RIFQA BARY UPDATE: MEDIA AIDING THE PARENTS?

Seventeen-year old Rifqa Bary is currently in Columbus awaiting her fate. As she does, it appears we have some very interesting developments. The Columbus Dispatch's Meredith Heagney has been suspected of being sympathetic to Bary's Muslim parents and the larger Muslim community in Columbus in general. Now it looks like the Barys conducted media interviews in the offices of CAIR with the CAIR representative likely counseling them on how to respond.

Not only that but the interviewers, including Heagney, seemed to parrot the talking points spouted by the Barys and sanctioned by CAIR.

Rusty at JAWA reports:

a source who was inside a secret strategy meeting conducted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) earlier this week has conveyed the strategy that the media's favorite Islamist group has devised to respond to the ongoing public relations crisis. According to my source who attended the strategy session, CAIR officials handed out copies of this Orlando Sentinel article and want supporters to push the meme that Christians have brainwashed and abducted this gullible teenage girl. They have also instructed supporters to circulate rumors that Rifqa had been carousing with infidel boys and engaged in acts of immorality. This CAIR strategy takes the focus off the near-universal Islamic legal precepts and Quranic injunctions that demand death for apostates and impugns the character of the innocent girl at the center of this controversy who appears to be in genuine fear for her life if she is returned to her parents.

That media narrative of Rifqa being brainwashed and abducted by a Christian cult was one that was carried by many media outlets, most notably Meredith "Hijab" Heagney of the Columbus Dispatch, Michael Kruse of the St. Petersburg Times, among others. In all their reporting, however, they carefully left the connections of the terror-tied CAIR out of their stories.

But from my source inside CAIR comes new information indicating media complicity with respect to concealing CAIR's backstage management of the case on behalf of Rifqa's allegedly abusive parents.

These reporters are too cowardly to be complicit in this absurdity. Again, it would appear that a more likely answer would be STOCKHOLM SYNDROME.

More at JW

COLUMBUS DISPATCH REPORTER AND RADICAL MOSQUE

The Noor Islamic Cultural Center in Columbus, OH is the mosque attended by the parents of Fathima Rifqa Bary, who fled to Florida after converting to Christianity out of fear that she would be the victim of an honor killing at the hands of her father, Mohamad.

The fate of the 17-year old girl has yet to be determined. Until September 3rd (the date of the next hearing to determine her fate) a judge has ordered that she remain in foster care. Between now and then, Columbus is expected to find itself under a microscope of scrutiny.

The JAWA REPORT has some interesting facts about both that mosque and the reporter from the COLUMBUS DISPATCH that appears to be quite sympathetic to it. Dispatch reporter Meredith Heagney (Religion) is pictured in the photo wearing a hijab and ID card on her waist.

The local media (including the Columbus Dispatch) should be taking a hard look at the Noor Islamic Cultural Center as its one time resident scholar is a man named Sulah Sultan, who is a Hamas cleric and has since been banned from the United States. You can read more about Sultan at DISCOVER THE NETWORKS and this LIVE LEAK post.


Even more damning is this news report from Erick Stakelbeck two years ago.



With all of that to bolster Rifqa's claim that she is in danger of losing her life at the hands of her own parents and the Islamic community in Columbus, OH it becomes even more despicable when you consider that the Columbus Dispatch appears to be basically aiding and abetting the Noor Islamic Cultural Center in a dishonest and disingenuous propaganda campaign. Ultimately, if Rifqa is sent back to Columbus and murdered, the Dispatch and any reporters involved will have been a accomplices through their collective advocacy of Noor.

In fairness to Heagney, Jawa points out that she's not alone in this despicable and cowardly behavior. The Dispatch itself needs to be investigated. Heagney's employer actually held a seminar for Noor last November called (are you ready for this?), "LEARN TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE MEDIA".

You can email her at mheagney@dispatch.com but like the town halls, be firm while remaining professional and polite.