Rifqa Bary and the truth about Islam
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Baltimore Christian Conservative Examiner
Rifqa Bary was a teenager living in Ohio. Her Parents are Muslims and belong to a Mosque with a dubious
history of being linked to terrorism. Rifqa recently ran away after her father discovered that she had become
a Christian. Rifqa ran away to Florida to a Christian couple whom she had met on Facebook. Rifqa says her
father was going to kill her as an honor killing for changing her religion and becoming a Christian.
Temporarily a Florida court is letting the 17 year old stay in the custody of foster parents. While
Rifqa is almost legally an adult by age her and her family are not citizens and the family appears to
be almost five years late on their visa.
There are anywhere between one and two billion Muslims in the world. If that number is anywhere
close to correct the majority of Muslims must not be violent or radical. There are also claims that
there are two billion Christians in the world. Just as in Christianity, Islam has its followers who
are nominal or who are born into the religion but don't really follow it. Even though most Muslims
are not violent, many are.
Muslims follow more than just the Koran. They also have to listen to clerics and their fatwas,
Sharia law and the Hadith. The Hadith is the oral tradition of what Mohammed and his companions
said and did.
The Koran itself teaches violence. There are so many verses it is hard to ignore.
Honor killings happen all over the world and have happened in the United States recently.
Honor Killing in Texas
'Honor' killing comes to the US
Rifqa made an impassioned plea that she not be made to return home to her parents. Her parents claim that
she has been sucked in by a Christian couple. Defenders of Islam have said such things as "everybody says they
will "kill" their children at one point or another, they don't really mean it." Rifqa's father has said
he has a Christian friend and his daughter had been a cheerleader so it's ridiculous that he would kill
her. While this reasoning does make you think there is something to what the father is saying, many normal
sounding people have killed and killed for what they believe is honor. Rifqa being a cheerleader is different
than becoming a convert to another religion. Her father having a Christian friend is not the same as his
daughter leaving Islam.
This is not about defaming Islam but saving Rifqa Bary.
Rifqa Bary was a teenager living in Ohio. Her Parents are Muslims and belong to a Mosque with a dubious history of being linked to terrorism. Rifqa recently ran away after her father discovered that she had become a Christian. Rifqa ran away to Florida to a Christian couple whom she had met on Facebook. Rifqa says her father was going to kill her as an honor killing for changing her religion and becoming a Christian.
Temporarily a Florida court is letting the 17 year old stay in the custody of foster parents. While Rifqa is almost legally an adult by age her and her family are not citizens and the family appears to be almost five years late on their visa.
There are anywhere between one and two billion Muslims in the world. If that number is anywhere close to correct the majority of Muslims must not be violent or radical. There are also claims that there are two billion Christians in the world. Just as in Christianity, Islam has its followers who are nominal or who are born into the religion but don't really follow it. Even though most Muslims are not violent, many are.
Muslims follow more than just the Koran. They also have to listen to clerics and their fatwas, Sharia law and the Hadith. The Hadith is the oral tradition of what Mohammed and his companions said and did.
The Koran itself teaches violence. There are so many verses it is hard to ignore.
Honor killings happen all over the world and have happened in the United States recently.
Honor Killing in Texas
'Honor' killing comes to the US
Rifqa made an impassioned plea that she not be made to return home to her parents. Her parents claim that she has been sucked in by a Christian couple. Defenders of Islam have said such things as "everybody says they will "kill" their children at one point or another, they don't really mean it." Rifqa's father has said he has a Christian friend and his daughter had been a cheerleader so it's ridiculous that he would kill her. While this reasoning does make you think there is something to what the father is saying, many normal sounding people have killed and killed for what they believe is honor. Rifqa being a cheerleader is different than becoming a convert to another religion. Her father having a Christian friend is not the same as his daughter leaving Islam.
This is not about defaming Islam but saving Rifqa Bary.