This recalls the case of Robert Hussein Qambar Ali, a Kuwaiti national who converted from Islam to Christianity in the 1990s. Hussein was arrested and tried for apostasy, even though the Kuwaiti Constitution guaranteed the freedom of religion and said nothing about the traditional Islamic prohibition on conversion to another faith. Mohammad Al-Jadai, one of Hussein’s prosecutors, explained: “Legislators did not regulate the question of apostasy in the Constitution because they never thought this kind of thing could happen here. The freedom of belief in the Constitution applies only to the religion of birth.”
When Hussein asked during a court hearing to see a memorandum from the prosecution, the prosecutor told the judge, “His blood is immoral! This document contains verses from the Holy Qur’an and should not be touched by this infidel!” Then he began quoting a passage from the memorandum that made abundantly clear the relationship between Kuwait’s ostensibly tolerant secular law and the Sharia: “With grief I have to say that our criminal law does not include a penalty for apostasy. The fact is that the legislature, in our humble opinion, cannot enforce a penalty for apostasy any more or less than what our Allah and his messenger have decreed. The ones who will make the decision about his apostasy are: our Book, the Sunna, the agreement of the prophets and their legislation given by Allah.” Even in some places where it is not fully enforced or is not officially the law of the land, the Sharia retains the status of a kind of meta-law, often overriding and superseding the laws of the land.
“Four Christians in Sudan Arrested under Annulled Apostasy Law,” Morning Star News, July 11, 2022:
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Police in Darfur Region, Sudan have arrested four Christians under a law against apostasy that was annulled two years ago, according to local sources.
Police on June 28 arrested the Christians from the Sudanese Baptist Church in Zalingei, in western Sudan’s Central Darfur state, on charges of apostasy, detaining them until their release on bail on Tuesday (July 5), according to local media outlet Sudania 24.
The Christian converts from Islam – Bader el Dean Haroon Abdel Jabaar, his brother Mohammad Haroon Abdel Jabaar, Tariq Adam Abdalla and Morthada Ismail – had also been arrested on June 22 and released the same day.
Area Christians said they were arrested over allegations of apostasy under Article 126 of Sudan’s 1991 criminal code. In July 2020 the transitional government that took effect in September 2019 decriminalized apostasy, which had been punishable by death. Sudan’s 2020 Fundamental Rights and Freedoms Act prohibits the labeling of any group as “infidels” (takfir), according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).
The 2020 Act also repealed other Islamic-based articles of the 1991 criminal code, including public flogging as a punishment and prohibitions against drinking alcohol. Although Sudan has taken some steps to reform laws that violate religious rights, most current statutes are still based on Islamic law, Christian leaders say.
Human rights activists said prosecutors have mistakenly used a repealed article of the criminal code against the four Christians.
The Christians were scheduled to appear in court this week. Police also reportedly confiscated their Bibles and a sound system belonging to the church.
Officers reportedly ordered the Christians to leave the area. The arrested men refused but have since gone into hiding. Muslim extremists in the area have called for their death, one of the arrested Christians said….
The U.S. State Department in 2019 removed Sudan from the list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) that engage in or tolerate “systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom” and upgraded it to a watch list. The State Department removed Sudan from the Special Watch List in December 2020. Sudan had previously been designated as a CPC from 1999 to 2018….
Devasur says
If in a democracy like India where apostasy law doesn’t exist yet Muslims still apply their law and kill people. In a country like Sudan, it is impossible to annul it. Either they should escape the hell hole if they convert or prepare to convert back or die.
peter says
You are exactly right
Infidel says
You beat me to it. Right now, the USCIRF probably dings India more than Sudan. I can’t wait to see what Rashad Hussein will have to say in the next annual report of that agency on both India and Sudan
Devasur says
According to USCIRF muslims are genocided in India LOL. USCIRF is a leftist rag controlled by govt.
raja says
`Devasur,
USCIRF, like the UN institutes are run by leftist thugs who have no problem in blurting out lies all the time, as islam does. They are not human institutes but institutes run by brutes. Fascists of all stripes always gang up against the rest who are for humanity.
Infidel says
Right now, India is a country of particular concern when religious freedom goes, but for Hindus. We saw this April how Hindu New Year processions that were taken out in various cities were stoned by muslims. Right now, if Hindus threaten to boycott muslims in business – as they should, if they are at all sane – they are branded ‘communal’. I’m sure glad I’m out of that 💩hole – something one gets when only one party has a monopoly on right wing votes
I think India is headed for a civil war, and that the sooner that happens, the better!
GreekEmpress says
We’re glad you’re here now, too.
gravenimage says
The UN has been spouting apologia for Islamic savagery for decades.
raja says
Apostasy laws are so demonic that you never know when it will rear its head up and heart. Apostasy laws in islam is bread and butter, without which it will cease to exist. So it is hardly surprising that though it is abolished in Sudan its tentacles can reach you from nowhere.
mortimer says
The apostasy law is SHARIA LAW and in this case it was put into SECULAR LAW. But the SHARIA death sentence for apostates remains in effect. It is the role of Muslim vigilantes INSTRUCTED and DIRECTED by mullahs in secret to execute the apostates. It is what Allah and his prophet (a team of two partners) command.
raja says
Mortimer,
Thank you for the reply. I didn’t know that Sharia law is perpetual, irrespective of secular laws that might “co-exist” with Sharia law.
mortimer says
To raja: Sharia MAY NOT be abrogated or annulled by man-made laws. That is blasphemy. Such a person who attempts to annul Sharia law should also be executed for ‘fighting Islam’.
https://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-hangs-man-killed-governor-over-call-reform-022714360.html
Mumtaz Qadri, a bodyguard for Salman Taseer, governor of Punjab province, shot him dead in the capital, Islamabad, in 2011.
Governor Salman Taseer had openly called for the revocation of Pakistan’s blasphemy law.
mortimer says
Video about ‘martyr’ Mumtaz Qadri:
https://youtu.be/UC2S758gyRo
gravenimage says
All grimly true, Mortimer.
mortimer says
1)The mullahs are informed about problems facing the Muslim community by ACTIVISTS in the Muslims community, then 2) the mullahs preach sermons about the problem, then 3) the mullahs ask MUSLIM ACTIVISTS (in secret) to form a committee of vigilantes to ‘deal with’ the problems facing their committee, then 4) the mullahs issue instructions for the vigilante action to be prosecuted ‘PERFECTLY’ according to Sharia law’s protocols, then 5) the vigilantes act at arm’s length from the mullahs so the mullahs have plausible deniability, then 6) the mullahs DENOUNCE the activists and vigilantes they have instructed.
The process repeats because Westerners are such POLLYANNAS. And the mullah laugh in their beards.
mortimer says
Allah’s Sharia law is eternally valid, and since the ‘doors of theological disputation’ (ijtihad) have been closed, no further development of Sharia is allowed.
It does not matter if human laws forbid the application of Sharia, because ALLAH COMMANDS THE APPLICATION OF SHARIA.
It is the MULLAHS who understand all this, and the MULLAHS are the ones who lead their congregations and the RADICALS to enforce Sharia through VIGILANTE ACTION if it is necessary.
Right now, MILLIONS of Muslims are dropping out of Islam every single year. The MULLAHS must take VIGILANTE action if Islam is to be defended, because Islam cannot be defended by MORAL argument, HISTORICAL argument, SCIENTIFIC argument or TEXTUAL argument.
Islam’s command structure is now crumbling and it is in CHAOS. They are turning on one another.
peter says
You are exactly right
gravenimage says
Sudan: Four converts to Christianity arrested under apostasy law that was annulled in 2020
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Wasn’t Sudan supposed to be “moderate” now? Not so much…
These poor Christian converts.
mortimer says
According to UNDP Sudan, the Muslim population is 97%, including numerous Arab and non-Arab groups. The remaining 3% ascribe to either Christianity or traditional animist religions.
The mullahs are NOT ‘moderate’ … the mullahs LEAD and INSTRUCT the enforcement of BRUTALLY SAVAGE and DISCRIMINATORY Sharia law.
No doubt, many thousands of Sudanese are leaving Islam every year in Sudan. There is no intellectual basis for Islam. As they are more educated, Muslims become ex-Muslims every day.
The mullahs in Sudan must be more and more despairing about stopping the collapse of Islam.
somehistory says
the so-called “law” of the subjugation to satan, is not a “law” at all, It is very much like the *rules* outlaws of the West made up. (only much, much worse)…to control the gang.
the slime maggot that mozlums worship as their “prophet,’ made up a bunch of *rules* for his gang so he could control them and keep them “subjugated” to him. he made up the rules….or the slime maggots who created him out of their own filthy, evil mind, made up…rules that would give his gang carnal satisfaction and a killing spree that has lasted for all these centuries.
the so-called “law” of the mozlum gang is against all Natural Laws and against the laws of the non-mozlum ruled nations. It is not “law” but lawless *gang rules.*
that’s why they won’t let it go. they enjoy and lust to kill and this just gives them more opportunity for those lusts to be satiated.