Last week I posted a video of Ismaa’eel Abu Adam, a former Islamic apologist who has left Islam because of the Islamic teaching regarding taking Infidel women as sex slaves. Since then, Ismaa’eel Abu Adam has received multiple death threats from Muslims, in accord with Islamic law, which mandates death for apostates:
“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.”
Joseph says
Satan does not want anyone to leave this evil religion, his invention, so that they will not be saved in Jesus Christ, who is The Only way to Salvation. That’s why the death penalty is imposed for those leaving islam.It’s very sad that billions of souls would have lost their eternity with this lie that is islam. Let us pray that the Lord of the Lords will give them faith in Him.
Vlad says
Actually, you can shove the 2 of them up your elemental orifice. It will not make any difference when you kick the bucket, but if it helps you to cram your brains with BS, be my guest.
Religion is the deepest divider of humanity, so, as long as humans believe this crap of whatever flavour, we will have those religious wars.
The curse of human stupidity is eternal war, in the name of Christ, Allah or whatever idiotic believe system you subscribe to.
God bless 🙂
Joseph says
It’s a war alright, but it’s not eternal. Christ will return some day and all evil will be terminated.
duh+swami says
Whats holding him up?
skep says
Well said
musalmaan says
duh+swami and skep whats holding Him up is that He is giving people like you another chance to see the error of your ways.
Nigel GFF says
“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” (1 Corinthians 13:11).
Time to grow up Vlad. Stop impaling your mind with infantile logic.
Qui Creva says
Vlad: Your comment just proves that dogmatic people will be dogmatic, no matter what they believe. Since there is no way to prove that a given worldview is true and all the others false, your assumption that a non-religious ideology is automatically superior to a religious one is nonsense. Moreover, your belief that Christianity is equivalent to Islam flies in the face of all evidence. Aside from the fact that these two creeds both assert the existence of a single god, the two have NOTHING in common. Christianity advocates love, while Islam advocates war. The emphasis upon love is clearly written in Christian scripture, while the emphasis upon fighting, subduing and killing non-believers is just as clearly outlined in Muslim scripture. The effects of these different basal philosophies can be seen around the world: Muslims blow people up and take sex slaves, while Christians build hospitals, schools and other charities.
I know it is fashionable for western liberals to despise Christianity. Feel free, but please do us all a favor and at least tell the truth about the differences between Islam and Christianity. After all, as an atheist you would be outraged if theists automatically lumped your beliefs with death philosophies like Stalinism and Fascism, simply because these ideologies are also atheistic. Truth is important in these discussions, whether or not we find certain truths palatable.
Wellington says
I believe, Vlad, the last war waged “in the name of Christ” was the Thirty Years War which ended in 1648. Christians haven’t being waging war in the name of their religion, for the cause of their religion (to be distinguished from calling upon the Christian God for aid in a just war, for instance WWII), for a long time now and even when they did they were violating the tenets of their faith, not fulfilling them, contra Muslims and Islam big time. Islam is the only religion that calls for war to be made upon the unbeliever. It’s right in the damn Koran (e.g., Sura 8:39).
Be wary of moral equivalency thinking. It can make a person come to all kinds of erroneous conclusions, as evidenced by your comment.
Western Canadian says
islam is the first across the finish line for total number of ‘others’ butchers, averaging 20,000,000 per century, for 14 centuries (and this is the LOW estimate). atheists are first across the finish line for the largest number, in a given span of time: 100,000,000 and more, in just over a single century.
vlad, you are a moron.
musalmaan says
Vlad could not agree with you more. But what worries me more is that when you kick the bucket would it not be better to believe in God and find out HE DOES NOT EXIST than live your life blaspheming Him and questioning His existence AND FIND OUT HE DOES.
sahani says
Best way to deal with islam is isolate from its followers. Islam is like oil will never mix with water and will spoil the water too.
Sog says
Disagree; To kill a snake, cut off it’s head. We need to get off oil, and replace it with Fission, namely MSRs of various type, HTGRs, IFRs, and traditional LWRs. We can force the price of oil to below $25 /bbl, then in Wahabbistan, the Islam promoters will have to rely on human ingenuity to create wealth, and then; Its all over.
Once a social system is forced to rely on human ingenuity to create wealth over mineral extraction, we see shining cities, low population growth, human freedom, and an actualizing people.
billybob says
Why wait until we have fusion power, which seems to forever remain “fifty years down the road”?
We have enough oil now, in the Western Hemisphere – US oil, Canada’s tar sands and oil from Venezuela and Brazil and natural gas from fracking… We have all we need.
For transportation, we are on the edge of a revolution in electric vehicles. The cost of batteries will be coming down, and there are more and more solar energy plants coming on line every day. We also have grandiose schemes of beaming energy down from space.
I feel we should make a bold move to simply stop importing oil from Islamic countries. Now is the time while there is an oversupply on the market, and before more US gas & oil properties shut down permanently because of the glut on the market.
This would be a game changer! If Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia could no longer sell their oil, they would have to base their economy on actually working for a living like everybody else. Then they would have a lot less time for praying at the mosque.
Actually, we should just embargo all Islamic countries until they improve their human rights to a civilized level. Erect a virtual wall around them. No trade, no tourism, no communications – cut them off the Internet. No ships or airplanes from Islamic countries allowed in Western waters or air space. Of course they would have to abandon Islam or completely reinvent it before they could be allowed back.
Western Canadian says
That should be OIL SANDS. Canada has no tar sands.
Mathias says
Today many educated Muslims are embarrassed to follow Islam but if they openly discard it they will be killed. Hence the Muslims must be first shown a safe path so that they renounce Islam but does not arouse suspicion among their fellow Muslims. This they can do if they adapt the Sanatana way of life. By adapting the Sanatana way of life they need not change their name, diet, customs or undergo purification ceremonies; or say prayer in an alien language or visit places of worship; and live harmoniously with their neighbours. See http://sanatanaparishad.blogspot.in/
WorkingClassPost says
One of the primary definitions of a cult, is that they kill members who leave or attempt to critique them.
duh+swami says
Allah has no shortage of partners, willing to do his dirty work for him…
Turn away from him and he will stab you in the back…Or one of his billion or so Abdullahs will do it for him…
Angemon says
Ah, the usual love from the followers of the “religion of peace”…
mortimer says
Islam is a doctrine that gives every member of the cult a license to kill…if not a duty to kill.
Islam is the most bigoted religion.
mortimer says
Islam is the religion of bigots, MISOGYNISTS, sadists and political supremacists…a toxic and explosive powder keg that any small spark can ignite!
Morton Doodalag says
The guy is still super creepy. Putting our faith in flimsy creepy ex-Muslims is a fool’s game. A cul de sac. A dead end.
We only ever see a few of them ever over a decade, and they are always impeachable by the Muslim rules.
Meanwhile, Muslim baby machines have popped out several dozen future genociders in the time it took to compose this email. Killing Jihadis and bankrupting the Arab scum that fund them is a better strategy.
Befriending so-called “apostates” gets us nothing. Killing Muslim genociders and militant Sharia fascists without fear of what Muslims think is a better solution.
Sog says
There are 1.5 billion Muslims. I have to believe the greatest promoting factor in the expansion of Islam is adjacency… The only thing worse than a woman being a Muslim, is living near or within an Islamic community and not being a Muslim. Islam thus expands.
Nothing will expand Islam faster than Emigration.
It was only a matter of time that there would be a religious social system that could fill such an expansion void left by all other religions who’s greatest social dynamic was “the golden rule”.
Morton Doodslag says
Very sad to see somebody at JihadWatch quashing my posts !!!
I’ve posted at this site since it began — and I have never had my comments suppressed before. Astounding. Disappointing.
Angemon says
What do you mean?
Morton Doodslag says
I have also relentlessly steered traffic to this site, promoted Robert Spencer at other sites like Breitbart, where he is beginning to get good exposure… I think I deserve better than this. Who i]else are you quashing????
billybob says
Consier it was an error before jumping to conclusions. Happened to me one day. I just sent a polite note to the webmaster asking what gives. My posting privilege was immediately restored after our exchange. He explained what had happened… An automated script had done a look up on my URL and found it associated with heavy spamming. However, as I explained, my URL is dynamically allocated to me by my ISP, and it changes at their whims. Clearly that means that it wasn’t likely me personally doing the spamming. Probably means that there are several computers within the address range controlled by my ISP that are infected with a virus that turned them into spam bots.
Keys says
Morton Dooslag-
Use the “Contact Us” link on JW to let them (marc, if I remember) know of your technical problem.
Morton Doodslag. says
Thank uou both for the recommendations.
Hamidreza says
Apostasy, Reason #101 for “Why I left Islam”
Kay says
We have become muddle-headed by blaming our own Church and God, the source of all goodness. It doesn’t mean God stops being good or giving good things or loving. It just means we are muddled.
Too many turn away from God in ignorance just as too many embrace Islam in ignorance.
Wonder if it’s true? Name a good thing that you love and then do some research about how that science or art came to flower.
G P says
Did this guy not research this cult before he joined? He has after all had the benefit of literacy afforded by Western Judeo-Christian civilization, a far cry from the illiterate beings born into it.
Buyer’s remorse will do him no good as he will be hunted down.
I bet he has put more thought into sandwich fillings than joining this cult.
Kay says
I hope he’s safe though. And that his message keeps getting out.
billybob says
Maybe their should be laws like we have for consumer protection that allow you to cancel a contract within some period after the initial sale. 🙂
But seriously, hasn’t he read “The Devil and Daniel Webster”? Everybody knows that if you make a deal with the Devil there is no way out of the contract. He has your soul for eternity after you die.
DHazard says
I’m guessing it was a combination of factors. He has been a Muslim apologist for 16 years which means he was probably a teenager when he started. Google was about 1 1/2 years old. After watching him you can see he’s not stupid so it may have been an emotional reaction against something, but allot of people will stick to the identity they’ve chosen and stay there for a long time. Even Scientology gets a new member now and then.
He tries to explain his apostasy on YouTube. It just sounds like a cult member who woke up. Even smart people get stuck in cults and the reasons they stay have been studied by psychologists.
eduardo odraude says
While we don’t know what led him into Islam (naive spiritual quest?), we do know this: he is consciously braving death to oppose Islam publicly. That’s probably doing more to oppose Islam than 99% of visitors to Jihad Watch.
Wellington says
But why not minus, eduardo, the fact that this adult person embraced Islam in the first place, even though MASSIVE evidence exists that no adult should, anymore than an adult should embrace other totalitarian ideologies like Nazism or Marxism?
As for your 99% figure, I hardly think that those who have understood correctly the massive iniquity which is Islam for many years now should be in any way placed below this fellow who, duh, finally figured out what he should have figured out long ago.
Oh, I don’t deny that his life is in more danger than an anonymous commenter like myself, but why assert, as you have, that this man is “probably doing more to oppose Islam than 99% of visitors to Jihad Watch?” Why pull down others to lift this particular man up? Is this necessary? Is this the best route to follow here? Don’t you see how your praise by way of insult?
I would vigorously argue you do not need to insult those who detest Islam and have long understood how iniquitous this belief system is in order to convey approbation to this man. Reconsider please. Try another approach, please. Praise, you know, need not be accompanied by putting other folks down.
Wellington says
Should read, “Don’t you see how you praise by way of insult?” and not “Don’t you see how your praise by way of insult?”
Kepha says
I’m glad that this guy apostasized. Still, I strongly suspect he was another mushy Western liberal who thought his self-evident goodwill and intellectual superiority [sarc] would move Islam in a more enlightened direction–and then found that a thing is what it is.
Wellington says
Agreed, Kepha. I’m not too much into praising a doofus who finally realizes that he’s been had when he should have realized this in the first place. Oh yes, better late than never, but this hardly makes him superior to those who figured out the iniquity which is Islam right up front and center like.
Linde Barrera says
May God bless and protect this ex-Muslim gentleman. And thank you to Robert Spencer for teaming up with him.
Dum Spiro says
Here is the link to the playlist of new videos made by this former Islamic apologist who has now left Islam:
He (a “new Adam*” now) should have more enlightening videos to share as time goes on…
— Spero
*http://www.catholicbible101.com/christ-the-new-adam
Dum Spiro says
Hmmm. Not quite sure how I did that, but I’ll take a serendipitous good result anytime. Please click the “list symbol” to the left of “My Eid…” to open the playlist.
Also serendipitous was what I found when I clicked the “FORGIVE AMERICA LORD” link after opening the italicized “new Adam” link above. You’ll probably like it too…
— Spero
Dum Spiro says
I see he added a new video even today, so the “list symbol” link will apparently let you find all his new videos. That brave soul wrote the following in the new video’s description:
(Published on Jul 9, 2016) Don’t be fooled by emotional attachments to the external beauty of Islamic art, culture, architecture and Qur’an recitation. Most importantly, we should be aware of Islamic teaching.
Sometimes the starting point for potential converts to Islam is the external. That initial attraction to something which superficially appears beautiful can lead to an emotional attachment which can blind you from recognizing the errors of Islamic Teaching when doing an initial investigation of it. This is just my opinion.
That’s what he wrote. He also asks for support. We can be supportive of anyone who pursues and speaks truth, if not monetarily then at least by our prayers…
— Spero
John Marst says
Qaradawi also once famously said: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.”
Muhammad was about as open to “others” as Adolph Eichmann. Coercion is all Islam has. And ultimately, in the Internet Age, that is why it will fail.
Guest says
So death threats on youtube comments be traced by Police? Surely people shouldn’t get away with this.
Rotten Eye says
And the Earth became infected with the vile Muslim.
The skies were dark with soot and the smell of death.
And people lived in fear.
Grain did not grow and the animals were sick.
And it came to pass, the Earth says: “I am sick and my life is unhappy when the Muslim walks on my land and breathes my air. All good men, find the Muslim and Strike him at the neck, of all Muslims!!”
If the dirty Muslims hides behind a rock or tree, the rock or tree will cry out: “Come! Look here! There is a dirty Muslim hiding here! Come and smite him. Strike at his neck! For surely they are sons and daughters of Pigs and Monkeys!”
And the Muslim fled like a crazy man with fear in his eyes and terror in his mind!
But he was not swift enough.
For the Earth found and catch every one of the vile Muslim.
And the Muslim was struck at his neck.
And the Muslim blood flowed like a the river Nile.
Until all Muslims on Earth were smited.
And Lo, Behold.
The world became clean and fresh when the Muslims were no more.
And the earth was happy.
And people lived in peace and the Earth was good.
Amen
fedupAmerican says
This man is very courageous. However I do not think it is right to forgive those who don’t ask for forgiveness. I know it is a christian belief but I disagree with it.
toni says
Jesus words (I.e. God’s words) “You Father … forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us…”
Dum Spiro says
Ann Landers quote:
“Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.”
Maybe you can think of it like that…
— Spero
Robert John Bennett says
SUCH a “religion of peace.” Isn’t it really wonderful?
toni says
Glory be to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Please Lord protect this brother from all evil, in the name of Jesus. Amen.
Dum Spiro says
Another bit of serendipity: Do you think the former Islam apologist from this article remotely resembles the 34th grandson of Muhammad? (Sheihk Muhammad al-Yaquobi), viz:
You might also share this with any (esp. black) Muslims you know who may have thought Muhammad was not white…
— Spero