Religions of fear and authority and real world consequences

The Urantia Book teaches that there are three kinds of religion; religions of fear, religions of authority, and religions of the Spirit. This week we will examine what happens when a religion combines a lethal mix of fear and authority.
Our program will focus on the case of Rifqa Bary, a 17-year-old girl who fled her Muslim family in Ohio in July after converting to Christianity.
In a YouTube testimony Rifqa reveals her life-threatening situation. When her father threatened to kill her for her conversion, Rifaq ran away to Florida for refuge with a pastor she met on Facebook. Rifqa's fate is now in the hands of Florida's family court system, which could decide to send her back to Ohio.
Killing a family member for apostasy "honor killings," is justified under the Islamic legal system known as Sharia law.

Discussing this case and radical Muslim extremism will be our panel of four guests. Our first guest is Tom Trento, head of the Forida Secuurity Counsel, who has been testifying on Rifqa's behalf. Next is Pamela Geller, founder of the Atlas Shrugs website www.atlasshrugs.com and former editor of the New York Observer, who has been blogging extensively about this case. Our other guests will be Nonie Darwish, a Muslim convert to Christianity and author of two books, most recently, Cruel and Usual Punishment, an expose of Shia law, and Hamid Mzdeh, a former Shiite Muslim now a reader of The Urantia Book.
Please see a more complete biography of our guests at the Cosmic Citizen Guest Bios page.