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.”
Hyderabad: Former Congress Candidate and Leader Mohd Feroz Khan places ₹50 lkh bounty on #WasimRizvi haed pic.twitter.com/RZdZCFlzlZ
— MeghUpdates?™ (@MeghBulletin) December 6, 2021
“Watch: Video of Hyderabad Congress leader announcing 50 lakh bounty on Wasim Rizvi’s head goes viral after latter reverts to Hinduism,” OpIndia, December 6, 2021:
A 10-day old video has started doing the rounds on the microblogging site soon after former Shia Waqf Board chief Wasim Rizvi reverted to Hinduism by renouncing Islam. In the viral video, Hyderabad Congress leader Feroz Khan is heard announcing a Rs 50 lakh bounty for whoever beheads ex-UP Shia Board Chief Wasim Rizvi.
The video was first shared by a YouTube channel Voiceup Media on November 25, 2021. In the video, Feroz Khan, who had contested parliamentary election from Hyderabad against Asaduddin Owaisi on Congress ticket is heard using extremely derogatory and abusive language for Wasim Rizvi.
He is heard saying in Hindi which is loosely translated to: “Wasim Rizvi, I have been hearing you for the last four months. You have crossed all limits. Wherever one spots him, kill him. Get his severed head to me and in turn, take Rs 50 lakhs from me. Whoever kills him I will help him fight his case be it in the sessions court, high court or the Supreme court. Everywhere my lawyer would represent you and I will provide you with full support.”
Hurling abuses at him, the Congress leader added that a person like Rizvi has no right to live. “whoever is listening to me I swear by my Allah that I will support you”, Firoz Khan claimed in his video statement.
This is, however, not the first time, a bounty has been announced to behead ex-UP Shia Board Chief Wasim Rizvi. In March this year, Amir-ul-Hassan Jafari, a Shia lawyer and ‘activist’, has announced an Rs 11 lakh bounty for whoever beheads ex-UP Shia Board Chief Waseem Rizvi for his petition to remove 26 verses from Quran. Rizvi, in his petition, alleged that these verses promote terrorism and jihad. Since the reports came out about his petition, Rizvi has been facing backlash from the Muslim community.
Islamists attack Rizvi for converting to Hinduism
It may be noted that ever since Wasim Rizvi reverted to Hinduism and became Jitendra Narayan Swami under the guidance of Mahant Yati Narasinghanand Giri at Dasna Devi temple in Ghaziabad, the Islamists have also been expressing their anger on social media. They claimed that Jitendra Narayan Swami had been thrown out of Islam and even called him a ‘kafir’….After converting to Hinduism, Rizvi said, “Mughals have given the tradition of defeating Hindus. Muslims vote unanimously for the party that defeats Hindus. Muslim voters are only for defeating Hindus.” He further added, “I was thrown out of Islam. Every Friday, they announce more rewards for my head. Today I am accepting Sanatan Dharma.”…
gravenimage says
India: Muslim leader offers $66,000 for murder of Muslim who embraced Hinduism, ‘Get his severed head to me’
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Is Feroz Khan going to be prosecuted for this blatant call for paid murder? Somehow I rather doubt it…certainy he doesn’t think he will be.
b.a. freeman says
there are no consequence for being a “pious” muslim in india.
+1
gravenimage says
Grimly this seems to be the truth, b.a. freeman.
tim gallagher says
Islam is such a sick, primitive religious ideology. How dare a person decide to leave the stinking ideology. They must be killed for daring to leave it behind. Absolutely pathetic. I think of how civilised people behave. If a person loses their Christian faith, it’s no big deal. You believe, then you lose your faith, maybe you get it back again at some point in your life. Everybody is fine and mellow about it. Every person has to follow their conscience. Not in islam. They must have some insecurity, deep down, for them to care about some person leaving their evil cult. Also, all this sickening crap Muslims go on with about beheading people. I suppose it is Koranic bullshit or something, but they have a very sick fetish with beheading people. “Get his severed head to me”, blah, blah. They need to be put on psychiatrist’s couch and try to break free of this very sick fetish they have. Pure 7th century type savagery. Pathetic garbage from totally uncivilised scum.
DavidR says
Islam is defined as much by what it isn’t as by what it is. Its followers are defined as Muslims regardless of how much they actually know about Islam. So the World of Islam is made up of not Christians, not Jews, not Hindus, not etc. Out of this group of Devils Advocates about half are illiterate, emulating Muhammad. Whittling down further we find that most of the remaining literate Muslims know far less about Islam than the Islamophobes on this website. Most of them don’t pray five times a day. Many of them drink and take drugs. Consequently there are very few sincere Muslims alive although they would all disagree with that observation. In fact, publicly saying something like that is one way to suddenly reinvigorate previously intelligent, half hearted Muslims. “How dare they!” is the real mantra of Islam, the religion of not. When unopposed they consume themselves in civil war with multiple caliphates operating at the same time. When confronted, challenged or attacked they become a temporary “us and we both”. The Sunni may even align with the Shia, but only if the threat is dire, imminent and revealing of Islam’s hollow, plagiarized ideological core. However, out of the World’s major religions Hinduism is the most alien to Islam due to it’s polytheistic nature. Converting from Islam to being a Unitarian would be almost a lateral move. Despite Allah’s endearing genocidal feelings Allah actually gets mad when a human stops thinking ” There can be only one”. So that’s one of the reasons he wants Muslims to kill other people, specifcally non Muslims and Muslims who won’t commit to whatever version of Islam is doing the killing at the time. There are many others on his To Do (away with) List: gays, loud women, the Statue of Liberty, the meek, Presbyterians and Labrador retrievers to name a few.
gravenimage says
Many Muslims may know little about their faith, but almost all of them have that hatred of and violence towards Infidels thing down pat.
Derek says
It is clear that Islam is NOT a religion but a cult for rape, murder, loot and war. It’s like the Mafia – or should I say, mafia has borrowed from Islam. THERE IS NO WAY OUT OF THE MAFIA (ISLAM). IF YOU WANT OUT YOU DIE.
gravenimage says
Islam is a religion by all definitions–it is just an *evil* religion.
You are quite correct about the Mafia taking its inspriration from Islam, though–“protection money” derives right from the Muslim demand for Jizya and tribute. They learned this during the brutal Islamic occupation of Sicily.
john smith says
Just another example of how truly evil muslims can become.
Infidel says
On one hand, the muslims have been claiming that he no longer belongs to islam, and is ‘excommunicated’ (although I have never heard of islam having such a mechanism), doesn’t have a right to be buried in any muslim site and so on. When he turns around and says, “Okay, I won’t claim any burial sites, I’m willing that after my death, my body be cremated according to Hindu rites”, then they wanna murder him for apostasy
Real scandal is the BJP government that can’t bring itself to criminally go after imams and others who issue death fatwas. India desperately needs a real Hindutva party that can toss the BJP to the roads, where muslims are encroaching to pray