If the roles were reversed, this would be the focus of international news coverage, but you will only hear about this incident here. In any case, Sheikh Hussein Byaruhanga Husain is not an “extremist.” The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as […]
Ibn Warraq Pens Extraordinary New Study of Atheism in the Islamic World
Among the many essential works of Ibn Warraq, the renowned ex-Muslim historian and scholar of Islam, is an unjustly overlooked book entitled Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out, in which he gives a voice to a group of people who are all too often threatened, marginalized, or simply ignored for being too inconvenient for all parties […]
Germany: Islamic State planned to murder ex-Muslim who questioned the teaching of the Qur’an
Why did they care? Why does everyone except the Islamic State know that it has nothing, nothing whatsoever, to do with Islam? No doubt Pope Francis is on his way to Germany now to explain to these earnest young migrants, whose entry into Germany he insists it would be un-Christian to oppose, that “authentic Islam […]
Sudan: Muslims tell ex-Muslim “We will kill you because you left Islam and became infidel”
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 […]
Somalia: Influential academic in hiding after calls for his murder for alleged “blasphemy”
A glimpse into the future of the U.S. This can’t happen here, you say? We respect the freedom of speech, you say? Maybe that was true at one time, but it is no longer. Cowardice is pandemic. Newspapers all over the country refused to republish the notorious Muhammad cartoons out of a newfound “respect” for […]
Afghanistan: Sunni Muslims open fire at Shi’ite Muslim political rally, murdering 32 people
“In a statement, IS said two brothers had targeted a ‘gathering of apostates’ with machine guns and grenades.” Sunnis consider Shi’ites to be apostates, and apostasy carries the death penalty in Islamic law. Thus attacks like this one are going to happen, and anyone who calls attention to their root causes is “Islamophobic.” “Afghan gunmen […]
Islamic Republic of Iran forces Christian converts from Islam to declare their faith to obtain ID cards
This could lead to converts facing professional difficulties or worse. 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 […]
Iranians are Losing Their Islamic Religion
“Islam is dead,” the “mosques are empty,” and “no one follows Islam inside of Iran,” an unidentified Iranian church leader stated in the 2019 film Sheep Among Wolves Volume II. The film marks a widely observed trend in recent decades of Iranians abandoning the cruel theocratic faith of Iran’s 1979-established Islamic Republic for Christianity. “God […]
Pakistan: Muslims call for the killing of Hindu teenage girl who converted to Islam and then renounced it
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 […]
Kenya: Muslim neighbors call for the slaughter of man who left Islam, police arrest no one
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 […]
“Palestinian” Muslim who converted to Judaism arrested by PA forces, repeatedly beaten and tortured
They may ultimately kill him. 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 […]
Texas: Muslima charged with conspiring with her family to kill her sister for converting to Christianity
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 […]
Pope embraces imam who has endorsed jihad suicide attacks against Jews and wants converts to Christianity killed
Pope Francis and the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb, early this year published “A Document On Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,” and it’s as filled with falsehoods and wishful thinking as one would expect coming from a practiced deceiver such as el-Tayeb and someone so eager to be deceived as Pope […]
Islamic State brides stab 16-year-old girl and one-legged man to death for leaving Islam
In this case these women were not behaving in an “extremist” manner. 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 […]
Egypt: Friends fear that family of ex-teacher of Islam who became Christian may have killed him
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 […]
Uganda: Muslim converts to Christianity, Muslims set his house on fire, killing his wife, children, and stepfather
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 […]
Islamic Republic of Iran: Imprisoned ex-Muslim pastor’s children denied education because they won’t study Quran
“Imprisoned Iranian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani has gone on a hunger strike to protest the regime’s attempt to bar his children from completing their education because they refuse to study Islam and read the Quran…..The policy requires all students to take a course on the Quran.” Nadarkhani’s suffering as an apostate highlights the lack of human […]
UK: Two Muslim migrants arrested over plot to murder female relative who renounced Islam
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 […]
Who Can Slay an Ex-Muslim Under Sharia?
Here is my new video on Sharia rulings on the killing of those who leave Islam.
Islamic Republic of Iran sentences convert from Islam to prison for “acting against national security”
An interesting sidelight to this case is the fact that Islamic apologists in the West routinely try to downplay and dismiss Islam’s death penalty for apostasy by saying that in Muhammad’s time, when the Islamic community was one unit, and was a state as well as a religion, apostasy was tantamount to treason, but nowadays, […]