Apostasy: The Rifqa Bary Case

Muslim father threatens to kill daughter for leaving Islam; Muslims claim victim status

This is, of course, how Islamic groups in the U.S. have reacted to every act of violence and every threat that any Muslim has issued in recent years: they’ve raised fears of a non-existent “backlash” and claimed they’re being persecuted, rather than address the root causes of the violence and brutality within their own community. And the bemused, befuddled multiculturalists in the mainstream media go along with it happily, every time.

Forget about Rifqa’s charge that her father threatened to kill her. This was all provoked by the media’s favorite whipping boy, “evangelical Christians.”

The frustration for many Muslims in Central Florida is that the accusations of one teenage girl who says she fears her father would kill her for becoming a Christian has become a wholesale distortion of their religion.

“We feel frustrated because this is a family problem of a certain family, and the way it has been portrayed is defaming Islam and giving a way, way negative picture of our religion,” said Imam Tariq Rasheed, director of the Islamic Center of Orlando.

See how it works? Father threatens to kill girl, in full accord with Islamic law regarding apostates. Girl flees, and reports what her father said. And suddenly this becomes an act of “defaming Islam.” Even if Rifqa’s father didn’t actually threaten her, there is nothing in the least unbelievable about the charge that he did, in light of the many killings of apostates and threats to their lives that take placefrequently in the Islamic world.

Yet if you speak of this, you’re “defaming Islam” — a clever ploy to try to deflect attention away from the killings for apostasy, and from the father’s alleged threat, and onto Muslims as being victimized by coverage of all this.

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Rifqa Bary and the Noor Islamic Center’s “Theology” of Apostasy

by Andrew Bostom /Bostom goes right into Islamic jurisprudence….

• Rifqa Bary Action Alert!
• Rifqa Bary: “My father was very intent on making sure that his children, and especially me, were raised deeply in the faith of ‘Original Islam’ which was taught at the Noor Center”
• Muslim father threatens to kill daughter for leaving Islam; Muslims claim victim status
• Is the death penalty for apostasy in the Qur’an? Yes it is, sweet little Rifqa
• RIFQA BARY: Orlando Sentinel in Overdrive to Send Muslim Convert into Jaws of Extremist Muslims “Original Islam”
• Rifqa Bary: LIVEBLOGGING THE PRESS CONFERENCE UPDATED: AUDIO AND DOCUMENTS UPLOADED
• Rifqa Bary: Slaying Her Saviors

Update:

Florida law enforcement led on wild goose chase by CAIR’s mole inside Ohio DHS

Why couldn’t Florida investigators find out the material in this pdf about the mosque attended by Rifqa Bary’s parents? Because a high-placed individual didn’t want them to: “BREAKING: FL Rifqa investigators were led around by CAIR’s Islamist Homeland Security mole,” from the Jawa Report, September 1, via JW:

Two weeks ago Florida Judge Daniel Lawson directed the Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement to investigate the Columbus, Ohio Islamic community to provide him sufficient information to accurately assess the potential threat to Rifqa Bary if she were returned to her family in Ohio.

We can now report that those FDLE investigators were led on a wild goose chase to avoid the unsavory and terror-tied elements of the Bary family mosque by CAIR’s Islamist mole in the Ohio Dept. of Public Safety, Omar Alomari, director of the ODPS Office of Multicultural Affairs.

As a result, those same FDLE investigators were sent reeling yesterday with the filing and release of an extensively footnoted 35 page brief by Rifqa’s attorney (which we noted here) documenting the terrorist ties of the Bary family mosque. Why were they not able to discover this information on their own during their visit to Ohio last week? Why couldn’t they discover any evidence of Islamic extremism in Central Ohio, home to the largest known Al-Qaeda cell in the US since 9/11?

When FDLE investigators traveled to Columbus last week, Alomari’s involvement in directing their investigation assured that they would never receive the information they had been sent to gather….

There is more. Read it all.