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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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Sri Lankan teen convert in US fears for her life

A Sri Lankan teenager has told a US court she fears for her life after converting from her family’s faith to Christianity. The girl is now in the custody of the US Department of Children And Families, a US TV network reported.

The girl, 17-year-old Rifqa Bary, recently converted from her family's faith to Christianity and she is worried about her family's reaction to her change in faith, News 13.com reported.

"She says her life is in danger and she could be killed in an honor killing," Rosa Gonzalez, the teen's lawyer, said after a hearing at an Orlando courtroom, Monday. "Unfortunately it happens every day in the U.S."

The young Sri Lankan girl has been staying with an Orlando family she met through a prayer group on Facebook for several weeks.

The teen had been staying with Beverly Lorenz and her husband, pastors of the newly launched Global Revolution Church in Orlando. But she is now in the custody of the Department of Children And Families.

Lorenz said the teen hitchhiked to a Greyhound station in Ohio, and then took a bus to Orlando.

The girl asked Lorenz if she could come to her house. Even though she barely knew the girl, Lorenz said it was OK.

The teen, a non-citizen, told Lorenz she was fearful that her father would send her to Sri Lanka.

After the girl arrived in Orlando, Lorenz said they called an abuse hotline and started calling lawyers, asking what they should do.

Another hearing is scheduled on Friday. However, DCF officials say it a matter to be decided by Ohio authorities.

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Neat US green Card ...!

Posted By: SpaceCab

These kids living in these countries manupulating the system to get rid off their family bonds. The word of "abusing" is always used to go against their parents.

Posted By: Ananda

These kids living in these countries manupulating the system to get rid off their family bonds. The word of "abusing" is always used to go against their parents.

Posted By: Ananda

"Honour killings are very real in the United States"?? where is Hilary Clinton? Hilary looks like you have human rights issues in your own backyard! Try fixing them first! Thanks!

Posted By: Siripala

Rifqa need not worry if she has converted to be a Christian based on her own inspiration and guidence. Remember when you become a Christian you are never alone. The Holy Spirit of GOD is in you for eternity. Lets all pray for this girl.

Posted By: Premakumar

What is the law say in America? a teenager can not marry for only one reason that they are not in correct age to decide about their future life, then what about their religion? Can they decide to change their religion, if so, legally accepted? As far as I know that, in this case, the parents of Rifqa Bary reserve their right to decide about this teenager future in all forms till she gets major.

Posted By: aleem

Sin !!! No comments

Posted By: nature

There is no compulsion in Islam. Anyone can believe in whatever he/she wants. But if he/she is a Muslim, he/she should follow it 100% and no Muslim can compromise in it. That’s it. But in this case, her parents might be really worried, like any other parents belong to whatever the faith, since she is only 17. Converting to another faith should happen through better understanding and conviction only. I think her father is having more rights over her than the US govt has.

Posted By: Amanullah

Assalamu alaikum, the media has always loved to portray Islam as a barbaric religion, and they also wanted to stereotype all muslims as bedouin arabs or afghans who would slaughter men for blaspheming and kill women for being raped. This is not TRUE Islam, if so Islam can never be the fastest growing Religion. The True shareeaah is totally different. Killing is permitted in shareeaah only during 1. Treason 2. Insulting God with filth 3. when a guy rapes a girl, the guy gets stoned 4. Murder 5. Adultery No where in the Qur'aan or ahadeeth does it say that people should be killed or beheaded for merely blaspheming. The ruling over a murthad, or a one who blasphemes is, to ostrasize him from the society, and when he dies through some reason, his body will not be burried in a Muslim burial ground. Islam never killed men like Galileo, Islam was never against freedom of thought. These missionaries are promoting such news to malign Islam. Type sheikh Yusuf Estes on google, his site explains true Islam in USA. . . .what in the heavens is HONOUR KILLING???? If that 17 year old child reads the Bible (which apparently has a lot of content President Mahinda Rajapakse would want to omit, i.e PORNOGRAPHY and the Unscientific facts, like the Earth is Flat) she would never embrace Christianity,It is Crystal clear that something else is going behind that Orlando Facebook profile. . and I'm gonna check it out ;) . . here I come ORLAAA

Posted By: Muhammad

This is clear violation of Human rights by the family of the girl. Everyone has the right to choose what faith he/she wishes to follow.

Posted By: Carrlos

Another way of asking for asylum.. How many Sri Lankans have betrayed their motherland and asked for asylum in US. Its sad to know how they do this. In this case if its true then the girl must be pardoned.

Posted By: Rimzie R

There is no harm when one convert to another faith, but she is still under teenage and she is under her parents custody. Once she married and she has the right to follow her husband path.She still dont know the value of the parents, how much they suffered to bring her up, once she married she will realise real life , then its too late.What to do, when God has written this to happen no one has the right to change fate.

Posted By: zainul-AMC

God is Love.

Posted By: Terrence Fernando

This is an absolute trick to obtain citizenship to the girl first and then to follow for the parents. Changing her faith is entirely her wish but the motive behind is quite evident.Good luck!

Posted By: TRUE LANKAN

There is no honour killings among muslims in Sri Lanka.

Posted By: rushy46

This is a typical cultural problem most Asian parents have to face in these countries. When a teenage child is disillusioned with Asian cultural values related to marriage, religion, family bonds etc. then the parents usually send him/her to their native country to reform the child. In this particular case the teenager does not want to be in the custody of her parents thinking that she may be sent back to Sri Lanka. Whoever wants to migrate to Western countries with their young children should be prepared for this type of cultural conflict affecting their young ones and should prepare their children to understand the new cultural values in those countries. failing to do so will result in the loss of their valuable kids and nobody else should be blamed for such misfortune. I have personally seen that many Asian families are suffering from this kind family separation in these countries.

Posted By: Nakeeb M Issadeen

Nice story. Who was the director?

Posted By: Gane

Read the Chapter of Genesis in the Holy Bible, and anyone who reads it will understand the difference between the real son of Abraham, Issac and the son of his maid Ishmail. But both of them were loved by God in the same way!

Posted By: Senadhinayake

This is not girl's or any missionary's fault. Parents to be blamed. Many lankans migrate to western countries and forget their culture,religion,background all and embrace western culture.When parents themselves forget these and fail to bring up children in their religious background,naturally a kid will go astray.In next world,these parents will be accountable in front of allah for the way,she was brought up by them.I am very sure, no one will depart islam,if the faith is implanted deeply and firmly.May Allah show right path to this girl! Aamin!

Posted By: Mushi

wow!! see wot facebook can do to our society... earlier there was this child abuses and sexual content with youngsters in social networking sites and now preaching and trying to convert little minds. should it be any relegion.. this should be treated as abuse too.. cos obviously the girl could have been with this community for quite a few time.

Posted By: kandy kolla

I guess Rifka can make her own choice. That is as long as she understands what's she's doing and of course if she is legally of age. But what amazes me more than the actual conversion is the fact that it has drawn so much media attention. There are thousands of people converting to and from all sorts of religions everyday - but we hear so little about all those people. I assume it's because it's more interesting to see someone convert from the fastest growing religion in the world.

Posted By: Abraham M

She has the right to follow any religion, also she must be protected. However, I never heard any Sri Lankan Muslim killed somebody for a religious reason.

Posted By: jhon

in this case the parents have to be blamed, the story is a legend

Posted By: zaiiiii

Her parents are Sri Lankans. Sri Lankans do not kill their children for this type of things. Dear Muslims, pls parden her. She is only a child. She will realize what is good for her when she grows up.

Posted By: Lilanthap

Wonderful Face Book! Good luck America!

Posted By: MRMF

Keep the girl aside.GO and check about this so called "Prayer Group"..these are the parasites in this world. Secretly brain washing poor, or uneducated or children who can not understand right or wrong. Should ban these organizations.

Posted By: don

Religion, Language, Culture, ideology these create identities. Moving from one to another just changes the identity. That is all. People have died millions for the above, calling them noble causes.

Posted By: Theo

Now everyone says it is his/ her choice to believe in any religion. I too say yes. But it should happen with a proper understanding of any religion. In this case it is not. And again if practicing a religion is one's choice, then why the hell UK, France & Sarkozy don't allow Muslims to practice their religion. I think this is because they are fear of Islam's fast growth.

Posted By: Ghouse

Converting to another faith is one of the triggers of dishonor killings. I seriously doubt this is a larger family ploy to attain citizenship. Even though young Rifqa is not a U.S. citizen, I hope she is permitted to remain in this country, where at least she has some human and legal rights in this situation. Ellen R. Sheeley, Author "Reclaiming Honor in Jordan"

Posted By: ERS

This another case of converting someone from their religion to Christianity.... These prayer groups do this (specially in US - very common). They do this kind of thing and then brain wash the person against her parents and the religion. At the same time, they make the media show that Islam is a religion which promotes honor killing and etc, to make Islam look bad in every one's eyes. These groups pretend to be very friendly and supportive and do the brain washing. You have to watch out for guys like that. And as for US law, well "horuth unge, naduth unge" is a good example.

Posted By: Karu

she is not in the age of 18 to decide her own chois she is only 17 the law must take correct desition and it is her falt that she had many conections with christeance

Posted By: muhazin

all thease western countries are starve for news and publicity for their media benifits. Behind this,only a child simple cry and comment

Posted By: sanath ekanayake

I'm sorry! But did this child ever choose her religion in the first place?! She was made to be a Muslim because her parents practiced it! This goes with most people who practice religions. They just follow it because that's what they were taught! That's not being a true believer of anything! 17 is a completely old enough age to decide what religion someone wants to follow. No country has any rules on what religions people should follow. In fact, the only group of countries that do control people's faiths are Islamic countries. In most other, sensible countries, religion is left to the privacy of the individual. This child's decision to change her faith is completely up to her. If Islam doesn't give her what she wants well then let her choose something else! It is indeed difficult to accept that Sri Lankan parents would ever commit honour killings, but then again, these are Sri Lankan parents that have moved ashore and you don't know what kind of influences they may come across. Fundamentalism of all forms - may it be Christian to Muslim, have their extremes in the United States! I don't see what anyone's problem is if anyone decides to change their faith, whether it's because someone manipulated them or not. As long as someone didn't hold a gun to anyone's head and ordered them to change, then we should all be happy for them! A religion's strength should not be shown by numbers - but by the genuineness and the piety of those who profess to follow it. On the other hand, people should also know that the only reason why Islam is the fastest growing faith, has got NOTHING to do with people converting but because of the rapid population growth rate among Muslim populations. In some countries where the fertility rate is 7 children per woman on average!! Sri Lanka's fertility rate is 1.8 children per woman - and we feel over crowded!

Posted By: Freedom plus

short cut for US green card,,Good for u USA,,

Posted By: lucien

I have a strong feeling that it is not the religion this girl wants to convert from but the "way of life" which significantly from non-Islamic families to Islamic families. All religions (of the book at least) have a common theme - single all knowing god, sin is punishable in the afterlife and so on... However, traditionally islamic culture has always taken a harder and more literal stance on sin thus enforce their laws very strictly with intimidation and fear rather than love and understanding. Please don't bother with your replies as I am a Muslim raised all over the world, its the same story anywhere - nothing wrong with the religion, just the majority of people who follow it. Hence, back to the point, this girl might have had problems with the restrictions on her "sinful" lifestyle lol. As in, no parties, strict dress code, no dating blah blah you get the picture - and seing her friends enjoying all these basic "freedoms" as they put it, she probably wanted a quick break from her family unit - what better way than to embrace a religion who's practitioners generally have a more subdued interpretation of nearly the same teachings (the two books are almost identical if anybody bothered to read both). So again it falls to, its not the religion, but the people. Hell I wish I had thought of this when I was 17, might have a had more fun lifestyle lol.

Posted By: MJ

suddenly she has got the wisdom to understand Christianity and made a decision to CONVERT. She is not a US Citizen. So the carrot to convert her to Christianity is US Citizenship.

Posted By: Niroshan Perera

If the girls parents allowed her access to social websites (by which she met this so called prayer group) it is highly unlikely that they are the type to resort to honour killings, and never in SL, even though the girls lawyer admits it happens in the US, which means she could still be at risk in the US and better off if returned to her parents.

Posted By: Johann Gunasekara

First i think she is 17y old, so she can convert to any relgion, due she has grown up.. mean time we have to see she has a depression from parents or any thing because she convert from the group get to know from face book. so some time this group must changed her mind of depress girl. easy to catch. Then this is not right, it is like cheating. some time this must be a story to get the citizenship.. i am not sure.. so we have to see every thing.. what is this honary killing happening every day.. That Mrs clinton has to invesigate.. Human Rights !!!!

Posted By: Manula

Funny part is The GIRLS lawyer says she could get killed thru Honor killing. But the Girl says in this article She could be sent to SRILANKA.Is not it obvious what i earlier stated about islamphoebia by the so called WEST. What about MJs death.Who is responsible. will the truth ever be out and justice be delivered to the victim. Not only Rifqa there are more mary's johns becoming muslims. so like i say i just feel sorry for the girl misled by this self proclaimed new group of christians who are marketing their faith in such low atitude. Theres alot this group could learn from the majority of christians who are peace loving educated people.

Posted By: Ravin

This girl has a death sentence on her head. Her life is in jeopardy. All the taqiya being spread on this thread is propaganda. Islam is the only religion with a propaganda wing. I chronicle the rapid spread of Islamic supremacism in the West. it is essential that this girl NOT be returned to her parents. They will send her back to Sri Lanka and you will never hear of her again. Expert testimony should be given in this hearing by ex-Muslims like Ibn Warraq and scholars on Islam like Robert Spencer. The court has no clue what they are dealing with. The obfuscation of Islam in the western media is criminal.

Posted By: Pamela Geller

How many muslim girls are allowed to marry outside their religion? Wonder why muslim girls are married off before they attain adulthood? They are seen as babymaking machines. When a girl turns 18 she may have a better understanding of the society around her. She may choose accordingly. The parents of muslim girls takes away the freedom to choose by marrying them off when they are young as 15. The government is trying to pass a law to bring down the legal age of marriage to 16. What is the child protection agency doing about this? I don't see the point in this but to help girls stop their education and think of marriage when they're about 15. Why is the muslim community exempted from the laws of the land? Like I have been to many a muslim weddings where the bride is barely 16. That is how the muslims are the largest growing, they're outbreeding the rest of the religions, marrying young and ostracizing anybody converting from Islam.

Posted By: Tony

Response: Senadhinayake's comment - Both Isaac and Ishmael are real sons for Abraham (Peace be upon them) though the mothers are different.

Posted By: shabs

Green card by hook or by crook ! This is first time we are hearing the so called "honor killing" among the Sri Lankans. It's very good trick to go for Green Card .

Posted By: shabs

Sri Lanka has better parenting than those western countries. Children have more moral value and better religious up bringing. Those who leave this country, don't have such and they suffer like this. Certainly Sri Lanka is the best and let's protect our mother land from these kind of hypocrites.

Posted By: Fazal

Sripala please read the news fully before making comments... The issue is all about family values, how kids are been raised etc...this is nothing to do with the US Government...

Posted By: uditha

Dear:All, I have read the meaning of Quran and I have never come across it saying to kill people for any reasons, other than for murder of another human been. I don’t understand why the world hates the Muslims, is it because no one has proven this religion wrong? I regularly watch the speeches of Dr.Zakir Naik and very impressed with he’s talks. I am an atheist but out of all religions I found this interesting. Philip

Posted By: Philip

Tony, I hope that you at least enjoyed the Biriyani that you had when you had attended so many Muslim marriages !!! Parents are to be blamed. I am sure that they did not practice their religion. They migrated to the States and forgot about religion. Now their child is astray and also , just maybeeeee this is a family ploy to get the Green Card through Christianity. We hear of many non Muslims in Muslim countries saying that they converted to Islam just to save their jobs or to gain some advantage, so this maybe a case in reverse, a Muslim converting to Christianity just to obtain a Green Card and the right to live in the US !!

Posted By: sandman

I am intrigued to view the variations of opinion. Religion was created by the deceiver to bring division among cultures. Life was never supposed to be about following rules, customs, and traditions. This girl has found a truth that supercedes religion, something worth living for. God is being glorified and the message is being shared all over the world.

Posted By: Andrew Messenger

Response Tony - What does this have to do with Muslim girls being married at a young age or Muslims increasing in numbers ? [(Of course, Muslims do marry at young age though this is looked down as a taboo by some culture in this post WWII era). For some, marrying at a young age is taboo, but sleeping around in the teen years is acceptable ! ]

Posted By: Shabs

Mr Carrlos, To say this is HR violation is absolutely unfair. Imagine you are in this position. Its easy to say that you would allow her to choose if she is your daughter. But the agony and suffering would be with you for-ever.It would be more pain if she is the only child of yours.Isnt it. Mr carrlos. may be you are too young to talk about HR issues with regard to domestic problems such as this.

Posted By: ravin

Give her citizenship, all these 'fears' will come to an end. There is no limit to what level people go for to get green cards etc.

Posted By: Dee

All her fears will go if she gets the green card like Dee says. Good tactic though.

Posted By: Malla

Hope she get's her citizenship,

Posted By: Lapas

This smells like a well thought-out trick. There is nothing like honor killings in Sri Lanka. Authorities must look at these fradulent claims.

Posted By: John Jankovikz

This girl is a Muslim only by accident of birth. I agree, it could be a Human Rights violation to deny her, her right to convert but unfortunately I fear for her life because in Islam 'Honour Killings' is a reality.

Posted By: Shaik Anwar Ahamath

Reading all the comments here, there seems to be only one lone voice who has respectfully & intelligently addressed the issue in question and that is Shaik Anwar Ahamath, whose comments are admirable and to the point. All the others comments are so desultory and seems just like the ramblings of the very uneducated.

Posted By: Faqi

She is Spoiled her life...There is no life without parents

Posted By: Nish

This is a great desgrace to each mulims.she must consider about her religon i think.and no she has no any rights to blame her parents.she should send back to her motherland.anyway god is great.he will give a perfect judgement to her.

Posted By: Nuzha

this is what happens when u live in the AMERICA!!!!

Posted By: shiff

well freedom plus you think you know everything huh ? the only country that allows people to choose religion and sex is usa. you are what you were born...

Posted By: nikki

When it suits the US policy everything is acceptable. The age is OK to covert to christianity but not good enough chose the spouse, what a hypocracy of the polciy???????

Posted By: Badrzamaan

Lets be Open and see how is USA media misleading people,, as for this girl, she will recognize the truth in little while once she start her interaction with the western culture, but lets think by our brains not by what USA media show, and its a good example to see how FBI control Micael Jackson cermony to cover the truth of his Islam !!!

Posted By: Jac Jacob

this girl is brainwashed. 2) no such honor kiling in srilanka. srilanka is 70%budist contry only 8%muslims living. so this is not truth. USA is free state. any one folloe thir wish, but his girl is to small to dicide on her own. i think her perent have this girls custody. 3)she is not free to tollke guided by this pastro

Posted By: ROY

I really beleive she has been brain washed by the church/organisation cos' i have muslim friends and they are very relegious and they definitely dont beleive in this and are very nice people. She has to be returned to her parents and the police.. can check on her once in a way, if they are so worried about her.

Posted By: Sher

I am a Sri Lankan. Sri lankan society is educated. Honur lilling does not exist here. I put the blame entirely on parents. If the child can trust someone elso whom she has never seen than her own parents, her parents to be blamed. Furthermore she does not look like that grown up to decide what is right and what is wrong.Lack of parent-child relationship is the re3ason for this kind of things. Also the girl does not speak out herself. It is the Pastor who is speaking.pastor must be prosecuted for this. Or else it is a drama.God knows better than all of us.

Posted By: Risha

It seems there must be some other reason behind all these talk about honour killing etc.Even though they lin US, they are a sri lankan family where family relationship is so strong. But the family doesnot act like a typical sri lankan family whose family member of just 17 years has run away from home to a stranger.The girl even if she gets the Citizenship,is going to miss her family very much.

Posted By: Risha

Another anti-Semetic plot. The girl will soon realize She just a pawn in this game. Feel sorry for the girl, She has too much negative publicty cause, He So called pastor protectors are outright lying through their ass after abducting her.

Posted By: Deen B

This case is about a messed up teen running away. Now that the girl wants to practice christianity let her do so with her parents. Else She'll soon be molested by her pastor. Sorry Rifka, your story doesnt go well with the informed public. Your Dad is from Sri Lanka which is multi religous and Chritinity flourishes. Your Pastor has lied to you.... Good Luck....

Posted By: Harry

Those who break Allah's Covenant after ratifying it, and sever what Allah has ordered to be joined (as regards Allah's Religion of Islamic Monotheism, and to practise its legal laws on the earth and also as regards keeping good relations with kith and kin ), and do mischief on earth, it is they who are the losers.

Posted By: raseen

How can you disbelieve in Allah? Seeing that you were dead and He gave you life. Then He will give you death, then again will bring you to life (on the Day of Resurrection) and then unto Him you will return.

Posted By: raseen

Ya Rab (ALLAH) Pls 4giv her and show the correct Path to her. rifka thnk abut ur Futur n ur parents . stil u r not late...... thy hv lied you. still u dnt na VALUE f Parents.

Posted By: Aathif Haris

This is a good lesson for all muslim parents for not teaching the islam and its virtues to their children, especially living in the west. I am not blaming the parents but my prayer to this familly who is going through this ordeal. Honour killing in Sri Lanka...shame on the media for the wrong info and the hype. By Allah everything will come to light.. Insha Allah. May Allah protect this child and guide her to his Rahma.

Posted By: Muhummad

On Tuesday, September 29, 2009,@ 12:42pm All 600 Chinese employees working for the Biggest Railway Project in Jeddah(Saudi Arabia) embraced Isalm and entered Into the religion of Truth. So we dont have to cry for just one. Let the Creator look after the poor child and her parents. God Knows best

Posted By: Mohammed Aarif

first of all rifqa has not been brought up properly ,she is wearing a skiny top which is not allowed in islam ,men should be covered from belly botton to knee and lower his gaze when he see a women and if any bad thoughts comes to his mind .women should be covered except her wrist and face .rifqa hasnt been brought up as a muslim girl .it is all her parents fault .she 17 and she knows very well that there is no such thing in islam as honor killing .she has been brain washed and media can twist and turn anything that u and i know

Posted By: rinaz

if honor killing is still happening in America and if they are so sure that they can tell it out to public in news ,why cant they bring those people to the court and give them punishment and then put it out on news

Posted By: rinaz

Nothing to worry about this because this is a well planed Drama,Even anybody can understand this is not a teenager problem actually it hasbeen created by American against Islamic religion because they know very well increasing the percentages of Islam acceptors every day. They know whats the Power of islam.

Posted By: suhabthan

MY OPINION IS THAT GIRL SHOULD BE SEND BACK TO THE PARENTS. THERE IS NO NO HONOUR KILLINGS IN SRILANKA PLEASE. DONOT SPREAD THIS WORD PLEASE. PARENTS SHOULD BE STRICK WITH THE KIDS SPECIALLY THE FACE BOOK. MOHAMED

Posted By: razeen

she has her right to follow any religion but she no rights to disgrace islam and her native country and she has no rights to blame her parents for this..if it is not for her parents she wouldnt be even living her life in America.

Posted By: fathima

THIS A ONLY POLITICAL GAME PLAYED BY THE AMERICAN MEDIA.THIS GIRL MAY WANTS TO CONVERT FOR SOME REASON. BUT MEDIA HAS TAKEN THE ISSUE AS A HOT NEWS AND AT THE END THEIR INTENTION IS TO DAMAGE THE NAME OF ISLAM.

Posted By: ANIS

i thank all the people who has commented on this news, this actually gave me a better and a clear idea on what actually happened! Finally she ends up happy with the citizenship!

Posted By: usam

As a srilankan i can strongly deny the 'honour killing takes place in srilanka amoung muslim' other people except LTTE who brainwashed tamil children to commit suvicide and killed the tamil civilians who trying to escape the LTTE area few months ago. As she has been grown up in U.S.A more than half of her life, how could her comment like this.I think this is not her own words and were inflenced by so called ' prayer groups'.Is that they duty to make conflict and problem between religion than make understand.Not only alkaida or taliban are the terrerist these groups as well.

Posted By: Srilankan Nation

Just to let you all know, in America we have something called emancipation of a minor, meaning as even though they are under the age of 18, she can legaly seperate from her parents, a muslim girl I knew used this at 16 to leave her parents whent they were to send her to get married in India. Shes a doctor now and has no regrets. It is the parents fault if their child doesnt love their religion and parents. Also in America parents have no control over religion. Freedom of Religion, Speech and the pursuit of hapiness no mater ones gender. She 17, she knows what shes doing.

Posted By: Ima

Good thing that Sri Lanka is not mentioned in the video for the entire US public to think SL is also a narrow minded country about religions.

Posted By: Danushka

NO SYMPATHY REQUIRED ! This is a mere attempt by this girl to get exposed to American freedom and lifestyle. She wants the American family coz she could end up with the Green Card and never look back at her parents. NO SYMPATHY REQUIRED !

Posted By: Danushka

Islam is beautiful religion, but if she wants to choose cristianity then its her wish, but she must not be knowing Islam and its teachings for sure. I am a Hindu and read about Islam a lot and I feel it is the best religion.

Posted By: Ashok Diwakaran

First of all Mr. Bary should have thought twice before going to live in a western country. If the parents are practicing whatever religion they below then Rifka would have not changed her religion.

Posted By: niz

This is a good lesson for our parents who don’t bring up their children in a proper religious way... now no point trying to kill...

Posted By: Mohamed Thariq

These are not burning issues. The girl would have made up a reason to ditch her family, and the media and the public is making it a drama without realizing the ground reality. This is called mass hyteria

Posted By: TMA

If this happened with my child whom I raised with so much of love and care, what would I do? I would probably commit suicide. This is a brazen act of brain washing by the faith converters. They are responsible for this entire episode. They have been praying for the weak minds. Its really terrible to see a family going through this kind of trauma.

Posted By: siribiris

This is a good lesson for our parents who don’t bring up their children in a proper religious way... now the fuss is useless...

Posted By: Thariq

Please believe, Honour Killing is real and happening to women only. It is excused in Muslim countries with dubious virtues but thankfully most other countries apply the laws and prosecute with a degree of success.

Posted By: Shaik Anwar Ahamath

I am surprised about her fear if she has really converted. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and of a sound mind. If this is missing, she is not a christian!

Posted By: ME

This is stupid... this is totally manipulating a small kid... why these guys trying to manipulate other religious people and convert.. thats because in western world no one beliefs Christianity and its becoming less popular... i am living in Australia and i see no Australians go to church.. all Asians and other religious people have been manipulated and converted.. now they are only going to church....

Posted By: Arun

Singers, Politicians and various people said they are haressed by the government and left the country to get citizenship. They sometimes created issues so that they can take pictures and show proof. I know at least two familuies who are US citizens now. They sell Sri Lanka to aim at personal gains. Today they act like Americans. At least now the country has a true leader who motivates its people to be proud of the motherland.

Posted By: Imtiaz cader

This seems to be cooked up story by a "Fundamentalist" Prayer Group. According to father of child, his daughter was missing for three weeks and he informed the Ohio police with regard to that. After three weeks the police have informed that his daughter was in Orlando. He said that a Pastor named Brian Williams from Ohio has arranged with another Pastor in Orlando to transport the girl from Ohio to Orlando and now they are giving a different story to the Media. They have brainwashed the girl for three weeks. According to Ohio State Law this is a kidnapping case and the lawyers from the parent's side are trying to bring this Revolutionary group to Justice.

Posted By: Mifly Sri Lanka

What was doing mr. Barry until she fall in the love of currupted missinory's trick. Leave the US a side . What they ( Such a Revolutinary Group) in Sri Lanka, India, Bangaladesh Etc. Hunting human continue in the name of Humanitarian or Human right lable. Be aware of Asians in the US.

Posted By: mahroof

this kind a wierd situation.........first of all i want to say in Sri Lanka up to now there were nothing happened called honor killing!! if she has found her own way to live ...then let her live alone..let her do it!! if it was my daughter surely i would ask her go out of the house!!

Posted By: shabz

millions of christians convert to islam a year including priests.these so called media never talk abt them.all what they need is to attack islam from which ever the way they can. when it comes to this girls story,she doesnt even know what islam is.if she knew she wouldnt convert to any other religion.and she was spreading rumours abt a honour killing.this is all false.i'm sure that some one has asked her to tell these things. we do not need to care abt her,islam is a holy religion..even celebrities such as Cat stevens,Michael Jackson,Jeramine Jackson,cashiers clay(Mohammed Ali) etc converted to islam by understaning its value.there were no so called societies behind those conversions.. so brothers and sisters,leave her alone..she would understand her mistake sooner.despite all the other things,she has spreaded rumours abt her own mother that she would kill her..this curse is enough for her to suffer her entire life.

Posted By: the truth

all are trying to convert to their own religion. give her good advice to love parents or try to teach well her parents. if they are doing wrong. dont do seperate her from parents. this is not correct way taking matter for converting.

Posted By: Azhar

1.No honor killing in sri lanka 2.As a person known both bible and quran well, I can say going to Christianity from Islam is like shifting to “386 machine” (oldest computer) from “Core to quad” (latest computer). Who will do that? ?

Posted By: Mohamed

If this story is real, i m sure she is going to commit suiside for the mistake she s done. thats her parent's " BADDUA(curse)", But she is just one, We hear millions converting to islam in flocks in UK, US, France Germany and Italy by knowing and understanding islam fully.This is the best time for our non muslim brothers and sisters to learn what islam teaches us.

Posted By: Mohammed Aarif

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