perhaps he would not like a photo-op to be taken there….).

  5. Jan Fourowls says

    Jul 19, 2014 at 8:56 pm

    So what are we doing about it to use our words for anything but preaching to the choir here?

    Here’s another of my comment series unlikely to be posted today —

    “Your [http://wamc.org/post/mass-us-senator-markey-weighs-ukraine-and-gaza] failure to “approve” the comment below would only prove that you’re part of the TTHT (Taqiyya Trojan Horse Tactics) brigade.

    Consistent with the subtext of his remarks here, Senator Edward Markey, Democrat from Massachusetts, also and not coincidentally on the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations, is co-sponsoring S. 2219 with New York Democrat Congressman Hakeem Jeffries sponsoring H.R. 3878. See https://www.facebook.com/ConcernedAmericansAgainstTheTakeoverOfAmerica/posts/529458160496134. Senator Markey by his remarks about the plane shot down over the Ukraine and about Gaza utterly fails to disclose: (1) the likelihood that Ukrainian Muslim terrorists (with the most to gain from the chaos, and also being unwelcome to non-Muslim “separatists” who know from experience about Islamic terror tactics and are fighting in self-defense against the Muslim terrorists) misused stolen Russian equipment to shoot down the plane, or (2) the ongoing deception and violence of Hamas as a terrorist organization by its 1988 charter (never abrogated), currently requiring its own soldier-citizens in Gaza under Hamas threat to be human shields to Israel’s cross-fire in self-defense after Hamas initiated aggression. Senator Markey is a hypocrite and oligarch who like POTUS betrays the American people in foreign press commentary as well as in Washington, D.C.”

    As I get informally, behind-the-scenes censored more and more on the internet, I am emailing all my personal contacts and lists with messages like the following:

    “Hope you’re having a beautiful Saturday! Thinking of you, wishing only good to all you love.

    This email forwards information and a guide to action for anybody who might be similarly moved under rapidly escalating Islamist geopolitical encroachments and new risks to Americans by stealth jihad. We now face a new potential to have our Constitutional freedoms eroded internally through elected officials following the overtly demoralizing terrorism of 9/11, Fort Hood and the Boston Marathon Bombing. (The fact that some legislation tracking websites publish a small likelihood of this anti-freedom legislation passing could be designed to lull us into inaction. In a “taqiyya” world, nothing said or printed can be taken at face value, only what is done or not done.)

    There’s a lot of information in the forwarded email. In summary without the provided context, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries sponsoring H.R. 3878 is a Democrat, New Yorker and Muslim.

    His co-sponsor in the Senate for S. 2219, Senator Edward Markey, is a Democrat and Liberal from Massachusetts, also and not coincidentally on the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations.

    It continues to go increasingly wrong in the UK where Muslims and their apologists who are politically prominent citizens twist more and more control of government into alignment with principles of Sharia law instead of the rule of Western civilization’s law. In America we still have the Constitution which the UK lacks, and which our forebears fought the British to obtain. Congressman Hakeem Jeffries’ bill, aided and abetted by traitorous Senator Markey, is an end-run around the Constitution that many bloggers I read see as a “line in the sand” we should not allow our nation to cross.

    I hope and pray Americans will not believe falsely “it cannot happen here” and by inaction not even let their elected leaders know we object as a patriotic people.

    And now I’m going to go enjoy the rest of my Saturday while I’m still free to do so!”

  6. Jay Boo says

    Jul 20, 2014 at 12:03 pm

    sarc on:

    Breaking news flash: …Israelis require conversion of all Palestinian Muslims to Judaism and insist on the mandatory wearing of Yarmulkes (skull caps) with full support of Israeli government.

    Leftist MSM say “sure, no problem here”… “go for it”

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