If the roles were reversed, this would be the focus of international news coverage, but you will only hear about this incident here.
In any case, Sheikh Hussein Byaruhanga Husain is not an “extremist.”
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.”
“Muslim Father in Uganda Burns Daughter for Becoming Christian,” Morning Star News, May 21, 2020:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Unable to return to her home in western Uganda due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, Rehema Kyomuhendo was in the eastern part of the country when she first heard about Christ.
In March she had accompanied her father, a sheikh (Muslim teacher) on a business trip from Mbarara District to Mbale District, 492 kilometers (305 miles) away, and began listening to Christian programing aired on an FM radio station. They were still at her aunt’s house in Nawuyo village, Mbale District, on May 4 when at 10 p.m. she called a business friend of her father’s whom she knew to be a Roman Catholic.
“She explained to me about Christ and the way of salvation, and I got convicted and accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior,” Kyomuhendo told Morning Star News by phone. “As she was sharing Christ with me, I was so overjoyed, and my father heard my joy and woke up, came from his bedroom furiously and started beating me up with blows, slaps and kicks.”
Her father, Sheikh Hussein Byaruhanga Husain of Mbarara District, shouted at his 45-year-old sister who was sleeping in another room, telling her that his daughter had converted to Christianity and that therefore he was going to kill her, Kyomuhendo said.
He quickly broke a jerrican, lit the pieces with its remaining fuel and began burning her, a source who spoke with Kyomuhendo told Morning Star News. Kyomuhendo screamed for help, and her aunt got out of bed and shielded her from her father, the source said….
Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.
Michael Copeland says
Of course. Her leaving Islam is an affront to his ownership and male supremacy. The offence can only be assuaged by her blood. As a muslim he faces no penalty in Sharia for killing his own daughter:
From “Reliance of the Traveller”
“The following are not subject to retaliation” [the penalty for a killing]
“a father or mother for killing their offspring”. o1.2 (4)
One who kills an apostate faces no retaliation “since it is killing someone who deserves to die”, o8.4
Anjuli Pandavar says
Michael,
I was just about to post exactly this comment, pointing to Reliance of the Traveller, and would add that the ethical basis for such barbarism is in the Qur’an:
“So they [Moses and Al-Khidr] twain journeyed on till, when they met a lad, he [Al-Khidr] slew him. (Moses) said: What! Hast thou slain an innocent soul who hath slain no man? Verily thou hast done a horrid thing,” (18:74) and Al-Khidr then explains:
“And as for the lad, his parents were believers and we feared lest he should oppress them by rebellion and disbelief. And we intended that their Lord should change him for them for one better in purity and nearer to mercy,” (18:80-81).
So not only if your child apostatises, but if he or she transgresses in any way that “oppresses” your Islamic sensibilities, or you fear that they *might* so transgress, then not even the sensibilities of a prophet should stop you from killing such a child.
How often do we hear of teenage girls killed for being “too Western”. This should begin to give some inkling of what Muslim women have to endure, oppressed by the family’s fear of “shame” before they’re married and by their husband’s fear of adultery, once married, and *both* the family and the husband’s fear of “shame” if she doesn’t bleed on her wedding night. In a bizarre twist on FGM, there are doctors who will sew up a sexually-active unmarried Muslim woman’s vagina in such a way that she will bleed upon “first” penetration on her wedding night. That’s what medical science is for in the hands of a primitive culture. And then we are expected to believe that Islam was so scientifically advanced in the past.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Michael and Anjuli.
ronit says
A lot of non-muslims don’t know it and Muslims don’t usually accept it but as per the rules of Islam the only punishment to leave Islam is Death. Even during a TV debate in a studio in India when the anchor kept on asking the Islamic representative this questions ”what if someone decides to leave Islam” ? After few attempts to ignore the question the Islamist said ” As per the Islamic law the person should be warned thrice not to leave and if he/she still decides to leave then he must be killed.” This is something a Muslim will never tell a non-muslim when he/she try to convert them.
European pagan says
How can someone do this to his own child? And Christianity is a better religion for a woman than Islam. No woman wants to be the 4th wife or to be beaten.
This kind of behaviour shows me/us that Islam and its followers are dangerous and we should never allow sharia in our countries. Aggressive people who don’t respect RELIGIOUS FREEDOM must be punished.
Anjuli Pandavar says
EP, “How can someone do this to his own child?”
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In Islam, all love is for Muhammad and his messenger, Allah, alone. All other love is only permitted *through* this love for Muhammad and his Allah. You are right, it engenders monstrous ethics.
mortimer says
There is NO PUNISHMENT in Sharia if a man kills his own child or grandchild or has someone do the deed on his behalf.
When the Muslim population of the United States reaches 10%, similar attacks will occur every month if not every week. Pakistan has the most honor-killings of any country.
gravenimage says
Uganda: Muslim father burns his daughter and vows to kill her for becoming Christian
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This poor girl–I hope she survives.
Will Uganda take this horrible crime seriously?
More:
“As she was sharing Christ with me, I was so overjoyed, and my father heard my joy and woke up, came from his bedroom furiously and started beating me up with blows, slaps and kicks.”
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Note that this is how a Muslim father reacts to his daughter expressing joy.
God, I hate Islam.
Goofy says
And the pope is likely to regurgitate that in the true Islam “there is no compulsion in religion!”
Never has anyone done more damage to Christianity than the “Holy Father” who cares nothing about the great commission to preach the gospel and whose heart is in diplomacy and “dialogue”.
The pope owes us an explanation of where the element of truth is in Islam.
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
He… lit the pieces with its remaining fuel and began burning her…
…her own daughter.
This goes to show the depths of depravity islam brings the mind and the pathological commitment muslims have for their god, a god that taught bigotry and murder as sacred truths to live by. I know I won’t score any points in here for saying this, but I almost feel sorry for these sick muslims who have become literally insane for religion. Even more remarkably, for a religion like islam that is so overtly ignorant, violent, and hateful. Islam is like having a schizoid serial killer for a teacher. Allah is not fit to guide humanity, a good teacher does not mix compassion with bigoted murder or mix wisdom with retarded maxims that embarrass children. No, it’s time the world move above and beyond what islam brings to the table. Decent humanity needs to be braver for good morals and our own nations that espouse human rights that we know are best. Calling islam a religion of peace or stoking “islamophobia” as a real thing only serve to perpetuate the delusion and madness of islam. But that’s what islamists and their leftist allies do, they ignore or even hide the brutality and murder of islam–like this case here–to appease the hypersensitive egos of the people who cause it. Their lies and cover ups for islam have become a boil on the face of freedom. In a very real way they are active participants–accomplices–in much of the bad intent and crime muslims do. They want to conceal the truth with lies because only the truth can set us free. But they don’t want freedom, they want the power and control that islam brings. They are against our freedoms and our nation’s ideals, they are enemies of the state and should be dealt with as such.
They burn their own kids for allah, and they rape ours by the thousands. The god Moloch is alive and well in the 21st century.
OLD GUY says
Islam what a loving “religion” father burns his daughter and vows to kill her for becoming a christian. And they bitch about islamophobia. Islam promotes this kind of behavior and worse.
This is what is coming to your neighborhood if you continue the invasion migration of islam into your country.
Islamic rule is the worse kind of dictatorship.