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Mauritania: Appeals court upholds blogger’s death sentence for apostasy

Apr 22, 2016 12:01 pm By Robert Spencer

“M’khaitir has apologised and said he never meant to insult the Muslim Prophet Muhammad….The original announcement of his death sentence was met with public celebrations.” Public celebrations? Islamic apologists in the West tell us that Islam has no death penalty for apostasy, and that Muhammad was tolerant of personal insults, but Muslims in Muslim countries constantly behave as if the opposite were true. And it is.

“They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)

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.”

Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed M'khaitir

“Mauritanian blogger’s death sentence upheld,” BBC, April 22, 2016 (thanks to Damian):

An appeal court in Mauritania has upheld the death sentence of a blogger convicted of apostasy, but referred his case to the Supreme Court.

Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed M’khaitir was arrested in January 2014 for an article criticising those who use religion as a means of discrimination.

M’khaitir has apologised and said he never meant to insult the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.

The Supreme Court can pardon him if it feels his repentance is sincere.

The original announcement of his death sentence was met with public celebrations, the AFP news agency reports.

Mauritania last applied the death penalty in 1987.

The blogger, who is in his early thirties, had posted an article on the Aqlame newspaper’s website in December 2013 that was later taken down as it was deemed blasphemous towards the Prophet Muhammad.

It reportedly criticised Mauritania’s caste system, a sensitive subject in a country with deep social and racial divisions, and criticised those who used religion to marginalise certain groups.

Apostasy, which means the abandonment of one’s religious faith, is considered a criminal offence in many Muslim countries….

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  1. African infidel says

    Apr 22, 2016 at 12:24 pm

    Mauritania has the highest number of black slaves in the world today and blacks in America don’t even know about it.

    • LR says

      Apr 22, 2016 at 5:25 pm

      “Mauritania has the highest number of black slaves in the world today and blacks in America don’t even know about it.”

      Well, heck, I assume most anybody doesn’t know. Thanks for the info.

      • Bob says

        Apr 23, 2016 at 6:11 am

        And the toothless, useless increasingly Muslim-dominated Security Council does nothing about it!

  2. Jerry says

    Apr 22, 2016 at 12:27 pm

    I’ve never seen Mr. Spencer fail to provide the doctrinal evidence for the crimes of muslims against us. You can’t tell me our leaders in politics and media are too dumb to know all this. That’s why I say they are complicit in these crimes, they are covering up the evil they do with their obfuscations and lies. Stop and think of how criminal and despicable that is. Imagine your loved ones murdered by a religious gang and your politicians and media tap dance around the truth to protect the guilty. This is what these traitors do with their obstinate denials of the murderous truth, they aid they enemy and facilitate murder.

    I ask every doubter to sit back and consider with a clean heart what I just said. And realize that I have just spoken a truth of the ugliest sort.

  3. Gene says

    Apr 22, 2016 at 12:29 pm

    So, this guy advocated treating people from different groups fairly and that was a blasphemous insult to Islam and Muhammad. That tells you everything you need to know about Islam and why its evil needs to be eradicated from the planet. But our leaders will continue to encourage it, in hopes that it will get better somehow.

  4. Jerry says

    Apr 22, 2016 at 12:32 pm

    It certainly seems that way. They seem to be the gloomiest, most dark-hearted people on the planet. It’s that blasted religion of theirs, it’s filled with hatred and murderous lust. This has a corrupting influence like nothing else on planet earth, I truly believe this.

  5. Jerry says

    Apr 22, 2016 at 12:33 pm

    And his followers have been doing the same ever since.

  6. mortimer says

    Apr 22, 2016 at 12:34 pm

    The concept of blasphemy is central to any discussion of anything Islamic.

    Simply suggesting that it is wrong to use Islam to repress human rights is blasphemy because it denies the religious claim that Sharia is the eternal law of God for all human beings.

    It is blasphemy to even question whether Sharia’s codified repression of human rights or its brutal treatment of women or religious minorities is valid.

    Modern human rights codes guarantee the right to criticize ideas and to leave one religition for another. The act of dending human rights championed by our secular, modern law means one is committing a blasphemy under Sharia. Requesting that Islamic societies abandon discriminatory Sharia and recognize modern human rights is blasphemy.

    For this reason, Muslims are totally incompatible with Western society where the freedom to criticize religion has been considered a basic human right for over 200 hundred years. Muslims are unable to accept modern human rights codes and must always revert to the 7th century.

    For that reason, Islam is retrograde and an obstacle to all progress.

  7. gary fouse says

    Apr 22, 2016 at 1:58 pm

    I have been personally told by Muzammil Siddiqi, Maher Hathout and Salam al Mariyati that there is no death sentence for apostasy.

    They wouldn’t be lyin’ to me would they?

    • Jack Diamond says

      Apr 24, 2016 at 5:10 pm

      In regards to whether it matters today if Muhammad forgave certain insults or had his critic killed:

      “The Prophet sometimes chose to forgive those who had insulted him and sometimes ordered that they should be executed, if that served a greater purpose. But now his forgiveness is impossible because he is dead so the execution of one who insults him remains the right of Allah, His Messenger and the believers and the one who deserves to be executed cannot be let off, so the punishment must be carried out.”

      “Insulting the Prophet is one of the worst of forbidden actions and it constitutes kufr and apostasy from Islam, according to scholarly consensus, whether done seriously or in jest. The one who did this has to be executed EVEN IF HE REPENTS and whether he is Muslim or a kaafir, if he repents sincerely and regrets what he has done, this repentance will benefit him on the Day of Resurrection and Allah will forgive him.”

      “The Qur’an says that Allah curses the one who harms the Prophet in this world and He connected harm of Himself to harm of the Prophet. There is no dispute that anyone who curses Allah is killed and that his curse demands that he be categorized as an unbeliever.” {Qur’an 33:57}

      http://www.muftisays.com/blog/Seifeddine-M/3016_17-09-2012/ruling-on-one-who-insults-the-prophet-peace-and-blessings-be-upon-him.html

      • Jack Diamond says

        Apr 24, 2016 at 5:19 pm

        Also quoting from Islam Q&A with a similar verdict for defaming Muhammad:
        https://islamqa.info/en/14305

  8. truthseeker says

    Apr 22, 2016 at 4:18 pm

    Herby the list of assassinations ordered by the moon god Prophet. https://wikiislam.net/wiki/List_of_Killings_Ordered_or_Supported_by_Muhammad

  9. terence says

    Apr 22, 2016 at 5:03 pm

    Islam is terryfied of the btruth other wise they would ignore comments

  10. Angemon says

    Apr 22, 2016 at 5:05 pm

    Apostasy, which means the abandonment of one’s religious faith, is considered a criminal offence in many Muslim countries….

    And why is that? Maybe the BBC should do a good, old-fashioned investigative report and get to the bottom of it.

  11. Troybeam says

    Apr 22, 2016 at 5:24 pm

    In Islam there is no compassion or forgiveness, Islam is filled with hate, death and cruelty. When will people wake up to this theocracy and demand that it be removed from America?

  12. SD says

    Apr 24, 2016 at 4:31 am

    What is the response of Western Govs SILENCE. Its as if it never happened. But if a Western Individual makes a supposedly unfriendly comment about muslims and islam then they come with protests. F ing hypocrites. Boycott Mauritania and all Muslim countries as long as they practice backwardness. I personally try to avoid anything produced in islamic countries. DONT bur from Egypt, Tunisia, Lybia, Algeria, Mauretania, Northern Nigeria, Mali, North Sudan, Yemen, Somalia, Qatar & UAE,Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey etc. etc.

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