by Raymond Ibrahim
• October 8, 2014 at 5:00 am
U.S.
President Barack Obama did not "publicly broach the subject of religious
freedom" during talks with Saudi King Abdullah, despite a letter from 70
members of Congress urging him to "address specific human rights
reforms" both in public and in direct meetings with King Abdullah.
It was "remarkable that the resident could stay completely silent about
religious freedom.... as well as other human rights concerns, with King
Abdullah." — International Christian Concern advocacy group.
Al-Shabaab
Islamists publicly beheaded a mother of two girls and her cousin after
discovering they were Christians. The two daughters of one of the women, ages
8 and 15, "were witnesses to the slaughter," sources said, with the
younger girl screaming for someone to save her mother.
"You
will regret why you left the prophet's religion." — Threatening phone
message, Kenya.
The Turkish government plans to convert Istanbul's Hagia
Sofia Basilica, currently used as a museum, into a mosque. (Image source:
Wikimedia Commons/Jerzy Kociatkiewicz )
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The deplorable state of religious freedom in the Islamic world really
came to the fore in May with the arrest, imprisonment, and death sentencing
of a pregnant Christian wife and mother on the accusation that she had left
Islam for Christianity. On May 15, Meriam Ibrahim of Sudan, after repeatedly
refusing to convert to Islam, was sentenced to being flogged with 100 lashes,
followed by being hanged for apostasy.
During her 6-month imprisonment, with her one-year-old son by her side,
she gave birth to another child. The girl was born with disabilities due to
the harsh conditions of the prison cell in which she was delivered, and the
chains with which her "apostate" mother was still shackled as she
gave birth.
Because Meriam Ibrahim's plight made it to the mainstream media,
however, Sudan released Ibrahim and her children in June.
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