Those who are shocked that the Grand Mosque of Paris is not “moderate” are likely unaware that 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.”
Al-#Mawlid an-Nabawi à la GMP. Participez au #concours de mémorisation des 40 #hadiths "Nawawi" samedi 23 octobre 2021 :
? concours@grandemosqueedeparis.fr
? formulaire de candidature (fr/ar) : https://t.co/QSV6Bm9O1Jhttps://t.co/zeF9i032NM pic.twitter.com/ph5gtQuvW6— Grande Mosquée de Paris (@mosqueedeparis) September 29, 2021
“Hadith memorization competition calling for ‘bloodshed’ of apostates at the Grand Mosque of Paris,” translated from “Concours de mémorisation de Hadith appelant à faire « couler le sang » des apostats à la Grande Mosquée de Paris,” Fdesouche, December 10, 2021 (thanks to Medforth):
Last October, the Grand Mosque of Paris, whose “Guide for Students” we had already come to know as radical references, organized a competition to memorize the “40 Hadiths” of the jurist Nawawi (1233-1277), a collection indispensable among Sunnis of all persuasions and sold in Fnac and all Muslim bookshops.
So what do these famous hadiths (traditions reproducing the words of the Prophet and the second source of Islamic law) contain?
Hadith #8:
“I have been commanded to fight people until they testify that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad (Mohammed) is His Messenger, until they perform the ritual prayer and pay the Zekâa (1)”.
Hadith no. 14:
“It is not permissible to shed the blood of a Muslim unless it is one of the following three culprits: the fornicator whose marriage has been consummated, the murderer who will suffer the fate of his victim, and the apostate who turns away from the Muslim community.
“Allah has prescribed that you should do good in all things. So when you kill, kill well. And when you cut the throat, cut the throat well. Each of you should sharpen his knife and kill his sacrifice properly.
Are the sacrifices mentioned in this hadith just animals? That is what Muslim activists want non-Muslims to believe for reassurance.
In the translation by Mohammed Tahar, published by Deux Océans and selected by the Institut du Monde Arabe (reference NAW 242.11 in the IMA library), the translator points out that while the word ” to cut the throat” in Hadith 17 (p. 46) refers to animals, he also clarifies that the verb ” to kill” refers to humans. These two clarifications are in brackets.
The translator Mohammed Tahar, a specialist in the classical Arabic language, provides Hadith 17 with an explanatory footnote, which is reproduced here in full:”When executing (beheading by the sword), the executioner must use a sharp blade. The application of capital punishment under a revealed law must be accompanied by dignity and respect for man, whose highest good, if he is a believer, is not this worldly life.”
“Respect for man”, sure enough!
For the naïve who believe that the Grand Mosque of Paris represents peaceful Islam against Islamism, recall that when the GMP was still led by Dalil Boubakeur, it always defended the UOIF brothers, even when six of its orientalist extremist speakers were banned from entering the country in 2012 for their calls for murder. Boubakeur also defended the imam of Toulouse, Mohamed Tatai, in July 2018, following his remarks about jihad and the Jews who, according to Islamic tradition, must be killed at the end of time
More recently, the Grand Mosque of Paris is participating in a National Council of Imams intended by Gérald Darmanin to unite all Islamist movements.
Abdallah Zekri, one of the leaders of the Great Mosque of Paris, attacked young Mila, who was threatened with death, with the words ” Whoever sows the wind will reap the storm. This girl knows what she said. She has accepted her responsibility. That she criticises religions is fine, but to insult them and all that goes with it … Now she is bearing the consequences for what she said.”
More recently, the Grand Mosque of Paris is participating in a National Council of Imams intended by Gérald Darmanin to unite all Islamist movements.
(1) This is a financial contribution that a Muslim must pay, similar to the Catholic “denier du culte”.
PMK says
Memorization of Islamic stories is the best Muslims can do?
mortimer says
Mohammed said, “Kill the apostates wherever you find them, because whoever does so will be rewarded on Judgment Day.” -Sahih Bukhari 9,84,64
10 million Muslims are abandoning Islam worldwide. Withing 100 years, at least 1 BILLION Muslims will have left Islam at that rate.
mortimer says
addendum: 10 million Muslims are abandoning Islam worldwide … each year.
gravenimage says
This is great if accurate, Mortimer–but wouldn’t that still mean that it would take 18 million years at this rate to end Islam (if my iffy math is right)–even if the creed didn’t grow in the interrim?
Fred Alan Medforth says
France: Paris public transport companies are strongholds of radical Islamists – There are also contacts with terrorists
https://medforth.biz/france-paris-public-transport-companies-are-strongholds-of-radical-islamists-there-are-also-contacts-with-terrorists/
gravenimage says
Deeply disturbing, Fred–thanks for that link.
mortimer says
The Grand Mosque of Paris is seen to be a politically fascist organization supporting Islamic terrorism.
They are not French patriots, but revolutionaries and would-be insurrgents.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
I thought France banned political Islam?
Where is their political will? Islam functions like the Italian Organized Crime Syndicates.
Bloodletting is always their first option and solution as is the penalty for declaring one’s freedom from their tyranny.
tim gallagher says
Islam is absolutely pathetic. Imagine anyone actually finding it acceptable to murder anyone who tries to leave the barbaric, primitive ideology. Such a knuckle draggers’ mentality for any people to have in 2021. Non Muslims have made progress over the centuries but not these knuckle draggers in islam. This idea of killing anyone who tries to leave islam really does seem exactly the same as the way the Mafia and other such gangsters operate. As for memorising crap, that is ridiculous nonsense as well. It is not worth doing and is meaningless. Sure, if you are going to sing a song, then you have to learn the lyrics or an actor has to remember the lines in a play, but this stupid memorising of hadiths seems a ludicrous waste of anyone’s time to me. Talk about filling your mind with poisonous garbage.
somehistory says
It’s all bloodthirsty drivel, straight from satan the devi;, and all who willingly go along with this have made themselves children of satan the devil.
Walter Sieruk says
The many apologists and propagandists for Islam still keep only declaring that Islam is a “nonviolent peaceful religion.”
In spite of all of the obvious facts of reality. All we need to do to have a ” reality check ” to see in that claim is true of false is to reads the words of the hadiths and read about the people who had been murdered , by Muslims, because they had left the religion of Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
This further exposes three things. First, this reveals that Islam is, truly, is a bloody, violent and deadly religion.
Second, this shows that Islam must have no real ,actual , valid arguments to gain back the people that this religion had lost ,so many Muslims resort the threats of deadly violence and also send a message to devout Muslims to stay ” devout Muslims” and never, ever leave the fold of the “House of Islam ” or pay terrible consequences of death. Most likely a painful violent and bloody death.
Third, this likewise demonstrates the difference between Islam and Christianity.
For when a Muslim leaves Islam that is a violent death warrant for that person.
In great contrast, with Christianity, when a Christian forsakes Jesus, Christians will pray for that person to return to Christ or in the harshest extreme for Christians, they will shun him of her.
No one is murdered.
Therefore the reveals that the difference between Christianity and Islam is vast and outstanding.
somehistory says
Yes, a very great difference. This also shows the vast difference between the One Christians love , imitate, and worship and the “fake god” that mozlums worship and copy.
Jesus Christ told the parable of the Prodigal Son to illustrate His and His Father’s great love for their children, even those who stray into wrong actions; and how they are encouraged to come back, but not forced to do so.
gravenimage says
Why hasn’t the “Grand Mosque of Paris” been shut down years ago?
Christopher Watson says
It might be more useful for the Mosque to have a competition as to who can use toilet paper
Wellington says
Islam in the West is as wrong as Nazism and Marxism are.
Utterly sick of all those, including “nice people,” who still don’t get this.
“Nice people” throughout history who are willfully ignorant have given cover to iniquity. Minus such “nice people” the forces of freedom would be far more unfettered to deal with evil forthwith, swiftly, verily and so on.
I am so utterly sick of “nice people” who are enablers of wickedness. To Hell with them.
gravenimage says
Churchill noted this himself. Evil rarely gets very far without the support of clueless “nice people”.
OLD GUY says
Funny how islam is always about shedding somebodies BLOOD. What a violent ideology!