After he serves some fraction of this nine-year sentence, Mohammed EW will become a loyal, stable, productive member of Belgian society, right?
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 Sunni hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). This is not just a Sunni idea; 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.”
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“Belgium: Muslim man sentenced for attempting to murder his ex-wife who left Islam,” by Michael Lord, Voice of Europe, May 31, 2020:
A man who has been identified only as Mohammed EW has been sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment in Belgium for raping and then attempting to murder his ex-wife because she had left the Islamic faith.
The victim, Fatima L, now 32, had been forced to marry Mohammed in 2008 in Morocco before joining him in Belgium. She filed for divorce from him several years later on the grounds that her husband regularly abused, imprisoned, and raped her, according to a report by Het Laatste Nieuws.
Fatima moved repeatedly in an attempt to prevent her ex-husband from knowing her whereabouts, but each time she moved he managed to locate her. During this period, she renounced Islam.
Finally, on October 1, 2017, Mohammed came to Fatima’s home and demanded that she dance for him. When she refused, he tied her up and raped her. He then threatened her with a butcher’s knife, telling her that he would “do Allah a great favour” by killing an apostate and a woman who had left Islam. After forcing to her to recite the prayer for the dead from the Qur’an, he began stabbing her repeatedly in the upper body and face. Mohammed stabbed her 18 times, causing Fatima to bleed profusely.
Fatima then pretended to be dead, knowing that this was her only chance for survival. After Mohammed left her flat, she managed to drag herself to a bench outside, where she was rescued by a passerby.
Mohammed, who is now 33, could have received a prison sentence of up to 20 years, but the Public Prosecutor only asked for 10 years for attempted murder. The judge ultimately gave him 9 years on the grounds that he did not consider the accusation that the murder was premeditated to be proven….