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Mauritania sentences man to death for apostasy

Dec 25, 2014 7:52 am By Robert Spencer

Mauritania mosqueMuhammad 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. 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.

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 Somalia as we speak, so as to explain to the Muslim clerics who are denouncing Abisaid Abdi Ismail that they are misunderstanders of Islam? Akyol made a reasonably good statement recently; where are the others?

“Man sentenced to death in Mauritania for apostasy,” AFP, December 25, 2014:

Nouakchott – A Muslim man in Mauritania was sentenced to death for apostasy on Wednesday after a court ruled that he had written something blasphemous, a judicial source told AFP.

Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed, who is around 30 years old, fainted when the ruling was read out late on Wednesday in a court in Nouadhibou in the northwest of the country, the source said on condition of anonymity.

He was revived and taken to prison, the source added.

Mohamed has been detained since 2 January and pleaded not guilty to the charge when proceedings opened on Tuesday.

Mauritania has the death penalty but has not executed anyone since 1987, according to human rights organisation Amnesty International.

During the hearing the judge told Mohamed that he was accused of apostasy “for speaking lightly of the Prophet Mohammed” in an article which was published briefly on Mauritanian websites. In it he challenged some of the prophet’s actions, the source told AFP.

Mohamed explained that it was “not his intention to harm the prophet”, the source added.

His lawyer asked for leniency as he said his client was repentant but the judge agreed to the prosecutor’s request for the death penalty.

Sharia, or Islamic, law is in effect in Mauritania but the enforcement of strict punishments — such as floggings — have been rare since the 1980s.

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  1. terry says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 10:48 am

    This is not the only case, recently, of Muslims starting to question Islam’s teachings, doctrines, outright criticizing or altogether converting to Christianity, putting their lives at great risk, in doing so.

    Hence, as Wellington, Salah, and many others who are well acquainted with Islam said, one of the main priorities in counter Jihad/Islam efforts and strategies, by any decent authority still left in the west, should be urgently providing protection and help for those trying to flee the grip of Islam.

    This is very urgent and overdue!

    • particolor says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 6:25 am

      I don’t think the West has Cottoned on to these Islamic Deviot’s Yet !! Most of these Events are Staged .and they have all there So called Refugees and Asylum Seekers Lined up ready to Invade by Stealth !! They have been working on it for Years !! And so far its worked a Treat for them !! Wake Up !!

      • particolor says

        Dec 26, 2014 at 6:28 am

        Before the Spelling Pig gets here that was.. Their so called refugees…

  2. Angemon says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 11:51 am

    News agencies in my country added that the sentence was celebrated by the crowd at the scene.

    • particolor says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 6:30 am

      As it would be by the Mentally Deranged !!

  3. Jack the Nipper says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 12:48 pm

    Isolate this hell hole from the rest of the world with a no fly zone, a boycott,and an electric fence.

  4. Salah says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 2:10 pm

    “In it ( his article) he challenged some of the prophet’s actions, the source told AFP.”

    What actions? mass murder or rape or incest or exhibitionism or necrophilia or transvestism or sucking on little boys’ tongues or kissing their private parts or beheading prisoners of war or satanism or attempted suicide or torturing his opponents or cancelling adoptions or adultery or having “fun” with men or having sex with his menstruating women or paedophilia or…or…or…
    What actions exactly?

  5. Universal Soldier Of Freedom says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 10:04 pm

    Vote with your money and Boycott all Muslim Countries goods and services as they are the enemies of Western Democracies, Separation of Religion and Government, Western Freedoms, Equalities and Human Rights! They use their children and civilians as Human Shields, Kill innocent children, women and men all over the world for not being Muslims or their brand of Muslim, practice Polygamy (up to 4 wives for men), practice child marriages from age 9 to 18, practice Female Genital Mutilation (no orgasms), treat women and non-Muslims as second-class citizens, practice Honor Killings (for dating or marrying Non-Muslims), practice killings for Apostasy (anyone leaving Islam or refusing to acknowledge they are Muslim by having a birth parent who is Muslim), practice wife and child beatings and have vowed to fight Israel, Jews & Christians and all other Religions until they conquer us! The Koran and Sharia Law teaches that they can Lie, Cheat, Steal, Rape and Murder non-Muslims to further Islam’s conquering the world! If the Taliban take over Pakistan they also take over their Nuclear/ Chemical/ Biological Weapons Systems! The Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan are also funding their military by sales of heroin and opium to Western Democracies ruining our citizens! We need to spray their poppy flower fields (source of the opium used in heroin) with defoliants from drones, planes and helicopters!
    Stop all Muslim Terrorists by any means necessary! For all Taliban, ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, P.L.O., Black September and all other Muslim Terrorists and their front groups for recruits and financial or material support do, These bullets, bombs, missiles and lasers are for you! Courtesy of Israel, the U.S.A., E.C., Australia and Canada!

    • particolor says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 6:37 am

      You forgot to Get The Halal to F**CK out of our Vegemite ???.. And any other Things they could lay their filthy thieving hands on !!..

    • terry says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 12:19 pm

      “Vote with your money and Boycott all Muslim Countries goods and services”

      Good point!

  6. particolor says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 6:11 am

    Those People are Very Very Sick and Mentally Ill !! I think WHO should have a look at ALL of them ! But then perhaps not, as its not safe to go anywhere near the Butchers !!

  7. GKP says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 1:12 pm

    It is hard to believe the existence of Saria law in the civilized world. The incidence of punishment under such law is against the human rights. Elimanate these to save mankind.

  8. valhalla says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 7:35 pm

    How can this ignorant -barbaric -uncivilised ideology be allowed to exist in this day and age ?to sentence a person to death for what they have said -denying them freedom of speech -they can’t stand the truth -politicians work for -us -sack them if they aren’t listening to what -we-want and it is not -islam.

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