Sunday, September 13, 2009

Fleeing darkness for darkness

rifqa Rifqa Bary is the current poster child for true Christianity. She left her Muslim family in Ohio and fled to Florida fearing for her life. She thinks her family will kill her regain its honor. An honor killing may be a possibility and would be a valid reason to remove her from her family, but what if… What if this is just the story of an immature child leaving her family a wreck in the name of religion? This is what I call the ugly of uglies, one religion fighting with another religion over a child. It sickens me.

If you have the stomach for it, watch this insane tribute video. They are fighting the centuries old war for souls with Bary as the battlefield. If you don’t believe it, Google her name, or look at the YouTube videos or recent blog activity. The war is being fought in the courts and on the internet, and it is getting nasty.

I feel for Rifqa Bary. I was her age when I left Christianity for Atheism. But then, my journey was away from ignorance and superstition. I did not trade one repressive set of beliefs for another. I was liberated, but nobody cared. But then, I was not pulling at the emotional heartstrings of Christian America.

There will come a day soon when the real issue will surface. Bary is not a citizen and her status may be in question. Will America send her home? Somehow I doubt it.

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john_poson26 93p · 815 weeks ago

I only made it to the point of where the “singing” started. This is a sad, sad story. You would think, if this delusional preacher in fact believes the girl’s family, is in fact, that crazy as to kill their own - over something as silly as this, and he’s taunting them with his Christ-speak; (that part of the video even pissed me off) I wonder if he realizes, what they could do to him?
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Jim · 815 weeks ago

She's stuck between the child molesters of christianity and the honor killing zealots of islam. She's a young girl in a very bad position. It's not going to end well for her, I think.
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AngieAntiTheist 86p · 815 weeks ago

We sent Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba. As a very generalized rule, US courts try to keep kids with their biological families. The last time we had a well-nationalized non-citizen minor, he got sent back to his remaining family in Cuba. (If you don't recall or hadn't heard the story, he was I believe 6 and his mother died traveling to Florida from Cuba to bring him to the US. Hence the major controversy over what to do with him when he arrived, orphaned and alone and an illegal alien.)

I've been following this story because it is, once again, in Florida (where I and the cult of my birth hail from). I gotta say, I'm not as quick as some to leap to the conclusion her father actually would DO an honor killing, but that's because I know a fair number of moderate Muslims personally and they're very much like the moderate Christians I know. (Both follow the god of Abraham but neither seems likely to kill their kids on His orders.)

I'm also very suspicious of the church group she's fled/runaway to. On the surface of what I've been able to glean, they smell a little bit like a cult to me.

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