The court decided in the case of Rifqa Bary that there was no threat, no danger, no risk to sending her back to Ohio to live with her parents.
- Her father is a member of the Noor Islamic Center in Ohio which has radical ties to terrorists;
- The members of the mosque have visited his home and told him about the responsibilities he has to make sure his "apostate" daughter renounces her Christianity;
- The father has aready threatened Rifqa and beaten her over the years;
- The family is in the country illegally;
- The family has arranged a marriage for Rifqa back in Sri Lanka;
- The court and press have insinuated that the Christians who protected her are the real danger;
- Once she disappears from public scrutiny, she will have no protection;
- Once she leaves the country (esp. with an angry father whose immigration status was revealed by her flight to Florida) she will have lost any hopes of a peaceful life -- if she lives at all.
The press refused to frame the story in an honest way, and even those gov't officials admitted that they didn't know anything about Islam. So parents can lose their children for poor nutrition and a variety of suspected behaviours, but not for death threats and harassment. (The extent of the problem is chronicled here -- scroll down for a host of beautiful women, no longer with us.)
UPDATE: Robert Spencer connects the dots on the dangers to Rifqa by means of another tragic attack on a Muslim girl:


Oh my Lord, stay by this girl's side.
Posted by: Teresa | Saturday, 24 October 2009 at 08:19 AM