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 Sunni hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). This is not just a Sunni idea; 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.”
“Former Muslim from Sudan Forced into Hiding,” Morning Star News, March 10, 2020:
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – It was more than a year ago that Muslims in the disputed area between Sudan and South Sudan noticed that Ahmed Alnour was no longer reciting his Islamic prayers five times a day.
The tribesman of the ethnic Misseriya Arabs was helping support his wife and seven children in Sudan working as a scrap trader at the Ameth common market in Abyei, a 4,072-square mile special administrative area on the border formed from the peace agreement that ended civil war in Sudan in 2005.
Alnour would soon have to leave that work, forced to flee when area Muslims confirmed that he had become a Christian.
“I saw them and heard them saying, ‘We will kill you because you left Islam and became infidel,’” he said of their attempt to burn down his home the afternoon of April 1, 2019.
Neighbors were able to douse the flames and he escaped unharmed, but on April 8 the assailants returned at 1 a.m. as he slept. He awoke to find his house in flames.
Alnour told Morning Star News that before Christians arrived to rescue him, he heard one of the assailants say in Arabic, “Let us throw him back in the fire, since he has abandoned Islam.”
The Christians took him to a hospital for treatment the following morning. He had lost all his possessions in the fire, including 600,000 South Sudanese pounds equivalent to US$6,000, but he had not lost his faith in Christ, he said….
He was baptized at a church last Christmas. In hiding since the attacks last year, he has obtained a job and temporary quarters from church friends at an undisclosed village in the Abyei area.
Risks are growing as Muslims are looking for him, he said. Fear of Muslims’ reactions in Sudan and lack of economic opportunity keep him from going home to his family, but someday he hopes to be able to return and tell them about Christ, he said.
“I want to tell my family about my new faith in Jesus, and I am sure they will believe with me,” Alnour said.
In light of advances in religious freedom since Omar al-Bashir was ousted as president of Sudan in April 2019, the U.S. State Department announced on Dec. 20 that Sudan had been removed from the list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) that engage in or tolerate “systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom” and was upgraded to a watch list….
Sudan ranked 7th on Christian support organization Open Doors’ 2020 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian….
Sam says
World should get rid of this evil ideology as Soon as possible..
PRCS says
What’s the plan, Sam?
Ned Kelly says
Thats what the Knights Templars did. They got them out of Europe, after 800 years, in some countries. Now it has to be done all over again.
toomanyhobbies says
OK so if that is not a CULT then precisely what is it????
Goofy says
Is this the kind of “truth” which encourages the pope and his Roman Catholic church to seek friendship with Islam in the name of peace? Just asking.
Michael Copeland says
Somebody tell the Lutheran pastor in Minnesota…….
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/03/minnesota-lutheran-pastor-says-listening-to-and-learning-muslim-values-is-one-of-the-ways-to-get-to-know-our-neighbor
b.a. freeman says
well, who knows, Michael, maybe he also listens to the local ms-13 gang-bangers and learns from their values, too. i guess anybody could benefit from that … right?
>-P
FYI says
“We will kill you because you left islam and became an infidel”.
In other words…
We will commit MURDER on behalf of our ARAB god al lah.
We will violate the Actual God’s commandment because allah the champion deceiver k3:54 tells us to in his “perfect” book the koran.
Translation :for a Jew or Christian{subject as they are to the official commandments of God as revealed in the Decalogue{Exodus chpt 20:1-17} and which as Jews or Christians they are duty bound to obey.The Exodus 20 laws and the 2 chief commandments were carried forward from the Torah to the Gospel:they are the SAME in Judaism and Christianity.It seems allah doesn’t conform to them…}
“We ‘holy’ hypocrites of islam will violate God’s Sixth commandment which we pretend not to know about ..and commit MURDER because you chose to abandon a perverse religion that permits the breaking of God’s Exodus 20 laws which condemn MURDER and which our ARAB god al lah the champion deceiver {k3:54} gives us permission to violate”
“I am the Lord thy God.Thou shalt NOT commit murder”
Exodus 20 v 13
What part of this commandment of God given to Moses ..?
1]Did allah miss when he tells his muslims it is OK to break?
2]Do muslims not understand?
These laws are in the TORAH a book allah confirms as TRUE koran 3:3
These laws are MISSING in the koran as allah, unhelpfully ,didn’t bother to include them
{perhaps so as to make it difficult to reference them;how convenient for allah!}
If you muslims are in doubt..about the official LAW..
“Then question those who read the scripture that was before thee{i.e the BIBLE”
koran 10:94
See if you can explain why allah gives permission to violate God’s official commandments but don’t pretend that 1]you don’t know or that 2]nobody told you.
EXODUS 20:V 1-17
b.a. freeman says
“… the U.S. State Department announced on Dec. 20 that Sudan had been removed from the list of Countries of Particular Concern …”
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so what does this mean, then? does it mean that it’s OK to be a christian if U have a passport so that U can escape the country quickly? does it mean that U can be a christian visitor to south sudan so long as U don’t tell anybody that U’re a christian (if so, what happens when they find out that U aren’t pointing your a** at allah 5 tines a day?)?
leave it to the bureaucrats of the DoS to pay close attention to the living conditions of christians, whom they hate because they don’t worship The State. BTW, by “DoS,” i mean “Department of State,” not “Denial of Service” … although that is apt.
gravenimage says
Yes–crazy. Sudan hasn’t gotten any better–it’s just that some Christians have been able to flee to South Sudan.
PRCS says
Too many of our friends, neighbors, ‘journalists’, and politicians still thing we’re dealing with ‘radical’ Islam.
gravenimage says
Sudan: Muslims tell ex-Muslim “We will kill you because you left Islam and became infidel”
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I hope he flees to South Sudan. This is why they fought for independence.
Philip Wilson says
This apostasy death sentence is one of the kingpins to undo islam. The number of daily murders could be reduced by sentencing to death as many apostate killers in the world as possible, islam really is a rabbid animal.
OLD GUY says
“YEP” Thats the religion of LOVE and PEACE. Why the LIBERALS support this criminal “religion” is beyond rational thinking. Islam is spreading live a pandemic! The only cure to it is closing borders and out right war to fight it off.