If they had succeeded in abducting him, he likely would have been killed.
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.”
“Kerala: Malappuram man who renounced Islam attacked, police file case,” Express News Service, May 4, 2022:
The Kollam police have registered an attempt to murder case against a group of men after a 24-year-old man who renounced Islam filed a complaint saying that he was attacked and was facing threats from within the community for doing so.
The Kollam police on Sunday registered the case after a complaint from Askar Ali, who hails from Malappuram. Ali, who has completed a 12-year Hudawi religious programme from a prominent religious academy in Malappuram, was in Kollam on Sunday to deliver a talk on his experience as a student of Islamic studies. He was to speak at an event organised by Essense Global, an organisation promoting “scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform in society”.
According to Ali’s complaint, a group of people from Malappuram tried to abduct him to ensure that he did not address the event. “They took me to Kollam beach, where I was manhandled. They destroyed my mobile phone and tore my clothes. They forcibly took me to a vehicle and tried to lock me inside. When locals raised an alarm, the police saved me,” he said….
gravenimage says
India: Man renounces Islam, Muslims threaten him and try to abduct him
If they had succeeded in abducting him, he likely would have been killed
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I’m sure this is true.
Members of no other major faith do this–because no other faith calls for the murder of apostates.
I hope Askar Ali stays safe.
Infidel says
That guy sure is brave. He lives in Kerala, where there ain’t even a secular BJP: it’s just the islamic Congress and the islamic Communists. Both would compete w/ each other to arrest him and hand him over to the muslims
He should flee to neighboring Karnataka and convert to Hinduism, and assume a new identity
Devasur says
This is common in India, but the media will only highlight it when the victims are Muslims. They are trying as hard as, to project Islam as the perfect religion and Muslims are the forever victims.
Tony says
Why don’t you folks go and arrest the people that wanted to abduct him? Askar ali has become a darling for nonmuslims who want to attack Muslims everyday.
gravenimage says
“Tony”–not his real name–wrote:
Why don’t you folks go and arrest the people that wanted to abduct him?
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This is the job of the Indian police. The fact that “Tony”–really, Abdul–does not believe that such Islamic thugs should be arrested is *very* telling.
More:
Askar ali (sic) has become a darling for nonmuslims who want to attack Muslims everyday.
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Really? This is a story about violence *against* Askar Ali; not an act of violence against Muslims. Note that Abdul here has not a word of criticism for violence against an apostate from Islam–but then, why would he?
Then, he does not cite a single case of random violence against Muslims due to this case–and I could not find any, either. This is what is known as projection.
D D Misra says
It is improper for ex-Muslims to show foolhardy bravery, especially in a country like India. They should keep a low profile pretending to be continuing as a Muslim and quietly keep educating the educated fellow Muslims. From personal experience I know that many, if not most, of the highly educated Muslims in India are continuing in their religion only because of special favours given by the governments.