Here is video of the rally for human rights and religious freedom in defense of Rifqa Bary, yesterday in Columbus, Ohio. Speakers included Simon Deng, the courageous ex-slave from the Sudan; the knowledgeable and indefatigable ex-Muslim Nonie Darwish; Jim Lafferty of the anti-Sharia coalition that fought against the Islamic Saudi Academy expansion in Virginia; Rifqa’s […]
Legal panel on Rifqa Bary
Late in October in Washington, DC, Pamela Geller invited me to participate in a panel on the Rifqa Bary case and its implications. Watch and enjoy! (Video thanks to Pamela.)
Afghan apostate from Islam gains asylum in U.K.
But not before “the Home Office said he would be able to practise his faith if he found like-minded Christians in Kabul and ‘kept his head down’.” You know, like a good dhimmi. At least, in this case, the Home Office was overruled, and the plight of non-Muslims and apostates from Islam in Islamic societies […]
Rally for Rifqa — for human rights and religious freedom — in Columbus, Ohio, tomorrow
Rifqa Bary’s case is a test case in numerous ways. It involves the question of whether American courts can successfully be compelled to follow Sharia provisions regarding the imprisonment of female apostates. It will show whether the American legal system and American society are up to the challenge of defending the freedom of religion and […]
Why a rally for Rifqa Bary?
Pamela Geller is organizing a Rally for Rifqa Bary, the girl who fled from her home in Ohio because, she says, her father threatened to kill her for converting from Islam to Christianity. Although there is a great deal of evidence of various kinds to back up her claim, Rifqa has been sent back to […]
Rally for Rifqa, November 16!
An announcement from Atlas Shrugs: Pamela Geller in co-operation with Robert Spencer, is organizing a Rally for Rifqa on the day of her dependency hearing in support of the reinstatement of Rifqa’s rights and freedom of religion. Some of the warriors coming to our rally……… Simon Deng – ex-slave from Sudan Nonie Darwish – Executive […]
Rifqa Bary in grave danger: her father’s attorney reneged on a deal in order to get her back to Ohio without protection or allies
Here is a very serious message from Muslim apostate Rifqa Bary’s friend Jamal Jivanjee. You may recall that Judge Daniel Dawson in Florida had said that he would not send Rifqa back to Ohio, where she says her father had threatened to kill her for converting from Islam to Christianity, until he received her family’s […]
Rifqa Bary returns to Ohio, judge restricts her phone and Internet use
AP says: “Jim Zorn, an agency attorney, says Bary’s use of Facebook was one issue that led to the girl’s situation.” So now the Ohio court is officially accepting her father’s construction of events, that the Christians in Florida who took her in had “brainwashed” her — and apparently made her think that her father […]
Ohio Children Services official says he has no reason to believe apostate Rifqa Bary wouldn’t be safe with her parents
After all, they said she would be. And they couldn’t conceivably not be telling the truth, could they? “Mohamed Bary has denied the allegations, and a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation found no credible threat to her safety.” See over at Atlas Shrugs exactly how spectacularly the FDLE mishandled their questioning of Rifqa herself. […]
Muslim convert to Christianity wins asylum, but she can’t be found
We can only hope that she is safe. And now that some U.S. officials have taken seriously the threat that an apostate is under, can Rifqa Bary get some consideration? Or is it too late for that? “Asylum seeker realized her dream but now is missing,” by Duke Helfand for the Los Angeles Times, October […]
Judge orders apostate Rifqa Bary returned to Ohio
Previously he had said that he would not do so until the family’s immigration status was cleared up, and that wasn’t going to happen — given Pamela Geller’s discovery that the family was here illegally. And despite the clear threat relayed by the girl and incompetently handled by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and […]
Rifqa Bary on her father: “He beat me”
Pamela has the transcript of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s interview with Rifqa Bary, the girl who fled from her home after her father threatened to kill her for converting from Islam to Christianity. The transcript is astounding on a number of levels — notably for the utter cluelessness of the agents who questioned […]
Apostate girl’s father lied repeatedly on visa applications, is in U.S. illegally
This could result in her being able to get asylum in the U.S. — or it could end up causing her to be sent back to Sri Lanka, where she could be murdered or institutionalized. Rifqa Bary Update: “Rifqa Bary’s Family Risks Deportation,” by Pamela Geller for Newsmax, October 19: Last Tuesday there was yet […]
Maldives: Misunderstanders of Islam call for amputation for thieves and death for apostates
Wait a minute. Can we get Michael Kruse on this? How about Meredith Heagney? Or maybe even Honest Ibe Hooper and Brave Ahmed Rehab of CAIR? I mean, don’t these people know that Islam doesn’t call for the killing of apostates? Where is M. Cherif Bassiouni when you need him? “Parliament takes on revised penal […]
Rifqa Bary’s parents in U.S. illegally; her father committed perjury on visa applications
Pamela Geller has uncovered some explosive information about Mohamed Bary, the father of the most famous convert from Islam to Christianity, Rifqa Bary — who fled from her father’s home after she says he threatened to kill her for her apostasy. It seems that the Barys are in the U.S. illegally, and that Mohamed Bary […]
US court capitulates to Sharia, sending apostate Rifqa Bary back to father who threatened to kill her
Marisol has already posted about this, but I just got in from speaking in Los Angeles and found out about it, and so here are a few additional remarks. This is an outrage with numerous ominous implications. A terrible day for religious freedom in the U.S., and a capitulation to Sharia and the stealth jihad […]
Ohio mosque imam — Rifqa Bary’s mosque — is Muslim Brotherhood leader
Hany Saqr is the head of the Noor Islamic Cultural Center in Columbus, Ohio, where Rifqa Bary’s parents are members. Rifqa Bary is the teenager who converted from Islam to Christianity and fled from her home after her father, she says, threatened to kill her for her apostasy. The Jawa Report the details on Saqr. […]
Bangladesh: Christian convert from Islam and his family get death threats from Misunderstanders of Islam
As everyone knows, the idea that “Islam orders a violent end for those who leave the faith” is just “bigoted nonsense.” Unfortunately, somehow these Muslims in Bangladesh, like so many other Muslims all over the world, have fallen prey to this bigoted nonsense, misunderstood their tolerant faith, and actually threatened to kill this Muslim who […]
Further remarks at the Former Muslims United presser
Remarks during the question-and-answer session: Nonie says that she hopes that the Left as well as the Right will take up the cause of the apostates. Ibn Warraq says that the Left tends to side with the Islamists. Liberals tend to be more politically correct, but many on the Right, religious conservatives, tend to be […]
Nonie Darwish at Former Muslims United press conference
I’m here in Washington at the Former Muslims United press conference. Nonie Darwish kicked it off. Here is a liveblog of her remarks: “The worst kind of tyranny is of victims who are scared to speak.” She explains that this is the situation of those who have left Islam. Being a Muslim, she says, does […]