This could have been much worse. 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.”
“Muslim Relatives Attack Christian, Wife and Children in Somalia,” Morning Star News, July 31, 2024:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim relatives of a convert from Islam in Somalia attacked a second time in Lower Juba Region on July 8, wounding him in the stomach, breaking his wife’s ankle and beating his children.
Mohammad Abdul had survived a May 5 knife attack by his Muslims relatives on the outskirts of Kismayo in southern Somalia’s Lower Juba Region, and his in-laws had taken his wife and five children away while he was receiving hospital treatment. Abdul put his faith in Christ in March.
Having recovered his family and relocated them to another area after the attack in May that left him with a deep cut on his head and a fractured hand, Abdul in the July 8 assault also suffered injuries that took away his ability to speak, his wife said.
Abdul, 40, found a rented house for his family on June 10 about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from his home, which the relatives had destroyed in the May 5 assault, and soon after his family relocated to the new home.
Toward the end of June, his in-laws began making threatening calls to his wife, she said.
“I started receiving calls from my relatives that I should return back to my people before we get converted to a religion which is not approved in Islam – ‘Please come back home to avoid endangering yourself and the children,’” said his wife, whose name is withheld for security reasons.
Initially she did not heed the messages, believing the family’s location was far enough away and unknown to them, though one of her trusted relatives had helped her relocate, she said.
“As several frequent and threatening messages continued streaming in, I started getting fearful,” she told Morning Star News.
At about 8 p.m. on July 8, five of her relatives arrived and knocked on the door, which she opened, she said.
“My husband was then in the washroom,” she said. “Immediately they started asking the whereabouts of my husband.”
She remained silent, she said.
“One of my relatives went outside the sitting room and came back with sticks and started beating the children, who started crying loudly,” she said. “Another relative went outside and came with a blunt object and hit me on my left ankle. My husband gained courage and dashed out of the bedroom and came trying to save me, but he was easily overpowered and knifed at the stomach as another hit him all over his body.”…
somehistory says
Perhaps the “trusted relative” should not have been. The ghouls will keep on until this little family, father, mother and children, are all dead.
I pray for them and all others undergoing the same persecution.
simba says
Persercuted Christians should realize that non -believing relatives are potentially ticking time bomb.
Micah 7:6 “”….a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.””
Troybeam says
Reliance of the Traveller: Islamic sacred Law, sharia law in one book. Oct.7th 2023 set off a ticking time bomb that Islam is using globally to attack all non Muslims in nations where they reside. Be aware people of who is around you. Read that book.
OLD GUY says
And the political leaders of the free world want to bring these islamic followers into your neighborhood. Not theirs!
Prairie Mom says
The politicians are fools. They think themselves so superior, they think they can bring in uncivilized 3rd world people and rule over them. It will never happen. They will destroy the wimpy gutless liberals and we will all suffer for their arrogance and sin.
somehistory says
“Security forces in Somalia’s southern city of Kismayo have seized hundreds of Islamic face veils from female residents, the city’s police chief says.
Warsame Ahmed Gelle told state TV that authorities have been conducting operations to “fight” the veils, also known as niqabs.The crackdown was sparked by concerns that jihadists could conceal their identity and carry out attacks, Mr Warsame said.
Large parts of southern and central Somalia are controlled by al-Shabab, which is affiliated to al-Qaeda and has waged a brutal insurgency for nearly 20 years against the UN-backed government in Somalia.
On Friday dozens were killed in an attack at a popular beachfront location in Mogadishu, the capital.
Officers in Kismayo have been confiscating the veils by stopping women in the streets and forcing them to remove the garment.
The operation began last Wednesday, Mr Wasame said.
Women caught wearing the niqab, which covers the whole face expect for the eyes, also face jail or a fine.
Because al-Shabab controls much of southern Somalia, Kismayo and its surrounding areas are the only places in the state of Jubaland where authorities can enforce the ban.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/somali-police-seize-hundreds-of-veils-amid-security-fears/ar-AA1oheLz?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=bff494618bee4edb85c241849cd109e7&ei=122
Deus Vult 60 says
Do Muslims qualify to be called human beings ??
gravenimage says
Yes, they do. But this appalling behavior is the worst humans are capable of–and this is what Islam teaches.
gravenimage says
Somalia: Muslim relatives of ex-Muslim wound him in stomach, break wife’s ankle, beat his children
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Horrifying, but orthodox Islam. They will probably murder this poor man and his family if he does not either return to Islam or flee.