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Rifqa Bary is the 17-year-old girl who converted from Islam to Christianity and fled from her family in fear for her life. For more than nine months now, the Islamic machine has been trying to make an example of her, as a warning that even in the U.S., those who try to leave Islam will fail. Rifqa’s entire legal strategy, meanwhile, has hinged on ignoring the Islamic aspects of the case, although Islam’s death penalty for apostasy is the only thing that explains why she is in danger. Instead, her lawyers are trying to obtain for her Special Immigration Juvenile...

The Ohio judge overseeing the case of Rifqa Bary, the teen who ran away from her Muslim parents citing fear that she would be harmed for converting to Christianity, has urged the broken family to continue counseling with the aim of reconciliation. During a court hearing Tuesday, Franklin County Juvenile Court Judge Elizabeth Gill rejected Mohamed and Aysha Bary’s request to cancel a reconciliation plan developed in January, which includes counseling. The plan was created by the county child welfare agency, which has custody of Rifqa. The parents are upset that the agency has allowed their daughter to contact the...

JUDGE GILL REJECTS PARENTS ATTEMPT TO BREAK AGREEMENT: Ohio judge denies the request of Rifqa Bary's parents to scrap a deal reached in January that includes counseling as part of a reunion effort. Infidels 1, Muslim Brotherhood 0 The CAIR appointed attorney for an Ohio couple says they just want a reasonable chance to reconcile with their daughter. What has been reasonable in their actions? Have they respected her choice? Was it reasonable for the parents to turn over her personal diaries and her computer to CAIR who then handed them over to the media (sans the parental abuse I...

Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my sighing. Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray. In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation. (Psalm 5:1-3)

Rifqa to parents: We're done. Runaway convert says reconciliation impossible ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBUS -- A teenage runaway who fled Ohio with the alleged help of Christian pastors, claiming she'd be harmed for converting from Islam to Christianity, says a reconciliation with her Muslim parents is no longer possible. Efforts by Ohio and Florida courts to reunify Rifqa Bary with her family have failed and she continues to fear being hurt by her parents, according to a court filing by Bary's attorneys. "Bary continues to refuse any contact with her parents and has made clear that she does not foresee a...

"Rifqa wanted me to convey to you her great appreciation for your wonderful effort to encourage people to send her cards and to thank you and the over 500 people from all over the world who sent her Christmas cards and gifts. She was so grateful for the love and support she received when she needed it. She wished she could thank everyone personally but in her situation she cannot do that. They truly blessed her and encouraged her when she needed support during that intense isolation. God bless you and thank you for all you have done for Rifqa....

Law enforcement, in a perverse twist of reality, continues persecuting the Christians in Ohio who helped a teenage apostate escape the death threat (sharia law) made by her family. They are investigating any "criminal wrongdoing with anyone involved in getting her from one location to another." How many other runway cases are pursued in the way? How many other teenage girls in America have this sharia attention paid to them by law enforcement? How many teenage girls who sell their bodies for sex and drugs for an adult pimp are pursued this way? And their pimps? Brian Williams allegedly drove...

Update from Jamal Jivanjee's Facebook regarding The Thomas More Law Center representing Rifqa Bary's rescuer Brian Williams pro-bono

I am thrilled to report that the Thomas More Law Center will be representing Brian Williams pro bono in the sharia-like charges being brought against him for helping an apostate escape a death fatwa. The Islamic supremacists pursuing Rifqa Bary and the Christians who helped her are trying to enforce sharia law. They will be met with a vigorous freedom of religion defense. I am proud of the role Robert Spencer and I had in connecting the parties.

While Rifqa Bary's lawyers busy themselves making back-door deals with the Islamic machine that goes about breaking every agreement with the infidel, the truth that would set her free is suppressed. The latest deal for dependency was broken, reneged on by CAIR-appointed attorney, Omar Tarazi. And so on March 2nd, the court will hear motions filed by Tarazi to void the latest back-door deal. According to Jamal Jivanjee, Rifqa Bary's friend and pastor, the authorities are trying to arrest Brian Williams, the man who helped her escape. If you missed my interview with Brian Williams, listen here. The impending arrest...

Rifqa's isolation from people she loved was/is cruel and inhuman punishment, but is typical in this case. Few people understand what this girl has taken on and what happens to girls who leave Islam. There was a glimmer of good news yesterday fresh on the heels of the news that the Bary parents reneged on the dependency deal. Rifqa will be allowed to have limited (supervised) phone contact with the Lorenzes after the outrageous prohibition that was imposed upon her two months ago. Last week, Rifqa's parents - Mohamed and Aysha Bary - withdrew their consent to resolve the case....

I understand that John Stemberger, in his continuing efforts to rehabilitate himself, has written a ten-point self justification for the corner Rifqa has found herself painted into now. And in a shameless, craven, self-serving act of money-grubbing, he has the naked audacity to beg for money even though his legal strategy has been shown again and again and again to be an abysmal failure.

The point of this article is to question the legal strategy that Rifqa’s attorneys have been using. To be blunt, the only word that I can think of that describes Rifqa’s attorney’s legal strategy is ‘asinine’. Please know that I do not say this lightly. It has not been easy for me to come to this conclusion, but for the sake of truth and Rifqa’s well being, I am not able to keep silent about this horrendous legal strategy that has been employed. It cannot and must not continue. After learning some disturbing things over the last several days, and...

He sends his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly. He spreads the snow like wool and scatters the frost like ashes. He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can withstand his icy blast? He sends his word and melts them; he stirs up his breezes, and the waters flow. (Psalm 147:15-18)

Rifqa Bary's parents and their CAIR-appointed attorney have reneged on the deal for dependency and instead want to go to trial. As I long suspected, Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas front CAIR had no intention of allowing an apostate from Islam to live freely as a glowing example to other Muslims dying to leave Islam. An anonymous source tells me Rifqa wasn't told of the terrible development from her lawyers. She had to read the hijabed Heagney's account. I contend, yet again, that Rifqa is ill represented by an uninformed counsel chosen by John Stemberger. But I hear Stemberger inked his...

Perhaps the most disturbing element to the crimes committed by Brian Smith, Tom Sanchez and Jeff Parker is that they have illegally embezzled and/or misappropriated funds sent to the church from all over the country by Rifqa's supporters intended for Rifqa’s legal defense fund. The Orlando law firm overseeing her defense fund, Fowler, O'Quinn, Feeney & Sneed, confirmed this week that they have not found any records of EVER receiving any monies from Global Revolution Church sent to the church designated for Rifqa’s legal defense. I have been provided copies of checks sent to the church designated to Rifqa's defense...

A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary. O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living water. (Jeremiah 17:12-13)

Many of us are probably aware of the great news surrounding Rifqa Bary becoming a dependant of the state of Ohio. This is truly great news as this means she remains protected from being forcibly sent back to the home of her parents that she fled from due to the fear of her life that she faced as a result of her conversion from Islam to Christianity. While this is good news, she is not yet ‘out of the woods’, so to speak, just yet. What should happen next? In recent days, there have been a number of direct and...

Runaway Ohio girl to remain free of Muslim parentsBy The Associated Press Wed Jan 20, 2010, 02:31 PM CST Columbus, Ohio - A runaway teenage girl from Ohio who converted from Islam to Christianity has reached a court settlement that allows her to remain free of her Muslim parents. The agreement Tuesday says that 17-year-old Rifqa Bary will stay in a foster home under state custody in Columbus until she turns 18 in August 2010. After that, she'll be an adult and free to live where she chooses. Bary's attorney read a statement in Franklin County Juvenile Court, saying that...

This afternoon (Tuesday, Jan. 19th 2010) Rifqa Bary was declared a dependent of the state of Ohio! This is very good news for Rifqa because it ensures that she will remain in foster care until she is 18. This protects her from being forced to return to her parent’s home. Apparently, Rifqa’s parents realized that they were not going to win the dependency case should it have went to trial. The dependency trial that was scheduled for January 28’th is now cancelled. In exchange for dependency, Rifqa agreed that she violated rules by fleeing her home.