Police say "no evidence" supporting Rifqa Bary's claims.

The police have investigated, and found no evidence supporting the claims she made, regarding her fathers threats to kill her for converting to christianity.

Evidence? I'm sorry, what did the expect? To find it in writing? What evidence would there be to prove something someone said?

That being said, do we believe her? I'm not sure. The way I see it, this could have gone two ways.


He threatened to kill her when he found out her plans, and she ran away to avoid death...

OR

She ran away and the police found her, so she chose to play on the Islam stereo-types to try to justify her actions.




Here's the thing. The girl claims she had to hide her cheerleading activities due to fear of her father finding out and punishing her. Let's assume those pictures of her in her cheerleading outfit displayed in her parents' house were placed there after she ran away.



Still yet, the parents would have to know about their daughter cheerleading.
A. High school cheerleading is not free. Where did she get the money if they hadn't known?
B. Cheerleading takes up massive amounts of time. Where would her parents have thought she was all the time?

If her parents were as hardcore as she claims, I'm sure they would have paid enough attention to her activities to know that she was doing something this significant. This isn't a case where the daughter is secretly listening to rap on her headphones in the privacy of her bedroom.

If what she says about them is true, there is no possible way they did not know about her cheerleading activities.

So where does this leave her story? I don't know. And I don't think we should know. This is a private matter, and I believe it should be treated as such. There has to be something more important to report about, right?