This sober judge acknowledges that "the condition of the Muslim convert to Christianity is one of life and death." Unlike other judges, who can't seem to transcend their own notions of right and wrong, this judge is basing his decision on the facts and realities of Islamic law.
"UK Judge Recognizes Grave Threat Posed to Converts from Islam to Christianity," by Jay Sekulow for BeliefNet, October 1:
We recently received word of a landmark victory for religious freedom in a case we're handling in the United Kingdom. We represent a Syrian married couple who are both former Muslims who became evangelical Christians. The husband was training to be a radical Muslim imam, but in 2003, he became a Christian and informed his family of his conversion. His family members told him that, if he did not return to Islam, they would "wash their shame," meaning that he would be put to death. He left Syria for the United Arab Emirates and hid from his family out of fear that he might be found and harmed.See here for a similar story from Jordan -- including a father stabbing and bashing his daughter's brain.
The couple received threats after beginning to share their Christian faith with Muslims on the Internet, including receiving a video of a beheading. The husband learned that his father and other people upset over his conversion to Christianity were looking for him and that his father had obtained a Syrian court order to the police to locate him. Due to the risk of death they both faced, the couple traveled to the United Kingdom, with the support of their local church, and sought asylum. They have continued to share their Christian faith during their time in the U.K.If they were to be deported to Syria, they would face a clear risk of death under Sharia law due to their conversion to Christianity. Many converts from Islam to Christianity face great risk to their well being, including death, for accepting Christ and sharing their faith because apostasy--changing one's religion from Islam to another faith--is a crime punishable by death under Sharia law...
We worked in conjunction with our international affiliate in defending the couple. In what is believed to be the first decision of its kind, an immigration court of appeals in the U.K. granted the couple asylum and noted the particular danger that Muslims who become evangelical Christians and share their faith in Muslim countries face. The court considered testimony on the fact that Muslim converts who become evangelical Christians face particular harm in Syria:
[W]hilst the Syrian Government may allow those who are already Christians to practise their religion, albeit within harsh and restricted guidelines, the condition of the Muslim convert to Christianity is one of life and death. Muslim converts are immediately disowned by their families and subsequently subject to a death threat issued by the local mosque. . . . [N]ot only would Syrian Muslims who had converted to Christianity be murdered for forsaking Islam but their murderers would go unpunished. Evangelising in Syria is permitted under the Constitution [but] is found to have the effect of "disturbing the public order." The practise is highly discouraged and subjected to prosecution.
The court determined that the couple would be "at risk" of harm from their family and the authorities because they became evangelical Christians. The judge concluded: "In my judgment the evidence points in the direction of the Appellant's contention that were he to return to Syria he not only could not practise his religion but he would also be in fear of his life."
This case will serve as a powerful precedent to defend the lives and well-being of Muslim converts to Christianity around the world in future cases. At the same time, however, converts from Islam to other faiths continue to face grave danger. It has been reported that Iran's parliament has approved a law that would require the death penalty for anyone convicted of apostasy. According to the report, under current Iranian law, apostasy is punishable by death, but the final decision rests with a judge. The report also states: "The new law is being debated in the Majlis of Iran (that nation's parliament) and would mandate the death penalty for apostasy. . . . Only days before the vote, two Christian men were charged with apostasy and are still in custody. Iran is listed as a 'country of particular concern' by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and is ranked third on Open Doors' 'World Watch List' for countries with the worst persecution of Christians."
Sounds like this judge "gets it"! I hope he doesn't keep this realization to himself, but mentions it, every chance he gets.
Due to the risk of death they both faced, the couple traveled to the United Kingdom, with the support of their local church, and sought asylum. They have continued to share their Christian faith during their time in the U.K.
well, you've got one middle eastern couple who won't use the asylum system to inject the hatred of their muslim religion against the people who took them in.
Compare the treatment of Muslims who leave their faith to that of the many Christians around the world who converted to Islam, even in Christian-majority countries that were under assault by Islamic terrorists.
"If anyone changes their religion, kill them."
Does not leave a lot of wiggle room.
It won't be long until they are not safe in the UK either. The long arm of Sharia will reach out and grab them...
Adbul Qadir 'Oudah’s, who was an Egyptian Shari'a scholar: In a true Islamic state, an apostate has no legal protection, since he is not under the protection of its governance. In an Islamic system, he is to be brought before the legal authority, and there he is given a chance to repent and to return to Islam. If he elects not to repent and to return to Islam, then he must be immediately executed. This is the opinion of all four madhhabs (Hanifi, Maliki, Shaf'i, and Hanbali) of Sunni legal opinion.
Further, if a Muslim government does not punish the apostate, then an individual Muslim has an obligation to kill the apostate himself. The reason is that the law of Allah is obligatory upon all Muslims whether or not an Islamic state recognize the supremacy of Shar'a law. It is not permissible for a Muslim government to punish a Muslim who murders an apostate. This gives every Muslim the right — actually, they are
"divinely obligated — to take the Shari’ah law into their own hands and murder the apostate in cold-blood".
And a little bit more of this Islamic logic... The killer is not punished...
The killer of an apostate is liable to punishment for encroaching on the power of competent authority or for the contempt of such authority when the competent authority reserves the right of exercising such power to himself. But if the courts or other judicial institutions do not award punishment for the offense of apostasy, as is generally the case with courts in Islamic countries today, then these competent institutions are not empowered to award punishment to the killer of an apostate and also it will be wrong to treat the killer as guilty of encroaching on the powers of such institution; for the killer would be liable to punishment only when the institutions in question assume the responsibility.
This is why these Christian converts are not safe in Sharia Britain...
Perfectly stated Hugh...I mean Duh_swami.
Presidente Jorge Bush, what are your thoughts?
Mr. Cheney? Ms. Rice? Sen. McCain? Sen. Oscama? Any American Gov.? Small and large town Mayors?
Anybody in elected office been investigating Islam? No...well, your all f**king fired. You have endangered us all by your laziness and cowardice.
This may sound unlikely but:
What will happen if a UK Sharia Court, having received information from Syria, that these people are living in the UK. What if the Sharia court then decides to haul these people up before it and then smuggles them outside of the UK, by boat or plane to face trial in Syria? What alternatively will happen if the Sharia Court in the UK performs its own execution?
Will the English Law Courts be able to do anything about it? After all, they have allowed Sharia law in and any solicitor, could easily argue that Sharia Law is Sharia and that they were instituting their law, on this couple as they had broken a tenet of Islam.
What would happen if the Sharia Law Courts then took the English Law Courts to an Internation Human rights Law Courts, ironically stating that it is against their Human Rights, as Muslims, that these Muslims be allowed to live having committed Sin under Allah?
Everything is possible and just watch, unless Sharia is removed(although highly unlikely), more and more of the extreme practices come into being in the UK. After all, this Sharia comes straight from Saudi Arabia, along with the millions for arms and building of Mosques, Wahabist teaching in schools and funding for Islamic Studies in University and Muslim associations - lawful or outlawed.
Bush's greatest moral failure is not recognizing the evil Islam poses to the fundamental right to choose one's faith. Islam is no faith, as forced belief is no belief at all.
http://bravenewsworld.blogspot.com/2008/08/bushs-greatest-moral-failure-ignoring.html
It's a good thing they're keeping that Jesus guy out. We should always be suspect of anyone who says to love your neighbor as yourself and pray for those who persecute you.
Unfortunately, the US isn't that far off either. Seems we're always just trailing behind the chains of the beast.