The “apostates” in this case are likely Muslims from a different faction who do not accept the authority of the “Muslim Youth.” The declaration that they are “apostates” means that they can lawfully be 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, who before his death in 2022 was the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, once 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.”
“Clashes renew in Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon,” by Tzvi Joffre, Jerusalem Post, September 7, 2023:
Armed clashes erupted between Fatah and other armed groups in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Thursday night, a little over a month after a ceasefire ended days of violence in the camp, according to the Lebanese National News Agency.
A large number of residents of the camp were displaced from their homes due to the renewed fighting, as the militants fired RPGs and machine guns toward each other.
According to Lebanese LBCI television network, an audio recording was circulated on social media attributed to Haitham al-Shaabi, an official from the “Muslim Youth” group, in which he said the group was launching a battle to “purge the Ain al-Hilweh camp of apostates.”
The Palestinian Joint Action Authority in Lebanon urged a return to the ceasefire, stating “We call for a ceasefire in the Ain al-Hilweh camp, to make way for the joint Palestinian security force in the camp and the Joint Action Authority in Sidon to carry out their duties and implement what has been entrusted to them.”…
Ex-muslim says
The norms of daily life of non stop islamic terrorism. That satan never rests nor stops
Fitna says
Better that these knuckle-draggers war with each other than with us.
Arm both sides and let them go to town.
Fitna says
Too bad we can’t save the children and end this cycle of violence.
It’s not their fault for being born into the world’s most evil death cult.
Liam says
Coming to a town near you! sooner than you think !