Comments on: Honor Killing Averted: Muslim Convert to Christianity Flees For Her Life

By: lovey

lovey — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:27:28 +0000

no one thought that maybe she is a teenage girl with raging horomones, who probably got into trouble, had her parents scream at her on many occasions, and she might be afraid, but that her fears are baseless? my parents screamed at me to no end when i was that age and threatened to kill me on many occasions, but they never meant it. i thought my parents were horrible when i was that age also. at 16 &17 you are supposed to hate your parents to some extent, it means your growing into a healthy adult with feelings and opinions, and your parents are doing a good job of trying to keep you going in the right direction. and just for the record, im baptist. also for the record im a 25 year old female, so the feeling of 16 is still fresh in my head. especially since now im raising 2 little girls myself. i am dreading the day puberty hits them, i don’t know what im going to do. i just keep praying that God takes it easy on me, but why should, i wasn’t easy on my mother. something tells rifqa is not easy on her parents either. 16 is 16 no matter what’s your religion or ethnicity.

By: jose

jose — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:31:00 +0000

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (New International Version)

The Coming of the Lord
13Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. 14We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15According to the Lord’s own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18Therefore encourage each other with these words.

By: Warris John

Warris John — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:26:57 +0000

According to scripture time has come for our persecution, and we welcome it as it is the fulfilment of Jesus’s sayings. Praise the Lord Jesus, his sayings are proving true. What else we need, our faith should be like a rock. I request the community to pray for this daughter that Jesus may stand by her as He stood by St. Paul & St.Peter.

My daughter Rafiq recite Psalm 23,
1 Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters,3. He restores my soul: He leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of DEATH, I will fear no evil: for You are with me. Your rod and Your staff they comfort me. 5 You prepares a table before me in the presence of my ENEMIES: You anoints my head with oil, my cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

By: Janis

Janis — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:48:43 +0000

Um, dead flummoxed SV, who says, “So the person who converted her did an illegal act … ”

Show me the American federal or state law that says that converting to ANY religion is illegal at any time. Much less punishable by death.

By: cary

cary — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:55:36 +0000

The first honor killing in the U.S. that I remember was in the bay area, Hayward I think, in the late seventies. The brother at the instigation of the father stabbed the young women to death something like 10 or 20 times. It was over her having a black boyfriend if I remember correctly and they were from Yemen. I hope Rifqa is able to stay away from her family and be safe.

By: marianne wood

marianne wood — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:55:57 +0000

Rifqa needs all the protection she can get. It is a wonderful thing that she is so able to express and communicate her wishes so well, and she is very brave! I truly believe she will have the things done to her that she described. This is a chilling and dark time for her. We as a freedom -loving NATION UNDER GOD should do everything in our power to protect this sweet clear-minded, soon to be young adult. God bless you Rifqa and give you His Divine Holy protection.

By: Freedom of Religion: A Precious American Right, an Islamic Capital Crime « Creeping Sharia

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:43:28 +0000

[...] many Muslims and of all the Western book-and-column writing atheists and secularists, I wonder if Rifqa Bary, the teenage convert from Islam to Christianity, is not respected as a hero who is fighting for her [...]

By: SV

SV — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:22:12 +0000

I am quite flummoxed by this incident. Rifqa Bary is still a child. Who converted her to Christianity? I gathered from the video clip that she converted when she was about 15 years old. Can children be converted to another religion without their parents’ permission? Shouldn’t she have been told that she could choose her religion when she is 18 or 21 years, whatever is the age in the US when a person is considered an adult by law?
So the person who converted her did an illegal act and got her into this situation. She would have been able to handle the situation better if she were older, and would also have had time to think whether she really wanted to convert. Zealous preachers do more harm than good!
I am not a Muslim, neither a Christian, so do not take it that I am for or against any religion.

By: Joan Mc Gill

Joan Mc Gill — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:02:05 +0000

Who wouldn’t act (and actually be) mentally/emotionally ill if their own parents were planning to kill them. Duh!

I completely and totally believe her. There’s a lot that goes on under our noses that no one wants to look at. Look at the murder of Terry Schiavo, blasted out to all of the world and it couldn’t be stopped.

Maybe this girl has a chance now that her parents know they will be the prime suspects if she dies, even if it is an “accident”.

Christians have have been able to avoid this kind of religious persecution in this land of the not so free for a very long time, but I think that freedom is coming to a quick end. Wimpy pastors are now having to really stand up and be leaders in the faith, finally! Thank God this couple didn’t wimp out.

I will be praying and hoping for this girl that she gets her freedom and protection. I don’t think Muslim men in general (and some who claim to be Christian as well) have an ounce of respect for women. I hope that rock is finally turned over in this case and all the little dark critters are exposed to the light for good.

By: Phyllis Chesler | Faith Freedom International

Phyllis Chesler | Faith Freedom International — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:34:43 +0000