The Christian Runaway

[collegekid172009]

<p>I just thought this was worth a discussion.</p>

<p>High-school student Rifqa Bary says her conversion to Christianity threatened her life. Her Muslim parents say they just want their daughter back—no matter what faith she practices.</p>

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Brian Williams wasn’t sure what to make of his young friend’s stories. He’d met Rifqa Bary, a high-school student from Gahanna, Ohio, at a prayer house at Ohio State University late last year. Intensely devout and deeply inquisitive, she recounted that she came from a Muslim family but had converted to Christianity. This had enraged her parents, who threatened her with violence, she said. She had to hide her faith, conceal her Bible, and sneak away to attend church. According to Williams, a nondenominational minister, she researched the persecution of Christians around the world obsessively and lived in constant fear that her parents would kill her for apostasy. At first “I didn’t believe her, to be honest,” says Williams. “Maybe she’s just young and overemotional,” he thought.

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<p>The rest of the article is here- [Rifqa</a> Bary: Custody Case Becomes Holy War | Newsweek National News | Newsweek.com](<a href=“http://www.newsweek.com/id/215100/?gt1=43002]Rifqa”>http://www.newsweek.com/id/215100/?gt1=43002)</p>

[Naturally]

<p>Her story doesn’t add up. Her parents “forced her to attend youth gatherings every Saturday at the Noor Islamic Cultural Center in Dublin, Ohio” (except, actually, she was only there only three times) and in a different news story she claimed she had to hide the fact that she was a cheerleader from her father . . . except he has pictures of her cheerleading on his mantle. The police [haven’t</a> found any evidence she was abused.](<a href=“Police: No evidence teen was threatened over Christianity - CNN.com”>Police: No evidence teen was threatened over Christianity - CNN.com)</p>

<p>I’m wondering if she has some mental illness that causes paranoia.</p>