Christian Convert Forced to Flee From Her Family

A teenage girl originally from Sri Lanka converted from islam to Christianity and has fled from her parents out of fear that her father will murder her. There is a special place in hell reserved for the parents lawyer, Craig McCarthy. This creature is devoid of a conscience that he would work to place this poor girl back with a family that may very well kill her. If he wins his case and succeeds in forcing this girl to go back to that crazy muslim father and she is murdered, will he have any remorse for the role he played? I seriously doubt it.

In the west, unfortunately, political correctness and the desire to avoid offending the sensibilities of the muslim community is keeping women and girls from muslim families endangered when they should be able to expect protection from western justice systems. We need to take a strong stand in support of our values and place islamic men on notice that their barbaric cultural practices will not be tolerated here, that they will face severe punishment for “honor” killings or any other abuse of women and girls or of converts. We can start by denying these parents any access to their daughter.

Honor Killing Averted: Muslim Convert to Christianity Flees For Her Life



Fathima Rifqa Bary Surfaces in Florida

Yesterday afternoon, my living room was filled with lights, cameras, and two very friendly ABC crew men. We were taping an interview for Good Morning America which appeared today and which is preserved at their website. We talked about honor killings and the plight of Fathima Rifqa Bary, the Muslim teenager from Ohio who converted to Christianity and who ran away from home because she knows her father will kill her.

Seventeen year-old Rifqa’s interview is heartbreaking. She knows that if a Muslim leaves Islam, converts to another religion, is an “apostate,” that they are supposed to be killed by any other Muslim; this includes members of her own family.

If someone from a Jewish or Christian fundamentalist home converts out, they may be ostracized, they may be treated as if they had died, but they are not physically killed.

Weeping, the very frightened teenager from Sri Lanka knows that most western journalists (and the police who turned her over to the state and forced her into a public trial), do not believe this can be true. How quickly they forget Salman Rushdie’s plight. How easily everyone is lulled into viewing fundamentalist Islam as a religion just like any other, as if Islam-on-the-march today is still the “soft,” cosmopolitan, hospitable culture it has occasionally been in the past, in certain cities and for certain monied people.

In 1989, the authorities in St Louis Missouri, also chose to allow a battered and bruised Palestina Isa, who had turned to them for help, to remain at the cruel mercies of the very family that had battered her. Palestina was sixteen-years-old and her father was, quite literally, a Palestinian terrorist. The social worker who made a home visit agreed that kids were difficult to control but that the effort to do so must be made. Palestina was held down by her mother as her father viciously kept stabbing her. Palestina’s crime? She had an African-American friend who was a boy, and her mother, sisters, and father all perceived her as a “whore” because she was becoming too “westernized.”

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