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.”
“The war against women in Southern Kurdistan,” Medya News, March 10, 2022:
On March 7th, 2022, just a few hours before the start of March 8th, also known as International Women’s Day, another femicide occurred in the southern Kurdish capital Erbil. 20-year-old Iman Sami Maghdid, also known as Maria, was murdered in cold blood. Several shots ended her life; presumably, her 18-year-old brother and uncle were behind it.
The South Kurdish (Iraqi Kurdistan) public began the ceremonies on International Women’s Day with more shocking news, part of a series of cruel murders of women since the beginning of 2022. As if the news of the murder and the perpetrators, who often fled, weren’t bad enough, all sorts of political parties and personalities took this day as an opportunity to announce their supposed commitment to the issue of women’s liberation. Unfortunately, they are nothing more than platitudes, which was made clear by the fact that on the evening of March 8th, a radio interview was aired by what is one of the largest broadcasters, K24, where Maria’s brother and murderer was able to explain the motives of his cold-blooded murder for almost 15 minutes uncensored and without criticism – while he was still on the run.
The video was deleted only after a public outcry, but that did not help.
For the entirety of March 8, social media comment columns were awash with people who, as always, condoned the murder. Old pictures of Maria were passed around, in which she was still wearing a hijab, and people commented, “see, this is what happens when you leave your faith”, as many speculated that Maria converted to Christianity. Lies and slander were spread about her, and men and women threw themselves into a contest to see who could blame her most for her murder. By March 9, the brother was found in Kirkuk and detained, but until then, a large part of the Kurdish public managed to assassinate Marias’s [sic] character post mortem….
Michael Copeland says
“There is no indemnity” [blood money] “for killing an apostate … since it is killing someone who deserves to die.”
Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller”, o8.4.
tim gallagher says
Islam is such a pathetic, and extremely evil, religion. The idea seems to be to terrorise people into staying in line and remaining members of this backward, totally barbaric load of crap called islam. Islam has to go. In this modern world, everybody should be free to follow their conscience when it comes to choosing a religion or no religion at all and pack up and leave any religion. In these shithouse Muslim countries, it would take enormous courage to leave Islam and become a Christian, that’s for sure. What a waste of her young life this is. People should be ashamed to belong to a religion that murders people who dare to leave it behind.
gravenimage says
+1
Hank says
A Muslima who wants to leave the nonsense of Islam should contact/escape to organizations who can shield her after the conversion. They exist outside of Muslim countries. It has to be planned well because of all the Muslim murderers that surround her. She has to accept the fact that she has to start a new life and not see anymore family members who have the mental luggage of Islam.
gravenimage says
This is true, Hank.
somehistory says
Demons are behind this, egging on the humans who would rather murder their family members than eat.
Lusting for a *reason* to shed someone’s blood. If they can’t find a *reason,* they’ll murder anyway.
Infidel says
This is actually the truth about the Kurds, who have been lionized to no end by mainstream conservatives like Lindsay Graham and Ted Cruz
gravenimage says
The Kurds are often as bad as any other Muslims.
abu taleb says
A convert to Christianity can be killed. A convert to Islam can kill non muslims. We know which is the evil religion.
European pagan says
No compulsion in religion – this is what muslims always forget but it’s in the Quran.
gravenimage says
They don’t forget, European pagan–they just hopw we don’t know.
Alfredo says
Only depraved, morally bankrupt psychopaths can murder their own flesh and blood. But then again, it’s not surprising because that’s what their murderous so-called prophet told them to do.
OLD GUY says
Women’s liberation going backwards a few hundred years with Islam.
Yet none of the women activist say a word about these attacks by Muslim men. I don’t understand why the silence.
If the Catholic Church made women walk backwards when entering the church and then made them set facing the rear of the church because women are lesser than men, holy hell would breakout.
Basically muslim women are not allowed to worship with muslim men in a mosque, they have to be separated because they are considered a lesser being. Everything about islam degrades a women’s life and place in society.
Is that what women really want, to be property of their husbands? To be bought and sold on the market like cattle. I know my wife wouldn’t go for that.
Maybe I should apply for some of that Gender Equality Grant money so I could convince my wife of who really is in charge of this household.
NAW Joe will send it overseas where Hunter can manage it for us tax payers. Can’t help one of us life long TAX payers and Veterans that would be un-American.
James Lincoln says
OLD GUY says,
“…none of the women activist say a word about these attacks by Muslim men. I don’t understand why the silence.”
So-called Western “feminists” are afraid to say anything derogatory regarding islam.
Why?
In reality, they are scared hypocrites.
1. Fear of being verbally attacked by fellow Western “feminists”.
2. Fear of being verbally attacked by muslim apologists.
3. Fear of being verbally attacked by muslim brotherhood front organizations (CAIR, etc.).
4. Fear of being physically attacked by jihadis.
gravenimage says
Well, *I* condemn this evil sh*t. But many supposed feminists in the West are silent.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
You condemn this evil sh*t because you are the “real deal”.
And you have my highest respect.
gravenimage says
Iraqi Kurdistan: Muslima converts to Christianity, her brother and uncle murder her
……………
Just horrifying–this poor young woman.
Murder of an apostate and an “Honor Killing”.
Andrew Blackadder says
islam is in every way a Fascist Religious Cult.
Fascist because you are not allowed to criticize or say anything against it.
Religious because they talk about god… a lot.
Cult because they will kill you if, as an adult, now wish to leave the beliefs that were imposed upon you as a child without your permission.
So a system, a faith, a religion, that wishes to kill you for changing your mind about something like if God exists, or doesnt, or you now have found a god and teachings that touch your soil deeper is actually against the teachings in islam,
So please enough of the nonsense that this ”religion” has anything to do with peace.