VIDEO: RIFQA BARY FREE FOR ANOTHER MONTH

Rifqa Barry will NOT be sent back to Columbus and will get to stay in Florida....for now. In the August 21st hearing, Judge Daniel Dawson ruled for an investigation and another hearing to be held today. The Orlando Sentinel reported that Dawson kept the findings sealed and is sending the case to mediation with the next hearing set for September 29th:

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) was tasked with investigating the alleged threats, but what the state agency found will remain under a court-ordered seal.

The most disturbing excerpt from the ORLANDO SENTINEL had to do with with what the attorney of Bary's mother seems to know:

...a brief courtroom statement from Roger Weeden, the lawyer representing Rifqa's mother, gives some insight. He said there was "a favorable report from FDLE" that says there's no threat to Rifqa, should she be returned to her home.

Before he could finish, however, Weeden was cut off by Rifqa's appointed Guardian Ad Litem, Krista Bartholomew, who reminded the court that the document was under seal.

Bartholomew went on to admit that she had concerns about the interview Bary had with the FDLE that did not include attorneys.

Another very important development to watch involves the Department of Children and Families (DCF), which seems to be operating on a premise that seeks reuniting all family members instead of one that involves a clean slate. The Sentinel reported...

After the hearing, John K. Cooper, director of the Central Region for DCF, said that mediation will allow the parties to look at several different issues. There are "very complicated issues at hand," he said.

"It's going to take a lot of work to get this family back together," he said.

Uh, who is Cooper to determine that's a desirable goal? If Bary is right, that'd be like saying, "It's going to take a log of work to put that creature back in the grip of that python."

ABSOLUTELY ABSURD! Ohio authorities have already determined Columbus safe for Rifqa Bary to return to. These "authorities" better be careful that they not submit to cowardice on a massive scale. If Bary is telling the truth (and I believe with near 100% certainty she is), it will mean these "authorities" are complicit, corrupt, negligent, or utter and complete gutless cowards.

Robert Spencer at JIHAD WATCH has much more on TODAY'S EVENTS and his account doesn't paint a very pretty picture of local media...

I'm in Orlando, Florida, at the Rifqa Bary hearing. Tom Trento of the Florida Security Council, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs and I held a press conference outside the courtroom a little while ago, for a skeptical and sometimes hostile press. The press conference was disrupted several times by Muhammad Lutfi, an Ohio Muslim with connections to the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations; he has clearly taken a great interest in this case.

We explained about the jihadist connections of the Noor mosque, about Islamic apostasy law, and about Islamic honor killing. The mainstream media flocked to Lutfi, because he was telling them what they want to hear, but he was lying openly about Islamic apostasy law, denying that Muhammad had said, "If anyone changes his religion, kill him," and when I pointed out that this was in a hadith in Bukhari, the collection of traditions of Muhammad that Muslims consider most reliable, he denied that also.

Frankly, based on all I've read to this point, I'm suspicious of the FDLE, the DCF, and the Orlando Sentinel (that last one is an understatement).

MUST SEE VIDEO... Pamela Gellar of ATLAS SHRUGS was in the courtroom today and interviewed a friend of Rifqa Bary, who is also a Muslim convert to Christianity.