An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Persecution
A 15-year-old Egyptian girl, Dina el-Gohary, has written an emotional appeal to President Obama asking him to use his influence to save her father, Maher el-Gohary, who is being persecuted for his beliefs. “Mr. President Obama, we are a minority in Egypt,” Dina writes, according to a report from the Assyrian International News Agency. “We are treated very badly. … We are imprisoned in our own home because Muslim clerics called for the murder of my father, and now the Government has set for us a new prison, we are imprisoned in our own country.”
Dina and her father are Christian converts in a part of the world where conversion can mean death.
The Muslim-majority countries of the Middle East are among the world’s greatest offenders against freedom of conscience. Religious liberty does not exist or is severely curtailed based on Shariah supremacy. Egypt is a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which commits signatories to respect a variety of liberties, including religious freedom, but a court considering whether Mr. el-Gohary could legally change his religious affiliation ruled that Egypt was only bound to honor those provisions that did not contradict Islamic law, and “in the event of a contradiction, Shariah takes precedence.”
Further down in the column: “You said that the Muslim minority in America are treated very well,” Dina el-Gohary wrote to Mr. Obama, “so why are we not treated here likewise?”
In reality, the “Muslim minority” are treated a whole lot better than Christians in America. To be perfectly honest, I’d be really surprised if B. Hussein even responded.
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Obama probably did respond. David Plouffe asked for donations to help overcome Sarah Palin’s lies about ObamaCare.
Jeeeeeez!