A young Ohio girl in hiding in Florida says she fears for her life because she is a Christian.
Fathima Rifqa Bary left her temporary home in tears, begging social workers to not send her home.
She's staying at the Orlando home of Pastor Blake Lorenz of Global Revolution Church. Bary says she ran away from her home in Ohio because she converted to Christianity and her Muslim father wants to see her die for rejecting his faith.
"They have to kill me. My blood is now halalh which means... because I am now a Christian," she explained. "I'm from a Muslim background. It's an honor, if they love God more than me. They have to do this."
Bary says she walked to a bus station and took a bus to Orlando.
She'd made friends with people from Lorenz's church, which is why she went there. Social workers from the state of Florida were called in to investigate and Monday a judge gave Florida emergency jurisdiction into the case until the court is sure Ohio will completely investigate if the girl returns there.
"There are too many conflicting things going on with this child and with the circumstances - it needs to be investigated thoroughly," said DCF attorney Karlene Cole-Palmer. "So that's our position that the child should be returned to Ohio."
Bary's father came to Florida to get his daughter and denied the charges she's making.
3 comments:
Rifqa's life is in jeopardy, and she should be protected at all costs. The name of the group home should be kept secret from her parents and known only to the judge and caregivers, to protect them.
It is important that friends of the Lorenzes and Rifqas supporters understand that the threat is REAL. Her parents' lives are also in jeopardy if they do not kill her.
The penalty for apostasy in Islam is death. There is not one single school of Islamic jurisprudence that disputes this.
Please, if you can effect this case for the positive, please pass this along. Please understand that it is permissible (halal) in Islam to lie to infidels for the purpose of protecting one's faith. A claim that she is safe with her parents is unfounded.
Thank you for your input. I will be posting more info as it becomes available to me.
I recently heard that a "judge" returned her home as he thought there wasn't any real danger. What a fool!
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