Afghanistan: Muslims behead convert from Islam to Christianity, warn other converts of "dire consequences" for leaving Islam

"Whoever changes his religion should be executed." Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, said that. Note also that these murderers recited passages from the Qur'an. This is the sort of story that gives the lie to the common claim by Islamic apologists in the West that Islam has no death penalty for apostasy. But where are the human rights organizations on this?

"Brutal beheading," by Mindy Belz for World Magazine, June 22:

[...] But a more recent, gruesome incident makes clear that the danger for anyone turning from Islam in Afghanistan is not over. A video released in recent weeks, and made available to WORLD this week by two separate Afghan sources, shows four Afghan militants beheading a man believed to be a Christian in Herat Province.
The militants, who claim to be Taliban, captured the victim, a man in his 40s named Abdul Latif (according to Obaid Christ, who provided translation of the video), earlier this year from his village outside Enjeel, a town south of Herat.

In the two-minute video, the men, wearing explosive belts (or suicide vests) and kaffiya head scarves to cover their faces, recite verses from the Quran while forcing Latif to the ground and pinning him with their feet. “You who are joined with pagans . . . your sentence [is] to be beheaded,” read one of the militants in Farsi from what looked like a paper decree. “Whoever changes his religion should be executed.” The passages refer to Sura 8:12 (“I will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks . . .”) and the hadiths, or sayings of Mohammed.

As Latif fought his captors from the ground, one of the militants thrust a medium-sized blade into the side of his neck. With blood flowing onto the ground the militants shouted “Allahu Akhbar” or “God is great” over and over until Latif was fully beheaded and his head was placed on top of his chest....

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Kepha | July 4, 2011 9:20 AM | Reply

This is indeed clear evidence of the criminal character of Islam. However, it is a warning to the Ummah that not even the most ignorant and violent bigotry can deter the Holy Spirit.

"In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." (Romans 8:37)

katharina | July 4, 2011 9:22 AM | Reply

Islam is indeed so evil! How can anyone, with a rational and civilized mind, suppport such Satanic Arabic cult, Islam as craeted by the Arabic Pedophile rapist, robber, slave-owner (including sexual slaves such as young Jewish captive girls), and mass murderer of the Jews, Mohammed, in order to construct pure Arabian kingdom and legitimize his and his tribe’s evil and savage Arabic socio-cultural practises and god, especially against Judeo-Christian shared God and civilized tradition and laws! Thank our dear Lord Jesus Christ, being ex-Muslim, I'm saved from such evil, that is Arabic slavery and Imperialism through Islam!

Alcinous | July 4, 2011 9:24 AM | Reply

Another human sacrifice to Allah.

Paul | July 4, 2011 9:49 AM | Reply

Ann Barnhardt's web site has a particularly apposite poster on it (post dated 1 June). Accompanied by two very gruesome pictures (be warned), it says just this:

"JESUS DIED FOR MEN.
MEN DIE FOR MOHAMMED.
ANY QUESTIONS?"

katharina replied to comment from Paul | July 4, 2011 10:17 AM | Reply

Brilliant Paul - thanks for pointing out the great difference between the evil Islam/Mohammed and the saving light of Christianity/Jesus!

profitsbeard | July 4, 2011 12:48 PM | Reply

Isla, which dictates brainlessness for its followers, is demonically and ironically symbolized by its treatment of its captives.

The Koran: 1350 years of malignancy, and still spreading.

profitsbeard | July 4, 2011 12:53 PM | Reply

Islam, which dictates that its followers become brainless, demonically-ironically symbolizes itself in this brutal treatment of its captives.

"We are headless, so all must become like us!"

The Koran: 1350 years of malignancy and counting.

profitsbeard | July 4, 2011 12:55 PM | Reply

(Sorry for the double post, but I thought the first had vanished... please fell free to scrub it.)

Truthiocity.blogspot.com replied to comment from Alcinous | July 4, 2011 1:20 PM | Reply

Human Sacrafice indeed. A few people have been having as yet unfounded suspicions.

My current position is that if they think killing a human pleases their god it is human sacrafice and no excuse or prevarication can change that.

If the act has any relation to the divine it is sacrafice.

Truthiocity.blogspot.com | July 4, 2011 1:25 PM | Reply

This is a beastly act. What can we do to stop it. What can we do to make them NOT want to do it. What can we do to make the negative effect they get from doing this outweight the positive effect they think they are getting from it?

gravenimage | July 4, 2011 5:22 PM | Reply

"Whoever changes his religion should be executed."
.......................

The same words as the evil "Prophet":

"Whoever changes his (Islamic) religion, kill him!"

Crusader | July 4, 2011 8:20 PM | Reply

Canadians are proud to give thousand of these Afghani animals immigration and then shower them with welfare programs.

MAC | July 4, 2011 8:39 PM | Reply

Revelations 20:4:

Then I saw thrones, and those seated on them were those to whom judgement was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been BEHEADED for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of G-d, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not recieved it's mark on their foreheads or their hands.

dumbledoresarmy | July 4, 2011 8:47 PM | Reply

From the article: "The video, approximately two minutes in length, show Latif being pinned to the ground while his kidnappers...recite verses from the Quran.

"In the video, Latif can be seen struggling with his captors from the ground while one of the militants thrust a medium-sized blade in the side of his neck. The men then began shouting "Allahu Akhbar," or "God is great," until Latif is fully beheaded".

Sounds very much like the procedure employed in halal butchering of cattle, goats, sheep, etc.

I concur with truthiocity above: Islam is a human sacrifice cult.

It's all about murder: ritual murder of human beings while the murderers chant 'allahu akhbar'.

albion | July 5, 2011 2:34 AM | Reply

Where is the video?

Isabellathecrusader | July 5, 2011 9:16 AM | Reply

"The video, approximately two minutes in length, show Latif being pinned to the ground while his kidnappers, wearing suicide vests and kaffiya head scarves to cover their faces, recite verses from the Quran."

Makes me think of a joke...how many Muslim cowards with their wittle faces covered does it take to kill one Christian?

'Sorry boys but Abdul Latif got the last laugh. He said, "I will not submit. You can kill me but you can't make me a Muslim." And while these losers took away his life they couldn't touch his soul. They may have thought they were sacrificing him to Allah but in the end his sacrifice was to Our Lord Jesus Christ, whose immortal words keep running through my head..."This day you shall be with me in paradise."

Whoops! Jihad fail.

phil | July 5, 2011 3:40 PM | Reply

These are "obviously" 4 misunderstanders of "Peaceful" islam. All of the true and faithful muslims will speak-up now and denounce this for the SATANIC deed it is.....We are waiting.....

have_mercy | July 5, 2011 4:35 PM | Reply

Although I am an atheist, I bow my head in respect to the uncommon courage of this man. I do not believe in an afterlife where that brave man would get his just reward and his killers their well deserved punishment. However, I only know just that he was an honorable and brave man and his killers are beastly cowards.

rb | July 7, 2011 12:28 PM | Reply

If there is no outcry from the world and the UN, maybe we should adapt/adopt the same strategy in defending Christianity in the West. If it 's OK there, why not OK here? Get down with the head chopping, kidnapping, mosque and quran burning etc....
And have Police and Military standing guard....

dumbledoresarmy | July 10, 2011 5:36 AM | Reply

He was born into slavery.

But he died a free man: a man who preferred to die rather than submit himself again to the mental and spiritual slavery of Islam.

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