What Islamic Terrorism???
Fate of 17-Year-Old Fathima Sealed
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Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.
The lawyers for Aysha and Mohamed Bary, the parents of Fathima Rifqa Bary, the 17 year-old Muslim girl who converted to Christianity, assured Orange County District Court today that there is no such thing as honor killing in Islam.
Romin Iqbal assured Circuit Judge Daniel Dawson that such killings are “cultural and tribal” and are not related to “the Islamic religious practice.”
No one in court took issue with Iqbal’s statement, despite the fact that Islamic law clearly calls for the killing of anyone who abandons faith in Allah. “The blood of a Muslim,” the great Sunni jurist Muhammad al Bukhari writes, “may be legally spilt if he turns from Islam and the Muslim community.”
Iqbal and the other attorneys representing the parents are employees of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization that has been named by the Department of Justice as a sponsor of terror.
Yet no court official has questioned the legitimacy of CAIR lawyers and its history of obfuscation.
“CAIR has spoken,” a court observer quipped, “the case is over. We can all go home.”
Fathima Bary fled from her parental home in Westerville, Ohio to Orlando, Florida after becoming Christian. She swears her father will kill her if she goes back home. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FBLE) appears willing to take that chance.
In its official report to the court, FBLE states: “Ms. Bary’s concern that she may be killed because of her conversion from Islam to Christianity remains a subjective and speculative concern.” It concluded that there exists “no conspiracy” among family members to commit violence against her.
Ms. Bary argues to the contrary. In a court filing, she swears that her father confronted her in her bedroom and said: “If you have this Jesus in your heart, you are dead to me!” And then, picking up a laptop as if to hit her, he allegedly added: “I will kill you!” A friend reported this incident to local police in Ohio.
Mohamed Bary has admitted to grabbing his daughter’s computer but says he meant only to throw it. He further denies that he ever threatened her life.
Ms. Bary says that her father punched her in the face on the way to mosque one day because she complained about wearing a hijab, an incident which her father denies. She further testifies that her family’s radical mosque advised her father to “deal with the situation” of her Christian conversion, a thinly veiled reference, she says, to honor killing.
The CAIR lawyers assured the court that the concept of honor killing is abhorrent to Muslims.
CNN and others in the mainstream media have attempted to make an issue of Ms. Bary’s truthfulness by pointing to her assertion that she hid her participation in her high school’s cheerleading squad for fear of her father’s disapproval. Investigators, they contend, say they saw photos of the girl in her cheerleading uniform prominently displayed in the family room of the Bary home.
But it’s unclear when the photos were placed on display, and the same investigators have confirmed that Ms. Bary’s mother had denied her daughter permission to join the squad.
Ms. Bary’s mother further told the investigators that her husband believes that if their daughter returns home, she should practice Islam as long as she’s underage and living under their roof.
Florida governor Ted Strickland has issued a statement, saying that the teenage girl should be sent back to Ohio and the Muslim community.
Islamic honor killing are not a new phenomenon in the U.S. Two years ago, on New Year’s Eve, Yaser Abdel Said murdered his two teenaged daughters Sarah and Amina Yaser in cold blood because they became too Westernized.
