“All the four apostates were given an opportunity to return to Islam to be released but they all declined the generous offer.” Yet in the wake of the Rifqa Bary case, Islamic apologists are actually claiming that Islam doesn’t teach that apostates deserve death. This kind of story makes their smooth lies transparent. Is it any wonder that Rifqa Bary is in fear for her life?
Islamic Tolerance Alert from Somalia: “Muslims Behead Four Christian Orphanage Workers in Somalia,” from International Christian Concern via AINA, August 11:
Washington — International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Somali Islamic extremists beheaded four Christians after kidnapping them on July 27 in the coastal town of Merca, 56 miles from Mogadishu.
Fatima Sultan, Ali Ma’ow, Sheik Mohammed Abdi, and Maaddey Diil were killed by members of Al-Shabab, an Islamic extremist organization. The Islamists kidnapped and eventually beheaded the Christians after they refused to renounce their faith in Jesus Christ.
On August 4, a junior Al-Shabab militant notified all the families of the victims that the four Christians had been beheaded for apostasy. He described the Christians as promoters of “fitna,” a Muslim term for religious discord. The militant, who called himself “Seiful Islam” (“the Sword of Islam”), told the families that the bodies will not be given to them “as Somalia does not have cemeteries for infidels.”
One eye witness account said, “All the four apostates were given an opportunity to return to Islam to be released but they all declined the generous offer.”…