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.”
“New Christian in Uganda Slain for Leaving Islam,” Morning Star News, July 13, 2023:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – About two weeks after a 22-year-old Muslim in eastern Uganda put his faith in Christ, villagers on Saturday (July 8) killed him for leaving Islam, sources said.
Abudu Amisi of Kasanvu village, Pallisa District was stabbed multiple times while returning from a market in Kasasira West village, Kasasira Town Council, in Kibuku District, and died en route to a hospital, eyewitnesses said.
Amisi had accepted Christ on June 22 after six months of learning about Christianity. He is survived by his wife and 3-year-old son.
Amisi had ties with a Muslim missionary active in Pallisa and Kibuku districts, said a Christian leader whose identity is withheld for security reasons.
“Immediately after his conversion, Amisi was very fearful of his life from the Muslims in his village at Kasanvu in Pallisa District,” the leader told Morning Star News. “The church then housed him in a rental house, and he remained indoors for two weeks.”
On Saturday (July 8), the church sent two young men to go with Amisi to buy food at a market in Kasasira for a seminar training of Christian leaders, he said. One of the young men said that as they entered the market area, a Muslim who seemed to know Amisi from his village greeted them cheerfully, and they spent 10 minutes with him before proceeding to the marketplace.
“After buying the food items, we then began our journey back to the church,” said the young man, whose identity is withheld for security reasons. “About 50 meters from the market area, people began shouting and mentioning the name of Amisi, saying, ‘Here comes the betrayer of Islam. He should not see the light of the day.’ There and then they surrounded him and then began cutting him with long knives on his head, face and neck, and fractured his legs and hand.”
The terrified young men fled and called the church pastor, who immediately phoned police, and officers rushed to the scene.
“They hurriedly tried to rescue him, but it was too late, they had already cut Amisi, and he had lost a lot of blood and died on the way to Mbale Regional Referral Hospital,” the pastor said.
Amisi’s body was taken to a mortuary, where it remained as church leaders feared burial could occasion further retaliation from area Muslims, he said….
Tatanka says
Islam the religion of Satanists. Muslims must have the intelligence of a fence post if they can’t see the evil of that cult of death.
PRCS says
Lifelong indoctrination, often in a theocratic society from which they cannot escape.
I don’t know how many Afghan Muslims would “leave the faith” if they could.
tim gallagher says
Well said, Tatanka. How could anyone with even half a functioning brain think that so much of the evil, morally bankrupt shit in islam. the idea that, if someone decides to leave the foul religion they should be murdered, the idea that it is OK for grown men to have sex with 8 year old girls, the idea that Muslims should murder non-Muslims when the opportunity arises (as in the Koran) and so much other shit that islam contains, is perfectly fine? It is beyond my understanding. What a bunch of evil degenerates these followers of the satanically evil allah are.
somehistory says
The poor young man and his little family. Christ will remember him when He calls for the Memorial tombs to be opened. The young man will “hear His voice, and come out.”
Hopefully, the congregation there can take care of the little boy and his mom.
mozlums follow their ‘father, satan the devil and do his desires.” They must reap as they have sown;
They should see what evils they have done;, but likely never will. Jesus said the “road to destruction is wide and many are on it.”
PRCS says
Muslims don’t follow their father, Satan the devil and do his desires.
They are human beings, who–like so many others–believe superstitious nonsense.
somehistory says
Blather, blather on your personal opinion.
PRCS says
All you have to do is PROVE what you’ve asserted is a fact.
I’ll wait.
John Hanley says
As the controversial song in America by Jason Aldean says , ” TRY THAT IN A SMALL TOWN ” in the USA , you bunch of musrat cowards !!!!!
Mark Spahn says
“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)
What the hell does this mean? We can’t tell without knowing who “they” are and who “you” is (or is “you” a plural?). And does “emigrate” mean “change your place of residence to a different country”? And what does “turn away” mean?; does it mean “change your religion”? Contextless scripture quotations like this are very unclear.
whraglyn says
RIP with Our Lord, my Brother Abudu Amisi.
In Jesus’ Holy Name i pray.
Amen.