A girl flees from her home in fear for her life – and law enforcement goes after the people who helped her. That’s the situation in the Rifqa Bary case.
The Columbus Dispatch reported this about Rifqa’s friend Brian Williams:
An Ohio minister accused of driving a teenage runaway to a bus station last year has retained a lawyer as police say they’re investigating whether anyone broke the law in helping the Christian convert leave home for Florida.
And why did she flee to Florida? Because, she says, when her devout Muslim father found out she had become a Christian, he said to her, “I will kill you.” And with Islam’s death penalty for apostates, she had to take that seriously. But her father is not in danger of being prosecuted. Brian Williams is.
Law enforcement, in a perverse twist of reality, continues persecuting the Christians in Ohio who helped a teenage apostate escape the death threat (in line with 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 runaway cases are pursued in the way? How many other teenage girls in America have this 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? Or their pimps?
Back on January 19, Rifqa Bary was tricked into pleading guilty to the charge of being “unruly” in exchange for a dependency deal that the Bary parents and their CAIR-appointed attorney later reneged on. And now we understand why CAIR demanded a guilty plea from Rifqa in exchange for this meaningless deal: the Franklin County, Ohio, prosecutor, under pressure from CAIR, is seeking to indict Brian Williams on two charges: contributing to the “unruliness” of a minor and “interference with custody,” which carries a sentence of six months to a year.
Brian Williams allegedly drove Rifqa to the bus station, and this makes him a criminal? This amounts to the enforcement of sharia in America. Law enforcement is obviously capitulating to the pressure of Islamic infiltrators.
The impending arrest of the courageous Brian Williams is proof of the incompetence of Rifqa Bary’s legal team. If the Islamic death penalty for apostasy were explained in court in light of Rifqa’s situation, the Franklin County prosecutor would not pursue Brian Williams. Instead Rifqa’s legal team urged him to plead guilty to these outrageous charges at enormous personal expense. Who are they working for? CAIR?
They are wrong. Williams should not plead it down. Why should Brian Williams have a record for helping Rifqa? Yet the dhimmi media is right there reinforcing this outrage, like the cheering crowds at the gallows. The sharia-compliant Columbus Dispatch ran this headline over the AP story about Williams’ retaining counsel: “Minister accused of aiding Rifqa Bary retains lawyer.” “Accused.” As if aiding Rifqa Bary were a crime. Implying guilt. Who wouldn’t retain a lawyer if he were advised that he was going to be arrested? The Dispatch implies a taint. It insinuates that Williams has done something wrong. Would the AP reporter, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, or the Dispatch not retain a lawyer if they were advised of their imminent arrest?
Welsh-Higgins also writes: “The girl claimed she could be harmed or killed for converting to Christianity, a charge her parents, immigrants from Sri Lanka, have denied.” The girl “claimed” — got that? Everything that the unindicted co-conspirators at the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the lawyer they chose for Rifqa’s parents is reported as gospel. But a young girl terrified for her life whose words are supported by the sharia mandate of death for apostasy only makes “claims.”
What kind of nation, what kind of society are we living in where someone who helps a girl whose life is in danger is prosecuted for it? An Islamic one.
Not so fast, buster.
I am proud to say that Robert Spencer and I were able to connect Brian Williams with the Thomas More Law Center. The Thomas More Law Center will be representing Brian Williams pro bono. The Islamic supremacists pursuing Rifqa Bary and the Christians who helped her will be met with a vigorous freedom-of-religion defense.
What wonderful news that, as he is prosecuted, Brian Williams will be defended by legal counsel who understand that this is enforcement of sharia and are unafraid to fight the oppression and intimidation of the Islamic machine. This is in contrast to Rifqa’s lawyers, who have naively made numerous back-door deals with her parents’ CAIR-appointed attorney. Every underhanded, dirty deal that Rifqa Bary’s lawyers made with the attorney for her parents was broken.
Why should CAIR be able to use our judicial system to send a message to non-Muslims that they will be punished for helping a Christian? Brian Williams, and Rifqa Bary, must prevail. If the Islamic machine succeeds in making an example of them, we are all in trouble.
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