Update 5/27/10 - Post-op report on Rifqa Bary's surgery.
Jamal Jivanjee was kind enough to send me [Pamela Geller] the following update: on the recent tragic news of cancer diagnosis.
Rifqa Bary has been released from the hospital after this morning's surgery. Cancerous growths were removed and further action will be determined upon pathology tests. Chemotherapy treatments are expected in the near future.
Rifqa is thankful for the prayers and support that she has received.
Update: 5/25/10 - Geller defends her reporting on Rifqa Bary.
- Pamela Geller headlines her report: "RIFQA BARY SUFFERING FROM CANCER, HER LAWYERS BRING IN HER PARENTS."
This is wrenching.
Geller writes:
There has been a terrible development in the case of Rifqa Bary. According to Rifqa, she has been diagnosed with advanced uterine cancer
I ask all Atlas readers to put Rifqa in their prayers.
While this is a tragedy, how she is being victimized by her lawyers and her parents is an atrocity. Her lawyers kept her in the dark about her condition – cancer – for well over a week, while they conferred with her parents and their CAIR appointed lawyers about her treatment. While most cases like this result in a hysterectomy, she is only having the advanced malignancy removed. From what I understand, the survival rate in cases like these is 5%. Her surgery is Thursday. Pray.
Was she allowed to get a second opinion? No.
While she was lying ill, her lawyers brought her parents to her hospital bed. She was strapped in for treatment and became very agitated and upset, and they had to be removed. She has broken her silence, a silence mandated by her lawyers, that she could not talk to her friends such as Jamal Jivanjee and those of us who have been unwavering in our support for Rifqa Bary’s civil rights and religious liberty.
Now she is scared. Her entire legal strategy was directed at keeping her safe and securing her immigration status, and here we are at the end of May and she has no immigration status. Upon her birthday in August 2010, she will be an illegal alien, in need of serious chemotherapy and cancer treatment. This is a horror.
UPDATE: Sending cards and letters would provide succor. Rifqa Bary c/o Angela Lloyd 255C Drinko Hall 55 West 12th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210