Rifqa Bary is a girl from a Muslim family who was indoctrinated by an evangelical Christian group who helped her run away with them. I have previously written posts on this here, here and here.

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I'm following the RichardDawkins.net blog feed and so I wouldn't be writing about this if they hadn't posted it. In fact, the reason I didn't react when Pat Condell noted the party he was going to vote for in the last election was because websites like RichardDawkins.net presumably either thought no one would be interested, or were actively worried ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'd pointed out the issues surrounding the Rifqa Bary case here and here, but here's a quick summary. She's a girl from a Muslim family who was indoctrinated by an evangelical Christian group who helped her run away with them. She now seems insistent that her parents want to kill her, but the courts have found much of what she has said has ( Read more... )

What originally seemed to me to be a rather dodgy story now seems dodgier than ever!

In my last post I noted that the family did not appear to be terribly radical, in spite of Rifqa's claims. In my last post I was also reacting to my discovery of Rifqa's rather disturbing style of prayer. (The 'Jesus Camp' style of breaking down in tears while ( Read more... )

Update: Someone on atheism has provided a clip of Rifqa Bary's 'testimony'. This is apparently 3 or 4 years after her conversion when she was 13, so this is very shortly before her decision to run away at 17. What is particularly strange about her claims in the video is that she says her family are "radical radical Muslims" yet in no images of her, even ( Read more... )