The attackers no doubt consider themselves righteous. 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.”
“Former Mosque Leader in Uganda Beaten for Faith in Christ,” Morning Star News, January 24, 2022:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A former mosque leader in eastern Uganda who converted to Christianity is still hospitalized with serious head, back and hand injuries after Muslim relatives beat him on Jan. 13, he said.
Bashir Sengendo had not returned home to visit his family in Namaato village, Kigalama Sub-County in Namutimba District since leaving Islam in 2016. Relatives had long sent him messages urging him to return to tend to a portion of land supposedly allocated to him, he said.
“This request continued for the last six years, but I had been reluctant to go back home,” Sengendo told Morning Star News.
He decided to return home from his base in western Uganda for a visit on Jan. 12, arriving at 9 p.m., he said.
“I was shocked to receive a cold reception and slept without food, only to be attacked and beaten badly in the morning by my brother and my uncle,” Sengendo said. “They cut me with an object in the head, back and hand.”
His screams brought police and neighbors who rescued him and took him Namutimba Hospital, he said.
“As the attackers were hitting me, my uncle said that the family spent a lot of money training me as a Muslim teacher, and that I have caused a lot of shame to the family and Muslims at large,” Sengendo said.
He lost a large amount of blood and was still critically ill when a Morning Star News contact visited him in the hospital….
Kenneth J Johnson says
Muslim idea of freedom of religion. KEN
mortimer says
As horrifying as this vicious attack is, the story reveals a tip of an iceberg that Western people generally do not see, namely, that many Islamic RELIGIOUS LEADERS are abandoning Islam as they realize it is false and intellectually untenable.
Faith in Islam is so unjustified, it is an embodiment of the definition of OBSCURANTISM … “the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or full details of something from becoming known or a policy of opposing the spread of knowledge or of withholding knowledge from the public.”
Many Muslim leaders are now doubting Islam. One of them said:
“The secularists, the Communists, and the atheists say that Muhammad lied to people, which leads them to reject Allah, the Koran, and Islam. The Islamists, on the other hand, say that it is all true and all from Allah. Thus, they deceive themselves, refusing to see the problems. They say: Don’t ask, don’t raise doubts. They choose blindness. They are all blind. They do not want to use their brains.”
To be a Muslim, you must be an obscurantist, because the intellectual problems between Islam and reason are becoming painfully more obvious every day as the Western ‘Revisionist’ school of Islamic studies is proving every day. There is no place for a thinking Muslim to stand anymore. The intellectual basis for Islam is now in ruins.
Michael Copeland says
“as children we are taught that thinking is bad when it comes to criticizing Islam. We’re shushed, yelled at, and even punished sometimes.”
Ex-muslim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF5EJOJBsYI at 6.48
“I have always asked questions to my mosque teachers about Islam but I have always been told that I should never ask questions and just believe what the Qur’an says.”
Young secret convert to Christianity in UK
(David Wood video, “More, More, More Ex-Muslims! (Apostasy Avalanche) at 1.43
mortimer says
One of elements of Islamic culture stands out in this horrible history of betrayal, namely, the HONOR-SHAME culture of Islam. In a case involving the ‘HONOR’ of the Islamic patriarch, there is no compassion or mercy. ‘HONOR’ is returned to the Islamic patriarch by the shedding of blood.
A weak and defenseless victim is a scapegoat for the shame of the Islamic patriarch who transfers his shame onto the victim and sheds the victim’s blood.
Islam actually practices human sacrifice … all in the name of ‘honor’. It is thus a fair comment to accuse Islam of being a ‘DEATH CULT’.
gravenimage says
Uganda: Muslim relatives savagely beat former mosque leader for leaving Islam
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Horrifying–this *poor man*. But this sort of thing happens in Uganda all the times, despite its not even being an Islamic country.
This is what happens to an apostate from Islam. Here is what happens with a covert *to* Islam:
“Kenya: Man converts to Islam, blows himself up in home of Christian friends, killing parents, severely injuring teen”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/01/kenya-man-converts-to-islam-blows-himself-up-in-home-of-christian-friends-killing-parents-severely-injuring-teen
I’m sensing a pattern here…
roberta says
He opened his eyes and left islam. So they beat those eyes shut again. HEALED
Michael Copeland says
Mohammed said, “So, kill the apostates wherever you find them, because whoever does so will be rewarded on Judgment Day.” -Sahih Bukhari 9,84,64
gravenimage says
Yes–this savagery is orthodox Islam.
Madeleine Dunn says
The definition of “islamophobia” includes criticism of Islam. This is the sick world we live in, where the real savages and barbarians are protected from criticism by soft uneducated do gooders, who believe all religions are the same.
Infidel says
These non-muslim countries like Kenya and Uganda, do they even have governments? B’cos as long as they keep tolerating this, a day will quickly arrive when they’ll see a jihadist militia all ready to overthrow them and impose Idi Amin like regimes in their countries (for Uganda, of course, the second time)