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.”
“Muslim Asylum Seeker Imprisoned For Killing Wife Who Converted To Christianity,” by Joshua Gill, Daily Caller, April 5, 2019 (thanks to the Geller Report):
A U.K. court sentenced a Muslim Iranian asylum seeker to jail Thursday for stabbing his wife to death, in part for her conversion to Christianity.
Iranian asylum seeker Dana Abdullah stabbed Avan Najmadiein, his estranged wife and 32-year-old mother of four, 50 times in October and left her to die after discovering that she refused to support his application to stay in the U.K., according to the BBC.
Abdullah, 35, returned illegally to the U.K. after being deported in 2013 for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl and he previously threatened to kill his wife because she “dishonored” him by converting to Christianity, authorities said.
“It does show that you are not someone of good character and, having been deported for that matter, you chose to come back into this country illegally and have committed this very serious crime,” Judge Michael Chambers said of Abdullah, according to Premier.
Chambers also lambasted Abdullah for the callous and brutal nature of his crime.
“This was, on any view, a planned and pre-meditated murder involving a brutal and sustained attack using a knife – knowing full well that it would deprive four children under the age of eight of their mother,” Chambers said.
Chambers sentenced Abdullah to a minimum of 18 years and one month in prison.
Detective Victoria Downing characterized Abdullah as “an arrogant and controlling man,” asserting that he killed Najmadiein because he resented her rejection, her refusal to support his application and her conversion to Christianity.
Abdullah murdered Najmadiein with a kitchen knife at her home on Oct. 1, 2018, tried to set her kitchen ablaze in an attempt to erase evidence, then fled, initially to Liverpool, England, and then to Glasgow, Scotland. Authorities discovered Najmadiein’s body at her home when she failed to pick her children up from school. All of her children were under the age of eight at the time.
Abdullah turned himself in to police in Glasgow, but admitted only to being a “failed asylum-seeker” at the time.
Wilson Chowdhry, chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association, said the violent persecution of those who convert to another religion from Islam is widespread in the U.K.
“We recently wrote a report for the hate crime inquiry on Islamophobia so that we could show the other side of the coin, where much of the persecution of apostates in this country is based on a real hatred for those who quit Islam,” Chowdhry told Premier….
Jay says
England is lost! This seems like a very light sentence for such a brutal premeditated murder?
England has allowed the unfettered invasion of Muslims into their society, bringing crime, disease,
no-go zones, welfare demands, etc., and forced rampant intimidation on to English tax paying citizens! There is no acclimation ever by Muslims – – only demands! Look at Germany, France, Spain, Norway, etc etc and how their countries were invaded!
PM Churchill is not resting easy today! The USA will not save England again!
God bless the queen! Hopefully England wakes up before it’s too late!
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gravenimage says
Yes–it is a light sentence. And note that he had already been deported for pedophilic rape.
mortimer says
Sharia Law says: The killer of an apostate is not punished:
– Reliance of the Traveller (manual of Sharia law), ref. O8.4 : “There is no indemnity for killing an apostate (O: or any expiation, since it is killing someone who deserves to die).”
– Reliance of the Traveller: O1.2 – “The following are not subject to retaliation: -3- a Jewish or Christian subject of the Islamic state for killing an apostate from Islam (O: because a subject of the state is under its protection, while killing an apostate from Islam is without consequences)”
– According to Baidhawi’s commentary, Sura 4: 88-89 means: “Whosoever turns back from his belief, openly or secretly, take him and kill him wheresoever ye find him, like any other infidel. Separate yourself from him altogether. Do not accept intercession in his regard.”
– A hadith about Mohammed’s followers used as a basis of Sharia, tells of some atheists who were brought to “’Ali and he burnt them. The news of this reached Ibn Abbas who said: ‘If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah’s Apostate forbade it . . . I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah’s Apostate, ‘Whoever changed his [Islamic] religion, then kill him’.”
Vigilante murder of apostates? Normative Islam, rather than an aberration.
antonia says
Sharia Law says: The killer of an apostate is not punished:
– Reliance of the Traveller (manual of Sharia law), ref. O8.4 : “There is no indemnity for killing an apostate (O: or any expiation, since it is killing someone who deserves to die).”
– Reliance of the Traveller: O1.2 – “The following are not subject to retaliation: -3- a Jewish or Christian subject of the Islamic state for killing an apostate from Islam (O: because a subject of the state is under its protection, while killing an apostate from Islam is without consequences)”
– According to Baidhawi’s commentary, Sura 4: 88-89 means: “Whosoever turns back from his belief, openly or secretly, take him and kill him wheresoever ye find him, like any other infidel. Separate yourself from him altogether. Do not accept intercession in his regard.”
– A hadith about Mohammed’s followers used as a basis of Sharia, tells of some atheists who were brought to “’Ali and he burnt them. The news of this reached Ibn Abbas who said: ‘If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah’s Apostate forbade it . . . I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah’s Apostate, ‘Whoever changed his [Islamic] religion, then kill him’.”
Vigilante murder of apostates? Normative Islam, rather than an aberration.
elee says
Thank you for the verbatim sources.
gravenimage says
Good post, Antonia.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Islam is a loaded gun at the ready. The biggest threat to muslims are other muslims.
Harold says
What are the chances Pope Francis commends the woman for her martyrdom?
gravenimage says
Somewhere around zero…
Nautikos says
I think we’re at the precipice! The doctrine of ‘Globalism’, denying the validity of national borders and calling for ‘Diversity’, generally supported by the mass media and preached in our universities; the ever more fascist Left, suppressing opposing voices on the pre-text of fighting ‘Fascism’ (e.g. ‘Antifa’); and finally, the rapid dwindling of all of Europe’s indigenous populations (Muslims continue to breed voluminously, if often consanguineously, as Mortimer observes correctly) – all these are signs of the rapid decline of Western Civilization.
And this Muslim slime only gets a ‘minimum of 18 years and one month’ for his crime? Probably the judge thought ‘Allah made him do it’…
jayell says
As i’m sure a lot of the the world’s population must now be aware, the UK (and London in particular) has descended into an orgy of street knife-crime and murder, and the national press are picking on pretty well every new outrage. I haven’t found a report of this particular outrage, though, just as most of the UK outrages that are reported here on JW either don’t make it into print in the UK papers or are buried somewhere in the middle pages. I wonder why?
elee says
Seems like this judge almost had the courage to say “I don’t care what your damned scripture tells you to do, you’re a violent criminal.” Or maybe he did and that part didn’t get published. On the other hand, couldn’t the judge have sentenced him to more than 18 years for…….let’s see……murder, arson in a dwelling, destroying evidence of a crime, and a few others? I don’t know what it takes to run sentences consecutively in Britain but whatever is required, surely must have been present here? Oh and 18 nominal years of a British sentence, how many weeks or months does that constitute in actual pen time?
somehistory says
He wanted to murder her and he did. He didn’t need a *reason*…but he found several that met his need to kill and tell himself that he was not a guilty, slimy, moslim thug.
She was his “estranged” wife…that must have put a crimp in his maleness.
She wouldn’t help him stay in the country….boy howdy, more abuse of his wonderfulness.
She had left the cult of the wild beast of satan the devil, for an enemy of islam….so she was condemned to death by his disgustingly filthy, mass-murdering, raper of children, fake “prophet.” In his evil mind, she had committed the worst possible actions against him and his religion. But, he was aware the entire time that he was doing wrong…that’s why he didn’t tell the police in Scotland that he had stabbed her 50 times and set her house on fire.
18 measly months is an insult to Justice. He should be hanging from a tall tree, high limb with dogs waiting beneath to devour his ugly carcass. Like Jezebel was devoured.
eduardo odraude says
18 years, not 18 months.
somehistory says
eduardo odraude
thank you for the correction. I was thinking about the additional month when typing and put the wrong word. Perhaps the extra month is like it is here in some places in the States and means more than it sounds like, but 18 years is still not Justice for what he did. It’s still measly.
elee says
See my query above. I don’t know how much time he actually serves when the judge says the words “18 years.” Well, if he wants martyrdom maybe Bubba can oblige. Meanwhile he’ll do that dawa business and several dozen felons will do jihad on parole. Or whatever they call it in Britain.
somehistory says
elee
About the only way a felon serves the entire time is if they are given ‘life without parole” or put on death row and I don’t think the U.K. has either of those in their laws.
In the U.S. a felon is given x number of years and once they serve a certain amount, depending on the State, they are given a chance at parole. In Texas, a guy was given 18 years for one crime and 10 for another. He had to serve at least 11 before he was offered parole. But I don’t think it works that way in the U.K. and he will likely not serve very many of his sentenced 18.
Juries usually are unaware of what the sentence means when they give a certain amount of time, even if they say “life”…it doesn’t necessarily mean “life”.
Jack Holan says
It’s despicable that Abdullah was found guilty of a crime that he did not even see as a crime. He was merely following Sharia. Did anyone upon his first Asylum Request give him a Rule Book or explain to him that in the UK contrary to his Religion and Culture murder of an Apostate would have consequences for him? Of course not, Abdullah was expected to some How figure this out on his own. While ignorance of the law is not a defense this is an exceptional situation since it’s his Religion Islam and he’s been enculturation all his life with this belief system. Has anyonyone thought to give the lad an MRI to see if his behavior has been affected by a possible brain tumor. Has the Court employed a Farsi speaking Psychologist to determine if Abdullah suffers from mental illness. Instead of search for plauseable reasons to his behavior we’ve attributed a Criminal label with a long detention. What’s the poor lad to do
I HOPE ALL REALISE THIS IS A MOCKERY OF THE UK NORMAL JUDICIAL OP IN THESE MATTERS. THEY BEND OVER LOOKING FOR THE EXCUSE TO EXONERATE OR LIGHTEN A SENTENCE. I WONDER WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HAD THE APOSTATE BEEN WHITE AND NO RELATION TO ABDULLAH? Would the Iranian Community have run to his defense? We’ve read all the horrible behavior exhibited by the PD Courts under OM Teresa May who has shredded the Magna Carta
Debi Brand says
More proof, the tenets of Islam are meaningless to the adherents of that “faith” …
gravenimage says
UK: Muslim migrant murders his wife for converting to Christianity
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This poor woman. She should have taken her children and fled as far away as possible before leaving Islam.
Kay says
Maybe she thought she was safe when he got deported.
How in the world was he allowed re-entry?
Also I presume he will be deported again once his sentence is complete. And hopefully he won’t enter yet again. There must be a way to keep out those who have already been convicted of violent crime.
gravenimage says
Yes–that is also quite possible, Kay. I hadn’t thought of that–how horrifying. She may have thought she was safe because he had been deported.
Joe says
How does Teresa May think that the killing of homosexuals, apostates, and blasphemers is compatible with English law?
No Muzzies Here says
If they didn’t have this practice of killing anyone who wants to leave, Islam would not have grown so large so rapidly. It’s a brutal, violent, intolerant religion that has grown through its love for violence.
steve says
yet the UK refuse refugee status for muslim converts to christianity, with this evidence right in front of threir faces, go figure
gravenimage says
Grimly true.