Meriam Ibrahim ‘To Be Freed’ But There Will be Many More like Her

 

“I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands.”[Revelations 4:20]

 

“This young mother is – and always has been – a member of the ancient Ethiopian Orthodox Church, an institution centuries older than Islam“

 

There are reports that Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman sentenced to death by a Muslim judge for refusing to abandon her Christian faith, is to be freed. The BBC announced it thus:

 

Mother facing death penalty in Sudan for abandoning religious faith to be freed

 

No! That is a lie. Meriam was sentenced to death (as the Telegraph correctly reports) “for refusing to recant her Christian beliefs, and on Tuesday she gave birth to a daughter while she was in prison, and with her legs shackled”.

 

This young mother is – and always has been – a member of the ancient Ethiopian Orthodox Church, an institution centuries older than Islam. The thuggish Sudanese ruled that she was an “apostate” because her father was a Muslim. What rubbish. It was her Christian mother who raised her in her faith. And even if she had chosen to leave Islam and become a Christian, then she would have had every right to do so.

 

Her ordeal, coupled with the continuing atrocities of Boko Haram, have finally alerted the international community to the fact that the malign influence of Islamism extends far beyond its terrorist aggression towards the West. It is directed at Christians in Islamic countries and is not confined to “apostates”.

 

The wider global Muslim community (if one can speak of such a thing) does not believe in putting into practice the extremists’ homicidal agenda. But if it’s been campaigning furiously against the slaughter of Christians then I must have missed it.

 

David Cameron, to his credit, publicly recognised at Easter that Christians are the world’s most persecuted believers. But what is he going to do about it?

 

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