Mosaic, er, Sharia Law in Sudan
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While Progressive Christians engage in extreme hermeneutical contortions to bring their first century New Testament Christian faith into conformity with the twenty first century Progressive political ideology, the Old Testament in his pristine iron age glory thrives in the world of Islam.
CNN reports that Mariam Yehya Ibrahim has been freed from Sudan and is now safe in Italy.
She has spent the last several months in Omdurman Women's Prison and later in the United States embassy.
She had been convicted of apostasy and sentenced to death. Like Mosaic Law, Sudanese Sharia law forbids anyone to change their religion. While awaiting her execution, she gave birth to her second child. In fact, it was her pregnancy that delay her execution. A Sudanese court eventually overturned her sentence. When she tried to leave the country, however, Sudanese security officials refused to allow her to leave, citing irregularities in her passport. Since that time she sought sanctuary in the United States embassy.
According to Ibrahim, the persecution stems largely from childhood circumstances over which she had not control. Ibrahim's father was a Muslim who married a Ethiopian Orthodox Christian woman. The father abandoned the family when she was a child. Her mother raised her as a Christian. So she claims that because she always professed Christianity, she cannot have committed apostasy.
Ibrahim's family tells a different story. Her three brothers are Muslim. They claim that her real name is Abar al-Hadi and that she, like them, was raised in Islam. As is fitting for Third World superstitious people, the family claims that Ibrahim's Christian husband "bewitched" her with a "potion." Moreover, they family complained that she committed adultary, because Sudan does not recognized mixed marriages. It is illegal for Muslims to marry "unbelievers."
Because of the barbaric culture and Islamic religion, exoneration by Somali courts gives no guarantee of Ibrahim's safety. According to her brother:
"If she repents and returns to our Islamic faith and to the embrace of our family, then we are here family and she is ours. We are prepared to hold her dearly as the apple of our eyes. But if she refuses, she should be executed."
No doubt al-Hadi and the rest of the family would relish the opportunity to take matters into their own hands and restore the "honor" of their family.