Mariam Ibraheem gave birth to her second child in a Sudanese prison, shackled at her ankles. She’d been kicked in the back by one of the guards and was in even more pain than she otherwise would have been. Mariam had been sentenced to 100 lashes and death row. The charge that stuck? Apostasy. She would not renounce Jesus or accept Islam.
Now Mariam tells her story in Shackled: One Woman’s Dramatic Triumph Over Persecution, Gender Abuse, and a Death Sentence.
Shackled details Mariam’s youth in the Twawa Refugee Camp in Sudan. As a small child, she thought she was going to a party. It turned out to be a circumcision “party,” where multiple girls were mutilated in one day. Although her mother was Ethiopian, Mariam’s father was Sudanese and a strict Muslim — and because he was a Muslim, Sharia law said that Mariam was Muslim. A Gift […]
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