RIFQA BARY - WHY HER CASE IS SO IMPORTANT

- Update 1/16/10 - Pamela Geller reviews all the news she herself has  broken in the Rifqa Bary case, none of which the major news organizations have reported. 

- (Original post) - Jamal Jivanjee (her close friend) says: [my emphases]

The next important date for you to put on your calendar is Thursday January 28’th.  This is the date that her trial for dependency is set to begin.  Obviously this date may change, but at this point this is the date that the Franklin County juvenile court has set for her trial regarding dependency.

 . . . I am convinced that God has elevated Rifqa’s case to one of the most significant cases in our nation today.  I am convinced that Rifqa’s life of tremendous love for Jesus and commitment to radical prayer in the face of tremendous suffering is a challenge and example to much of the sleeping institutional American church.  In addition to challenging the American church, Rifqa’s courage in standing up against the brutality and injustice that many other women and converts out of Islam face from Islamic ideology is breaking the dam of fear that millions of others currently live under.  Simply put, Rifqa’s courage to live will continue to give scores of people the courage to break free from this bondage as well.    

The key factor in all of this is Rifqa’s testimony.  Since the beginning of all of this, there has been a concerted effort to keep Rifqa quiet, and her testimony from getting out.  There has also been a concerted effort to direct attention away from what is really important in this case…Rifqa’s story!  The enemy knows that the more that Rifqa’s life is made known, the more that the truth will be exposed.  Groups like C.A.I.R. have an agenda to paint a positive picture of Islam at any cost, and that is why this powerful national organization is advising and directing Rifqa’s parent’s attorneys in their attack against her character and testimony, as well as an attack against those that have helped her.   

. . . Please pray for Rifqa to have wisdom and much courage in the days ahead regarding decisions that she will need to make, and please pray for an opportunity for Rifqa to get the truth out to the court and the nation regarding her true testimony of Jesus, and the threat and opposition that she faced as a result.  I believe this is very significant!

Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs has more.  Important stuff...  Rifqa remains isolated; she still has no visitor's list!  As Geller says,

This isolation is a form of psychological torture. I thought Obama said no torture for jihadists. So why is a girl in America, guilty only of freedom of religion, allowed to be psychologically tortured? This is mental abuse, and the fact that the parents are behind it with a terror organization as their hatchet man speaks volumes as to what would happen to Rifqa if they ever dared to send her home. . .