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.”
“Muslim Father Kills Daughter on Day She Converts,” Morning Star News, June 14, 2022:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A woman in central Uganda who accepted Christ at a church service on May 29 was killed later that day when her father stabbed her in the eyes for leaving Islam, sources said.
After having several dreams about Christ, 28-year-old Hawa Amoti of Nansana, Wakiso District visited a Christian neighbor early on the morning of May 29, said the neighbor, unidentified for security reasons.
“Amoti came to our home very early in the morning and needed to know more of Issa [Jesus], whom she had seen in a dream,” he said. “After explaining to her about eternal life and forgiveness of sin that comes from Jesus who came to take away the sins of the whole world, she willingly accepted Jesus for the salvation of her soul. I then prayed for her, and then together we went to church in Nansana.”
After the church service, Amoti joined the neighbor’s family for lunch at his home and stayed until about 5:45 p.m., when she left for her home, he said.
Her father, Haji Shariifu Agaba, and brothers had already learned that she had been seen worshipping Christ at church when she arrived outside their home, one of her siblings said. Agaba ordered his sons to seize and beat her, then took a sharp knife and pierced her eyes, said a brother of Amoti who tried to defend her.
“I want to remove these eyes so that you stop seeing churches forever – even if you die, we are not going to bury you,” Agaba told her, according to the brother, whose name is withheld for security reasons.
Amoti’s wailing and screaming drew neighbors who rushed over to rescue her, the Christian neighbor said. As more members of the community arrived, Agaba and his sons went inside their house.
Neighbors arranged for a vehicle to rush Amoti to a nearby hospital, where she succumbed to profuse bleeding from her eye injuries, sources said….
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.
mortimer says
Western people should first of all learn that Islam is an HONOR/SHAME culture in which the patriarch receives the ‘honor’ and mostly women receive the ‘shame’.
Any thing that the Muslim patriarch considers ‘shameful’ is a subject of concern for him to correct through execution. The Muslim patriarch has a right in Sharia law to murder his children or grandchildren without repercussions.
A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that …
… “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” However, “not subject to retaliation” is “a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring.” (‘Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2).
In other words, someone who kills his child or grandchild incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law. Sharia law creates this culture of violence and intimidation.
PMK says
If Muslims make up about 12% of the population and Uganda’s constitution allows for freedom of religion, will this woman’s family members ever be arrested and charged? There seem to have been several witnesses who tried to help her.
gravenimage says
You are right, PMK–Uganda is *not* a Muslim country–not even close. Yet this kind of “Honor Killing” of apostates is absolutely rife there, and seldom punished.
john smith says
We are regularly given such heartbreaking horrific stories at JW, why on earth is it only here that you can find them. Such stories should be mainstream, and while they remain untold the vast majority are going to remain blind to the evils of this death cult.
Fitna says
Thank you Robert for always quoting the Islamic verses that incite these barbaric acts against innocents by Muslims. This way Muslims can’t claim that opponents of Islam are just fabricating lies to make them look bad.
I’ve had numerous discussions with Muslims in person over the years. Most of them hide the depth of their true beliefs, they tend to make it seem that their faith doesn’t matter that much to them-it’s an act. A few truly don’t care about Islam and were quiet happy being more westernized and actually turning against their parents who were more devout.
Then you’ll come across some hardcore believers who are stubbornly attached to their beliefs, even after you show them how wrong they are on some issues. They follow it blindly because like the donkey being lead around by a carrot on a stick, they think in the end it’s all worth it since there is a reward waiting for them in the afterlife.
It is those kinds of Muslims that are the most dangerous to their fellow humans, both Muslims and Infidels. Once you get a large mass of these believers anywhere, they will work to defeat secularism or any other ideology to replace it with Islam and then we’re all really screwed.
No normal, rational person having read the Quran, the history of Islamic conquests, etc. will decide Islam is a wonderful religion and will immediately convert to it. Most if not all Muslims were forced to convert by ‘fire and sword’ and then it was forced onto their offspring who had no way of defending themselves and avoid being brainwashed by this terrible ideology.
So this is the situation we all find ourselves in, having to live with this large group of monsters who have a very warped, deranged, misguided world view that seeks to impose their way of life on the entire planet.
Just as non-Muslims were forced into Islam, it will take force either to de-convert them or else to deal with them as we would toxic waste. You will never be able to reason with 90% of Muslims so that means your only options are expulsion, isolation or warfare.
Before we can even get that far in the game, millions of non-Muslims will need to be enlightened to the real danger of Islam and its hordes of zombie followers. Otherwise anyone who hasn’t gained the knowledge that most of us have, will see us opponents of Islam as a group of lunatics and extremists.
So it’s no wonder that people like Tommy Robinson, Geert Wilders and others had been so easily dismissed, sidelined and demonized…because the Muslims could just shout out names, insults (ad hominem attacks) and the masses of uneducated fools would easily fall for such lies and propaganda.
Basically society is moving at the speed of the dumbest, least educated members of society, which is why it’s taking so long for people to ‘wake up,’ organize and demand that Islam is banned because it is an evil ideology and to have its followers deported.
Ofc the elites/intelligentsia, who have the most resources to fight this death cult, have themselves dropped the ball and failed to understand the threat and to educate the rest of the population.
So Muslims get to freely operate (largely unmonitored) amongst us and we only hear about it through dribs and drabs from stories here and there that make it to the mainstream. We’re facing a leviathan of an enemy and its going to need all hands on deck to fight and defeat.
john smith says
Absolutely spot on Fitna
Andrew Blackadder says
A muslim Father proving beyond any doubt that islam is in fact a Fascist Religious Cult of Satan as he thought it a decent thing to do by taking out the eyes of his child because she changed her mind about what god is or isnt, thereby proving just how hate is the norm within islamic teachings.
islam truly is THE evil of our times.
OLD GUY says
I wonder where in the media this story might be if a white father killed his black daughter for converting from Christianity to Islam. Front-page world wide. But hey this is just a Black father Killing a Black daughter over her converting to Islam, so no story there.
Islam the religion of MURDER!
gravenimage says
Uganda: Muslim woman converts to Christianity, her father kills her on the same day
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Just horrifying–this poor woman.
But we hear about cases like this is Uganda all the time now.
Simone Fields says
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