This is a great injustice, but they could have put him to death, as the mob wishes to do. There is much support in the Qur’an and Sunnah for the death penalty for blasphemy. It can arguably be found in this verse: “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment.” (5:33)
Also: “Those who annoy Allah and His Messenger – Allah has cursed them in this World and in the Hereafter, and has prepared for them a humiliating Punishment” (33:57)
And: “If they violate their oaths after pledging to keep their covenants, and attack your religion, you may fight the leaders of paganism – you are no longer bound by your covenant with them – that they may refrain” (9:12).
There is more in the hadith. In one, Muhammad asked: “Who is willing to kill Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?” One of the Muslims, Muhammad bin Maslama, answered, “O Allah’s Apostle! Would you like that I kill him?” When Muhammad said that he would, Muhammad bin Maslama said, “Then allow me to say a (false) thing (i.e. to deceive Kab).” Muhammad responded: “You may say it.” Muhammad bin Maslama duly lied to Ka’b, luring him into his trap, and murdered him. (Bukhari 5.59.369)
“A Jewess used to abuse the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and disparage him. A man strangled her till she died. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) declared that no recompense was payable for her blood.” (Sunan Abu-Dawud 38.4349)
“Mauritania releases Facebook blogger convicted of blasphemy,” BBC, July 30, 2019:
A Mauritanian blogger who was jailed for more than five years after being convicted of blaspheming the Muslim Prophet Muhammad has been released.
Rights groups had waged a long campaign to secure Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed M’khaitir’s release.
He had been due for release in 2017 but the government refused saying he could be lynched.
Conservative Muslims had demanded his execution for a Facebook post he wrote about the Prophet Muhammad.
In the post from 2014, M’khaitir had questioned the choices made by the Prophet Muhammad during holy wars in the 7th Century….
He was convicted of blasphemy that same year and sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to two years in jail after an appeal.
He should have been released in 2017 because he had already spent two years in jail, but crowds of conservative Muslim protesters called for his execution forcing authorities to detain him on “security grounds”….
Mauritania has since amended its criminal code and the death penalty is now mandatory for anyone convicted of what is seen as blasphemous speech.
paul 316 says
There you are, more examples of love from the religion of peace.
J D S says
There is no such thing as blasphemy..except….Islam in itself IS blasphemy…a scrounge on the earth, a scab, putrid corruption from a sore that can’t heal..when there is a cancer that won’t heal …cut it out….
Too many appeasers…Too many blind eyes….too much complacency…Too much political correctness and too many COWARDS….Cowards committing mayhem and Cowards not doing anything about it.
Hey this didn’t happen in America…Do we want it to happen here??? C.’mon leaders do something before it’d too late.
Angemon says
My first though reading the title was “perhaps he was safer in jail”…
Wellington says
Very much wish the Muslims defending Islam, and asking kuffaars in places like Texas and New Hampshire to query them anything about Islam, would do so in a Muslim-dominated country like Mauritania.
Ain’t gonna’ happen, is it, where Islam already dominates and non-Muslims are secondary citizens if even managing this? Yeah, just contemplate a kuffaar in a Muslim-majority nation asking a question which even remotely would indicate a skepticism or criticism of Islam.
There is no end to the deceit and sheer mendacity which the Islamic faith exudes. It says and does one thing in a land where Islam does not yet dominate and says and does something entirely different in a land where Islam already dominates.
Thus is the way of Mo’s creed. Thus is the way to the ending of any kind of real freedom once Islam is in control because Islam and freedom are inveterate enemies.
There is liberty or Islam. Can’t have both. Wish most every kuffaar, especially those living in still free lands, would comprehend this. Ah, alas, so many kuffaars, the equivalent of human waste in Islamthink to this very day, don’t know this.
Evil profits by ignorance. Never more so or longer than in the example of Islam. Best example in all of history, actually, of wickedness profiting by ignorance of wickedness. Oh yeah, here Islam is the “winner.”
gravenimage says
Mauritania: Man held for two extra years in prison on blasphemy charges as Muslims call for his execution
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Thius poor man. And yes–he may be murdered by the mob once he leaves prison.
God, I hate Islam.
moqifen says
Just goes to prove that Allah was always muhammeds sock puppet and musloids worship mo rather than god.
Giacomo Latta says
Gee, not even calling yourself Mohamed twice can save you from your hyperfascist coreligionists.