Let’s Help Geller Beat Lawfare

John R. Houk

© July 22, 2011

Remember how Rifqa Bary’s purist Muslim (i.e. Radical Islamic) parents tried to force their 16 year old daughter home after she fled for her life to Florida? Rifqa had converted to Christianity in Ohio and was found out by the family. In essence apostacizing in Islam according to the Quran and Hadith is reason enough for a death sentence. Rifqa feared she would be the victim of an honor killing so she departed with the help of a charismatic Church in Florida.

This is where things got a little thorny in the legal realm.

Once Mo Bary found out where her daughter was he proceeded with legal measures to extradite her from Florida back to Ohio proclaiming all the time that his precious baby-girl, (by now) 17 year old Rifqa had nothing to fear from her crazy – err – doting parents.

Pamela Geller continuously kept Rifqa in the news with her blogging efforts. Geller is a renowned anti-jihadist and anti-Islamist blogger. Geller receives vitriol from Leftists and Muslim apologists much like Ann Coulter does with her anti-Left Conservative humor. Geller is a hero by showing no fear to the violence and legal jihad that flows toward people who take a stand against the evil portions of the Quran, Hadith, Sira and Sharia Law.

Rifqa stuck to her guns and claimed her father had accosted her prior to fleeing to Florida. One thing Rifqa feared was if she was returned to her parents that they would ship off to Sri Lanka. The Bary’s were legal resident aliens. If Rifqa was sent back to Sri Lanka she felt the honor killing would be carried out there.

Rifqa managed to stay free from her Parents in Ohio by being remanded to juvenile detention until a Judge could decide her fate. The stall tactic worked for as soon as Rifqa turned 18 she applied for her own resident status which was granted. Wisely Rifqa Bary has drifted from the public eye to continue to evade the threat of an honor killing.

So why do I rehash this legal victory for Rifqa Bary?

Bary’s lawyer in Ohio sued Pamela Geller for her part in keeping Rifqa free. Attorney Omar Tarazi is claiming defamation. Tarazi is taking the stand that his connections with CAIR does not he has a connection with Islamic terrorists. The suit against Geller is for 10 MILLION bucks.

Here is a PayPal method via email to aid Pamela Geller

Pamela Geller and is becoming a victim of Legal Jihad or what call Lawfare. The lawyer(s) handling the Bary’s side has had connections to CAIR. CAIR is the certified unindicted co-defendant from the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) case in which key HLF people were found guilty of funneling money to Hamas the Islamic terrorist organization representing the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza (Gazastan-Hamastan).

As pointed out by Julia Gorin writing for Political Mavens: Are we going to allow Geller to fight this legal battle alone? Dear God in Heaven I pray not! Geller has a pro-bono lawyer; nonetheless legal costs arise and the money has to come from somewhere. If you are one wishing to take a stand against Islamic Lawfare you have to truly consider donating some dough to Geller’s Defense to overcome her being buried by moneyed lawyers that will keep legal motions going to bankrupt Geller and her lawyer with legal fees perhaps without even losing the case to the Bary family.

JRH 7/22/11 (Hat Tip: Grendel Report)

Legal Jihad of Omar Tarazi

John R. Houk

© November 2010

I had been following the plight of Rifqa Bary. Bary became an apostate Muslim converting to Christianity as a young teen age girl. Bary’s problem is that her dad was attending a Mosque in Ohio that has a Salafist affinity. Salafi means dad interprets the Quran in the way that Islam’s founder meant for the religion to be interpreted. Mohammed and the following Caliphs politicized their religion to make sure adherents force or voluntary never left Islam. Among all the harsh punishments involved in literal Islam is that apostates from Islam should die.

Rifqa claims her dad threatened to kill her and physically harmed her after dad discovered her conversion to Christianity. She packed up and fled to a Florida Church she had been in contact with via the Internet. Unfortunately for Rifqa, Salafi Islam which means dad as well, were very adept at Taqiyya. Investigators could not discover evidence corroborating Rifqa’s claim nor could investigators find evidence disproving her claims. Evidently with the lack of evidence it is a minor’s word against the word of an adult. State governments and Courts of Ohio and Florida leaned to the concept that the adult word carries more weight than a panic stricken fearing for her life teenage girl.

The entire she said/he said legal arguments became moot when Rifqa became the age of majority at 18. Rifqa managed to acquire legal residency in America at the age of 18 effectively ending legal rights to her dad meddling in her life decisions. I am certain that drove the Salafi Muslims of dad’s Mosque nuts as well as the Muslim relatives back at Sri Lanka in which the Rifqa family came to America.

How can I make this educated guess? The guess is based on the number of honor killings that occur in Muslim nations and among Muslims living in the West even in America.

The lawyer representing Rifqa’s dad is showing his fury of losing the battle to acquire Rifqa and probably send her back to Sri Lanka and certain death by suing the most avid public supporter of Rifqa Bary during her exile protected by a Florida Church and then her near incarceration in some-kind of juvenile facility in Ohio. That lawyer’s name is Omar Tarazi. That Rifqa supporter is Pamela Geller (Oshry) of Atlas Shrugs and Stop Islamization of America (SIOA).

Omar Tarazi is exacting Islamic Supremacist anger on Geller with Lawfare (Legal Jihad) civil suit against Geller for the tune of $10 MILLION. This is a common practice by Salafi/Wahhabi/MB/Hamas Muslims to silence critics into legal debt. Lawfare is an instrument utilized both globally and in America. Robert Spencer has the story on Omar Tarazi’s vendetta to punish Geller for daring to insult Islam by resisting the ideology. Evidently Tarazi is specifically upset with Geller associated him with Hamas and CAIR.

JRH 11/18/10

Rifqa Bary Free – Geller Gets Sued for being a Champion

John R. Houk
© September 7, 2010

Rifqa Bary’s is free from the hook of her Muslim parents able to make her own decisions without the State forcing her to return to her Muslim parents. Rifqa has received her legal residency in America and now will be eligible for American citizenship in five years. Rifqa just turned eighteen so that eligibility age would roughly be twenty-three.

The MSM and the lack of effective authority investigation had been propagandizing in favor of Rifqa Bary’s parents and brother. Those three entities are the very people that Rifqa had publicly claimed would abuse or kill her for converting to Christianity. Time will tell if the MSM profile of a deluded brainwashed teenager is true or not. The knowledge I have of Islam, the radical Islamic Mosque the Bary’s attended and the parental champion unindicted coconspirator CAIR leads me to believe Rifqa’s story rather than picture painted by the MSM, the police and the Bary parents.

The only downside to Rifqa’s freedom is that she is no longer under any protection. She now has to watch her back in case Islamic honor killing becomes a stalker to her life.

The demon part of Islam must being going crazy nuts that a Christian has won a victory because the attorney representing the Bary parents is suing Pamela Geller and Rifqa’s attorney John Stemberger for TEN MILLION BUCKS $$$$. Below is an Associated Press article, Pamela Geller and a Jawa Report post that briefly runs over Rifqa’s liberty but spends a lot of substance on the Omar Tarazi defamation lawsuit. In case you don’t wish to read all the posts, Tarazi’s beef with Geller and Stemberger relate to Atlas Shrugs reports about CAIR (ergo Hamas) pulling the strings through Tarazi for the Bary parents.

JRH 9/7/10

"RIFQA BARY IS...FREE!"

I was checking email at an alternative to my primary account today and realized the joyful news I wish I could have posted when it occurred. Rifqa Bary the convert to Christianity away from Islam has been freed from juvenile custody due to her eighteenth birthday.

Below is the email I discovered the information about Rifqa, an AP story that makes an attempt to report with neutrality and two YouTube videos of a Tom Trento interview with Rifqa’s lawyer.

JRH 5/15/10
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"RIFQA BARY IS...FREE!"

Sent by: Tom Trento of
Florida Security Council
Sent: 08/11/2010 02:08 PM

YOU MUST WATCH TOM TRENTO'S EXCLUSIVE 2-PART INTERVIEW with RIFQA'S LEAD ATTORNEY, KORT GATTERDAM [See Below]

KORT SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT

• Rarely has one 17 year old captured the attention of the world on issues related to a clash of civilizations between Christians and Muslims.

• Rarely has there been as many legal complexities to a simple "dependency" case.

• Rarely have so many friendly "arm-chair" lawyers and bloggers so viciously attacked their own side.

KORT EXPLAINS THE STRAIGHT

• Rarely has one 17 year old captured the attention of the world on issues related to a clash of civilizations between Christians and Muslims.

• Rarely has there been as many legal complexities to a simple "dependency" case.

• Rarely have so many friendly "arm-chair" lawyers and bloggers so viciously attacked their own side.

KORT EXPLAINS THE CASE

• Why the legal strategy had to avoid the issues of apostasy and honor killing

• How CAIR created continual obstacles that had to be overcome

• What was the most difficult part of the case

KORT SPEAKS FROM HIS HEART

• What mistakes he made

• How his faith has been affected

• Rifqa Bary - her impact on his life

BOTTOM LINE

If you have any interest in the Rifqa Bary case, a case with international significance, please watch this, two-part, 30 minute interview in it's entirety.

You will get a first hand look into the mind and methodology of one of Columbus Ohio's top criminal attorneys, Mr. Kort Gatterdam...as he and his team, win freedom for Christian convert, Rifqa Bary.

[Links to videos below AP Story]
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Ohio convert leaves state custody as she turns 18

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
August 10, 2010
Google-AP News

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio judge released a runaway Christian teenager from state custody on Tuesday, her 18th birthday, ending an ugly legal battle that failed to reunite her with her Muslim parents.

Rifqa Bary declined to talk after the short hearing at which Magistrate Mary Goodrich of Franklin County Juvenile Court ended the involvement of the county children's services agency.

Bary, who had argued that she feared harm from her parents because of her religious conversion, planned to celebrate her birthday privately with friends, her attorneys said.

"She looks forward to preaching the word to all the nations — and those are her words," said Angela Lloyd, one of her attorneys.

Bary ran away from her home in suburban Columbus to Florida shortly before her 17th birthday last year with the help of Christian ministers she met on Facebook. Police investigations in Florida and Ohio found no evidence she faced harm because of her conversion.

Her case has drawn national attention, especially among bloggers, with anti-Islam groups warning she could face death and some Muslim groups saying she's being exploited by outsiders. Dozens of supporters of the girl rallied outside the courthouse this year before a hearing.

Her attorneys wouldn't say what she'll do next or where she'll live. They also declined to discuss Bary's attempt to avoid deportation as an illegal immigrant from Sri Lanka.

Goodrich last week ruled that a reunion with Bary and her parents was not possible before Bary turned 18, allowing her to apply for a special immigration status for underage illegal immigrants.

The immigration status of her parents, who live in the Columbus area, is unclear, although attorneys for them and their daughter have said in court the entire family is seeking legal status here.

Bary's attorneys repeated allegations Tuesday that the teenager had concerns for her safety because of her conversion and said her parents didn't accept her new faith.

"She has views and she has beliefs, and the sooner the parents come to understand and recognize that, the sooner there could be down the road some reconciliation," Kort Gatterdam, another Bary attorney, said in his first public comments after a gag order dissolved with Bary's birthday.

Bary's parents issued a statement blaming "zealot attorneys" for standing between them and their daughter.

"The sad reality is that when our daughter's usefulness has been used for the political agenda of xenophobia and religious bigotry, when they have moved on to other ways of putting Islam and immigrants on trial, then they will not care about Rifqa Bary anymore," said the statement from Mohamed and Aysha Bary.

They also defended their attempts to require their daughter to complete 45 weeks of chemotherapy following successful surgery for uterine cancer this summer.

Doctors have told Bary she is cancer-free but say there is a high risk of cancer recurring without the treatment.

Bary's parents said that if their daughter Bary dies, "the responsibility will fall on her attorneys and all the religious fanatics encouraging her to ignore her doctor's orders."

Bary made her decision in consultation with her doctor and will continue medical checkups, Gatterdam said.

"I don't think it's fair to say she's given up treatment," he said. "That is not the case at all."


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Part One Trento Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyxYQ_JmgzY

Part Two Trento Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlxjDMzunVo




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Free Speech for One is Free Speech Another

John R. Houk
© May 6, 2010

Ben’s Blog utilizes a SIOA video to bring to focus to the plight of Rifqa Bary. I have not updated her info in quite some time. Actually Ben’s post is not so much about Bary as it is a reminder of what Islam is capable toward Muslim Apostates, Christians and Westerners in general. The SIOA video is actually a promotion for funds to post ads on public transportation vehicles in major cities providing options to those wishing to leave Islam to counter the same agenda by American-Islamic organizations that have used the public transportation ad to promote joining Islam. Both situations should be protected by free speech; however Muslim-American organizations have attempted to pressure cities to remove the SIOA ads as offensive to Islam. Offensive: meaning inciting hate-speech thus a back door accusation of bigoted racism. Perhaps Christians should be offended that American-Islamic organizations are promoting Islam in a nation that over 70% of the people consider themselves Christians. Using the Muslim logic the Muslim ads promoting Islam would thus be offensive toward Christianity; ergo the Muslim-American organizations would be inciting hate-speech toward Christians entering the realm of racist bigotry against non-Muslims?

Of course accusing the promotion of Islam as bigoted is as ludicrous as calling ads that show a safe way to leave Islam is racist bigotry is ludicrous.

JRH 5/6/10

Rifqa Bary and Lawfare

John R. Houk
© March 14, 2010

The Leftist agenda to revamp American history’s close affinity to Christianity as the foundation of the rule of law and morality is transforming America’s cultural society. What could be the reason? Could it be the concept of progressive evolution reflecting Socialist (not necessarily Marxist) multicultural egalitarianism is eroding America’s Christian culture?

We are now living in a time in which homosexual deviants can have sex orgies in public in events like New York’s Black Party [WARNING! Offensive pictures] (homosexuals speaking about explicit acts at a Black Party).

We are now living in a time when a person converts away from an intolerant religion like Islam/Mohammedanism could be looked upon as crime. In the case of Rifqa Bary: the young lady came to America from Sri Lanka as a Muslim family. When Bary hit her pre-teen years she heard the Good News of Jesus Christ and gave her life to Jesus as her Lord and Savior.

In the Quran and Hadith of Islam, apostatizing from Islam is a divinely instituted capital crime worthy of death. Bary’s parents attend a Mosque in Ohio that is supportive of salafist Islam. In other words the type of Islam so-called moderate Islam described as radical Islam. Radical is the open practice of a purist Islam that follows the dictates of the Quran, Hadith and Sira. The combination of those three Islamic treatises is whole sale intolerance which includes enforcement of honor killing to an apostatized Muslim. When Rifqa Bary converted to Christianity her life became endangered in spite of taqiyya lies told to non-Muslim enforcers of the American rule of law.

If any other American minor was concerned for her life from the beliefs of her family and told a school teacher, Social Services would jump in immediately. In Bary’s case the State governments of Florida and Ohio appeared to do all it could to return Bary to the life threatening situation of living among her Muslim family.

The reason given was Ohio investigates could not discern the threat of life to Rifqa Bary from her parents. One has to think, “As if Bary’s parents, siblings or Mosque would not purposely cover-up any image other than that which provides material needs, nurturing and safety for children. It is not as if the Bary family is socially and economically dysfunctional when the family is in unity in practicing Islam. Rifqa’s conversion to Christianity has thrown a monkey wrench into the harmony Islamic familial honor. Islam demands a return to harmony. That is not good news for Rifqa if forced to return to her Muslim family.

Forcing Rifqa to return is using the law of land to embrace dhimmitude which is surrendering to Islamic Supremacism and an erosion of American foundations.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) or whatever they call themselves is engaging in solidifying dhimmitude to Islamic Supremacy by using Legal Jihad/Lawfare to go after the Christians who gave aid to Rifqa Bary in her quest to be delivered from honor killing. The Lawfare Muslims have convinced Ohio authorities to investigate Youth Pastor Brian Williams for helping Rifqa Bary in saving her life.

In essence the State of Ohio is not examining the Islamic tenets on apostasy as well as interfering in the free exercise of religion. In Rifqa’s case if the State forces her back to her Salafist minded Islamic family, they will either force her to re-convert back to Islam or find a way to honor kill Rifqa Bary. This is both interfering in the free exercise of religion and placing a minor in harm’s way.

The irony is Rifqa Bary is seventeen. She will soon be eighteen which means she will longer be considered a minor. If the Lawfare perpetuates to her eighteenth birthday, what direction will Ohio or the US government go in protecting Rifqa’s rights to freedom of religion?

JRH 3/14/10

Rifqa Refuses Parents – Seeks Emancipation

John R. Houk
© December 10, 2009

Do you recall the story of Rifqa Bary?

In short: Rifqa converted to Christianity around age 14 or 15. Rifqa’s discovered her conversion away from Islam at about age 16. Rifqa’s father became violently upset with his daughter so she fled to a Church in Florida. She had communication with the Florida Church via Facebook which enabled her to feel safe from her father in Ohio. The Florida and Ohio Court system did not discover a threat from Rifqa’s father so she was forced to return to Ohio. The last post I made of Rifqa’s plight at SlantRight is entitled, “Rifqa Bary: Does America Prefer She Just Die?”

Commenter Jim Phelan sent this random notification concerning a rally Rifqa Bary on December 22, 2009:

December 22 Rally for Rifqa Bary DORRIAN COMMONS PARK, ACROSS THE STREET FROM FRANKLIN COUNTY JUVENILE COURT 11AM - 2PM, December 22 Franklin County courthouse, Franklin County juvenile court,4th floor 373 S. High Street; Columbus, Ohio 43215 Source: missionamerica.com

When I went to the missionamerica.com website for confirmation on Jim’s information I failed to find the information. I felt there had to be some confirmation some place so I checked out the Rifqa Bary website which is kind of tracking her journey. I discovered a link to Pam Geller’s Atlas Shrugs who seems to be the premier person keeping Rifqa’s plight in the public eye as well as diffusing the seeming pro-dad version of events. Here is a detailed description of the Rifqa Bary rally to be held in Columbus, Ohio:

12/22 CHRISTMAS RALLY FOR RIFQA ON THE DAY OF HER DEPENDENCY HEARING

PLEASE JOIN PAMELA GELLER, ROBERT SPENCER, DR. ANDREW BOSTOM

"DORRIAN COMMONS PARK"
ACROSS THE STREET FROM
FRANKLIN COUNTY JUVENILE COURT
11AM - 2PM
Franklin County courthouse
Franklin County juvenile court
4th floor
373 S. High street
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Simon Deng
Ex-Slave Sudan
Babu Suseelan
The Indian Experience with Jihad
Jamal Jivanajee
Pastor, Fellow Apostate and Rifqa's friend
Geller, Spencer, Bostom

THERE WILL BE SPEAKERS, FELLOW APOSTATES FROM ISLAM, INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS FIGHTING BLASPHEMY LAWS AND DEFENDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE AGE OF JIHAD. I IMPLORE YOU TO STAND WITH THIS GIRL. SHE REPRESENTS AMERICA IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ENCROACHING SHARIA LAW.

Directions to the Franklin County Courthouse & Rally: Franklin County Juvenile Court, 373 South High Street, Columbus (Ohio).

Rally Site. The Rally will be held at the Dorrian Commons Park, lying East and immediately adjacent to the Franklin County Courthouse, where Rifqa Bary’s Juvenile Court Hearings will be held later in the day. For those wishing to attend that public hearing, assuming room in the Courtroom, hearings are scheduled to begin at __.__ _.m.

Courthouse Address. The Franklin County Courthouse is located at 373 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215.

By Automobile. The Franklin County Courthouse lies just East of the intersection of Interstate highways I-70 and I-71, off of exit 100A on I-70 (near the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy Rivers). Exit the freeway North, just a block until W. Mound Street, and turn East, to your right onto W. Mound. Drive East on W. Mound for just 4 blocks until you reach South High Street. Turn South, to your right, and you will see the Courthouse and rally site.

High Street, by the way, is the dividing line between E. & W. Columbus, so don’t be alarmed if you see streets with E. & W. designations: things are literally just “across the street” from each other, in relation to all of the events described herein.

Event Parking. The Courthouse is served by several large parking lots immediately to the North across W. Mound Street. The parking lot is bound on the West by S. Front Street, to the North by Main Street (which appears to be Ohio Highway 62), and to the East by S. High Street, upon which the Franklin County Courthouse fronts.

Another major parking lot lies to the North of the event, north and south between E. Main Street and E. Rich Street, and east and west on South High and South 3rd.

Hotel Accommodations. Here's a link to help you look for travel accommodations. Less than a block North of the Courthouse, and immediately to the South of the large parking lot described above, there is the Westin Columbus Hotel on the Southeast corner of the intersection of South High and East Main.

By Air. Port Columbus International Airport (CMH) is just 6 or 7 miles Northeast of downtown. At the link below, the map also has off to the left margin an interactive service for securing flights in and out of Port Columbus.

It appears the Rifqa Bary rally serves two purposes: 1. an education on the nature of Islam. 2. Garner support for emancipating Rifqa since the dates corresponds to a Court date for that purpose. Rifqa becomes 18 on August 10, 2010.

Rifqa Bary’s website links to an AP release posted in the Columbus Dispatch dated December 1, 2010. The article starts out neutral but finishes giving a pro-dad version.

Plan says runaway teen convert and family should talk

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 11:52 AM
Updated: Tuesday, December 1, 2009 01:05 PM
Columbus Dispatch

COLUMBUS -- A runaway Christian convert and her Muslim family must listen to each other's views about religion if they are to reunite, a possibility that appears in jeopardy since the girl continues to refuse any contact with her parents or siblings, a caseworker says.

A case-management plan filed yesterday said Rifqa Bary and her parents should hear what each has to say about Islam and Christianity as a step toward a possible reunification. But the plan, written by a government caseworker, also said "severe differences" exist between the 17-year-old girl and her parents over what led Rifqa to run away to Florida over the summer.

The girl has said she feared her father would harm or kill her for leaving Islam. Her father has denied the claim.

"Parents concern is that Rifqa has a false perception of their religious beliefs and that her understanding creates a barrier to reunification," wrote Margaret Shirk, a Franklin County Children Services Board caseworker. "Rifqa's concern is that her parents do not understand her practice of Christianity."

Bary's parents, Mohamed and Aysha Bary, agree with their daughter being in foster care for the moment, but are concerned about her and would like a family relationship with her again, according to the plan.

Shirk's plan says Rifqa Bary has made it clear she wants no contact with her parents or her brothers. The girl talked to her brothers on the phone while she was in Florida but since then decided she wants no contact with them either, the plan said.

"Rifqa has been insistent about not having any contact with her parents and now with her siblings for what she has expressed for healing purposes," the plan said. "Rifqa continues to express fear about returning home."

The plan also calls for finding other relatives or nonrelatives that Rifqa could be placed with if reunification with her parents isn't a possibility. The goal is to bring them together by Aug. 10, when the girl turns 18, after which she would be on her own and could leave foster care.

The girl's family is originally from Sri Lanka and emigrated in 2000 to seek medical help for Rifqa, who had lost sight in her right eye when she fell and struck a toy airplane at home.

Rifqa disappeared July 19 and apparently stayed with friends of a minister she knew in Columbus for two days, according to court documents.

The minister, Brian Williams, drove Rifqa to the Columbus bus station, where she took a bus to Florida and was met by "Christian associates" she met on Facebook, according to an Oct. 15 complaint filed by her father seeking her return from Florida.

Police used phone and computer records to track the girl to the Rev. Blake Lorenz, pastor of Orlando, Fla.-based Global Revolution Church. Authorities said the teen had met him through an online Facebook prayer group.

A Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation found no credible threats to the girl.

Here is an article also dated December 1 by Pam Geller posted at Human Events that gives a better picture of Rifqa’s plight:

Rifqa Bary In Solitary Confinement

By Pamela Geller
12/01/2009
Human Events

The vise is tightening further on Rifqa Bary, the teenage girl who converted to Christianity from Islam and then fled to Florida from her Ohio home in fear for her life. Now she is in foster care in Ohio, in imminent danger of being returned to her family, and the Ohio authorities, at the command of the Barys’ lawyer, continue to isolate her.

Rifqa Bary has been in Ohio for well over a month and still there is no “approved visitation” list of friends who are allowed to see her. How can this be? How can it be that friends who request a visit, and whom Rifqa requests to visit, are repeatedly told that “there is no approved visitation list”? Is it not the very mission by objective of children’s services to protect the health and welfare of a child? Why has this one child in particular been denied visits from friends?

Rifqa has also been deprived of access to the phone and Internet. She has also been denied “pastoral guidance.” Convicts, murderers, rapists, and pedophiles all have access to “pastoral guidance.” Rifqa’s close friend and fellow ex-Muslim, Christian pastor Jamal Jivanjee, explains: “If you are incarcerated in an American prison today, you have the right to have a visit from a Pastor. Rifqa Bary does not have this most basic right that most criminals have today.” Is that how powerful and influential Islamic supremacists have become in the state of Ohio -- that one young girl is starved of spiritual nourishment so as not to insult Islam?

Jivanjee experienced this firsthand when he was in Columbus and learned that Rifqa wanted to see him. Jivanjee notes that this young girl is under unique pressure: “Unlike most girls her age, Rifqa wonders how long she’ll be in a safe home, or how long before the Ohio court system extradites her back to her parents custody that she fled from out of fear for her life. Many expect that she’ll be taken back to Sri Lanka immediately if that is the case. Because of Rifqa’s apostasy from Islam and conversion to Christianity, a woman’s prison, forced marriage, or even a death sentence await her back in her native land.” Yet despite her obvious need for encouragement and support, Rifqa was denied the opportunity to see Jivanjee. “It seems,” he said, “that Ohio has effectively put her into solitary confinement.”

Jivanjee asks the basic questions that every American should be asking: “How can this be good for Rifqa? On what grounds can they keep her from the most basic of privileges that are afforded to common criminals? Why has Rifqa Bary been in Ohio for almost one month, and they have still yet to approve a visitor’s list for her? Is this not an outrage?”

Has everyone gone mad?

No phone. No net. No friends. No religious succor.

This is why I so fiercely fought her return to Ohio. Columbus, Ohio, is home to one of the largest Somali Muslim populations in the United States: 70,000 and growing. This is the group, Somali Muslims, that has been at the epicenter of myriad busts for jihad activity in recent weeks. Is Rifqa safe in this devout Muslim community?

Ohio Governor Ted Strickland thinks so. Strickland issued a statement back on September 14th, on why Rifqa Bary should be returned to Ohio: “Child welfare agencies and authorities in Ohio and Franklin County are fully capable of providing for the security and well-being of Ohio’s children. The governor believes this is a family matter and therefore would most appropriately be handled here in Ohio with the assistance of the child welfare and foster care system.” He concluded: “We have no reason to believe that she would be unsafe in Ohio.”

Yet Ohio child services continues to earn its infamous reputation as one of the country’s worst places for children in foster care. The Columbus Dispatch reported in December 2008 that “an alarming number of children being watched by child services because they were at risk have died of abuse and criminal neglect, twice the national average (having a national average for such deaths is deplorable in itself).”

Even worse, investigative reporter Patrick Poole has recently discovered that the imam of Rifqa’s parents’ mosque, Salah Sultan, led a Hajj trip to Mecca in 2002 with Anwar al-Awlaki, the jihadist imam with whom Fort Hood murderer Nidal Hasan was in close contact.

Rifqa: isolated, alone, and in danger of being returned to Islamic jihadists who believe apostates from Islam should be killed.

What has happened to America?

Don’t forget Rifqa Bary! If you are able to attend the Columbus, Ohio rally for Rifqa attend. If not, Rifqa’s website provides an address to send a Christmas card to let her know she has supporters and that she is not alone.

Christian Convert Teen Must Go Back to Ohio

Here is a Rifqa Bary update. Apparently the Judge in Florida has ruled that he sees no harm from Rifqa’s parents. The judgment is amazing since the Mosque that the Bary’s attend is of the Muslim Brotherhood/Wahhabi tradition. This means honor retribution will probably come Rifqa’s way for converting to Christianity and fleeing from the Muslim family for safety.

I wonder if the Mainstream Media will report if Rifqa is harmed, sent away by her parents to Sri Lanka or murdered for the name of Allah.

JRH 10/13/09 (Hat Tip: Muslims Against Sharia)