Parental rights vs. religious freedom

What do you think about the Ohio teenager who became a Christian and later fled to Florida because she thinks her Muslim parents will kill her? The case is tied up in the courts as the parents are trying to get her back. They deny that they would kill her. The media is playing down the teaching in Islamic law that Muslims who change religion should, indeed, be killed, a position the Islamic chaplain at Harvard has affirmed. That doesn’t mean these particular parents would do that. Still, the case pits two causes that cultural conservatives believe in strongly against each other: parental rights vs. religious freedom. But can’t the young woman still hold to her faith even in her parents’ household until she is of an age to leave? Unless, of course, they would kill her, in which case the real issue is her safety. See Mollie Hemingway for the background and rather skewed media coverage.