Once again it must be repeated, since it is universally ignored: 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 Convert Couple Slain for their Faith,” Morning Star News, February 16, 2024:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A formerly Muslim couple in eastern Uganda, parents of four young children, were slashed to death on Feb. 2, two months after putting their faith in Christ, sources said.
Twaha Namwoyo, 38, and his 27-year-old wife, Nadiimu Katooko, were slain for their faith outside their house in Bulalaka village, Saala Parish, Kibuku Sub-County, Kibuku District, a neighbor said.
“I heard people talking and conversing loudly in Arabic and the Lugwere language, saying that Twaha is to reap the fruits of leaving Islam,” the neighbor told Morning Star News on condition of anonymity. “After a few minutes, I heard loud wailing coming out of Twaha’s house.”
The neighbor, a Christian, said his family locked the doors of their home, “not knowing our fate. We kept awake the whole night in great fear. But thank God the attackers did not come to our house.”
Officers from the Kibuku central police station arrived and found the bodies with deep cuts, and that of Namwoyo with a swollen neck, possibly indicating strangulation. Their mutilated bodies were found outside, and the children – ages 7, 5, 3 and 2 – were locked inside the house, sources said.
Police found several long Somali swords, knives and an axe at the scene, likely left as a warning to other Muslims considering conversion to Christianity, the neighbor said.
Kibuku central police registered case No. CRB/10/2024 as a homicide.
The neighbor did not recognize the assailants due to the darkness and said they could have been both local residents and outsiders. Many Muslims in Uganda speak Arabic.
The couple had converted at a Christian center in Nampido village, said a friend who led them to faith….
Mike says
Reprehensible savages.
somehistory says
I hope and pray that the Christians will take the little kids in and care for them; that the local mozlums will not prevent that.
Jesus promised a Resurrection when these poor little ones will see their parents again.
The scum who committed the murders, will reap as they sowed.
Mind watch says
I just reminded myself that religion is supposed to be for the salvation of oneself and others.
From the very outset, surely Islam imposed ‘condemnation’ on non-believers. In any case, as there was never any ‘actual proof’ of Islamic beliefs, and any cohesion, coherence and reasoning of the Quran’s texts, ‘blind faith’ evolved from dogmas and fundamentalism, to religious conflict and terrorism.(well, the way I see it, at least).
I read recently that Muslim Fundamentalists never question ‘even their most inane ‘credo’, and will reject any efforts of others to question any aspect of the Quran. Their ‘dogmatic literalism’ demands others regard Islam as the ‘one true religion’.
That was of course to be expected from this dire pseudo-religion.
But now the absurdity, threats and killings of this hideous cult have sunk to levels of depravity that can’t even be described. It is truly now a ‘self-generating phenomena’ that’s gaining more momentum and inciting even more bravado, daring, and sadism. It is completely irrational. The fixed mind – set of these inane, bestial beasts just defies comprehension. They seem to be nothing more than wound up, blind animated drones impulsively acting on intense emotions and fervent indoctrinated beliefs.
It is truly now ‘mob-mentality’.
I really don’t know the extend to which their own anger, and hatred also play a a part.
But the part I find most disturbing is that their savage behaviour would indicate to anyone (apart from die-hard Muslims) that they regard Christians as enemies, as killers, as vermin.
Of course, I don’t know what these Muslim killers actually experience in their minds and / or what emotions drive them to attack innocents like beasts. (actually, animals put them to shame, for they kill for food only – not for absurdity). Perhaps many, suffering, already miserable individuals are more prone, in desperation, to hook up with Islam as a ‘cure-all’. Perhaps Islam deliberately appeals to these people? – anything to build themselves further.
In any case, this infernal ‘religion’s one great intent to wipe out Jewish people is just a ‘Hell – born’ abomination. There’s no ‘allah’ to kill for, it’s them, these ‘infernals’ themselves.
abu taleb says
I believe, most muslims know that the punishment for apostasy is death. Even my ex housemaid who was from a small village and only went to elementary schoo knows it very well. They may not agree with that and implement the death penalty, but their still being muslims will make them guilty just like those who execute the apostates.