I’ve heard of Catholic parents who threw a teenager’s “g*ddamned Protestant Bible” out a window when they learned said teen had begun going to an Evangelical church. But Islam takes religious identity and purity to, uh, we can say, extreme lengths. The Koran calls for death for leaving Islam, and it isn’t just in Saudi Arabia or the Sudan or Indonesia where that command is taken seriously…from England we have this story (hat tip MM)
..The daughter of a British imam is living under police protection after receiving death threats from her father for converting to Christianity.
The 31-year-old, whose father is the leader of a mosque in Lancashire, has moved house an astonishing 45 times after relatives pledged to hunt her down and kill her.
The British-born university graduate, who uses the pseudonym Hannah for her own safety, said she renounced the Muslim faith to escape being forced into an arranged marriage when she was 16.
The Brits and the French have troubles. You can take political correctness and tolerance to absurd levels, just as easily as you can take religious purity there. Dysfunctional family? Or dysfunctional religion?
..Although unhappy, her parents tolerated their daughter’s dismissal-of Islam as a “teenage phase”.
But when she opted to get baptised, while studying at Manchester University, her family were incensed and the death threats began.
Her father arrived at her home with 40 men and threatened to kill her for betraying Islam.
“I saw my uncle and around 40 men storming up the street clutching axes, hammers, knives and bits of wood,” she said.
“My dad was shouting through the letter box, “I’m going to kill you”, while the others smashed on the window and beat the door.
Sweet guy. I guess you don’t go to jail in England for gathering a mob and storming someone’s house threatening to kill them. Oh wait, that’s their religion… we have to be tolerant of that. No wonder the libs and the feminists don’t say anything about this crap. They’re much too tolerant to offend someone like that. I mean, pointing out the fact that killing someone for leaving the faith is a bit more, uh, strict, than say, not inviting them to Sunday potluck anymore…well, we’d just better not say anything. Might offend them, you know?
America is just starting to wake up to the idea that we have immigrants, legal and otherwise, who come here fully expecting NOT to be part of American life and culture. Assimilate? Heck no! And we really haven’t come to grips with that yet, at least our politicians haven’t. Some of the people still understand what it is to be an American, and what our rights are, and what freedoms are at risk. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to assemble, freedom to defend ourselves with arms. But what is happening in Europe, especially in Britain and France, is frightening, as well as a huge wake up call to all of us. What do you do with a belief system that is diametrically opposed to almost everything your country and its freedoms are based upon? I ask you, is this woman safe? Is she free? Is her government worth more than a couple of empty suits and a tax bill every few months?
..After receiving the latest text threat from her brother, in June, she finally went to the police.
No one has been arrested or charged in connection with the death threats, but officers have put her on an “at risk” register and have given her a panic number to call if she fears for her own safety.
Oh good, I’ll bet she feels very safe, being on another government list. I wonder if it is as effective as our “Do Not Call” list? Do you really expect a couple of unarmed British cops to be able to protect a young woman from a crazy mob of religious fanatics, even if they get there in time? Not likely. Especially when you consider that as a nation, they don’t have the onions to toss the zealots in jail for threatening murder and having a pocket riot at the woman’s house. “We don’t DO THAT here! You’re going to jail.” How hard is it to say that? Brits? French? Americans? Wake up and pay attention, there is much more “at risk” here than a young woman’s life. And it’s coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
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