Tel-Chai Nation

I wish I could've blogged about the case of Gillian Gibbons, the teacher from the UK who was threatened with lashes in the Sudan for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammed. I'd wanted to get around to it, but other busy things kept me from remembering until now. Meanwhile, here's another story within the UK itself where a woman who converted to Christianity has had to live in hiding from her imam father for committing the "crime" of apostasy (via Michelle Malkin):

The daughter of a British imam is living under police protection after receiving death threats from her father for converting to Christianity.

The 31-year-old, whose father is the leader of a mosque in Lancashire, has moved house an astonishing 45 times after relatives pledged to hunt her down and kill her.

The British-born university graduate, who uses the pseudonym Hannah for her own safety, said she renounced the Muslim faith to escape being forced into an arranged marriage when she was 16. She has been in hiding for more than a decade but called in police only a few months ago after receiving a text message from her brother. In it, he said he would not be held responsible for his actions if she failed to return to Islam.

Officers have agreed to offer her protection in case of an attempt on her life.

Last night the woman said: “I’m determined to live my life the way I want to because I should have that freedom in this country. “If you make the choice to come to this country, as my parents did from Pakistan, you have to abide by the laws of this country and that means respecting the freedoms of other people.

“I know the Koran says anyone who goes away from Islam should be killed as an apostate, so in some ways my family are following the Koran. They are following Islam to the word. “But I do not think every Muslim would act on that. “My situation is frightening, but I’m not going to let it frighten me to the extent I can’t live my life.

A study this year found that 36 per cent of British Muslims between 16 and 24 believe those who convert to another religion should be punished by death.

In July an Iranian immigrant to Britain, who converted to Christianity, was saved from deportation after it emerged she would be stoned to death in her own country.

Perhaps the so-called feminist organizations who refuse to utter a word of condemnation for the Islamic scum who demonize these brave souls and threaten them with death should be denounced themselves for contradicting what they supposedly stand for.

Labels: islam, londonistan, misogyny