The girl and her father
Posted on 11/19/2009 8:31:09 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The 15-year-old daughter of well-known Egyptian convert Maher el-Gohary has written a letter appealing to President Obama to help her father who is in danger of being murdered or imprisoned for becoming a Christian.
Dina el-Gohary, who also converted from Islam to Christianity, has been on the run and living in hiding with her father, who is the second Egyptian to legally request to change his religious status.
In her handwritten letter in Arabic, posted on Coptic Web sites, she writes:
“Mr. President Obama, we are a minority in Egypt. We are treated very badly. You said that the Muslim minority in America are treated very well, so why are we not treated here likewise? We are imprisoned in our own home because Muslim clerics called for the murder of my father, and now the Government has set for us a new prison, we are imprisoned in our own country," according to a translation posted by the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA).
The Egyptian girl asked President Obama to mediate with the Egyptian government on their behalf.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times earlier this year, Maher el-Gohary said he and his daughter live like “fugitives,” moving every few months.
As one of Egypt’s most well-known converts, the el-Gohary’s cannot walk freely on the streets for fear of being identified by Muslim extremists. Friends provide the family with food.
“I'm not so much afraid of the government anymore,” el-Gohary told the Times in August. “It's conservative Muslims who worry me. Some of them believe whoever kills me is rewarded. When I go to court, I'm surrounded by police protection."
El-Gohary, 57, accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior secretly 35 years ago. But in August 2008, the Muslim-born Egyptian filed a lawsuit to legally change his identification to Christian. It was the country’s second lawsuit ever related to religious status.
In June 2009, however, a Cairo judge rejected his petition even after el-Gohary provided a baptism certificate and a letter of acceptance into the Coptic Orthodox Church as the court had demanded.
Since filing the suit last year, the father and daughter have been living in hiding. Several Muslim clerics have labeled him an apostate and have issued fatwas calling for “spilling his blood,” according to AINA.
The el-Gohary family tried to leave Egypt, but was barred in September without any legal reasons.
El-Gohary has appealed the court decision regarding his religious identification. He has also said he is willing to give up his Egyptian nationality in order to leave Egypt, according to AINA.
“If the Egyptian nationality is the cause of my imprisonment within my home and being unable to move, then I do not want it,” he said. El-Gohary said he'd rather hold any other nationality than stay in Egypt where he said he and his daughter are "suffering imprisonment within the walls of my apartment and without any freedom.”
Copts United has also appealed to the U.N. Human Rights Council for help with el-Gohary’s case.
She should have saved the paper and ink. The cold, heartless wonder in the white house cares about no one except the guy in the mirror.
Barking up the wrong tree
So, what do you think Mr. Obama will do? Can he ignore this? Will he bow?
His teleprompter means more to him that this infidel’s daughter.
The Savior of the World ping. /s
So her dad is basically a goner.
“she should have saved the paper and ink†and “she’s barking up the wrong treeâ€. Hey you glass half empty people, try looking at this as a good thing. Two people became Christians(to start with) then by asking the President of the US for help is also a good thing. May you will be right but it puts Obama on the spot and if he ignores this he is going to go down even further in the polls. Something he can’t afford to do. It may bring out his true colors.
The girl and her father
Islam is a death cult that rapes young girls.
She might have had a chance if her father had been kidnapped by the Cambridge Police, but otherwise, forget it, kid, that’s above his paygrade.
no where near a glass half empty person. She is appealing to a muslim for protection for converting to christianity in a muslim nation. She will not get help. Perhaps had she tried when GWB were president, she would be here, asleep on American soil.
Obama is importing terrorists and palestinians, not christians (unless they are from mexico)
This girl should have addressed her plea to Benjamin Netanyahu; The Messiah will probably send contributions to the group seeking to kill her.
Talk about unwittingly getting the wrong number!!!
She was appealing to the devil himself!
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