It could have been worse for Hawa Ismail Abdalla. 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 Mother from Sudan Beaten in Refugee Camp,” Morning Star News, February 14, 2024:
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Among the estimated 2,000 displaced Sudanese who are converts from Islam is a mother of seven children whose husband beat her upon learning of her Christian faith, sources said.
Hawa Ismail Abdalla, 44, received medication for head injuries after her Muslim husband beat her on Dec. 27 at the Wedwiel Refugee Camp on South Sudan’s border with Sudan, but she lacked money for necessary treatment, an area source said. The camp is north of Aweil in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state, South Sudan.
“My husband told me, ‘Why did you believe in Issa [Jesus]? You are an infidel” before attacking her, Abdalla said, adding that she has forgiven him.
Abdalla, whose youngest child is 8 years old, received some aid first inside the camp and later was taken to an area health center, though she lacked the 700,000 South Sudanese pounds (approximately USD700) for the needed treatment, an area church leader told Morning Star News.
“I ask you to pray for me to recover from the injury,” she told members of a house church in the camp.
Her family had lived many years in a camp for Internally Displaced People in southwestern Sudan’s Nyala town, South Darfur state, before military conflict in April drove them to the new refugee camp in South Sudan. She had put her faith in Christ while in the camp in Nyala, and her pastor there was among the refugees who fled to the heavily populated Wedwiel Refugee Camp.
About 9,000 refugees now live at the camp, most of them from South Darfur state.
“The Christians who are fleeing the war in Sudan are facing persecution from Muslim refugees” in both Darfur and the Wedwiel camp in South Sudan, the pastor, whose name is withheld for security reasons, told Morning Star News by phone.
He said the 2,000 refugees and internally displaced people in Sudan who have converted to Christianity from Islam all face the threat of persecution.
Abdalla, he said, has returned to the Wedwiel camp, though difficult living conditions there – food rations are in short supply – may drive her family to return to Sudan.
Fighting between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), which had shared military rule in Sudan following an October 2021 coup, has terrorized civilians in Khartoum and elsewhere, leaving more than 12,000 people dead and displacing an estimated 7.7 million others inside and outside the country.
Christian sites have been targeted since the conflict began….
Ray Jarman says
Where in the heck are the Christian organizations in the West? From the UN to the small church in almost any American city as well as in Europe continue to ignore the required assistance of these poor people, yet they provide funding for the terrorists in Gaza and elsewhere. As deplorable as this is, the silence from the world press amounts to complicity in these acts of atrocity.
No one should have to endure violence from a POS like this inbred lowlife of vulgarity.
James Lincoln says
Spot-on, Ray.
If I knew where to donate money that would actually help these Christians, I would.
Ray Jarman says
Thanks James,
It is truly a shame that there is not one that we could trust.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
South Sudan should have, during its secession from Sudan, expelled all muslims from its territory, and take in any non-muslims still in North Sudan
Troybeam says
Donating monies to charity groups like these here is simply giving it to the enemy. Supplies as well and basically everything is captured before it reaches the camps. People in the camps need to be taught how to fight back not to become sheep for the slaughter.