Istanbul, Brussels, Bangladesh: the Islamic State is a busy JV team. And here they’re simply following Islamic law. A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “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.”
Qaradawi also once famously said: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.”
“ISIS claims murder of Christian convert in Bangladesh,” AFP, March 23, 2016:
ISIS on Wednesday claimed responsibility for the murder of a Christian convert in northern Bangladesh, according to a US-based monitoring group.
Police said at least two attackers with sharp weapons on Tuesday killed 68-year-old Hossain Ali, who converted to Christianity from Islam in 1999.
In a communique posted on Twitter, ISIS said the murder was “a lesson to others”, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist activity on the Internet.
“A security detachment from the soldiers of the Caliphate was able, by the grace of Allah the Almighty, to kill the apostate (Ali), who changed his religion and became a preacher for the polytheist Christianity,” the statement said.
In recent months ISIS has said it was behind a series of attacks on religious converts and minorities in Bangladesh including Shiite, Sufi and Ahmadi Muslims, Christians and Hindus.
The Bangladesh government denies ISIS are present in the country and police on Wednesday rejected the group’s claim of responsibility for the latest killing, insisting it was “bogus”.
“We’re investigating the killing. A case has been filed and we’ve arrested five men for questioning,” Tobarak Ullah, police chief in the northern district of Kurigram where the killing took place, told AFP.
Last week ISIS said it had killed a Shiite convert from Sunni Islam in the southwestern town of Kaliganj….

Gary says
ISIS said the murder was “a lesson to others”………
And here’s God’s response to those who oppose Him:
“The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.” (Colossians 1:15-20)
Pssst…. allah is not God. He’s a lie from the pit of Hell. Satan stated “I will be like the Most High.”
It’s a lie. Satan has been defeated. Jesus Christ is Lord!
Jay Boo says
Insecure Muslims everywhere breath a sigh of relief.
If just one Muslim converts others will desert.
They will not have to face the full disgrace of being a Muslim for another day, if they can only manage to hide the bitter emptiness of what rots from the inside.
Ex-muslim says
Apart from ‘Jihadwatch’ and some other groups no one speaking on behalf of the converts from islam to Christians who are being murdered around the globe. Ex-muslims are even persecuted in the West and the mostly anti-Christian, islam-friendly secular and politically-correct authorities in the West won’t even understand their plight. Abandoning that evil cult (islam) is like going through hell on earth and no body understands accept the ex-muslims how that hell looks like. Thanks to Robert Spencer and the few others like him!
Angemon says
Ex-muslim posted:
“Ex-muslims are even persecuted in the West ”
And in the East. And in the North. And in the South.
Christianblood says
Angemon
Ex-muslim is right. While persecution of Christians is widespread in the muslim world, Westerners themselves are persecuting Christians not by killing them but by banning Christianity and its moral principals from the pubic square. Western authorities also see muslims as victms and bend over backwards to accommodate muslims but they despise and ignore the plight of people like ex-muslim and won’t even protect them from muslim haters even in the West. Do you know what is happening to the few Christians who are living in asylum places in Sweden and in Germany? Muslim individuals in those asylum places and are persecuting them and even murdering them like in the case of an Arab Christian social worker in Sweden three months ago. She was murdered by a somali muslim teenager whom she was trying to help.
Angemon says
As I said, North, South, East and West.
“Do you know what is happening to the few Christians who are living in asylum places in Sweden and in Germany? Muslim individuals in those asylum places and are persecuting them and even murdering them like in the case of an Arab Christian social worker in Sweden three months ago. She was murdered by a somali muslim teenager whom she was trying to help.”
Perhaps Russia should take them in? Oh, wait, they’re more useful to them dead or in danger, like you just demonstrated.
Ex-muslim says
Angemon says:
“Perhaps Russia should take them in? Oh, wait, they’re more useful to them dead or in danger”
As an ex-muslim, your words tell me that you are a compassionless, ignorant American/Western secular individual. To me, you are NO different from my muslim persecuters and I absolutely see NO difference between you and a muslim jihadists. Your selfish and compassionless words shows the general lack empathy that exists in the Western world for victims of islamic barbarity and especially for Christians. Thanks for showing your real colors!
Angemon says
Ex-muslim posted:
“As an ex-muslim,”
Because, somehow, that adds more weight to anything you say that’s not related to matters of knowledge of islam, right?
“your words tell me that you are a compassionless, ignorant American/Western secular individual.”
You already hated me on the account of your rabid anti-Westernism.
“To me, you are NO different from my muslim persecuters”
Except I’m not, and never was, a muslim and never persecuted you. But other that, same thing, really.
Oh, yeah, and I shave. And eat pork. And like dogs. And I’m not going around killing people or having sex slaves. But other than that, same thing, no doubt…
Oh, and I listen to music, and watch TV and movies. But that’s it.
“and I absolutely see NO difference between you and a muslim jihadists.”
See above.
“Your selfish and compassionless words”
Why are they selfish or compassionless? No explanation, no evidence – in clear leftist, authoritarian fashion, the accusation is the evidence.
“shows the general lack empathy that exists in the Western world for victims of islamic barbarity and especially for Christians.”
Yeah, it’s not like people in, for example, this site, myself included, have stated that the EU and US should take in Middle Eastern and African Christians – you know, the people actually being persecuted – instead of muslim “refugees”. No, pointing out that Russia is trying to profit from the persecution of Christians in the Middle East means that I’m a terrible person no different than a jihadi – that is, if you’re a rabidly anti-Western Russian longing for the good old days of the USSR with a thick skull and a thin skin.
“Thanks for showing your real colors!”
No, I exposed the hypocrisy of the Russian government and christianblood, who, on several occasions, stated that Putin was helping the Christians in Syria. He never gave me an explanation to why it’s safer for the Syrian Christians to remain in Syria during the war a opposed to getting a safe haven in Russia. The reason for that is that the Christians are a nice excuse for Putin to justify a war in Syria – they’re of more use to him in danger or dead than they are alive and safe in Russia. And your over-the-top drama queen reaction tells me I hit the bullseye.
Ex-muslim says
@Christianblood
Dear C.B.
Several years ago, I temporarily worked as a translator for a US agency that processed muslim refugees who are immigrating to the US. There was a muslim woman who wore the hijab and who was a regular worker for this US organization after she learned from the other translators who were all muslims that I left islam and converted to Christianity, she called me to work with her and after a short conversation she started criticizing me and calling me an infidel and kaffir and after I gave her appropriate answers she reported me to her big fat, bald-headed American supervisor and he called me to his office and told me to “leave the premises immediately”. This was 2002 in another country and it was just a few months after the 9/11. I tried to explain to him that I was my self was a refugee in that third world country and that I had small kids and I needed the small temporary job and that the muslim woman is the one who started insulting me but he arrogantly kept telling me to “leave the premises” or else he would call the authorities and I did leave the premises. On that day and in that country, it was like a wake up call for me and I learned that most Americans really hate Christians and will side with muslims and I can now see the same thing going on in macrocosm as American and other Western governments and even so-called Christian churches refuse to help suffering Christians while giving BILLIONS to muslim perpetrators and even to muslim jihadist killers. As many other Ex-muslims are, I now consider muslims and the majority of Americans and other Westerners like this so-called (Angemon) to be my mortal enemies and I don’t trust them at all. They are just as hateful and as ignorant as muslim jihadists.I don’t trust them. They are pure evil!
Angemon says
Ex-muslim posted:
“I now consider muslims and the majority of Americans and other Westerners like this so-called (Angemon) to be my mortal enemies and I don’t trust them at all. They are just as hateful and as ignorant as muslim jihadists.I don’t trust them. They are pure evil!”
We get it – you’re rabidly anti-Western. Don’t that let that stop you from enjoying the fruits of Western culture and technology. Because, you know, there’s being anti-Western and being “anti-Western”. Just like muslims – they hate the West and innovation, but they have no problems using the fruits of Western technology.
Christianblood says
Ex-muslim
Thanks so very much for sharing your story. I am really saddened the persecution you had to go through in the hands of islamic fascists and the American ignorant bully who sided with the muslim woman and fired you from that job! Dear Ex-muslim, I am not surprised at all that the American supervisor treated you that way and as you have stated, the deep pro muslim and anti-Christian aittiudes that we see in the West today and even in the Vatican is also happening in microcosm in personal levels. This is truly shocking and unbelievably mind-boggling to all of us and very few people in the West are even aware of this. I personally believe it is based on a powerful demonic deception. I am sure 100% percent that people in the West have been taken over by the powers of darkness and they live under HUGE multi-faceted demonic deception and prayer may be the best option but I am personally not optimistic. May God bless you my dear brother and I will keep you remembering in my personal prayers. Keep the faith, don’t be discouraged, always remember how the world treated Jesus Christ our Master. God bless you again!
mortimer says
My condolences to “ex-Muslim”. Many of us do get it. We know you are in hiding all the time, lonely and isolated and feeling no one understands. For you to declare yourself is dangerous.
Many of us are working, as you are, to raise the consciousness of our gullible Western cultural Marxists. They are willfully ignorant and wearing ideological goggles that blind them. They do not wish to have their comfortable illusions destroyed by facts.
We continue to fight this ideological war against facts and reason.
Islam is demonstrably false, because it is unhistorical, unethical and self-referentially incoherent.
Ex-muslim says
@ mortimer
Thanks to ‘mortimer’. I do appreciate your understanding!
Ex-muslim says
@ mortimer
I just to add to that even more than loneliness and isolation, I have deep anger and frustration both at muslim persecuters who are murdering and persecuting people like me and other Christians and minorities but also at Western the authorities and media for siding with muslims and for their lack of empathy for the real victims of islam.
This is really burning inside out!
mortimer says
The Muslim police officers will investigate the crime, conclusive evidence of guilt will be found, the evidence will then disappear under mysterious circumstances and the prosecutor will declare not enough evidence exists to lay a charge.
David says
Can you even imaging the media outrage IF anyone (branded a “Christian” by that same media) were to injure, in any way, someone who is labeled a Muslim???
No, I’m not encouraging violence. NO!
Just imagine. The Damned media would go NUT!
But, would there be any talk at all about the poor abused Christians around the world?
I’m betting not a single WORD.
Bob says
The UK pours millions of pounds into this benighted country – why, because religion apart, the money doesn’t seem to reach their poor!