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Sudan: Christian woman facing execution for leaving Islam appeals sentence

Jun 6, 2014 10:39 am By Robert Spencer

MeriamIbrahimMuhammad 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 and condemned those who point out that it does as bigots and “Islamophobes.” So are  Zafar, Akyol, al-Marayati, Bassiouni, and Eteraz on their way to Khartoum as we speak, so as to explain to Sudanese authorities that they are misunderstanders of Islam? Are they agitating for the release of Meriam Ibrahim? Akyol made a reasonably good statement recently; where are the others?

“Sudanese woman appeals ‘apostasy’ death sentence,” by Mohamed Osman, Associated Press, June 5, 2014:

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A Sudanese woman sentenced to death for refusing to recant her Christian faith after allegedly converting from Islam has appealed the sentence, her lawyer said.

The appeal demands the release of Meriam Ibrahim, saying the court that tried her committed “procedural errors,” her lawyer, Eman Abdul-Rahim, told The Associated Press late Wednesday.

Ibrahim was sentenced to death for “apostasy” last month by a Khartoum court for allegedly converting to Christianity from Islam. She maintains that her Muslim father left when she was young and that she was raised a Christian by her Ethiopian mother, who is an Orthodox Christian.

Ibrahim married a Christian man from southern Sudan in a church ceremony in 2011. As in many Muslim nations, Muslim women in Sudan are prohibited from marrying non-Muslims, though Muslim men can marry outside their faith.

Ibrahim has a son, 18-month-old Martin, who is living with her in jail, where she gave birth to a second child last week. By law, children must follow their father’s religion.

A video obtained by the AP shows Ibrahim with her newborn and her son Martin at the prison’s hospital where she gave birth. Looking happy and relaxed, the video shows Ibrahim breastfeeding the baby while seated on a bed with Martin sitting close by.

Amnesty International condemned the sentence against Ibrahim, calling it “abhorrent,” and the U.S. State Department said it was “deeply disturbed” by the sentence.

Sudan introduced Islamic Shariah law in the early 1980s under the rule of autocrat Jaafar Nimeiri, a move that contributed to the resumption of an insurgency in the mostly animist and Christian south of Sudan.

The south seceded in 2011 to become the world’s newest nation, South Sudan.

Sudanese President Omar Bashir, an Islamist who seized power in a 1989 military coup, has said his country will implement Islam more strictly now that the non-Muslim south is gone.

A number of Sudanese have been convicted of apostasy in recent years, but they all escaped execution by recanting their new faith.

Religious thinker and politician Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, a critic of Nimeiri and his interpretation of Shariah, was sentenced to death for apostasy. He was executed in 1985 at the age of 76.

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  1. Fitz says

    Jun 6, 2014 at 11:51 am

    Aykol’s piece is indeed a good one and an encouraging sign amidst the otherwise intransigent apologists.

  2. Salah says

    Jun 6, 2014 at 1:19 pm

    “A number of Sudanese have been convicted of apostasy in recent years, but they all escaped execution by recanting their new faith.”

    And that’s how Muslims remain…Muslims!!!
    And that’s how Muslims react when they feel relatively safe: They urinate on the Qur’an!!!
    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/01/egyptian-muslims-tear-up-quran.html

  3. Wayne says

    Jun 6, 2014 at 3:44 pm

    She won’t leave her children in the hands of these murderous mohammedan moral monsters.

  4. PJG says

    Jun 6, 2014 at 6:54 pm

    “Religious thinker and politician Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, a critic of Nimeiri and his interpretation of Shariah, was sentenced to death for apostasy. He was executed in 1985 at the age of 76.”

    The Sudanese were shocked and horrified by that; he was a popular man.
    Notice that word again by the way, “interpretation”. It wasn’t that Nimeiry suddenly “interpreted” sharia differently; he was pressured to APPLY it by hardliners who threatened his regime. It is possible a similar thing is happening now…because Islam “unites” people, as you all know…

  5. Mirren10 says

    Jun 7, 2014 at 9:35 am

    ”A video obtained by the AP shows Ibrahim with her newborn and her son Martin at the prison’s hospital where she gave birth. Looking happy and relaxed, the video shows Ibrahim breastfeeding the baby while seated on a bed with Martin sitting close by”

    Presumably Mohamed Osman is a mohammedan. Otherwise why include the above piece of blatant and pernicious rubbish ?

    ‘Looking happy and relaxed’ … my arse.

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