Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag was condemned to death on May 15 under the Islamic Sharia law that has been in place in Sudan since 1983 and which outlaws conversions under pain of death.

“The lady will be freed within days in line with legal procedure that will be taken by the judiciary and the ministry of justice,” Abdullah al-Azraq, a foreign ministry undersecretary, told AFP.

Azraq, who spoke via telephone from London, did not elaborate.

Conservative elements in Sudanese society may influence any possible release of Mariam Ishag. It may matter very much to Mariam Ishag.

Perhaps, but that presupposes that the Obama administration is doing something quietly behind the scenes. I am not worried about “conservative” (read: Islamofascist) elements in Sudan society getting their panties in a wad, and – this may shock some – I don’t think the Obama administration is, either.

What the Obama administration really cares about is feeding red meat to its own political base. Obama is first and foremost a secular progressive, which is why I think the debate about whether he is Muslim or Christian is silly. Obama and other progressives have just One True God: secular far-left government run by a self-anointed elite without interference from the God-and-guns-clinging masses. Nothing else matters except the secular progressives’ accumulation and use of power.

In the bearded Spock universe that Obama seems to come from, Jews and Christians are (at best) ignorant peasants who need someone to guide them, and (at worst) pure Hitlerian evil. In the progressive worldview Christians and Jews are the victimizers, not the victims. Of course, the reality is that the majority of religious persecution through the world has been aimed at Jews and Christians. And since the reality conflicts with their worldview, reality must be suppressed.

The only way the Obama administration will do anything is if they think it will in some way advance their progressive cause. Not likely, since the poor woman is one of the dastardly Christians progressive love to hate. A better bet is that they just ignore Mariam and her children in favor of gun control or amnesty or “income inequality” or some other pet cause that helps them accumulate more power.

It’s not so simple. If the U.S. were to flex its muscle, it could cause a negative reaction by conservative elements in Sudanese society. This is a case where quiet diplomacy is more likely to get results. The situation is dire, but not hopeless.

Every tenet and practice of Islam belies and contradicts Holy G-D.

Its fruit is the opposite of the Holy Spirit.

Islam mistreats God’s first gift to humanity – woman.

God’s Commandment to honor father AND mother, gives dignity, rights and honor to women – equality. Moses gave the right of inheritance to women.

We need to rid the earth of despicable Islam.

But his apostasy is far worse, as for a time he was raised in Indonesia by his mother and her second husband, who was also Muslim. So, until the age of 10 or 11, he lived in a Muslim household and STILL turned his back on God.

Pretty sure that replacing submission to God with worship of self isn’t the bst defense.

Just in case you missed this is her picture with her children in hospital !!

Whatever Obama’s personal beliefs might be, he harbors a naive childhood fondness for Islam, in combination with the leftist partiality toward Islam on “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” grounds.

and is it just me or are her eyes absolutely mesmerizing?

The chances of me ever encountering a past, present, or future official of the Sudanese government is exceedingly small, but in such an event I will not forget.

Seems like Barackah could get on the phone and have this lady and her AMERICAN children on a plane chop-chop.

I have wondered about that for a couple of weeks now, and…

crickets….