A rally for Rifqa Bary took place as scheduled in Columbus, Ohio on Monday November 16, but the court hearing for Rifqa did not take place as scheduled. Instead, her next hearing has been postponed until December 22. No explanation has been given by the court system for the delay. In fact, no information of Rifqa has been provided at all. Nobody knows if she is even still in the country. Her contact with the outside world has been cut off: no phone, no internet, nothing. She is being held a prisoner in her foster home, for the crime of embracing Christianity.

You have to love how the media is spinning the rally held on Nov. 16. As the headline of the following article notes, this was sponsored by “Christian Activists.” Pamela Geller, who spearheaded the rally, is Jewish! Once again, the media is reporting on an event for which they know nothing and have failed to do their homework. But to put the spin that this was only “Christian activists” sets the tone that this is a fringe group worthy of only being ignored.

Christian Activists Draw Attention To Rifqa Bary Case At Public Rally

Here are video clips of the rally.

Part 1

Rifqa Bary

Today is the scheduled hearing in Ohio for young Rifqa Bary to determine her final status: if she will be returned to her parents, allowed to remain with foster parents until she turns 18, or possibly another arrangement.

If you have not been following her story, here is a quick recap. Four years ago, Rifqa became a Christian as a girl of 13 years of age. She successfully hid her religious conviction from her Muslim family until earlier this year, when her father discovered she had been reading the Bible. According to Rifqa’s testimony, her father threatened to kill her. She then fled to Florida to seek protection with a Christian minister she had been conversing with online. The family attorney successfully argued for her return to Ohio based on jurisdictional grounds and won.

Meanwhile, CAIR even got involved. When the Florida Department of Law Enforcement interviewed Rifqa’s parents, a representative of CAIR was present. Why? For intimidation? To pressure the FDLE for a favorable report? We will really never know. Nor will we really never have a complete understanding of what Rifqa’s parents may have said had CAIR not been present.

But the bottom line is that this young woman’s life is in danger. She has been threatened with death by her father, who is fully capable of carrying out that threat. Yet our law enforcement and media continue to downplay the threat, in spite of many similar stories that have surfaced over the past few years: Amina and Sarah Said, Aqsa Parvez, Sandeela Kanwal, Assiya Hassan, the Shafii family.