Rifqa Bary is a 17 year old convert to Christianity from Islam. Sharia Law now demands her death. She has become well known in Islamic circles as an Apostate and has received threats with even a facebook page created calling for her death. She has been threatened by her family and has fled the state of Ohio. Now she is in the midst of a legal battle to determine whether she must return to her family. The governor of Ohio is now calling for her return to Ohio.
The office of Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has issued a statement, saying the teenage girl who ran away from her Muslim home in Columbus, Ohio, to evangelical Christians in Orlando, should be returned.
“Child welfare agencies and authorities in Ohio and Franklin County are fully capable of providing for the security and well-being of Ohio’s children,” said the statement. “The governor believes this is a family matter and therefore would most appropriately be handled here in Ohio with the assistance of the child welfare and foster care system.”
Fathima Rifqa Bary, 17, is currently living with a foster family in the Orlando area. She fled Columbus aboard a Greyhound bus in July, saying her father had threatened to kill her because she had abandoned his faith — Islam — and become a Christian.
Her father, Mohamed Bary, a jeweler and Amway distributor, says that never happened. A Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation supports his claim. So does Franklin County Children’s Services, the child welfare agency serving Columbus.
Rifqa was recently granted emergency jurisdiction to the Florida DCF at her last hearing. The next hearing is scheduled for Monday, September 21.
Will she find freedom and safety from radical Islam in America?
Her story in her own words:
Rifqa also tells her story at her personal website: http://rifqabary.com/
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we must pray for this young woman. She is truly at risk.