“This is scary for our family since the penalty for apostasy—under sharia law—is death.”
The Daily Mail, the worst paper (by far) in the Western world, slipped up here: it ordinarily would have noted that the death penalty for apostasy is only part of the Taliban’s “extreme” interpretation of Islam, but the Daily Mail’s Islam Whitewasher must have had the day off. In reality, the death penalty for apostasy is taught by all the different sects of Islam and schools of Islamic jurisprudence. 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.”
As for lesbianism, the Qur’an says: “As for those of your women who are guilty of lewdness, call to witness four of you against them. And if they testify, then confine them to their houses until death takes them, or Allah finds another way for them.” (4:15)
Allah prescribes home imprisonment until death for women found guilty of “lewdness,” most commonly understood in this context as adultery as well as homosexual activity, on the testimony of four witnesses. According to Islamic law, these four witnesses must be male Muslims; women’s testimony is inadmissible in cases of a sexual nature, even in rape cases in which she is the victim.
This penalty has been abrogated and revised, as is provided for in the verse itself when it says “confine them to their houses until death takes them, or Allah finds another way for them.” This explanation is attributed to Ibn Abbas: “The early ruling was confinement, until Allah sent down Surat An-Nur (sura 24) which abrogated that ruling with the ruling of flogging (for fornication) or stoning to death (for adultery).” If a woman is found guilty of adultery, she is to be stoned to death; if she is found guilty of fornication, she gets one hundred lashes (cf. 24:2).
“Lesbian Afghan teen faces being tortured and stoned to death along with trans friend ‘who confessed she is not a Muslim’ after Taliban caught them trying to flee the country,” by James Reynolds, Daily Mail, April 8, 2025:
Two young LGBT rights activists in Afghanistan face torture and being stoned to death by the Taliban after trying to leave the country.
Maryam Ravish, 19, and Maeve Alcina Pieescu, 23, were detained while trying to flee the regime, which carries out brutal executions against LGBT people.
Maryam, a lesbian woman, was set to escape to Iran with her partner, Parwen Hussaini, and friend Maeve, a trans woman, on March 20, 2025.
But as they went to board the plane in Kabul, Maryam and Maeve went intercepted by the Taliban’s intelligence unit, allegedly beaten and ‘held in captivity’.
Nemat Sadat, CEO of Roshaniya, the Afghan LGBT network, said: ‘They are expected to be tortured to reveal the names of other LGBTs and sentenced to a long jail term or possibly executed [sic].’
‘Maryam and Maeve now face the death penalty for simply wanting to be free and happy,’ he added.
Susan Battaglia, Maeve’s sister, who now lives in Michigan, said: ‘My family in Afghanistan is very anxious about Maeve being tortured and killed.’
During her interrogation, she said, Maeve confessed that she is not a Muslim.
‘This is scary for our family since the penalty for apostasy—under sharia law—is death.’…
Tony Rice says
Death for all for whatever reason in Allahland.
OLD GUY says
Murder, rape and violence is always Islam’s answer to anything they disagree with. These two women are in serious trouble.
John Allan says
‘The Daily Mail, the worst paper (by far) in the Western world …’
YOUR opinion – one which ISN’T necessarily shared by everyone ELSE!
James Lincoln says
To your point, The Guardian is probably more left-wing than The Daily Mail, John.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Actually, he’s explained why. Unlike the Guardian or other mainstream British media outlets, the Daily Mail does report on outrages done by muslims. However, it then goes on to deny any connection b/w those outrages and islam, despite claims to that effect by the mohammedan rapists and other criminals in question. Other media outlets don’t do that, since they don’t cover any of it in the first place
There are a few British entities that seem Right leaning, but aren’t. Daily Mail, Piers Morgan and GBNews
James Lincoln says
Thanks for the clarification, Infidel.
somehistory says
And yet, most mozlums in America exploit the freedoms instead of appreciating them. mozlums want the nations not controlled by mozlums, to be like those controlled by mozlums, even when how they live could mean the breathing stops.
I AM THE INFIDEL YOUR IMAM WARNED YOU ABOUT says
Where is the UN? Where is Human Rights Organization? Where is the ICC? Where is the world? Why is everyone silent and not voicing out their outrage and demanding that they be released immediately?
John Pepple says
Why are lesbians here in the West not marching in support? Or feminists generally? Or leftists?
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Taliban apprehend two lesbians and ex-Muslim as they tried to flee the country
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They are not even being allowed *to flee*. What is going to happn to these poor people?