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"Honor killing' could await Rifqa in Sri Lanka "
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 9/21/2009 9:25:00 AM


WASHINGTON, DC - "A former Muslim who is now the head of an evangelical Christian seminary is warning that the 17-year-old Ohio girl who fled to Florida after her family discovered she had converted to Christianity from Islam faces certain death in her native Sri Lanka if she's not allowed to stay in the U.S.
Earlier this month, a judge in Orange County, Florida, ruled that Rifqa Bary will remain in the state until her next hearing scheduled for September 29. (See related article) However, the Orlando Sentinel is reporting a hearing concerning the Ohio teen will occur today (Monday) at the juvenile courthouse in Orlando. That report says it is not clear what will be discussed at today's hearing because juvenile court records are not public record.

Liberty Theological Seminary president Dr. Ergun Caner told Christians attending the Values Voter Summit in Washington Saturday that if Bary is returned to her parents and they move back to Sri Lanka, she will be killed because "Sri Lanka puts my people to death."

When Caner informed his devout Muslim father in 1982 that he had become a born-again Christian, his father disowned him. Caner believes that was "an act of mercy" because his father could have carried out an "honor killing" authorized by the Koran.

In the years following Caner's decision to accept Jesus Christ, his three brothers, his mother, and grandmother all converted to Christianity. According to Caner, those salvation experiences were only possible "because anonymous saints spoke up" and preached the gospel.

Caner wrapped up his address by issuing an emotional challenge to fellow Christians: "Preach, teach, and reach -- or shut up and get out of our way."

'Honor killing' could await Rifqa in Sri Lanka (OneNewsNow.com) (http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=690598)

Malaria could await her there, too. So what?

She's probably safer in Sri Lanka than in Florida with all the crime.

Malaria could await her there, too. So what?

She's probably safer in Sri Lanka than in Florida with all the crime.

(article excerpt – by Robert Knight 9/21/09)

“In Great Britain, for example, Sharia courts have already sprung up that claim independence from the British legal system. And invertebrate leaders such as the Anglican Church's Archbishop of Canterbury have said that it might be time for England to incorporate parts of Sharia Law. That's a bit like a lamb insisting it can ingest part of a hungry python. In Holland, parliamentarian Geert Wilders is under an Islamic fatwa death threat and has been charged by his government with a "hate crime" for producing the film Fitna, which chronicles Jihad violence around the world, accompanied by verses from the Qu'ran.

Moderate Muslims believe that Islam will eventually subdue the entire world, but that co-existence is possible in the meantime. Radical Islamists believe that the time for Islam's total domination is now, and that the only sure path to Heaven with Allah is through martyrdom, thus violence is considered a good shortcut.

Rifqa Bary, who was raised Muslim, is painfully aware of the tenets of that aggressive faith. Earlier this week, a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation announced that it had found "no credible evidence" that Rifqa is in danger if returned to her parents and their Muslim community.

But FBI veteran John D. Guandolo crunched the report and found it severely lacking. In "Florida Department of Law Enforcement earns an F," an essay for the Center for Security Policy on September 16, Guandolo notes that the investigators seemed oblivious to realities. For example:

"It was noted that the Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)-Columbus (Ohio) and the Staff Attorney for CAIR were present during the interview of Mr. Bary by FDLE Investigators. Absent from the FDLE report was any mention that CAIR is a known Muslim Brotherhood entity and an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial -- the largest terrorism financing trial in U.S. history -- revealing HLF as a Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood front in the United States. All defendants in this case were found guilty in November 2008 and are serving long prison terms."

Ergun Caner, now president of Liberty Theological Seminary in Lynchburg, Virgina, who with his brother converted from Islam to Christianity and is now under a fatwah, told the Florida Baptist Witness, "Death for apostasy from Islam is firmly rooted in the most sacred Muslim texts. There is also a consensus by all four schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence, as well as Shi'ite jurists, that apostates from Islam must be put to death," he said.

Can anyone blame Rifqa for fearing a return to a community rooted in a system of "law" that includes such texts?

Islam on the march in DC (OneNewsNow.com) (http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=690650)