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.”
“Christian Widow, Daughter Beaten Unconscious in Uganda,” Morning Star News, January 12, 2022:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda beat a widow and her 16-year-old daughter unconscious on Dec. 30, leaving the girl unable to walk a year after killing her father, sources said.
Suffering from an apparent spinal injury, Oliva Apio has had to discontinue her high school studies, said her injured mother, Jenifer Nakirya, in Kasasya village, Olimoto parish, Puti-Puti Sub-County in Pallisa District.
The same Islamist villagers killed Nakirya’s husband, Simon Olinga, by poisoning him a year ago for leading six Muslims to Christ in the predominantly Muslim area, she said. Nakirya said they also tried to kill her and her daughter in October.
On Dec. 28 at about 7:30 p.m., several men on the road outside her house warned her to leave the village, and that they could attack at any time, she said. She recognized the voice of one villager, Jafari Outa, and two others, but could not see them in the dark, Nakirya said.
The following night – at 1 a.m., thus technically Dec. 30 – she heard the same voice and the breaking of a window in her home, she said.
“The attackers then entered and started beating us, me and my daughter, with sticks and kicks,” Nakirya told Morning Star News. “We tried to make an alarm, but all was in vain. They beat us so badly that both of us lost consciousness. When the cock crowed in the morning I regained my consciousness, but my daughter was still unconscious.”
A member of their church arrived at about 6:30 a.m. with food as part of the church’s aid to widows.
“She called my name, but I couldn’t respond because my voice was affected,” Nakirya said.
The church member entered the house and, finding Nakirya and her daughter badly injured, ran for help. Congregation members took them to a medical clinic, where they were referred to a hospital in Mbale, but Nakirya did not have money for treatment, she said.
A Morning Star News representative visiting her on Friday (Jan. 7) found Nakirya still in great pain, and her daughter unable to walk due to spinal injury. Without diagnosis or treatment, Oliva was only taking painkillers, her mother said. Oliva’s memory also seems to have been affected, she said.
The assailant whose voice she recognized, Outa, on Oct. 19 tried to kill them with a sword but was deterred by several visitors at their home for evening prayer, Nakirya said.
“I made an alarm, and Jafari Outa fled,” she said. “In the morning I reported the case at Pallisa central police station, and Outo was arrested and charged with attempted murder under reference number REF 36/19/10/2021, but he was released on bond.”…
Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.
Doomer says
And that is in a NON-Muslim majority country. Yesterday David Wood had a debate with a Muslim called Kenny Bomer on ” Was Muhammad’s Marriage to Aisha Immoral? ”
where Bomer said we don’t really know her age when she slept with Mohammed,she could have been 9 or 19, basing his argument on that
some Muslim sources say Aisha died at age 57,others at age 67.
REDPILL:”Knowledge is Power”.
I have been reading “Isabella:the Warrior Queen”(2014) by Kirstin Downey, on the life of Isabella the Catholic, and on page 24 she mentions something I had read BEFORE,
but did Not Know if it was True or Not.
She says that when the Muslims conquered Constantinople in 1453, they pillaged and destoyed for 3 days, and that:
“Approximately 120,000 BOOKS and MANUSCRIPTS,
some from earliest antiquity, were LOST, BURNED or DESTROYED.”
She gives her source ( a UNIVERSITY publication): Nancy Bisaha, “Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks” (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania press) (2004), page 68.
When do you Ever Hear about that? Such a crime against culture.
gravenimage says
Uganda: Muslims murder Christian for converting Muslims to Christianity, beat his wife and daughter unconscious
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*Horrifying*–these poor Christians. Yet we have heard of many similar stories from Uganda. The government has done nothing about these cases.