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.”
“Mother of Seven Wounded, Loses Family for Becoming Christian,” Morning Star News, April 13, 2021:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A mother of seven children in eastern Uganda suffered serious wounds and is cut off from her family after her husband and other Muslim relatives attacked her on Easter Sunday for putting her faith in Christ, sources said.
Salimati Naibira, 37, of Bukoba B village, Mayuge District, lost consciousness after her husband cut her with a dagger known as a Somali sword in the thigh and back on April 4 as she attended a worship service for the first time in the area, she said. She had converted from Islam to Christianity three days prior.
Naibira said she was on her way to the church service when she met her brother-in-law, Ahirafu Kowa, who asked her where she was going. He likely became suspicious after she told him she was going to visit a friend, she said.
One hour into the worship service, Naibira said, she saw through a window that her husband and other relatives were approaching.
“I saw my husband, Ayubu Kairu, and some family members enter the church gate shouting ‘Allah Akbar [jihadist slogan ‘God is greater’],’” Naibira told Morning Star News. “The church members took off from church worship to save their lives.”
The Muslim relatives entered the church building with sticks and the Somali sword. Naibira said the pastor and some church elders tried to protect her but were overpowered, and the assailants forced her into a van and drove her to a nearby forest.
“They started beating me with sticks, then my husband cut me with the Somali sword at the thigh and the back,” she said. “I regained consciousness only after several hours.”
A passing herdsman found her lying in a pool of blood at about 3 p.m., and he and others took the still unconscious Naibira to a clinic in nearby Kityerera town.
On April 5 hospital staff members managed to make contact with a Christian friend of Naibira, and on April 8 she picked her up from the hospital. At this writing Naibira was at an undisclosed location recovering from wounds on her face, thigh and back….
mortimer says
The religion of APOSTATE EXECUTION.
“The four schools of law all concur that apostasy is a crime, and that an apostate should he asked to repent, and that if he does not he should be KILLED.” – Grand Imam Ahmed el-Tayed (highest authority of Sunnite Islam)
… that is the final word on killing apostates … any Muslim may do it … no punishment applies to the killer of an apostate.
Andrew Blackadder says
Nothing says a Religion of Peace than trying to murder somebody who disagrees with that assessment.
So if I tell a muslim fellow that I believe his religion is very violent and he then turns around and attacks me very violently for saying this, is he then being a good muslim by doing so…
Otis says
We’re it not for Idi Amin Dada there wouldn’t be Muslims in Uganda.What this bloodthirsty thug did in Uganda is still affecting Ugandans.As a Kenyan, and a neighbor to Uganda,my mum was a Ugandan and from the stories she narrated to me how Amin ruled this country, I can only conclude by saying that infidels or Kafirs should never allow any adherrent of Islam to take power in their countries.
gravenimage says
Otis, I worked with a Christian student from Uganda when I was at university. His parents had sent him out of the country for his safety during the terrifying Idi Amin period. He always worried about this parents–and often could not contact them.
gravenimage says
Uganda: Woman converts to Christianity, her Muslim husband stabs her while screaming ‘Allahu akbar’
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Horrifying–this poor woman.
God, I hate Islam.
peter says
As I have often pointed out .anti humanity runs like a watermark throughout Koran!