Christian Attorney: Why I Support Rifqa's Mother

The Christian attorney for Rifqa Bary's mother has urged Christians to rethink the case of the teen convert. In Sunday's St. Petersburg Times, Craig McCarthy, who worked as Rifqa Bary's mother's attorney until recently, said that many Christians have adopted "a narrative and thus reach[ed] conclusions about the Rifqa Bary case prematurely, just as we accuse the mainstream media of sticking to their preferred narratives instead of squaring their passions with reality." McCarthy, who is a self-proclaimed evangelical, says some facts are wrong in the story given by the pastor Rifqa stayed with. For instance, Rifqa's parents did not wait 10 days to report her missing. "Please recognize that the Lord is not so powerless as to need people to hide information, to embellish facts, or to give false witness in order to advance Christ's kingdom," McCarthy concluded.