Islamic law stipulates that a marriage of two Muslims is annulled if one or both of them leaves Islam. All that is required is a waiting period to see if they will return to the faith (see Reliance of the Traveller, m.7.4). So according to Islamic law, this couple is not married, and hence is committing the sin of zina, unlawful sexual intercourse.
“Christian Couple in Sudan Faces Possible Flogging for ‘Adultery,’” Morning Star News, May 3, 2022:
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A couple in Sudan could be punished with 100 lashes after being charged with “adultery” because a sharia (Islamic law) court annulled their marriage due to the husband’s conversion to Christianity, their attorney said.
Hamouda Tia Kafi, 34, and Nada Hamad Shukralah, 25, of Al Bageir, Al Jazirah state, were Muslims when they married in 2016, but when Kafi put his faith in Christ in 2018, his wife’s family sought and won a sharia court decision to dissolve their marriage, their attorney said.
The sharia court annulled the marriage on the basis of Kafi’s conversion as apostasy was a crime punishable by death at the time. In 2020, following the end of President Omar al-Bashir’s Islamist regime in 2019, Sudan decriminalized apostasy, and in 2021 Shukralah converted to Christianity and returned with their two children to her husband.
Following Shukralah’s conversion and return to her husband, her brother charged them with adultery under Article 146 of Sudan’s 1991 criminal law based on the sharia court’s annulment of their marriage, said their attorney, whose name is withheld for security reasons. Police arrested the couple on Aug. 17 and detained them for four days before they received bail.
“The court has interrogated the couple after two of the witnesses told the court that the marriage between the couple is illegal, and as a result they are accused of adultery under Article 146, but I told the court that the marriage is legal,” their attorney said.
The next hearing in their case was scheduled for May 12.
He said the couple, members of a Baptist church, are facing growing threats from hardline Muslims, in particular Shukralah’s brother.
In the case of adultery by an unmarried person, Article 146 calls for a sentence of flogging and expulsion from the area. If the convicted is married, adultery is punishable by death by stoning under Article 146….
somehistory says
Oh, how wonderful to have such a person as a “brother.” He is made of disgusting, demonic evil for wanting such awful things for his sister. He should be the one being flogged and threatened with death.
And of course, the “court” relishes the idea of flogging these two Christians.
there is no virtue, no value, in the submission to satan these slime exhibit. and the torment, torture and death they inflict on others.
bill says
More insanity from Islam, that millions submit to this ‘religion’ is beyond comprehension
Wellington says
Ah, Islam is so gracious and understanding. And, per Bush 43 shortly after 9/11, “Islam is peace.”
Of course, the opposite of these is the reality. But then we live in a time when reality is ever increasingly replaced by fiction (even outright lies) masquerading as reality.
What makes this all the more ridiculous and disturbing is that Western Civilization from its inception onward, and especially over the last two hundred years or so, has manifested the capacity to address wrongs (e.g., slavery) , explore parameters of freedom (which the modern Left has abused and has taken into the realm of abuse of freedom), produce the greatest technological heritage of any civilization or society, et al. such as no other civilization remotely has. And yet the West is continually excoriated but the decrepit, retrograde Islamic world still gets a pass, for instance its continued intolerance of other religions and especially a Muslim converting to another religion like Christianity—as evidenced by this article at JW.
Shame on the Islamic world. But shame also on all those non-Muslims who keep making excuses for the Islamic world, including many highly confused Christians. Pope Francis comes foremost to mind and close behind this horrible pontifex maximus are malicious fools like Biden and Trudeau.
Fitna says
Well it boils down to this, Islam is a cult of sadomasochism. You’re “safe” if you’re a woman wrapped in a burka, pumping out 10 jihadists to martyr themselves for Islam and happy being wife number 4 and being beaten if you’re too tired to get raped.
You’re “safe” as long as you remain a Muslim and bow to all its dictates. But the second you step out of line, death, punishment, torture awaits you by deranged lunatics ready to punish you with zeal. Not only is this the religion but it is also the law and the rules under which your govt functions.
At least in BDSM you have ‘safe words’ to end it, in Islam there’s no end to your torture except when you die. I’ve seen a lot of evil things in my life, but nothing comes close to the monster that is Islam and the scummy followers who are spreading it everywhere like a disease.
I have my issues with all religions, but if all Muslims converted to Christianity or Buddhism, then the world would be a far more humane, safer place.
The world needs to recognize Islam is an evil death cult that needs to be eliminated. The trouble is there is no leader smart or strong enough to take that stand, aside from a few individuals like Eric Zemmour and Geert Wilders.
Fitna says
*there are no leaders….
It’s going to take more than a handful of heroic politicians to create change. Or if the US took the lead then everyone else would follow. But I see nobody stepping up to oppose Islam in the US.
gravenimage says
Sudan: Couple faces lashes for ‘adultery’ after marriage is annulled due to husband’s conversion to Christianity
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These *poor people*. This “adultery” is actually staying true to your marriage.
I have often noted that there is no love in Islam.
And so much for the claims that Sudan is now “moderate”.
Joe1 says
In any event, it would be fornication (not adultery) even if the charges had merit which would be silly.