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.”
“ISIS kills four Afghan Christians,” by Kevin Zeller, MNN, September 22, 2021:
Afghanistan (MNN) — Four Christian men have been killed in Afghanistan; not by the Taliban, but by ISIS.
An extended family was traveling to join a larger convoy trying to escape the country, reports Nehemiah with FMI. “ISIS asked them, ‘we have tape about you that you are no longer Muslims. So is it true that you are not Muslim?’ They said, Yes, we are not Muslims anymore. We are Christians.’ So the men of this family were killed at the spot. The children and women, they let them go.”
Nehemiah asked his contacts how they knew it was ISIS that committed the violence. “The family told them that they were holding the flag of ISIS and they were wearing black uniforms.”…
CogitoErgoSum says
I wonder what Joe Biden thinks when he reads a story like this. I wonder if he would be allowed to respond if anyone did ask.
wpm says
Joe Biden only reads what his handlers tell him to read ,with his advanced dementia I am sure it is only comic books. The guy cannot even stay on the scripts put right in front of him. He is still saying what a great job he did leaving thousands of American citizens to the tender mercy of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Thanks to old Joe they are the best armed Terrorist group in the world.
mortimer says
Anyone who knows Islam’s core teachings knew that this would happen and there are surely hundreds being executed, not just four.
Beijing Bribed-en is responsible for these deaths by abandoning Afghanistan to the Taliban and then providing them with the biggest windfall of weaponry in all history.
Lion heart says
Mortimer : a few years ago when ISIS were still around in Iraq ,several Christian teens were beheaded when approached by ISIS asking them to deny Christianity ! Others were burnt down and tossed down onto a well . I am a Canadian Christian guy originally from Iraq who escaped Islamic terror after the fall of Saddam’s bloody regime.