It’s a great relief that Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun was able to get out of Saudi Arabia, and out of the crisis situation in Bangkok when she was going to be sent back to Saudi Arabia, and that she has arrived safely in Canada. Why didn’t the United States offer her asylum? Why hasn’t the U.S. offered asylum to Asia Bibi? In any case, Trudeau is very clever to have done this. It’s an election year, and this was a canny move on his part, as it will co-opt criticism from his political opponents that he is soft on Sharia and jihad. But will Rahaf al-Qunun be safe from the massive numbers of Muslim migrants that Trudeau has brought into Canada? Trudeau should offer her guards. He has already tacitly acknowledged that Saudi Arabia, and Islam, have a death penalty for apostasy, so he should be consistent in protecting her.
“Safe at last: Smiling Saudi girl, 18, arrives in Toronto after Canada offered her asylum when she fled her family and locked herself in a Bangkok hotel room after they threatened to kill her for rejecting Islam,” by Ross Ibbetson, Mailonline, January 12, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The 18-year-old Saudi girl who fled her family fearing they would kill her after she rejected Islam has arrived in Toronto.
Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun garnered support around the world this week as people learned how she had barricaded herself in a Bangkok airport hotel room to resist being sent home to her family.
Her family deny any abuse, but Ms al-Qunun refused to meet her father and brother who arrived in Thailand to try and fetch the teen.
Instead, she took a Korean Air flight from Bangkok to Seoul on Friday and then a connecting flight to Toronto.
Al-Qunun shared photos to Twitter from her flight to Toronto, showing her relaxing in business class with wine and her legs up.
‘I would like to thank you people for supporting me and saiving (sic) my life,’ she said. ‘Truly I have never dreamed of this love and support You are the spark that would motivate me to be a better person.’
Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland greeted al-Qunun, after she landed in Toronto, wearing a blue ball cap and a gray hoodie emblazoned in red with the word ‘CANADA.’
Ms Freeland told reporters with her arm around the teen: ‘This is Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun a very brave new Canadian.’
Ms al-Qunun Tweeted pictures during her flight in First Class drinking claret, chardonnay and eating caviar.
Her case was expedited after it garnered an unprecedented amount of media attention.
She highlighted her homeland’s strict social rules, including a requirement that women have the permission of a male chaperone to travel, which rights groups say can trap women and girls as prisoners of abusive families.
‘Canada has been unequivocal that we’ll stand up for human rights and women’s rights around the world,’ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
‘When the United Nations made a request of us that we grant Ms al-Qunun’s asylum, we accepted.’ …