“Last October, his wife levied a case against him, causing the sultan of his area to summon him. Abdul’s wife reminded the sultan that he deserved to be beheaded, according to sharia law, because he had abandoned Islam.”
The death penalty for those who leave Islam is based upon 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.”
“Family’s Murder Attempts Embolden Cameroon Disciple Leader’s Faith,” by Lindy Lowry, Open Doors, February 13, 2018:
“They threatened to kill me, and had God not protected me, they would have succeeded.”
The “they” in *Abdul’s story are not Islamic jihadist group Boko Haram that terrorizes Christians and churches in West Africa, fiercely attempting to eradicate Christianity. “They” are Abdul’s family.
When Abdul left his tribal religion of Islam and committed his life to Christ in 2000, his Muslim family felt and acted like he had just pointed a challenging dagger straight at them. Abdul’s family (part of the ethnic Kotoko group spread over Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria) always took pride in the fact that they were one of the few tribes in their region of Cameroon with no known Christians.
“When all their spells and curses with the help of the local medicine man failed, they tried to kill me themselves.”
More than once, Abdul’s family tried to poison his food. One night, strangers kidnapped him and took him to an unknown destination. “On the way there, I prayed for God to confuse them so they could release me. And He did! They just let me go without saying anything. I knew it was God who had changed their minds.”
Constant Schemes and PlotsTen years down the road, and Abdul’s family has still not given up trying to get him back to Islam. He faces constant insults and exclusion from the family. His wife has also left him and often slanders him in front of their seven children.
Last October, his wife levied a case against him, causing the sultan of his area to summon him. Abdul’s wife reminded the sultan that he deserved to be beheaded, according to sharia law, because he had abandoned Islam.
“I just told them, ‘If you want to behead me because of Jesus, you might as well start right away.’”
When they saw their plot wasn’t going to convince Abdul to change his mind, they kept him in a cell for about four hours before his wife brought another charge against him.
Abdul’s wife then claimed she had purchased the land their house was built on and that he had failed to repay her. She asked to have Abdul evicted. When Abdul proved she was lying, she tried another scheme, claiming that he sold some of her property but had failed to pay her.
“But the sultan saw she had no charge against me and let me go,” Abdul says. “He even told her to apologize to me.”
‘They have seen how we are progressing with the gospel’Realizing his wife would never give up, Abdul scraped together the disputed sum of money with the help of Christian friends and paid her. “They will stop at nothing to have me denounce my faith. They have seen how we are progressing with the gospel, and I know it’s an attempt to block this progress.”…
elee says
This man should be allowed expedited admission to a western nation.
mortimer says
elee, I see your point … however, then they will all want to leave in the same manner. Many will be phony conversions. 35% of Muslims are actually Muslims in name only (MINOs). Ten million are leaving Islam every year. Most do so secretly while pretending to be Muslim outwardly.
CRUSADER says
Would you say about 1/3 of “Christians” are CINO?
Westman says
In Sweden it’s 98% CINO.
Jayell says
“This man should be allowed expedited admission to a western nation.”
Not sure that’s a good idea with the way the divorce courts work here in the UK. If word gets around, and with a muslim judge on the bench, not only will the women be getting the kids and the house, they’ll be getting your head as well.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Of course, you don’t need to convert to Christianity to be accused of having done so. Given how difficult it is for Muslim women to divorce their husbands, why not accuse that husband you want to get rid of being a convert? A wife could plant a Bible somewhere in her husband’s things, claim she found him reading it intently, even praying Christian-style in what she recognized was a Christian prayer, swear up and down that he had even tried to get her to convert but she refused. If not “off with his head” at least she’ll have her divorce.
Divorzio alla camerounese!
Hari Singh says
If Jesus is a Muslim as the taqiya prone Muslims say, how is it he changed his religion, following the ”Muslim Jesus” must be Islam.
MFritz says
You don’t need religious police in a muslim country. Your closest family, friends and neighbours will make sure you stay in line. Even if it kills you.
gravenimage says
Cameroon is not a Muslim country–it is just 18% Muslim.
CRUSADER says
20% could be a tipping point….
Does it take a nation to have 51% majority in population
to perform massive Dhimmiotic governmental policies?
Servitude to Islam happens at lower percentage points.
gravenimage says
True–I just meant Cameroon is not a Muslim country–not yet…
StellaSaidSo says
‘Cameroon is not a Muslim country – it is just 18% Muslim.’
Neither is Sweden, with less than 10% Muslim population. Yet it has all but capitulated to Islam. A numerical majority is not necessary in order to achieve effective political control.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Stella.
Gjallarhornet says
Sanity/christianty/whatever you want to call the good thing/: + 1.
Islam: -1
Victory!
Next, tell him to convert *one* muslim. This *one muslim* will be asked to covert, in the meaning leave islam, one more.
*
And so it goes. Every convert to christianity/atheism/whatever – in short: every one who leaves islam should be required to convert one person with them, to get the final acceptance in their new sane status. Think about it!
Savvy Kafir says
Ah! Ain’t love grand!
gravenimage says
Cameroon: Muslim converts to Christianity, his wife calls for him to be beheaded
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And this, even though Cameroon is just 18% Muslim.
If this man has any sense, he will leave the area–I don’t think his family is going to stop trying to murder him.
Indiana Tom says
When logic and proportion have fallen dead
And the Imam is talking backwards
And the Sultan’s off with his head
Remember what the dormouse said
Smash your head.
Lydia Church says
Compare that to Christianity.
If someone falls away, we pray for them.
Some prodigals do return.
But for those who don’t, they are just another human being in the crowd with the same rights as everyone else.
But in islam they call for you to be executed.
And islam is rampant with examples of intolerance, as we see actively in ibrahim’s evil comments on a daily basis. There is no tolerance in islam. There is only oppression and bloody violence. That is the only fruit it has to offer society.
zxq9 says
What’s the big deal? She’s just following the rulebook!
I mean, she sincerely believes (not “thinks” because thinking is haram) that this is God’s will, and who would she be to question that?
Islam is a logical brain virus on the same order as the T-virus from “Biohazard”. Once infected the subject’s sole purpose in life is to infect others or kill any resistant to infection (including those who recover from the condition, as in this case).
I can even demonstrate that algorithmically, but of course such mathematical dissection of an ideology is “racist” despite Islam no having a race.
Richard Courtemanche says
Til death do us apart.
zxq9 says
It isn’t quite that easy. Apostasy (leaving his religion) is a capital crime in Islam. So the wife was correct to condemn him to death, whether or not they are married — she would be just as correct to condemn him to death if he was her neighbor.
Islam is a Hotel California cult — you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.