Muhammad commanded: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated: “The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi`i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-`ashriyyah, Al-Ja`fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.” There is only disagreement over whether the law applies only to men, or to women also – some authorities hold that apostate women should not be killed, but only imprisoned in their houses until death. This father clearly believes that a female apostate should be killed.
“Those who leave Islam in Malaysia face fines, whippings and death sentence,” Catholic Online, July 15, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – The Department of Syariah Judiciary Malaysia, or JKSM in a recent newspaper interview said that the Islamic courts are the only place according to current laws for Malaysians seeking to be no longer known as Muslim.
The department identified two types of applications at the Sharia courts. One is to renounce Islam, and secondly for a declaration that one is no longer Muslim.
For the former, practicing Muslims — regardless of ethnicity who want to renounce Islam and convert to other faiths, could not be found for the department.
For the second type of application, JKSM puts these applicants into three categories: The first subgroup are those mistakenly listed as Muslims because of naming conventions, typically involving residents of Sabah and Sarawak.
Another group covers those who embraced Islam but now wish to revert to being non-Muslims, which includes applicants who had converted when marrying a Muslim but want out of the religion after the marriage fails.
The last includes non-practicing Muslims who want to be recognized as non-Muslims. This third group cuts across ethnicity. This designation includes those who were born as Muslims and “by virtue of the documents are Muslims, but never practice the religion of Islam,” it said.
Children from an initial non-Muslim marriage who were unilaterally converted by one of the parents who had converted to Islam also fall within this third group. These children may apply personally to be recognized as non-Muslims once they are 18 years old.
Sharia Courts have reportedly only approved a total of 135 out of 686 applications by Muslims seeking to change their religious status for the 2000-2010 period.
There is “no penalty” and no mandatory counseling session if the Sharia court rejects the application, while applicants also have the right to appeal, – JKSM said.
However — five states in Malaysia have laws that prohibit apostasy or attempted apostasy. “Apostasy” in a Muslim nation means choosing to embrace a different religious faith.
Those found guilty of attempted apostasy will be detained in Islamic Rehabilitation Centers until they repent or for up to 36 months, while those in Malacca would face up to six months of detention in such centers.
Those who were raised in a professing Muslim family and choose to convert to Christianity face horrid opposition. So much for religious freedom in Muslim Nations.
Peter Buckley says
As everywhere in “the muslim world”, apostasy grows DESPITE “extremism” in Malaysia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niZVMrCyzW0
Islam is collapsing. The only way it can defend itself is by becoming “more extreme”(i.e. imposing Sharia on NON-MUSLIMS and APOSTATES).
In becoming “more extreme”, it exposes its true face to the world. Result: MORE APOSTASY ………
Beagle says
Where are the Internet trolls pushing the “moderate Malaysia” myth when I need them? Malaysia has been having a sahwa Islamia for over a decade and it is still trotted out as an exemplar regularly.
boakai ngombu says
” … This designation includes those who were born as Muslims and “by virtue of the documents are Muslims, but never practice the religion of Islam,” it said.
oops. don’t they mean MODERATE Muslims?
and, where does that freedom come from ? … the brothers down at the mosque will be greatly disturbed, having striven so hard to emulate Muhammad (lately contrived; full of lusts).
Angemon says
Ah, the awful… I mean, woeful… I mean, wonderful, mythical, tolerance of islam! Why wouldn’t kuffar want to live in a sharia-ruled land?
/sarc off
Richie says
Correct me if I’m wrong, but before the evil swill that is Islam spread to Malaysia, the area was filled with peaceful Buddists
Mazo says
Malays were majority Hindu-Buddhist before the 15th century. A few areas were Muslim like Kedah, but not the rest of Malaya.
The Thai Ayutthaya Empire conquered the Malay peninsula (Tanah Melayu) before that time, forcing Hindu Malay chiefs and states into vassalage.
A Hindu Malay vassal leader named Parameswara then converted to Islam, changed his name to Iskandar Shah, and asked Ming China to free Malaya from Thai rule sometime in the early 1400s.
China then ordered Thailand to give up sovereignty over the Malayan peninsula and surrender control to Iskandar Shah, who founded the Malacca Sultanate as a protectorate of China. Under the Malacca Sultanate, most Malays then converted to Islam.
After the invasion of the Sultanate by the Portuguese, Thailand then again attacked and forced the Malay Sultanates into vassalage and submission. The Sultanates of Singgora, Pattani, Kedah, and Kelantan were all vassals of Thailand due to Thai military power and intimination.
Thailand annexed the Singgora Sultanate, but when the British forced Thailand to hand over Kedah and Kelantan to British Malaya in 1909, Thailand decided to directly annex Pattani as a province to prevent the British from seizing it too.
Also China made the Portuguese pay for their invasion of Malacca by executing an entire Portuguese delegation and beating the Portuguese in battles at Tamao.
Malays were being conquered by the Thai when they were Hindu-Buddhists already.
dumbledoresarmy says
On Australian TV stations, of late, there have been saccharine-sweet lavishly-produced ads promoting tourism to Malaysia, under the slogans “Malaysia – Truly Asia” and “These are my colours of Malaysia”.
Every time I encounter them – which is, thankfully, not often – they make me want to puke. I know far too much, to *ever* want to go anywhere *near* Malaysia. The Lina Joy case was quite enough to tell me all I need to know. And then there are all the Malaysia Hindus and Christians and Buddhists and Confucians who are voting with their feet – leaving Malaysia, where they are subjected to continual subtle and unsubtle harassment and exploitation and trheats from the surrounding and ever-more-aggressive and nasty Mohammedans, and going instead to Australia and to other friendly non-Muslim countries. Here in Australia I’ve met a good few of those non-Muslims who have fled from Malaysia, in the course of the past ten or twenty years.
Why, why, why would *any* idiotic non-Muslim from a free non-Muslim country even *consider* spending their tourist dollars in rapidly-going-sharia Malaysia, where any person born into a Musl im family who decides they don’t want to be Muslim any more, faces fines, whippings, “re-education” and even **death**?
umbra says
malaysia, truly a hole in Asia.
Semeru says
Good grief! they have been running these ads for years
Semeru says
A bit of scare-mongering with the title Malaysia: Those who leave Islam face fines, whippings and death sentence yet no where in the article does it mention whipping or death sentence.
Amending the penal code is the exclusive prerogative of the federal government Despite contradicting federal law, the state governments of Kelantan and Terengganu passed laws in 1993 and 2002, respectively, making
apostasy a capital offense
Apostasy is defined as the conversion from Islam to another faith No
one has been convicted under these lawsand, according to a 1993 statement by the attorney general,the laws cannot be enforced absent a constitutional amendment
Nationally, Muslims who seek to convert to another religion must first obtain
approval from a Sharia court to declare themselves apostates.This effectively
prohibits the conversion of Muslims, since Sharia courts seldom grant such
requests and can impose penalties (such as enforced rehabilitation on apostates
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/192853.pdf
Uncle Vladdi says
Re: “Muhammad commanded: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57).”
ROBERT – WHY RESORT TO MERE BUKHARI, WHEN IT’S RIGHT IN SURA 4:89!?
;-/