The women of Iran deserve to have freedom of choice about their chadors. It is a disgrace that their mullahs deny them a basic human freedom.
But almost no one in the gallery of gushing approval is raising her voice to defend Meriam Yehya Ibrahim who was condemned to death in Sudan on May 1. Meriam is eight months pregnant, but a court in Khartoum found her guilty of adultery and apostatising from Islam.
The case against her is an absurd travesty of justice by all standards except the standards of the fundamentalist regime which currently governs Sudan. Twenty-seven-year-old Meriam is the daughter of a Muslim father and a Ethiopian Coptic Orthodox mother. Meriam’s father deserted the family when she was a baby and she was raised as a Christian. She qualified as a doctor at University of Khartoum Medical School and married a Christian man from South Sudan, Daniel Wani. Mr Wani is an American citizen who lives in New Hampshire. They have a 20-month-old son and were hoping to emigrate to the US.
“There is no right more fundamental than the right to religious freedom.” Absolutely correct.
What’s especially disturbing is the report that the US Embassy in Khartoum initially refused to get involved, even though the husband is a US citizen. This sort of expose of Islamic madness is just too politically incorrect.
Personally, I hope that a truly outrageous case like this one, together with the prominent case of the abducted school girls in Nigeria who were kidnapped by Boko Horam, helps awaken more Americans to the grim reality of severe and pervasive Islamic persecution of Christians in many parts of the world.
If this heart-rending story about the plight of a very appealing woman, photogenic and highly educated, doesn’t grab the public, what will??
David Handy+
Time for another beer summit. Where is the leader of the free world on this one? I know that this does not fit the political narrative.