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Sudan to free Christian woman condemned to death for leaving Islam

May 31, 2014 3:58 pm By Robert Spencer

Meriam Ibrahim Daniel WasiThis shows that negative publicity does get through to Islamic supremacists, and can be effective to get them to stand down from their Sharia hardline. That’s one chief reason why groups like the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and others work so assiduously to discredit, defame and destroy all those who speak out against jihad terror and Islamic supremacism: once there is no one left who dares to speak out, Sharia can be implemented without protest or dissent.

“Meriam Ibrahim: Sudan ‘to free’ death row woman,” BBC, May 31, 2014:

Sudanese authorities are to free a woman who was sentenced to death for having abandoned the Islamic faith, a foreign ministry official says.

Meriam Ibrahim, who gave birth to a daughter in custody, will be freed in a few days, the official told the BBC.

Abdullahi Alzareg, an under-secretary at the foreign ministry, said Sudan guaranteed religious freedom and was committed to protecting the woman.

Khartoum has been facing international condemnation over the death sentence.

In an interview with The Times newspaper, British Prime Minister David Cameron described the ruling as “barbaric” and out of step with today’s world.

The UK Foreign Office this week said that it would push for Ms Ibrahim to be released on humanitarian grounds.

Apostasy debate

Ms Ibrahim, 27, was brought up as an Orthodox Christian, but a Sudanese judge ruled earlier this month that she should be regarded as Muslim because that had been her father’s faith.

She refused to renounce her Christianity and was sentenced to death by hanging for apostasy.

On Wednesday, she gave birth to a daughter in her prison cell – the second child from her marriage in 2011 to Daniel Wani, a US citizen.

The court said Ms Ibrahim would be allowed to nurse her baby for two years before the sentence was carried out.

The court had earlier annulled her Christian marriage and sentenced her to 100 lashes for adultery because the union was not considered valid under Islamic law.

Sudan has a majority Muslim population and Islamic law has been in force there since the 1980s.

The ruling has revived a debate over apostasy, with liberal and conservative scholars giving different opinions over whether – and how – the act of abandoning the Islamic faith should be punished.

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  1. Champ ✞ says

    May 31, 2014 at 4:09 pm

    Praise God!! …this is wonderful news!

    • Jay Boo says

      May 31, 2014 at 9:07 pm

      Reza Aslan asked the following leading question

      If Jesus suddenly came back to earth today, would he approve or disapprove of (modern) Christianity?
      But what is this generalized term of (modern) Christianity?
      Why is Reza being so vague?

      Liberals and liberal coexist Christians will say the name of Jesus but never say Christ in order to appease Muslims.
      Conservative Christians see this appeasement for what it is.

      Reza wishes to reinterpret who Jesus was and is in his new book.
      The following video including Robert Spenser reveals the subterfuge.
      http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2014/01/reza-aslan-twisting-christian.html

      A better question for Reza to ask to ask would be:
      “Would Jesus approve or disapprove of Islam?”

      • CogitoErgoSum says

        Jun 1, 2014 at 3:19 am

        This makes me think. Muslims believe Jesus never died and Christians believe He rose from the dead. So where is Jesus now? Is He hidden in the sky? Or is He in Heaven sitting at the right hand of the Father? Or…….could it be that He still walks among us here on Earth at times? I believe He said He would not leave us as orphans but would be with us to the end of this age. So maybe we should not be caught up with wondering about what Jesus would think if he were to return……. He is already here among us. You may have even met Him and not recognized Him. He doesn’t always have to have a beard and long hair, does He? He could shave and get a haircut and wear something besides a robe and sandals. He could have been that guy who helped you when your car broke down or that guy who gave you directions when you were lost. He may have been that little boy who asked you to help him feed the ducks at the park last weekend. Or He could have been just some guy you barely noticed walking down the street. If you haven’t met Him yet, you might tomorrow. Muslims say they respect Jesus ….and as for Christians …..well, that goes without saying ……and for everyone else ……well, how can you be sure He’s just a myth? Ahhh….. I know. I’m just a crazy old man thinking some crazy thoughts. Go back to doing whatever you were doing. Peace.

        • Mudge says

          Jun 1, 2014 at 12:20 pm

          He promised not to leave us orphans but he promised to leave us the “Paraclete.”
          “At that time , Jesus said to His disciples: When the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, He shall give testimony of Me, and you are with Me from the beginning.” (John 15: 26-27)

      • Kereru says

        Jun 1, 2014 at 4:40 pm

        Nordicelt: Your question is based on a false premise. Firstly, crucifixion was a Roman punishment. Only Muslims crucify today, though they usually tie their victims to a crossbeam not nail them. Stoning was the Jewish method 2000 years ago, and is still practised by Muslims today.

        Secondly nobody, not the Jews, not the Romans, ‘killed’ Jesus. He came to this earth to suffer and die to take the punishment for the sins of mankind. He, being God, had the power to avoid such a terrible fate. As He said Himself in John 10:18, “No one can take my life from me. I lay down my life voluntarily. For I have the right to lay it down when I want to and also the power to take it again. For my Father has given me this command.”

        Perhaps you should examine your motives for making such a hackneyed assertion. You certianly need to study the New Testament. Were Jesus to come back today He would say what He said as He hung on the cross, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”

      • Champ ✞ says

        Jun 1, 2014 at 5:31 pm

        And “IF” Jesus were to come back today, then, what would he have to say to today’s Zio/Jews, who’s ancestors crucified him 2,000 years ago, & who would crucify him again today, “IF’, ony only could,..

        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

        Nordicelt, Jesus came to die for our sins, and being crucified was part of God’s plan for salvation …

        Question: “What does it mean that Jesus is the Lamb of God?”

        Answer: When Jesus is called the Lamb of God in John 1:29 and John 1:36, it is referring to Him as the perfect and ultimate sacrifice for sin. In order to understand who Christ was and what He did, we must begin with the Old Testament, which contains prophecies concerning the coming of Christ as a “guilt offering” (Isaiah 53:10). In fact, the whole sacrificial system established by God in the Old Testament set the stage for the coming of Jesus Christ, who is the perfect sacrifice God would provide as atonement for the sins of His people (Romans 8:3; Hebrews 10).

        More here:

        http://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-Lamb-of-God.html

    • bill says

      Jun 1, 2014 at 10:59 am

      If there was god he would be taking care of his faithful followers and she would not have been in jail in the first place.

      • MrIpe says

        Jun 2, 2014 at 6:52 am

        Then existence of the free will would be impossible.

    • bill says

      Jun 1, 2014 at 12:56 pm

      If there was a god he/she would be protecting his faithful followers and she would not have been jailed in the first place.
      There seems to be no god protecting the Christians of Egypt either as they are being wantonly slaughtered daily.

      • Greyhound Fancier says

        Jun 1, 2014 at 2:23 pm

        Today’s epistle reading, from 1 Peter, addresses this. Peter advises the Christians, during the persecution from Nero, to “rejoice: insofar as you are sharing Christ’s sufferings” and “to not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you”.

        Those Christians, blamed for the burning of Rome by Nero, were crucified and then covered with pitch, which was set ablaze to burn them to death. Nero, I supposed, thought the persecution would end the sect of Christianity, but by the fourth century the Roman Empire was Christian. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.

      • dlbrand says

        Jun 1, 2014 at 4:53 pm

        Bill, I can understand, to a degree, why you state what you stated …

        However, it brings to mind, one of my favorite sayings: God never promised to spare us from trouble, sorrow, heartache, nor loss, but He promised, in all those instances, should they visit our lives, there then too, to walk with us, He would be.

        For that reason, many are the Christians that have the testimony of steadiness, peace, courage beyond their own ability in the face of loss, sorrow, threat.

      • Champ ✞ says

        Jun 1, 2014 at 5:02 pm

        bill, Jesus never promised Christians an easy life; instead He warned His followers that they would be persecuted and even hated …

        “You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.” — Matthew 10:22

  2. Fitz says

    May 31, 2014 at 4:16 pm

    This with obviously achieved by threatening to withdraw the international aid we give to the country. Although Pam Geller had protested against aid to Islamic countries, a position I empathise with, perhaps it is as well we continue to do this as a bargaining chi for engendering reform.

    • RodSerling says

      Jun 1, 2014 at 7:44 pm

      Also see jizya, compensation in lieu of (non-Muslims) being slain.

  3. Fitz says

    May 31, 2014 at 4:17 pm

    This with obviously achieved by threatening to withdraw the international aid we give to the country. Although Pam Geller had protested against aid to Islamic countries, a position I empathise with, perhaps it is as well we continue to do this as a bargaining chip for engendering reform.

  4. dlbrand says

    May 31, 2014 at 4:27 pm

    Praise God for it, indeed.

    May He ever keep and bless her and hers.

    • Mick McCoy says

      May 31, 2014 at 7:10 pm

      God had nothing to do with it …If “He” did then “He” would thunder from heaven and release all prisoners to Islam. Prayer doesn’t change anything, people do! This barbaric so called religion needs to be FORCED into oblivion by every person of principal, with one voice, throughout the world.

      • raylanfear says

        May 31, 2014 at 11:16 pm

        You are correct. “Moderate Muslims, Peaceful Muslims, Peaceful Mosques,” just how is anyone to know the difference in America today; because of “Taqivya” Can someone explain? How many Mosques in America will produce future “clones” of Anwar Awlaki?
        A small college out in Claremont California called “Bayan Claremont” now offers a degree in Islamic Studies for the future leadership of Muslims in America. One wonders just what is being taught there besides the basic Islam agenda.
        On their webpage, they list their faculty and listed is Ism Suhaib Webb. Somewhat shocking as he joined Al Qaeda and worked right alongside of Anwar Awlaki. To refresh your memory Anwar Awlaki was an American born terrorist who incited English speaking Muslims to commit terrorist acts. He preached to 3 of the 9/11 hijackers and was linked with Nidal Hassan who committed the Fort Hood massacre of our soldiers. Awlaki was a main recruiter for Al Qaeda and preached a hateful ideology and incited violence against America.
        He had our own government fooled for years, using “taqivya” (The practice of concealing one’s beliefs and using any form of lying, deceit, misleading, half-truths, considered legitimate my Muslims to further the growth of Islam.) Anwar Awlaki was an Iman and preacher at a Virginia Mosque (we now have over 2400 Mosques and even one being constructed in Idaho.) Certainly not all Mosques breed terrorists, but it only takes one to accomplish a 9/11 again. Our own government invited him to speak and teach our military officers and offer them advice as he was thought at the time to be a so called “moderate Muslim”. Anwar Awlaki, the leader of Al Qaeda was killed in a drone attack by President Obama, executive order on 9/2-/2011.
        Now the “clone” of Anwar Awlaki is teaching he future leadership of Muslims in America. How is this allowed? Why he was even allowed to return to our soil? Why he was not arrested? He apparently has convinced the government that he is a moderate Muslim. (Will we ever learn from the tragedy the lessons of 9/11?)
        Ayaan Hirsi Ali perhaps said it best, “Violence is inherent in Islam” It must be noted that Ayaan has won every single debate on the subject as to whether or not Islam is a religion of peace. It is not. She speaks from experience as a former Muslim, and speaks out against radical Islam and Sharia Law and women’s rights. She has been accused of hate speech and has death threats on her life, merely for telling the truth.
        The mainstream news has no idea that this man “Ism Suhaib Webb” is now at Bayan College, nor do they care. Also on the staff, is Alam Al Marayati, who has defended terrorist acts and the groups that carry them out?
        Perhaps this college should be investigated, since they are using our tax money to support their agenda. What is your thoughts America? Please comment

  5. duh_swami says

    May 31, 2014 at 5:04 pm

    Once actually free she should leave the country before they change their minds.

    • RG says

      May 31, 2014 at 7:53 pm

      Yes, and they need to change their identities. Muslim “mercy” is never to trusted!

    • dlbrand says

      May 31, 2014 at 9:43 pm

      Abdolutely.

      • dlbrand says

        May 31, 2014 at 9:45 pm

        That is, as in “Absolutely.”

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jun 2, 2014 at 1:55 am

      The US should be rushing to offer Mr and Mrs Daniel Wani and the two little ones, Martin (2 yrs) and Maya (newborn) a red-carpet flight back to the States, where Mr Wani already has citizenship.

      People such as Meriam – who was prepared to *die* rather than submit to Islam – and Daniel – who had the discernment to select such a gutsy woman as his wife, even if he didn’t know at the time just how brave and faithful she would turn out to be – are exactly the kind of new citizens that Uncle Sam *needs*, right now.

  6. tpellow says

    May 31, 2014 at 5:35 pm

    Supplementary.

    “Sudan apostasy woman:
    Meriam Ibrahim ‘to be freed’ after death sentence for marrying Christian man.”

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/meriam-ibrahim-sudanese-death-sentence-woman-to-be-freed-9466259.html

  7. csmith says

    May 31, 2014 at 5:53 pm

    I won’t believe it until she is seen unshackled and out of prison. This is a ploy by the government of Sudan to get protesters off their case. Keep up the pressure until she is proven safe from their punishment.

    • RG says

      May 31, 2014 at 7:54 pm

      AMEN!!!

    • dlbrand says

      May 31, 2014 at 9:47 pm

      Indeed, I too want to see it to accept it “done.”

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jun 2, 2014 at 1:58 am

      Yep. I’ll believe it when I see photos of Meriam and Daniel Wani and little Martin and baby Maya stepping out of a US plane and onto the tarmac at an American airport, with Daniel’s US church family – I *bet* he’s a parishioner at an American church – gathering round to scoop them in.

      And when Barnabas Fund publishes a statement telling me that they are, indeed, in (relative) safety in the States.

      • dlbrand says

        Jun 2, 2014 at 2:42 am

        Indeed.

  8. mark says

    May 31, 2014 at 6:08 pm

    They will probably stone her on release as soon as she’s out of the prison gate.

    • PJG says

      May 31, 2014 at 7:43 pm

      I doubt it. Too many Sudanese are on her side. They would not allow Sudan to be disgraced in such a way.

      • voegelinian says

        Jun 1, 2014 at 1:06 pm

        Do you have evidence for your claim?

        • PJG says

          Jun 1, 2014 at 8:59 pm

          No. I’ve just beeen on the receiving end of a lot of commentary from Khartoum, and I believe that although people there might have no power to stop a hanging sentence being carried out, ENOUGH of them are on her side to the point where they would stop a STONING OUTSIDE THE PRISON GATE. That’s all.
          I didn’t say all Sudanese are lovely, peaceful etc, so don’t get rattled. But I have seen for myself a Sudanese demonstration – and let me tell you, a large number of them are very protective of their reputation as civilized people.
          It hardly needs to be said that once a country has gone to Islam, for it to get out of it is well-nigh impossible.

  9. gravenimage says

    May 31, 2014 at 6:27 pm

    Sudan to free Christian woman condemned to death for leaving Islam
    ……………………..

    Oh my God—I am *so* glad to hear this!

    Yes—It *does* pay for decent Infidels to make a big stink about Shari’ah barbarism.

    But I have some questions—will Meriam Ibrahim be allowed to return to her husband? Will they be granted custody of their children?

    If they are allowed to reunite, the first thing the should do is *get out of Sudan*.

    For one thing, there is no guarantee that other thuggish members of the Ummah won’t decide that the Sudanese authorities were being “insufficiently islamic” in releasing her, and decide to carry out that death sentence themselves…

    Since her husband is an American citizen, I hope that means their coming to the US. I for one will welcome them.

  10. PJG says

    May 31, 2014 at 7:41 pm

    Sometimes those “international law” types come in handy.

    http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article51184

    Someone told me the original court’s decision that she be killed was a court challenge to the government; there are always some people, some groups, which find Islamic governments not Islamic enough, and this has happened frequently in Sudanese history.

    I hope the US Embassy will give the family cover and get them out of Sudan fast. Needless to say, they are not safe; there are enough Sudanese who will be outraged when she is freed to assume that some will take “the law” into their own hands. If something happens to Meriam outside the jail, Sudan will erupt…it’s already getting pretty warm over there. Also, the lawyers who helped get her out of jail might consider laying low for a while. They have taken a brave stand.

    • m says

      Jun 1, 2014 at 7:16 am

      Sharia authorises Muslims to take the law into their own hands, Manual of Islamic Law o8.4:
      “There is no indemnity for killing an apostate (O: or any expiation since it is killing someone who deserves to die).”
      The Manual is a free download at: http://www.shafiifiqh.com/maktabah/relianceoftraveller.pdf‎

    • Kepha says

      Jun 1, 2014 at 9:50 am

      As I’ve said before, since the husband is a US citizen, someone please walk him through the process of petitioning for an alien spouse! It’s not that hard a matter. I did it for my own wife of thirty-some years, and I was neither a diplomat at the time nor a lawyer. In a case like this, ICE may even be able to cable AmEmbassy Khartoum Consular Section reporting that the case is approved, and the Consulate can take the case from there. We won’t even have to give up an asylee number in this case!

  11. Jerry says

    May 31, 2014 at 8:47 pm

    And what aout the the child?

    • gravenimage says

      May 31, 2014 at 10:46 pm

      There are two children, Jerry. The daughter she just gave birth to, and a twenty-month-old toddler who was in prison with her.

      • Kepha says

        Jun 1, 2014 at 9:54 am

        I do not know how long the husband and father was a US citizen. But if he has been one long enough and has resided in the USA for five years, two of which are after the age of 14, the kids will be issued US passports; if the father does not meet transmission requirements, it is no more difficult to petition for these alien children than for his alien wife.

        If the kids are not US citizens by birth, pray that the Sudanese government will not obstruct their travelling to the US with their mother.

        • voegelinian says

          Jun 1, 2014 at 1:10 pm

          The older child is already a US citizen, as is her husband. This is an act of war against America (to add to the list of thousands of other acts of war against America, and the rest of the West, which Muslims have perpetrated in the past few years, decades, generations, centuries…).

  12. RodSerling says

    May 31, 2014 at 8:54 pm

    Good. Let’s help keep the pressure on until she is clearly out of danger.

    https://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/sudan-execution-apostasy-pregnant-woman-mother-meriam-yahya-ibrahim-christian

    The Sudanese authorities, like the Iranian authorities in other high profile cases that receive international attention, may only be using a stalling tactic here, in this particular case, in order to protect the image of Islam.

  13. Citizen Warrior says

    May 31, 2014 at 9:55 pm

    Firstly, what a beautiful couple…Secondly, free at last…
    With the threat of death to this woman, the kidnap of the girls in Nigeria,
    the rapes and murders in Pakistan, Stoning to death…all in the past few weeks;
    If another person tries to peddle the line that Islam is a Religion of Peace; I will go berserk!!!…they must be blind, deaf and dumb…

    • gravenimage says

      May 31, 2014 at 10:48 pm

      Hear, hear, Citizen Warrior! Good to see you posting here.

    • RodSerling says

      Jun 1, 2014 at 1:49 am

      Citizen Warrior,
      Why not add the link to your website to your name? (e.g., see what Stephanie has done, above). When you sign in (if you are signed up here), you can set it up on your profile page.

    • PJG says

      Jun 1, 2014 at 4:31 am

      The “Islam is peace” crew have been working overtime on the Amnesty website.

      • Mirren10 says

        Jun 1, 2014 at 5:31 am

        PJG, I’ve just been on the site, to send the email, but didn’t see any comments. Was I on the wrong site ?

        • PJG says

          Jun 1, 2014 at 10:43 am

          https://www.facebook.com/messages/?action=read&tid=mid.1399461656761%3Afd385cd10dc60ffc81#!/amnestyglobal?fref=photo

          This is one of the pages.

  14. islamisdeath says

    May 31, 2014 at 10:03 pm

    I prayed for this woman every day. I am so joyful she will be freed, no thanks to imam obama.

  15. Wellington says

    May 31, 2014 at 10:17 pm

    In the understandable joy and relief at this woman’s intended release, it should not be overlooked that the Sudanese authorities involved with her release are contravening Islamic doctrine. A battle won to be sure but the war goes on.

    On this same issue, David Cameron called the ruling for her death “barbaric.” Prime Minister, if only you could grasp that Islam is barbaric. See the tree to be sure, but step back and take a look at the entire forest too.

    • Jay Boo says

      May 31, 2014 at 11:14 pm

      Muslim authorities can be very reasonable when it serves their interest.

    • PJG says

      Jun 1, 2014 at 4:45 am

      Re: Sudanese authorities. Not quite like that, Wellington. Sudan is ruled with a mixture of islamic law, the laws which existed courtesy of the British, and international law. And as with any country, the people are divided. See the article I put up above. The government doesn’t equal the judiciary, and neither necessarily reflect the wishes of the people. The tension between the government, the judiciary and the people is high.
      It can’t be forgotten that a huge number of Muslims would have voted for John Garang, a Christian, to be President of the Sudan only a few years ago, if he had not died. The government must be only too aware of this.

      • Wellington says

        Jun 1, 2014 at 5:14 pm

        I don’t deny the details you assert, PJG, in fact thanks for them, but my larger point is that to any extent that Muslims don’t adhere to Islamic doctrine, which frankly in numerous instances is simply barbaric, then to that extent they are not good Muslims. It’s a sliding scale. The more the Muslim acts according to Islamic doctrine, the more barbaric that Muslim is likely to be. The less the Muslim acts in accordance with Islamic doctrine, often the more humane that Muslim is.

        In short, you can’t be both a fully devout Muslim and a good person. It’s an either/or on that sliding scale I already mentioned. This truth, of course, functions as a massive condemnation of Islam, and fully deserved this condemnation is.

        • dlbrand says

          Jun 1, 2014 at 5:59 pm

          Amen, Wellington.

          Well stated.

  16. David, Thailand says

    May 31, 2014 at 10:37 pm

    This proves that the Sudanese are fair and reasonable and civilised.

    Well, at least to other dysfunctionals.

  17. Jay Boo says

    May 31, 2014 at 11:10 pm

    I sometimes wonder if we are asking too much of Muslims when we expect them to conduct themselves like decent human beings for this would make them apostates to Islam.

    After all, Islam only has the dishonorable Muhammad to serve as the pathetic example for followers of Islam on how to conduct themselves.

    Is it really such a surprise?

  18. Salah says

    Jun 1, 2014 at 2:25 am

    “This shows that negative publicity does get through to Islamic supremacists..”

    As I always say: Islam is a giant made of paper.
    Followers of Muhammad are just like him: cowards. If they succeed it’s because *we* are more coward.

    Muhammad the Coward
    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/03/muhammad-coward.html

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 1, 2014 at 8:44 pm

      BEWARE that ISLAM is the enemy of truth

      yet also,

      BEHOLD TRUTH is the enemy of Islam

  19. Michael Copeland says

    Jun 1, 2014 at 2:30 am

    THE DEATH PENALTY FOR LEAVING ISLAM
    “Religious freedom is an absolute, fundamental human right”,
    David Cameron.
    “abhorrent” …a “flagrant breach of international human rights”,
    Nick Clegg.
    “utterly appalling and an abhorrent abuse of her human rights”,
    Ed Miliband.
    “brutal and sickening distortion of faith”,
    Tony Blair.

    They sound like Geert Wilders. Thank you for your comments, leaders, but this is Sharia: this is Islam.
    “Leaving Islam is the ugliest form of unbelief (kufr) and the worst”,
    “When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostatizes from Islam he deserves to be killed” (Manual of Islamic Law, o8.0, o8.1).

    In this case the woman did not reach puberty and then leave Islam. She never knew Islam: she was raised a Christian by her Christian mother.

    • Charli Main says

      Jun 1, 2014 at 6:51 am

      ” brutal and sickening distortion of faith. Tony Blair
      No its not. Its basic, fundamental Islam as taught to Muslims in the Koran, Hadiths and Suras.
      Don´t believe that Tony???
      Well, buy a Koran with your taxpayer funder expense account and read it for yourself.

  20. RodSerling says

    Jun 1, 2014 at 3:15 am

    OT but related:

    Reza Aslan promotes highly misleading and dishonest article, by Ro Waseem, on the Qur’an’s policies for apostasy and blasphemy.
    https://twitter.com/Quranalyzeit/status/472820778254499840

    http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2014/05/29/blasphemy-and-apostasy-laws-islam-or-hislam/32191

  21. Gerry Dorrian says

    Jun 1, 2014 at 3:49 am

    It’s good that the sentence has been overturned, but the fact a woman was forced to give birth in shackles because she was sentenced to death for being Christian shows the backward – there’s no other word – nature of Sharia. I also have to wonder what deals were done between South Sudan and Western countries regarding aid monies to bring this result about – these ideologues don’t change their minds just because people they see as subhumans wag their fingers and tut.

    • PJG says

      Jun 1, 2014 at 9:06 pm

      South Sudan has nothing to do with this. As for aid to Sudan, I am curious: does anyone know if the US, or Australia, or any Western country, give aid to Sudan?

  22. citycat says

    Jun 1, 2014 at 5:30 am

    All great truths begin as blasphemies.
    George Bernard Shaw

  23. duh_swami says

    Jun 1, 2014 at 8:19 am

    Happy day for the lovely couple, but don’t take this to mean we are getting soft on filthy kuffar and apostates. The next violator will get everything he has coming to him/her. Allah willing, and he always is.

  24. squeezethejuice says

    Jun 1, 2014 at 8:46 am

    We Muslims are tolerant ppl, it is only a few ppl with complexes that are ill behaved, as in all societies. Islam is a religion that stressed peace and tolerance towards the other major religions even since its founding. In the Middle Ages, perhaps the only groups exempt from fighting in any army were Christians and Jews.

    When the Christians conquered our beautiful Al Andalus, they hunted down all of the Muslims and Jews, and so the Jews decided to flee to the safe haven of Muslim Morocco, establishing their own quarters in cities such as Fes and Marrakech. If we Muslims were the monsters you so desperately want us to be, then how is this even possible that Jews preferred the company of Muslims?

    • Charli Main says

      Jun 1, 2014 at 9:16 am

      The Christians did not conquer beautiful Al Andalus.
      They liberated it from the Muslim vermin that attacked Christian Spain in 717 AD. They have also restored back to Christian use, all the churches and cathedrals that the said invading Muslim vermin defiled and desecrated by turning them into Mosques.
      What goes round, Muslim, comes round. The day will come when all you Muslims will end up back in Mecca–where you belong.

      • bill says

        Jun 1, 2014 at 12:49 pm

        Please understand that non Muslims’ land is like the ‘promised land’ of the Israelites. They think it is their right to own it and conquer it as Allah has given them the right to rule the whole world.

        • Kereru says

          Jun 2, 2014 at 1:04 am

          No comparison. The Israelites as descendants of Isaac, the legitimate son of Abraham, were promised the land of Canaan (Genesis 12) for an eternal inheritance. The descendants of Ishmael, on the other hand, were promised the lands of Arabia. The Jews do not *think* they have the right to the promised land, they have that covenant right.

          The sons of Ishmael do not. Allah might have led them to believe the world is theirs to conquer, but they have no claim to it as it is a hollow promise from a counterfeit god. How many wars have they won against Israel so far, despite the Israelis being vastly outnumbered? They won’t win the next war either.

    • Mo says

      Jun 1, 2014 at 10:27 am

      @ squeezethejuice

      “We Muslims are tolerant ppl,”

      You call it tolerant to imprison a young woman (and her toddler!) who has committed no crime?

      You call it tolerant to chain her even as she’s giving birth? Where’s she going to go?

      You call it tolerant to condemn her to death within two years? (Especially when there’s little chance she’d even survive for two years under such brutal conditions.)

      You call that tolerant?

      Your death cult has no place in civilized society.

      Know that I loathe your death cult with all my heart and soul. May Muslims continue to find their way out of it, and into freedom.

      We will NOT submit.

    • Edward Cline says

      Jun 1, 2014 at 11:09 am

      Let’s correct our history here. Islam was not founded in the Middle Ages, but in the Dark Ages, concurrent with the collapse of the Eastern Roman Empire. When it collapsed, the resulting vacuum sucked in all manner of barbarians, including Muslim hordes. Islam was “founded” in the seventh century, unequivocally a period of the Dark Ages. Secondly, Islam never stressed “peace and tolerance.” When Mohammad (provided he actually existed) saw that “peaceful persuasion” to his religion didn’t quite work, he raised the sword of conquest: convert or die or be a slave. Robert Spencer and other authorities on Islam reveal that the Koran was an evolving text, with the earlier “peaceful” verses replaced with the violent ones, which abrogated the original verses. Your “beautiful Al Andalus” was conquered first by Muslims; reclaiming it from Islam by the Christians can hardly be called a “conquest.” Third, Islam is evil. It is first and foremost a political ideology; else, why so many restrictions on non-Muslims, such as jizya, deferring to Muslims in all social and political instances? Passive, non-violent Muslims are dim bulbs; being raised in the religion inculcates mental passivity. The violence explicitly sanctioned by the Koran and other Islamic texts are rationalized by Muslims with particular sociopathalogical tendencies; actually, such criminals are purists practicing what the Koran teaches; this has been demonstrated countless times by their public statements. (e.g., the murderers of Lee Rigby). Finally, if what you say is true, why did the Christians and Jews of Fes and Marrakesh have to settle in “ghettos” apart from Muslims? On a final note: Muslim armies did employ Christians in their ranks, the Janissaries.

      • voegelinian says

        Jun 1, 2014 at 1:16 pm

        Actually, for the West and Eastern Roman Empire, the 7th century was showing signs of a dawning of a reconfiguration of the Empire that had gone through various convulsions, a metamorphosis into a Christian Roman Empire.

        Then Islam happened, and through its imperialistic depredations launched on a scale unprecedented in world history until then, caused the Dark Ages in the West.

        That’s the revised (read: restored) historical truth, courtesy of historian Henri Pirenne.

    • RodSerling says

      Jun 1, 2014 at 3:31 pm

      “squeezethejuice,”

      “If we Muslims were the monsters you so desperately want us to be…”

      Hey, you chose that evil sadistic anti-Jewish name for your handle. And you choose to remain in that evil sadistic anti-Jewish “deen” known as Islam. We don’t want you to be a monster, but you insist on being one. You are apparently the sadist who imagines his would-be victims are masochists.

      Get your propaganda straight bud*: Do you accept Jews, or do you want squeeze them to death and/or dhimmitude?

      *Not that the type of incoherency “squeezethejuice” demonstrates is anything new. It is, indeed, a microcosm of Muslim propaganda, i.e., murderous against the Jews, denying the Holocaust while threatening another, all the while maintaining that Islam provides the best possible conditions for the Jews.

  25. Mo says

    Jun 1, 2014 at 10:06 am

    Thank you, Lord!

    (I won’t feel peace until she’s actually OUT and safely back home, but it’s great news nonetheless!)

  26. Edward Cline says

    Jun 1, 2014 at 10:17 am

    “British Prime Minister David Cameron described the ruling as ‘barbaric’ and out of step with today’s world.” Come again? Such “barbaric” rulings in Muslim countries are hardly “out of step with today’s world,” David. Look to Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brunei (remember Brunei, everyone seems to have lost their ardor of protest against the Sultan’s imposing Sharia on that country; where have all the demonstrators gone?), Malaysia, Indonesia, Qatar, Libya, Dubai, and even in Egypt, regardless of the fall of the Brotherhood there. This is aside from Muslim criminals imposing impromptu Sharia in Western countries with rape, murder, and honor killings.

  27. Alondra says

    Jun 1, 2014 at 12:32 pm

    Praise the Lord, I’ve been praying for Meriam and her situation for several weeks now. I sure hope they don’t reneg on this promise to free her. I hope she and her children can come to the states and live with her husband and be a family.

  28. bill says

    Jun 1, 2014 at 12:45 pm

    This decision is porbably influenced more by the prospect of losing the huge amounts of aid from the West than about any compassion or wish to seem
    human.

    • voegelinian says

      Jun 1, 2014 at 1:18 pm

      Of course. For us to think even a particle otherwise, is naive folly.

  29. akafir says

    Jun 1, 2014 at 2:14 pm

    Sudan backtracks on pledge to free woman sentenced to death for apostasy.
    The foreign office said on Saturday that Meriam Ibrahim would be freed within days but has now said that only Sudan’s courts can decide.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sudan/10868399/Sudan-backtracks-on-pledge-to-free-woman-sentenced-to-death-for-apostasy.html

    • PJG says

      Jun 1, 2014 at 9:30 pm

      Oh dear. No celebrating until she is out of the coutry.

  30. Anne says

    Jun 1, 2014 at 7:03 pm

    Praise God! To God be the glory! Great things He as done!

  31. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jun 2, 2014 at 2:12 am

    Barnabas Fund are among those who are assisting Meriam…and the many *other* Christian women in the Sudan who have been jailed on one spurious pretext or another.

    http://barnabasfund.org/AU/News/Latest-emergencies/Help-Christian-women-jailed-under-harsh-sharia-law-in-Sudan.html

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