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.”
“Christian convert killed in Mayuge district,” by Aaron Sseruyigo, Uganda Christian News, January 12, 2021:
Yusuf Kintu, a 41-year-old former Imam of Macca Mosque in Dolwe Island, Mayuge district was attacked and killed by a Muslims mob a few days after he renounced Islam to follow Christ.
International Christian Concern (ICC), a persecution watchdog located in Washington, DC, whose concern is the human rights of Christians and religious minorities, released a report yesterday confirming Kintu’s death.
The organisation said the father of four (4) succumbed to his injuries on December 7, 2020 after he was seriously beaten and left unconscious by a local Muslim community in the area that was upset in him for leaving Islam and becoming a Christian.
Speaking out on the tragic incident, Pastor Andrew Nyanma of the Full Gospel church Dolwe, told ICC Yusuf had put his faith in Christ on 30th November 2020 after hearing the gospel message.
He explained, “We had been talking on several occasions but he was so argumentative when we touched on matters related to faith. He was a brilliant Muslim Imam but also respected other people’s faith. On this day, he was calm and receptive. He gave me humble time to explain to him why Christ is the only way to the Father. He repented of his sins and committed to following Christ.”
Yusuf and his family were living in a house close to the Mosque where he was an Imam. Three days after he got saved, his wife Hashfa divorced him and left with two of their young children to her father’s home in Bugiri District. She left behind the two older children, Abudkriim 19, and Sauda 16.
“He was seriously beaten and left unconscious. His older son and daughter were not able to help him immediately, until morning when Pastor Andrew arrived and took him to the hospital. He later died while receiving care at the hospital,” ICC quotes one witness as saying….
European pagan says
Muslims always forget something:
There is no compulsion in religion” (2:256)
You have your way, and I have my way. (109:6)
Hadiths are more evil than the Quran.
Red Pill says
2:256 is an abrogated verse…
gravenimage says
Red Pill, you are right.
toomanyhobbies says
only a CULT would do that….
Mount Zion says
Again , no surprise here , you have to die because you left Islam . The western media though isn’t reporting on this incident and others alike .Wonder why . How exactly is Islamophobia more important to report on in western media than the repeated killing of people who leave Islam . No alleged victim of Islamophobia “if there even is such thing” was injured or kicked out of his job or died . Why is for western media Islamphobia “which can not be compared in criminal intend to a killing due to aposthasy ” more important to report on .Islam is just uncompatible with western civilisation.
Infidel says
Uganda has done a good job banning Facebook and Twitter. They should now turn towards protecting the majority of their population – which is not muslim, from jihad. The last muslim leader that they had was Idi Amin, and everybody worldwide saw how that turned out. So they need to clean house
observer says
100% infidel !
Does anyone know why there is a wheelchair symbol that sits and slides where LEAVE A REPLY is found. I find it odd that any wheelchair symbol is necessary for this website. Needless to say paranoia creeps in…
Infidel says
Wow, I noticed it just now! What does it mean?
gravenimage says
Guys, if you click on the symbol it lists “Accessibility Tools”, which include such options as increasing the size (and hence readibility) of the text. Other options include increasing the contast or changing text to a possibly more readible font. There are actually a number of posters here with vision issues; I’m sure some of this is helpful to them.
Palladini says
In my Dictionary, I look up islam and it says see history of the 7th century, because that how they want to live today, and in today’s world, that just is not civilized behaviour
James says
What? Killed him? Bu-bu-but I thought Islam could take criticism.
GFYS says
maybe the remaining billion can do the same solve lots of issues
gravenimage says
Uganda: Imam converts to Christianity, Muslims murder him
………………
Hideous–the *poor man*. And Uganda is *not* a Muslim country.
God, I hate Islam.
Alice W says
Dear God,
please let this brother ‘s death become a turning away from Islam for many! Not by power or might, but by Your Spirit!
underbed cat says
The either clueless or complicit democrat ands some republicans, leftist leaders I suspect wanted to destroy Trump for exposing the submission to or complete alliance in protecting Islamic terror origins. that starts with mass migration to over populate, entry from unprotected borders, flying into airports, growth of mosques in every state and the message taught to followers straight from the Quran completely underground that praises slaying non beleivers and calls martyrs known as suicide by explosive vests the best of all people, to get collateral damage known as to terrorize citizens…. periotically. They literally purged the information. The money from Islamic state quelled the information and apparently anyone who accepted the arrangement with benefits of cash. ??The focus now is to protect China since a financial crisis and internal bad decisionsl to transfer our companies abroad so we have ask China for help as their economy expanded into a world power…..one that is curiously less interested in migration to destroy their counttry. Follow the money trail. There was a panic to impeach Trump ..to end …that exposure it seems to me.
underbed cat says
That Uganda gets it is quite a miracle.
gravenimage says
I don’t think Uganda particularly gets it, I’m afraid.
OLD GUY says
Murder is always the answer for islam. What a great religion of peace and love. Islam sounds more like a gang banger cult than anything else, you kill someone to prove your a true member of the gang, and you get killed if want out of the gang/cult. But hay you do get to rape and pillage as a member of islam. Makes you wonder why we see street gangs as criminal organizations and have special police groups that continue to track and investigate these gangs. Maybe the difference is that islamic leaders ware suits or religious looking robes rather than have their pants down below the crack.
infidel says
And the demented UN will look the other way… as if nothing happened… And the left-libbies over there will be the first ones to spew venom on the likes of Trump and Modi