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 […]