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.”
“Pair arrested over ‘plot to kill female relative who renounced Islam,’” by Martin Bentham, Evening Standard, September 5, 2019:
Two men accused of plotting to kill a female relative who left Britain and renounced Islam have been arrested by armed law enforcers.
Mohammed Patman, 53, from Ilford, and Darya Khan Safi, 49, from Coventry, were detained by National Crime Agency (NCA) firearms officers at their homes in the capital and the West Midlands.
The pair, who are both originally from Afghanistan, are wanted by the authorities in Slovakia over allegations that they have been conspiring to murder a 25-year-old female relative working there.
The arrests follow months of surveillance of the two men by the NCA’s armed operations unit during which the pair were seen preparing for multiple trips to Austria, where the woman lived, and Slovakia, where she ran a company with her husband.
The preparations including blacking out the windows and putting winter tyres on a vehicle they used to drive to both countries for what law enforcers believe were surveillance trips conducted against their alleged intended victim.
Phone and internet records were also obtained which officers allege show the men discussing the potential murder plot, including planning events both at home and abroad….
abad says
The UK should deport them back to Afghanistan.
Moslems do not belong in the UK at all.
Will says
Brits get use to the bloody iron fist of Sharia in the UK ~!?!
It will overtake the British constitution and it’s laws including the infestation by a fundamentalistic Islamisation of Western Universal Human Rights …. REJOICE ….
william carr says
Just normal Muslim behaviour. they will go to any lengths to carry out the dictates of their ‘prophet’.
Psychotic behaviour is the norm
Peter Buckley says
This poor woman is yet another example of a “muslim” who wasn’t- surprise, surprise- a muslim at all, and probably hasn’t been one for some time. Yet she will be defined as a “muslim” by number crunchers like PEW, whose “ball-park” figures will one day look extremely stupid.
The fact is, here in the UK alone, there are probably tens of thousands of “muslims” who aren’t muslims at all:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ex-muslims-fear-atheism-violent-revenge-tsunami-of-atheism-a7344661.html
gravenimage says
How do you like this from Muslim apologist Peter Buckley–he is trying to use a story about Muslims plotting to murder an apostate to show that Muslims are not a threat…
Peter Buckley says
“….a story about about muslims plotting to murder an apostate”.
So now the phenomena of muslims leaving Islam, and the huge numbers of apostates involved, has nothing to do with “a story about muslims plotting to murder AN APOSTATE”.
Hilarious. You couldn’t make some of these posts up.
gravenimage says
That when Muslims *do* leave Islam they are so often subject to being murdered by their relatives is *not* a good thing, no matter what the appalling Peter Buckley may think.
Peter Buckley says
“…to show that Muslims are not a threat….”
Never said that, I’m afraid. I think you need to look at why you feel you have to invent words just to make some misplaced point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
gravenimage says
Muslim apologist Peter Buckley has never had any purpose here other than to whitewash Islam and sneer at the concerns of those who oppose Jihad, And no–pointing this out is not a straw man argument.
mortimer says
Al Azhar University has openly endorsed the vigilante execution of apostates in the past. It is Islam’s highest scholarly authority on Sharia law.
gravenimage says
Grimly true–murdering apostates is orthodox Islam.
“Al-Azhar: to leave Islam is ‘treason’”
https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2016/06/al-azhar-to-leave-islam-is-treason/
“To convert away from Islam is “treason” that should carry the death penalty, according to Sunni Islam’s topmost religious authority…”
“The broad consensus of Islamic theology, including the Prominent Scholars of [Sunni Islam’s] Four Schools, judge apostasy to be criminal,” el-Tayyib said. “They are all in agreement that an apostate must be pressed upon to repent within a variable period of time or be killed.
mortimer says
Afghans are among the most tightly conservative (backward) of all Muslims in the world.
This was clearly an ‘honor-killing’ in progress. Muslim apologists falsely claim that ‘Islam honors women’, but this case shows that the ‘honor’ goes to the male head of a family.
The men get the ‘honor’ and the women get the shame in Islam.
Will says
The men get the ‘honor’ and the women get the ‘shame’ in islam ….
The Afghanis & yes the Taliban are considered PIOUS !!!
Meanwhile Western feminist obsess over the ‘war on woemyn ‘ by creating a fake oppressor , the Handmaid’s Christian misogynist patriarchy … all the while rabid misogynists are mocking the feminists’ servile uselessness & their oh so submissive ignorance….. The feminist remain blasé to the feral abuse of their muslim sistas…… not a slut/Pussy walk to be had !!!!!
mortimer says
Allah rewards killers of apostates:
“In the final days before Redemption there will emerge groups of foolish youths who will say all the right things but their faith will go no further than their mouths and will flee from their religion like an arrow. So, kill the apostates wherever you find them, because whoever does so will be rewarded on Judgment Day.” -Sahih Bukhari 9,84,64
Michael Copeland says
There is no punishment in Sharia for killing an apostate. Anyone can do it. It is penalty-free, “since it is killing someone who deserves to die” (Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller” o 1.2 (4)).
Afghans in particular take this seriously:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/08/killing-someone-who-deserves-to-die/
observer says
Look at the expressions of the two aspirant murderers…
Did you ever see such happy, ’honourable’ looking chaps ?
My prayers for the woman whose life has so far been spared…
Thank you Robert.
Michael Copeland says
“the best of peoples, evolved for mankind”
Koran 3:110,
James Lincoln says
This pair’s “honor” was not insulted – for they have no “honor” to be insulted.
Their Islamic religious ideology was insulted.
Carolyne says
And their Islamic religious ideology” is also without honor. Take a look at them. They don’t even appear to be human but some kind of Neanderthal throw back.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Enough from you guys, already! Let’s hear from the experts about this: Ilan Omar (and her illegitimate white, Christjan boyfriend), Linda Sarsour, and Rashida Talib!
elee says
More kafir Islamophobic interference with the practise of their religion. Well, when they either force all the kafirs to convert, or else kill them, this interference will cease.
gravenimage says
UK: Two Muslim migrants arrested over plot to murder female relative who renounced Islam
………….
This is both an attempted murder of an apostate and attempted “Honor Killing”. I hope this woman stays well away from her homicidal family.
Angemon says
Man, the UK is, like, completely islamophobic and stuff, going after two peaceful muslims who just want to practice their religion and have an halal sandwich… / sarc. off
Battle says
Will: Excellent about the Handmaid’s strawman, the male Christians.
Battle says
The news says a sequel to “The Handmaid” has “leaked” out before the release date.
Battle says
The news says a sequel to “The Handmaid” has “leaked” out from the publisher.
medinna says
Islam is more worse than a motorgang, more worse than nazisme who killed 6 million Jews. islam is hell, is satan, is doom. islam is the biggest crime on earth. It is a movement with 1.5 billion members. Don’t underestimate this.
Martel Sobieski says
PART & PARCEL, AS SADIQ KHAN WOULD SAY