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Militant Islam Monitor > Articles > Rifqa Bary Documents - Father Threatened To Kill Her, Noor Mosque Which Family Attended Has Terrorist Ties Rifqa Bary Documents - Father Threatened To Kill Her, Noor Mosque Which Family Attended Has Terrorist TiesAugust 31, 2009
Rifqa Bary Documents - Father Threatened To Kill Her, Noor Mosque Which Family Attended Has Terrorist Ties By WILLIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ
To escape from the danger posed especially by her father, Ms. Bary ran away from home to Florida. She has at least temporarily been granted, via court order, the right to remain in Florida while her case is adjudicated. Today Rifqa's pro-bono attorney, John Stemberger, released two documents:
2. Intelligence memorandum alleging terrorist ties of Noor Mosque According to Ms. Bary's affidavit, when she arrived in Ohio:
"...After visiting a couple of other Mosques in the area, including the "Islamic Center" in Columbus, my Father decided that our family would join and become active in the "Noor Islamic Cultural Center" (Noor Center) located in Dublin, Ohio...there were eight other Mosques that were closer to our home in the Columbus area...my father was very intent on making sure that his children and especially me, were raised deeply in the faith of "Original Islam" which was taught at the Noor Center...My father was a committed member of the Noor Center and required our family to attend as much as possible." Bary dated the time of her conversion to Christianity, which she hid from her family, especially her father:
During June of 2009 Bary's father confronted her. He had previously found a copy of Rick Warren's "A Purpose Driven Life" which she had hidden in her room. Her father told her how important it was for him to maintain "the Islamic bloodline in my family." Her father told Rifqa he had "received numerous emails and phone calls from the leaders of the Noor Center community who informed him that he needed to deal with this matter immediately." She continued, "In a fit of anger that I had never seen before in my life, he picked up my laptop, waived it over my head as if to strike me with it and said "If you have this Jesus in your heart you are dead to me! You are no longer my daughter." I continued to remain silent and then he said to me even more angry than before, "I will kill you! Tell me the truth!" The second document released today by Ms. Bary's attorney refers to alleged terrorist ties of the Noor mosque that she was forced to attend. Mr. Stemberger states that the mosque, "has been identified as one of the primary sources of Islamic extremism in Central Ohio." To flesh that claim out he further states: Regarding the Noor Center's CEO ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, the radical Islamic Egyptian group responsible for creating the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas:
Regarding the Noor Center's scholar and his alleged ties to terrorism:
Regarding the Noor Center's hosting of radical Muslim speakers.
Regarding the Noor Center being allegedly tied to a nationwide FBI terror investigation involving Somali American youths linked to al-Qaeda:
If even some of the above allegations are correct, Ms. Bary, after becoming a Christian, was certainly in danger, both from her family as well as members of the Noor Center. In a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, leaving the faith is a grave offense called apostasy, which is punishable by death under Shari'a or Islamic law. Though many counter-terror researchers routinely write about many of the attributes of radical Islam in America and the threat it poses through direct religiously endorsed violence as well as the underground guerilla operation we have called the stealth jihad [the use of America's freedoms and rights to subvert the system from the inside], it isn't often that all of these elements are revealed in a single example. It is for this reason that should the above allegations be proven, the case of Fathima Rifqa Bary is such a potential watershed, casting light into the inner workings of radical Islam. |