“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.”
“Muslim in Ethiopia Attacks Wife for Leaving Islam,” Morning Star News, September 21, 2016:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A woman in Ethiopia had been a Christian for six weeks when her husband found out and beat her for leaving Islam, sources said.
Habiba Ibrahim, a 34-year-old mother of three in Bokulu Boma, Ethiopia, received hospital treatment for three days after the assault earlier this month by her husband, Ibrahim Dido, the sources said. She had put her faith in Christ on Aug. 2 in Bokulu Boma, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the Moyale on the border between Ethiopia and Kenya.
Dido’s anger flared after Sept. 10 morning prayers at a nearby mosque, where he had confirmed rumors that his wife had left Islam, and he began striking her with tree branches, Ibrahim told Morning Star News.
“He locked me in the house and began beating me with sticks, and immediately neighbors arrived and rescued me from my husband’s wrath,” she said.
A neighbor who helped rescue her said Ibrahim’s clothes were covered with blood from a deep cut on her forehead.
“Her husband was shouting, saying that she should die for forsaking Islam,” the neighbor said.
Area residents rushed Ibrahim to a clinic in Bokulu Boma, and she was discharged after three days. Besides the gash on her head, she had bruises on her left hand and elbow.
Ibrahim had placed her faith in Christ after an evangelist spoke with her about saving faith in Christ’s sacrifice and resurrection. Their conversations were part of an evangelistic movement in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia, begun 10 years ago, in the Burji language spoken by people living on both sides of the Moyale area.
After trusting in Christ, Ibrahim began stepping back from Islamic ritual, she said.
“My husband began questioning me on my laxity in Islamic activities, which I did not respond to,” Ibrahim said.
A week before the attack, a woman from the church with which Ibrahim had connected visited her, saying, “Take care for your life, because the Muslims have discovered that you have converted to Christianity,” a source said….

Praeceptor Maximus says
Religion of peace strikes again.
Michael Johnson says
Yea but Muslims and Christians are supposed to serserrve the same God yea I think not
Angemon says
And yet, this is the kind of intolerance we are supposed to tolerate in the West.
Jake says
Up until recently, we never did. Our best days were defeating these satanic maniacs and driving them out of Europe. Tolerance of objective evil is not a virtue.
Jay Boo says
If wives are allowed to leave Islam …
They might also wish to drive cars and look men in the eye and speak their thoughts even before being spoken to.
Muhammad’s filth of Islam is still such a laughing stock of buffoonery that blatant violence is the only thing propping it up.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Jay: So well said!
I’m hoping that if Trump’s elected and REALLY decimates ISIS et al, a lot more muslims will start to realize they don’t always win. As they’ve been doing under the detestable Obama. Perhaps then a lot more will realize they CAN apostasize, and survive.
Trump ’16.
mortimer says
The murder of apostates far from being something for a ‘small minority of extremists’ is acceptable for a majority of Muslims in most Muslim countries who know and accept this practice supported in draconian SHARIA LAW.
Muslims believe that Sharia law commandment to murder apostates is above national human rights codes which protect freedom of conscience from persecution.
Allah wants Muslim to persecute and murder people who try to exercise their freedom of conscience.
Islam is the religion of violent, homocidal intolerance.
t. says
The saddest thing, mortimer, is that I still encounter, in the age of internet and with all the wealth of information available about Islam, western people who are completely ignorant of this fact, Islam’s death sentence for those who decide to leave it!
gravenimage says
This is where *willful* ignorance comes in. A lot of people don’t *want* to know.
Paul Clark says
Where are the black Christians? Have they fled the cross too. Yes they did, when 90% of black Christians voted for Obama. And, 93% of all blacks voted for him. They ignored the cries of our Lord: “Thou shall not kill”. ( The murder of 50,000,000 innocent unborn children.) They also ignored the biblical words that a marriage is between a man and a woman. Did they flee the cross too? Yes they did. Contrary to centuries of religious truths, they demonically chose to cast a racist vote for a racist Islamic leaning president. ( A dear fiend of the Islamic Brotherhood.) They betrayed their Lord and they have blood on their hands.,
duh swani says
All religions create religious supremacist bigots,,,but I bet you already knew that…
John Boston says
duh swami, I hope you are making a dark joke. Comparing supremacism, violence against women, and violence in general, over the 1400-year history of Islam, to the evils of any other religion is like comparing a head-on highway collision to a fender bender. If you are really serious in your bizarre statement, please educate yourself. The information is right online.
duh swani says
If you are really serious in your bizarre statement, please educate yourself.
My religion is superior to yours..and I’m better educated than you are…Ain’t that bizarre?
t. says
duh swani, you’re talking about something and John Boston is talking about something else!
Your first comment, “All religions create…..”, gives the impression that you want to equate Islam’s built-in violence and extreme supremacist ideology and belief system to those of other religions, something which, for eternity, is absolutely not true. Hence the comment of J. B.
Meanwhile, I know what you meant by your comment, that many, if not most, followers of different religions and sects think that their religion or belief is the right one and others are not, something which I have seen many times before. Meanwhile, that doesn’t automatically lead to systematic, premeditated, prepared for, or organized violence and/or murder, such as in the case of Islam.
gravenimage says
C’mon, Swami–you know other religions do not call for this kind of violence. Whether you believe in them or not is immaterial.
duh swani says
C’mon, Swami–you know other religions do not call for this kind of violence.
I don’t remember saying that they did.. How did you get that?
gravenimage says
Glad we’re on the same page then, Swami.
Allan says
“And, 93% of all blacks voted for him”?
That ridiculous. Everyone knows that blacks have too many children for that claim to be even close to the correct proportion, and you need to account for felons, unregistered adults, and so on.
gravenimage says
Paul Clark wrote:
Where are the black Christians? Have they fled the cross too. Yes they did
……………………………..
It was probably black Christians who saved Habiba Ibrahim’s life. How could you possibly have a problem with that, or chide them for doing so?
Westman says
Does Islam create men with hair-trigger tempers or are men with hair-trigger tempers attracted to Islam? In majority Muslim countries we keep seeing the spectre of angry mobs killing men and women in the name of Islam with a mindless frenzy and absolutely no regard for the value of human life.
It appears that Islam, a slave culture, creates such a frustrating life, which cannot be abandoned, that mob attacks on suspected murtadd, killing infidels, killing your own wayward children, and beating your wife are the only outlets permissible.
In the sense that every person in the community is a spy to enforce Islamic rules, and it prefers grizzly killing, the actual expression of Islam seems much like North Korean communism. And our leaders want to import this.
duh swani says
When your married to Allh, you are ‘sleeping with the enemy’…when you wake up the night mare is still there…
Champ says
LOL!!! 😀
Westman says
And you can never leave.
Champ says
allah’s minions are bloodthirsty savages, just like their evil ‘prophet’ was …perdition be upon him!
Champ says
“perdition be upon him!”
…along with allah’s minions!
Michael Copeland says
“….allah’s minions” brings to mind a felicitous error in some subtitles-for-the-deaf in a news bulletin. It was an English television report, while the subtitles seemed to be probably computerised and American. The scene was a bauxite mine with a giant excavator in the background. An engineer was explaining that there was soon going to be built nearby an aluminium smelter. The subtitles wrote “allah minion smelter”.
gravenimage says
Now *that* is hilarious, Michael! I’m sure you are right, and that this bizarre error stemmed from a misunderstanding of the British pronunciation of “aluminum”.
gravenimage says
Ethiopia: “Her clothes were covered with blood…Her husband was shouting that she should die for forsaking Islam”
………………………………
This poor woman.
This is mainstream Islam. And when Muslims try to pretend that the the penalty for women apostates is more “moderate”, and just involves locking them in their houses, *this* is what they have in mind.
I don’t know who Habiba Ibrahim’s neighbors are, but Ethiopia is just a little over a third Muslim. If she lived in a more heavily Islamic nation, it is likely that her neighbors would have ignored her cries or even joined in the violence.
Now we’ll have to see if the Ethiopian authorities will actually prosecute her brutal Islamic husband.
Dom107 says
The Pope must know all this evil is going on in the Muslim world and now thanks to his silence and tolerance and the pathetically weak liberal/lefty governments around the world it is going on in Muslim communities in our countries.But the Pope and his fellow travelers remain silent like they done during the great evil of German Nazism.
He is Gods representative on Earth ???? GIVE US A BREAK PLEASE !!!!!!
TR says
The Pope, Gets his chance to enjoy his foot fetish kissing the feet of the Muslims. Sick!
eagle says
Muslims are mentally ill. They cannot help themselves.Muslims find it difficult to live amongst infidels as equals. This very thought must cause them to become suicidal. The Koran tells them to hate all infidels and to cut their heads off? To practice Sharia Law. A little Muslim boy with his father’s ideology goes next door and rapes a little infidel girl or boy. How sick is this?? The good and peaceful Muslims read and obey their Koran and listen to the Imams preach the Koran which teaches hate for the American people and when to jihad.
Karen says
” and listen to the Imams…” that is what keeps me awake at night. When good people do nothing.
eagle says
Karen, I agree with you, people have become complacent, they don’t want to hear about this. Like the frog in the pot they will be sorry.
eagle says
I have been writing my senators and congressmen. They say they will keep my thoughts in mind. We know Obama will not sign any bill for the good of the American people. Obama has his agenda and will not give up. Obama feels he must continue with the Muslim takeover of the United States. The first step towards the New World Order. America has to give up its sovereignty and allow the UN to dictate. I think Obama will be the next Secretary General of the U.N.
Karen says
Now that is a scarey thought, but you may be right!
eagle says
I wish I was wrong!
Susan says
No, they are not mentally ill, they are demon possessed!
eagle says
I can go with that..
TR says
Why are we tolerating the Obvious Radical Administration’s to continue the tactic of Importing Militants of Islamic Jihad? We know Obama, Soros and the Rest of the Democratic Socialist of America have executed their plan successfully covering most all of their bases but for the armed American Citizens..Is not the Republican Congress and Senate going to impose any restrictions? Obama is going on Full Speed ahead this next few months to destroy us without any resistance from the Legislative Branch.
Kay says
Is there not a UN declaration of human rights that includes freedom to choose religion?
Why is there no pressure on the UN to uphold this right for those who desire to leave Islam?
Susan B says
Islamic nations hold the majority in the UN which has made the UN a joke. Time for “so called” free countries to leave this organization.
gravenimage says
Kay, the Muslim world has specifically *rejected* the UN Declaration of Human Rights in favor of the grotesque “Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam”. If you read closely, you can see that it systematically violates every human right in the UN declaration and replaces it with Shari’ah.
The basic idea is that Islam has the right to spread, and that humans have the right to practice Islam–and not much else. This gives a general overview:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Declaration_on_Human_Rights_in_Islam
In fact, under this body of “rights” that it was illegal for Habiba Ibrahim to convert to Christianity, as it (supposedly) took advantage of her “ignorance”, and so is banned. The idea is that anyone who leaves Islam is “ignorant”, since Islam is the “religion of unspoiled nature”. Muslims believe that everyone is born Muslim until they are “corrupted” by their parents or society.
Corey W. Smith says
I’m sure Islamofauxbia must be to blame, or something.
Bat 21 says
It is too bad she didn’t have a couple of friends with her “Smith & Wesson”!!
Vae Victis says
I would like to see all people of faith pray for the conversion of Muslims. Those whose ancestors were forceably converted to Islam have been enslaved for generations. Pray that God will lift the veil of ignorance and allow them to see the light.