This cruelty and barbarity is all justified by what Muslims consider to be sacred texts.
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.”
“Muslim Relatives Set Lethal Trap for Convert to Christianity,” Morning Star News, August 26, 2021:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim relatives of a former Islamic teacher in Uganda who became a Christian set a trap for him last month, hiring killers to bury him alive in a large ant mound, sources said.
Saban Sajabi, 32, had gained repute as an itinerant sheikh, teaching Islam in various mosques and schools in eastern Uganda, before an uncle led him to faith in Christ in 2015. With family members threatening him, he left his Muslim wife and child and fled to Jinja that year.
He received further threats after marrying Sarah Birungi, a Christian, in 2016, with the warnings continuing this year. A source said one of the last text messages he received from a relative read, “If anything happens to you, be informed that we shall not help you, especially at this time of COVID-19. Our advice is for you to return to Islam, the religion of the family.”
Birungi said that Sajabi on July 14 received a telephone call from a relative saying the uncle who led him to Christ, Shadrach Hasakya, was suffering a serious illness. Sajabi had regularly visited Hasakya on holidays while growing up, and his uncle had paid for his high school education, Birungi said.
“Without wasting time, we left Jinja immediately, leaving behind our children ages 6 and 2 under the care of the house girl [maid],” she said.
Sajabi continued receiving calls from the relative as they made their way to Kabula (a newer village near Iganga, not Kabula town in western Uganda), she said. Arriving at about 8 p.m., they were warmly greeted by motorcyle taxi drivers who offered to take them to Hasakya’s home in Kabula, Birungi said. She added that Sajabi tried calling back the relative who had called him, but his phone was turned off.
They paid for one motorcyclist each to take them to the uncle’s home, and upon reaching a swamp the one carrying Sajabi said he had run out of fuel, she said. They continued for another 100 meters, pushing the motorcycle out of fuel, until they reached the house of one of Hasaka’s neighbors in Kabula, near Iganga town, Birungi said.
“Immediately two motorcycles arrived carrying three men each,” she told Morning Star News. “They started beating my husband and then dragged him to a nearby anthill, dug into it and pushed his head inside, and he breathed his last.”
During the assault, one of the assailants covered her mouth and warned her that they would also kill her if she cried for help, she said.
“What you have witnessed happening to your husband today is for the disobedience of your husband not heeding the advice given by the family that he should return to Islam, since Islam cannot tolerate infidels,” one of the assailants told her, Birungi said.
The killers later cut the neck of the body, she said.
After they released her, she ran to a house about 100 meters away and knocked on the door.
“I told them that my husband has just been butchered,” Birungi said. “They feared to step out but made an alarm, and many people arrived.”
The next morning her husband’s body was taken to a mortuary.
Birungi was hospitalized for depression and trauma for 18 days at a hospital in Jinja, she said. When she was released on Aug. 2, she learned that Sajabi’s Muslim relatives had declined to give him a funeral, and that Hasakya had buried him….
Michael Copeland says
Another day in Islam.
grace says
These people are savages. There are no saving Graces for them. They use their women as slaves, their children as fodder and torture is a way of life for them.
Robert Christopher Laity says
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marc says
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Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Again, where is Imam Pope Francis when you need him? Haven’t heard much from this other fool leader. Cognitive dissonance much, Francis? BTW- When is doddering Joe scheduled for his cognitive dementia screening?
Donovan Nuera says
Islam is to too big to fail, you know.
The first brick that must be wrenched out of the facade must be the murdering of Apostates. Only a grassroots groundswell to put this barbarity front and center of every public discussion of Islam will we finally liberate fellow Human Beings. Make dhimmis and otherwise public “liberal human rights activists” in the West finally take a public stand about how cruel and inhuman this law is and how it violates all the post-WWII human rights proclamations. Then force “moderate” Western imams to say publicly where they stand. Force CAIR/MAS/ISNA/NoI/UN/State Department to state where they stand. Soon, it would be hoped, the “thought leaders” like Pope’s BFF al-Tayyab and Qaradawi would have to either reform or double down; then the facade would fall.
#APOSTATES AGAINST EVIL
john smith says
Such islamic savagery is being committed on a daily basis somewhere in the world, and what do we hear from the MSM about it, absolutely nothing.
If these atrocities were being reported by them, I have no doubt people would start to wake up.
James Lincoln says
The media is complicit, john.
john smith says
Your probably right James.
Keith O says
This is what happens when primitive savagery meets a violent barbaric cult.
Even animals will not behave in this manner towards each other.
gravenimage says
Uganda: Muslim relatives of Islamic teacher who became Christian hire killers to bury him alive in large ant mound
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Just horrifying. Anyone leaving Islam should get as far away from their Muslim relatives as possible.
And Uganda is not even a Muslim country–but these Muslim thugs act with impunity.