The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “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.”
“Former Muslim Sheikh in Eastern Uganda Attacked for Embracing Christianity,” Morning Star News, November 30, 2016:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim villagers in eastern Uganda on Nov. 23 destroyed the maize crops of a former Islamic sheikh (teacher) in eastern Uganda who was beaten unconscious after revealing his faith in Christ, sources said.
The day before his fields were destroyed, 30-year-old Malik Higenyi of Bufuja village, Butaleja District, received threatening messages on his mobile phone, he told Morning Star News.
“Be informed that you risk your life and that of the entire family if you happen to come back to your house,” read one anonymous text. “We curse you and your family. You are an apostate according to Islamic law, and you deserve to die.”
Higenyi, who along with his wife and two children secretly embraced Christ on April 16, made an open confession of faith at his church on Nov. 13. News of his confession reached a mosque in nearby Lubanga village immediately, sources said.
“Before reaching my house, suddenly I was attacked by three people,” he told Morning Star News. “They started shouting, saying I am a disgrace to the Muslim fraternity of Lubanga mosque.”
Higenyi suffered a head wound and a broken bone in his right hand.
“The attackers hit me with a blunt object, and I fell down and did not know what happened from there,” he said. “I just found myself at Bufuja health center.”
Relatives ostracized him, and Local County 1 Chairman Walubi Mailadi supported their opposition to his conversion, sources said. Fearing attacks, he and his family have been unable to return to their thatched-roof home.
The family received Christ when a local pastor (name withheld for security reasons) visited his home and discipled him the following months.
Since Higenyi’s public confession, Muslims from Lubanga mosque have been holding meetings to discuss his punishment, and after Friday prayer meetings they have issued harsh statements against apostates, sources said.
Higenyi and his family are now without a home and have taken refuge at an undisclosed location….

Angemon says
More “love” from the “religion of peace”…
Linde Barrera says
I pray for people like Malik Higenyi and his family. Also Robert Spencer, and his family, staff, and commenters here, even the brainwashed Muslim trolls.
MRR says
I’M STARTING TO THINK WE MAY HAVE REACHED CRITICAL MASS
INSOFAR AS THE MOHAMMEDAN THREAT GOES IT IS TIME TO DO ONTO INBREDS AS THEY DO ONTO US.
Hector Archytas says
I have decided to do a third child and not stop at 2.
afrostreetwise says
???? not sure i understand.
Lee Hicks says
For those who still remain ignorant of the true requirements that Allah has for his followers, this is classic Islam.
The “no compulsion in religion” quote (and those like it) that are touted as showing the peaceful nature of Islam, come from Mohammad’s early years in Mecca.
When he moved to Medina, these verses were replaced with ones requiring Jihad, as Mohammad became a ruthless and bloodthirsty warlord.
Islam IS Jihad, and any supposed Muslims who reject this reality (as well as rejecting murder, pedophilia, hatred of women and children, hatred of Christians and Jews, and the blind following of the corruption and evil passed on through Mohammad) will be themselves cast away by Allah, the evil god that they believe they serve.
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
Advertising Islam in the usual way.
Purushottam Deshmukh says
Although Muslims like to claim Islam as the fastest growing religion, yet it will experience the speediest ebb of followers. This cult is completely devoid of humanity and human values. It is an invitation for people who are inborn masochists or sadists. Before the advent of internet, the world didn’t come to know about horrendous crimes committed in Islamic countries. But now even if they try their best, they can’t hide their barbaric values from the world. There shall be a vast number of apostates in Islam. It will undoubtedly prove that Islam is not for humans.
dumbledoresarmy says
Barnabas Fund is probably helping and encouraging this ex-Muslim now-Christian. They do a lot of work supporting not only historically-Christian communities suffering persecution in Islamised lands – or in lands that are being targeted by Muslims, for Islamisation – but *also* they support and counsel those who have converted out of Islam, helping to establish them in a solid Christian faith… which also means, helping htem ‘deprogram’ from Islamic influences..