Muhammad said: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence. Yet Muslim spokesmen such as Harris Zafar, Mustafa Akyol, Salam al-Marayati, M. Cherif Bassiouni, and Ali Eteraz (among many others) have assured us that Islam doesn’t punish apostasy. I am confident that Zafar, Akyol, al-Marayati, Bassiouni, and Eteraz are making their way to Peshawar as we speak, so as to explain to the Taliban that they are getting Islam all wrong, wrong, wrong.
–˜Christian Convert Kidnapped In Pakistan By Taliban Militants,– from BosNewsLife, June 7:
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)– A 16-year-old Christian convert from Islam remained missing Friday, June 7, some two weeks after he was kidnapped by Islamic militants in Pakistan’s volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Christian said.
Aman Ullah was reportedly taken by fighters of a militant Taliban group on May 25 in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the former Northwest Frontier Province.
“We don’t know which of the 32 different Taliban groups operating both in Afghanistan and Pakistan is responsible,” said John Taimoor, president of mission group ‘Crossbearers Ministry’ which works among former Muslims.
“My team, workers and disciples from Muslim backgrounds are facing pressures from many sides and physical persecution,” he said in a statement. However, “We are looking to our Savior who is able to save us to the uttermost…”…