For all the malarkey the left spews about the fabricated War on Women in America, one would think there is real persecution happening within our borders. Yet the truth is that Sandra Fluke, Gloria Steinem, and the rest of the bra-burning brigade don’t have a clue and are an embarrassment of the worst order.
The real war against women is occurring right now, almost every day – in Muslin controlled countries, while hypocritical women like Hillary Clinton expound on and expand their platform for dividing America.
Consider Dr. Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, who according to Reuters is a 27-year-old Sudanese Christian physician who’s about to be flogged 100 times and then put to death. Her crime? The unthinkable sin of not being Muslim.
Dr. Ibrahim’s father was Muslim and ran off and left her home when she was six years old. Since her mother was a Christian, she raised Meriam in the same faith. Meriam is married to Daniel Wani, a South Sudanese Christian with U.S. citizenship. The couple has a 20 month old son and Meriam is eight months pregnant with their second child.
But the couple’s faith is a problem for the oppressive government in Sudan. Since the predominantly Christian South Sudan secession in 2011, the government of Sudan has made it clear they are aiming for a 100% Islamic constitution, without any outside influences. That equates to no Christianity. Although the new constitution has not yet been ratified, the government has apparently already adopted Shari’a law.
Meriam’s horrifying ordeal began last August, when someone posing as a relative reported to the authorities that she was a Christian. She was subsequently arrested in February and charged on March 4, for apostasy and for adultery. According to Shari’a law a Muslim woman is forbidden from marrying a Christian man, and thus the marriage to Wani was annulled by the Sudan court. The annulment set her up for the crime of adultery and she was convicted of both apostasy and adultery on Mother’s Day, May 11.
She was given three days to renounce her Christian faith and convert to Islam, or face a flogging of 100 lashes for adultery, followed by the death penalty for being a Christian. Her sentencing is set for today, Thursday, May 15.
According to Morning Star News, who chronicled her terrible journey, Wani has stated that while his wife has been incarcerated she has been severely abused and tortured, both physically and mentally. Critical prenatal medical care has been denied and she is drained to the point of exhaustion.
Meanwhile her 20 month old son is incarcerated within the same prison because Sudan authorities are refusing to recognize the couple’s union. Even though Wani has provided a legal marriage certificate and his son’s birth certificate, the court refused to acknowledge them and told Wani the only proof they would accept would be a DNA test, which must be drawn and then sent to the U.S. for testing. All of this takes an inordinate amount of time, precious time which Meriam is running out of.
If sentenced to death, the authorities plan to keep her alive until she delivers her child and then execute her immediately after she gives birth.
Congressman Trent Franks, AZ D-8, issued this statement on May 13. “Sudan is blatantly violating the universal right to freedom of religion by convicting a Christian Sudanese woman, under their strict enforcement of Shari’a law, solely because of her religious beliefs.
“I have closely followed Meriam’s case and was horrified to learn how this innocent mother was convicted on Mother’s Day. She now faces the unconscionable decision of either denying her Christian faith or receiving a death sentence.
“I urge Sudan to immediately and unconditionally release Meriam and uphold religious freedom standards within the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, of which Sudan is a signatory and under which apostasy and adultery are not criminal offences.”
Congressman Frank Wolf, VA D-10, joined in with this statement. “I am deeply troubled by the case involving Meriam Yehya Ibrahim.
“There is an urgent need for international attention to this injustice . . . This is a human rights travesty in which our State Department should be fully engaged, especially given that Meriam is married to an American citizen. I join my colleagues, in calling on the relevant government authorities in Sudan to immediately and unconditionally release Meriam and her young son and to respect basic tenets of religious freedom and belief.”
In Arizona, Representative(s) Ron Barber and Krysten Sinema offices were contacted, but neither one had a statement. Considering all the posturing the liberals do in this country about women’s rights, one would expect a bit of an outcry on this, yet they are remarkably silent.
Fortunately, Chief Master Sergeant (Ret) Chuck Wooten who is against Ron Barber had this to say. “Christian persecution is nothing new, but in our time the world should be standing firmly against this tragedy and every other one like it. The Muslim faith is saturated by extremism and we see too many stories like Meriam’s. Threatening murder on a Christian who will not renounce their faith is an abomination of the worst kind. We’ve seen with recent Internet videos that these barbarians who insist upon the conversion of Christians will still kill those, even though they succumb to the threat of death. The U.S. State Department should be fully mobilized to confront these situations and unite with our global counterparts and renounce and respond accordingly to this barbarism against Meriam and all in similar situations.”
One has to wonder if the left fail to speak up because Meriam is a Christian, a physician or a mother – or could it simply be a combination of the three? Considering the left’s collective silence, one can only speculate on their true motives.
Please contact your Senators and Representatives immediately, as the court will render judgment today. This is a most urgent situation.
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