“Crowds were seen cheering,” because they know this is not “extremism.” 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.”
“Boko Haram executes eight for defying ‘Sharia police’: video,” AFP, July 11, 2017:
Boko Haram have publicly executed eight villagers in northeast Nigeria who opposed the enforcement of its hardline form of Islam, according to a graphic video seen by AFP.
The eight were blindfolded and lying face down on the ground when they were shot at close range by four masked gunmen. Crowds were seen cheering, the images showed.
One man wearing a white turban told the crowd before the execution that the condemned villagers were “apostates (who) have left the fold of Islam”.
“These people are not different from vigilantes fighting us, spies and Nigerian soldiers,” said the unidentified man in Hausa, which is widely spoken in northern Nigeria and the Lake Chad area.
He said the eight had defied Boko Haram’s “Sharia police” — members who ensure the group’s strict interpretation of Islamic law is enforced — and threatened to fight them.
The man warned that anyone else defying the jihadists would suffer a similar fate….
The video showed other punishments, including stoning to death for adultery; beheading for drug dealing; amputations for theft; and flogging for drinking alcohol.
Boko Haram’s message appears to be designed to debunk Nigerian military claims that it is a spent force that has lost all territories under its control….
In October 2014, a similar video was released showing a man being stoned to death for adultery, an amputation for theft and a couple being lashed for having sex outside marriage….
mortimer says
Boko Haram is a careful, premeditated, meticulous reconstruction of the Islamic community at the time of Mohammed.
Boko Haram leaders have read their hadiths and Islamic history to educe every nuance of the behaviors of Mohammed and the first three generations of Islam deemed to be ‘ideal’ examples of Islam.
Not only is the death penalty for apostasy from Islam a normative punishment, but even VIGILANTES are allowed to carry out the death sentence as VIGILANTE EXECUTIONERS of an apostate.
Sharia manual ‘Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller) says that “an expiation is due to Allah Most High from anyone who kills someone unlawful to kill…” (o5.1). However, “there is no expiation for killing someone who has left Islam” (o5.4). In other words, someone who kills is liable to punishment, but he isn’t liable to punishment if he kills an apostate. And nothing at all is said about state authority.
Georg says
I thought there is “NOT ONE” instance of imposition of Sharia on non-Muslims. Wow, 1400 years without one, she mentions it and just days later. Shocking.
abad says
Barbarians
Terry says
For over – well over–30 years, Nigeria has been fighting civil wars or insurgencies.
This is just another one.
And when Boko haram is finally defeated, another group (possibly not Muslim, possibly Muslim) will take its place.
I see Nigeria being in perpetual warfare- tribal and/or religious.
gravenimage says
Terry, it is not Infidels who are mass slaughtering people in Nigeria.
Nigeria has suffered waves of Jihad–including the Jihad against Biafrans in the 1960s–Infidels who were trying to flee from Islam.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Muslims murder eight people as “apostates who have left the fold of Islam”
“Crowds were seen cheering”
……………………
So much for the idea that this is just a “small minority of extremists”…
davej says
The Islamic concept of a debate is agree with us or we’ll kill you.
Because they are primitive barbarians, the result of generations of brainwashing and inbreeding.
Terry says
Davej– the modern (US and Europe) ‘liberals” and “progressives” have the same mindset.
Note: riots in Berkeley over a conservative speaker, as well as other universities and colleges. The attacks on Trump supporters during the primaries and leading up to the elections–and after.
The “comics” on CNN with the severed head; the “Shakespearean theater co (NYC) showing the assassination of Pres. Trump ( supported by NYC, NYT & CNN), the actor (?) Dump (or is it Dope or Depp? not sure) and others.
The protesters in Germany this past week, etc.
ARE THEY ANY DIFFERENT? Perhaps in the ability to do what they want to do, definitely NOT IN INTENT. IN MY VIEW
Lydia says
Right, it’s not extremism. It’s just plain old regular boring islam. Kill, rape, torture, plunder, beat, abuse, oppress, impose violence, threats, etc. It’s in their quran. The extremists are those exceptions who are: nice and peaceful.
Matthieu Baudin says
“… In October 2014, a similar video was released showing a man being stoned to death for adultery, an amputation for theft and a couple being lashed for having sex outside marriage…”
I wonder if the Boko, like their coreligionists in the Arab World and Afghanistan, also enjoy having sex with young boys; that is of course when they’re not busy flogging the sexually active, but not yet married, young couples.