Why no outcry from Obama on this?
Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, under sentence of death for apostasy, has given birth in a Sudanese prison.
The US Embassy in Sudan has released a statement protesting her incarceration, and a few US Senators have also supported her. Others, including Kelly Ayotte of NH (Ibrahim’s wheelchair-bound husband, who suffers from muscular dystrophy, is from Sudan but is a US citizen and a resident of New Hampshire), have gone further and written a letter:
…asking John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State, to offer political asylum to Ibrahim.
“We also urge you and President Obama to reappoint an Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, whose primary purpose is to monitor, prevent, and respond to this exact type of incident,” the letter stated.
Some groups such as Amnesty International are on the case as well.
And what of President Obama? The guy who spoke up readily in the Henry Louis Gates arrest and the Zimmerman case? The answer appears to be silence—at least so far—and silence from Secretary of State Kerry.
Obama is in exactly the same position vis a vis Islam as Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag herself, by the way, although of course he’s not in prison for apostasy. Here are the facts of her life as reported:
Mariam was born to a Muslim father, who left her mother to bring her up alone from when she was very young, and an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian mother. She was raised in her mother’s faith and married a Christian man.
That’s her defense to the charge of apostasy: she was never a Muslim in the first place, so there was no conversion. The parallels are that Obama was also born to a Muslim father who then departed from his life and a Christian mother (I’m not talking about beliefs, I’m talking about nominal religion of birth). He was raised mostly by his Christian grandparents, although his mother was also involved off and on. All of this would make him an apostate under the same reasoning that the court applied to Ibrahim Ishag. But whatever Obama’s religion (and my gut feeling is that he has none but leftism), he certainly seems reluctant so far to say much to defend this woman from the barbarism of Islamic law.
[NOTE: There’s a lot more background information about the couple’s story and background in this Telegraph article. It reads partly as a history of Africa’s troubles, reflected in the lives of these two people [emphasis mine]:
Like many in Sudan, both Daniel and his wife’s childhood were blighted by civil war.
Daniel managed to escape the brutal conflict in 1998 when he travelled to America with his brother Gabriel.
The biochemist returned to Sudan to marry Meriam at a Christian service in a chapel which was attended by around 500 people in December 2011.
Most who were at the wedding ceremony could vouch for the pair being committed Christians, defence lawyers say.
But witnesses who were willing to give evidence on her behalf were barred from testifying because they were Christian.
She even produced a marriage certificate identifying herself as a Christian.
Despite this, the judge determined that because her father was a Muslim, even though he abandoned the family while they were living in a refugee camp in the South East of Sudan when she was six, she too was a Muslim who had broken the law by leaving Islam.
But her mother, who is now dead, brought her up as Christian. Her mother was born in Ethiopia to Christian parents, but fled to Sudan because of famine, and chose to raise her daughter in the same religion.
Read the whole thing.]
I’m sure our patriotic Democrat Americans will do what is just.
Obama said he’d stand with the Muslims…
[i sent you the religious details on this neo]
NEO: All of this would make him an apostate under the same reasoning that the court applied to Ibrahim Ishag.
yes…
Secret Service codename
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Service_codename
Barack Obama – Renegade
Merriam Websters
a person who leaves one group, religion, etc., and joins another that opposes it
Synonyms
apostate, defector, deserter, recreant
Etymology
the article or rather the quoted part of the article is not telling the actual reasoning of the court from a view point of Islam.
Despite this, the judge determined that because her father was a Muslim…………she too was a Muslim who had broken the law by leaving Islam.
not quite.. that may be a western interpretation of the point but it sure would not be one that matches the Koran
No babe is born but upon Fitrah, it is his parents who make him a Jew or a Christian or a Polytheist. (Sahih Muslim, Book 033, Hadith Number 6426)
so, no… it was not because her father was Muslim that she is Muslim. We are ALL Muslim at birth, and then are “deformed” to something else. Before we were born, Allah imprinted us with the truth so that on judgement day we could not claim we did not know or have access to the truth.
so the fact her father was Muslim, left her and so on, was irrelevant. “The worm turned” on the fact that she was an adult and could choose to correct her path, to which her plea in court clearly showed the judge she would not do so as her plea was otherwise.
Time to send in a Seal team to extract this American family. But VJ would veto that idea in the blink of an eye. 🙁
“Why no outcry..on this?”
That is an unbelievable question at this point. Sorry, ridiculous. Even hypocritical. You know the answer and are you pretending you don’t? Are we supposed to take the question seriously? From the famous movie: I’m shocked!
Please.
Obama is an enemy of everything and anything good and decent. He is an indecent man (in Viktor Frankl’s usage). There is no need to ever do anything but point out his latest (daily, at least weekly) indecency…
And that is shocking enough. People should be shocked by this wicked and merciless man every single day. More shocking we should be that 60m+ voted for the monster…twice. Abraham Lincoln’s Thesis about who can be fooled is under its severest test ever, this very day.
Mike:
No, you are not supposed to take the question seriously.
I thought it would be quite obvious to any regular reader here that I was being sarcastic.
But VJ would veto that idea in the blink of an eye.
They would merely leak the location of the SEALs and they would have an accident, whether pre or post op.
And that is shocking enough. People should be shocked by this wicked and merciless man every single day. More shocking we should be that 60m+ voted for the monster…twice.
Loosen up, Mike. Hate is a valuable commodity and resource, and should not be burned merely because it’s popular on forums or for expediently short term causes.
Mix humour in and have fun at the expense of the evil powers that be. Otherwise, you won’t last until the Apocalypse Day, I’m afraid. Humans are not designed to hold in an exquisite level of hate for a long time. I know that very well.
The U.S. has reached a point in which we are completely lacking in clout; or the point where we simply do not care about the fate of Americans who find themselves in the clutches of corrupt or evil people.
This story is heart wrenching. It is paralleled somewhat–although not to the same degree– by the story of the U.S. Marine who is held in Mexico under condition which would lead to animal cruelty charges in the U.S.
In neither case is any part of the U.S. Government publicly engaged.
I am terribly ashamed.
“Hate is a valuable commodity and resource, and should not be burned merely because it’s popular on forums or for expediently short term causes.”
I don’t hate them simply because most of ‘them’ are brainwashed ignoramuses but I do recognize they are the enemies of me and mine; in particular my children and grandchildren. Because they are a direct threat to my children and grandchildren I practice weekly with knives (silence can be golden), revolvers (old fashioned I am), and my scoped Mauser. And I am but an army of 1 out of 30,000,000. Unintended consequences will come home to roost and shit on the heads of many lackeys unless they back off and allow a peaceful solution to our differences.
“I am terribly ashamed.”
Instead of ashamed, be outraged.
I’m afraid I would be too disgusted to read the whole thing.
the heads of many lackeys unless they back off and allow a peaceful solution to our differences.
Since they are lackeys and tools, who do you think is going to command them to back off… Reid? Hussein? Some other successor like Ayers, are they going to tell the comrades to back off?
Brainwashed zombies do not have a self preservation instinct any more. They don’t realize what a minefield is and even if they did, they would still obey the command to run through them at the prey.
This is what America’s courts on homosexual purity and feminist entitlement will look like in the future. The same as their Islamic Jihad’s courts.
Artfldgr:
That may be the philosophy, and it may be the ultimate goal: to present everyone with a “convert or die” dilemma. But de facto, right now, although they are persecuting Christians for being Christian, they don’t seem to (yet, anyway) be prosecuting Christians for being Christian–unless the authorities can make the case for some special claim Islam has on them, as in the case of Ibrahim Ishtag and her father.