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.”
“Christian Couple, Woman They Led to Christ Poisoned to Death,” Morning Star News, March 28, 2025:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim woman in eastern Uganda this month killed a Christian couple and accidentally took her own daughter’s life with the same poison she used on those who had led her to Christ, sources said.
Doreen Nairuba died on March 16 from eating poisoned food prepared by Hanifa Hamiyat in Nabiganda town, Butaleja District, an area neighbor said. Nairuba was six months pregnant.
Hamiyat’s 18-year-old daughter, Marriam Kapisa, died the same day after unknowingly eating the food prepared for Nairuba and Nairuba’s husband, Jackson Wampula, who died from the poisoning the next day (March 17), residents said.
Nairuba had been sharing her Christian faith with Kapisa, who had finished high school exams and was awaiting results to determine entry to college. Hamiyat was angry that the couple had brought her daughter to a church service on March 17, an area source said.
A Muslim neighbor who had seen the Christian couple leaving for church with Kapisa and returning with her that afternoon informed Hamiyat, who asked him to find out from her daughter where she had been, the area source said.
At about 5:30 p.m. the neighbor intercepted Kapisa, and she told him she had attended the church service. He and Kapisa returned to her home and told her mother.
“The mother was very angry with the girl, but since it was Ramadan she did not want to cause a lot of alarm, hence she kept quiet,” said the area source, who had made a brief visit to the family that day.
During Ramadan it is common for area Muslims to share food with other families in the evening to break the daily fast, and at 7 p.m. Hamiyat prepared a meal and sent Kapisa to share it with the Christian couple, the source said.
“The daughter didn’t know that her mother had put some poison in the food,” he said. “When the daughter reached Doreen’s home, the three participated in sharing of the food, and immediately [afterward], she left.”
At home, Kapisa complained of stomach pain and was soon vomiting and wailing, the source said.
“The mother asked what could be the problem, and why had she delayed? The girl answered that she shared in eating the food with Doreen’s family, and she was in deep pain. Upon hearing that, Hamiyat shouted in a loud voice, “Allah Karim [Generous Allah], I have killed myself,” said the source, who visited the family upon hearing their distress.
Kapisa was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she died, he said.
After about an hour, Nairuba and her husband started suffering stomach pain and diarrhea and made an emergency call to another neighbor.
“When I arrived at the house the two were in bad state, and I took them to a nearby clinic where they were given first aid before they were referred to the main hospital,” said the neighbor, whose name is also withheld for security reasons.
Nairuba died before reaching the hospital, and Wampula died the next day at the hospital, the neighbor said.
In tests carried out on samples of remaining food, doctors found it contained a poisonous drug that caused the death of the couple and Kapisa, said the neighbor.
Local leaders detained and questioned Hamiyat, and she confessed to having poisoned the food, the neighbor said.
“I never intended to kill my daughter, but my plan was to kill the neighbors because of taking my daughter to church during this holy month of Ramadan,” she said, according to the source. “Our imam had assured us that when you kill a kafir [infidel], Allah rewards one with a Jannah [paradise] called Firdausi, so I wanted to get that Jannah.”…
Liam Oats says
Evil religion hopefully this Muslim demon gets the death penalty.
shosh says
Father, in Yeshua’s name, please help these people who are in a prison of deception having no understanding or knowledge of the Truth. Please open the door for YOUR WORD to enter into the deepest recesses of their hearts, give them the ability to discern between lies and truth and make a way where there is no way for Salvation to enter their hearts, minds, and surroundings….let YOUR servants enjoy freedom of expression of YOUR Word in their communities and cause understanding to flow like a river into each and every one of them. Thank YOU MOST HIGH GOD in YESHUA’S NAME. I love YOU my beautiful Maker. Amein.
Alkflaeda says
Amen.
rick says
ISLAM. If you don’t accept it, you either get murdered or if you are lucky, you only have to pay a special tax reserved for Infidels.
If you are a Muslim and want to change from Islam to another religion, you are marked for death by Muslims. Muslims really have strong faith in the eternal goodness of their religion don’t they?
Join or die. Leave and die. Sounds more like a murderous secret society like the Mafia than a religion.
The Black Hand religion.
Proud American says
100%.
Alkflaeda says
I think that they know in their hearts that it is wrong, and that is why they are so hypersensitive.
Donna says
THE BLACK HAND RELIGION!!!
HOW TRUE!
ISLAM=DEATH
somehistory says
The dates in the article seem a little confused. But not nearly as much as this fiend who pretended to be nice to her neighbors.
So the greedy ghoul, wanting to be awarded with a fake paradise, murdered four people. She won’t get Paradise for that; but she might just be headed for the “lake of fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” and into which “all liars and those disgusting in their filth” will end up.
The young woman, the young couple and their baby, will be ‘in the resurrection,’ and gain even better ; lives than the ones taken from them.
Billy says
This is Islam against Non-Muslims: terrorism, discrimination, and murder(Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
Islam, a Terrorist-Criminal Enterprise, and its predatory believers continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, supremacy, segregation, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran, and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15; 60:4 and more).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist Criminal Organization with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15 and more).
Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the Legal Right and the Quranic Duty to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a Crime against Allah. Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION(Quran 3:151; 9:5,29,111; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-destructive way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:65,89,95; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49,73,88,111,123; 21:92; 49:15; 60:4 and more).
abu taleb says
> “Our imam had assured us that when you kill a kafir [infidel], Allah rewards one with a Jannah [paradise] called Firdausi, so I wanted to get that Jannah.”…
This is the true Islam
OLD GUY says
ISLAM is NOT a religion of love and peace it is just plain EVIL.
Dan says
Again, I believe that Islam is a Christian-Judaic heresy that allows its followers to act like the lowest animals as long as they claim it is in the name of Allah.
Elena George says
Not even close.
Islam would have you believe it came out of Judaism and Christianity, but its roots are in Arabic paganism.
Their god is nothing like the deity of the Bible, or even tradition as practiced by Jews and Christians.