Fatuma Hussein is fortunate that she didn’t get killed, as Islam mandates death for apostasy. 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.”
“Mother of Three in Somalia Loses All Relatives for Receiving Christ,” Morning Star News, March 28, 2025:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The Muslim husband of a woman in Somalia sent her back to her parents for accepting Christ – without their three young children – and then her parents drove her away for sharing the gospel with her sister, sources said.
Fatuma Hussein, 30, was beaten and then ostracized by her birth family on Saturday (March 22) for sharing her new faith in Christ with her sister in Tabta village, Lower Juba Region, said the leader of a Christian team that first visited her on March 15.
They entered a house that day as her relatives were breaking the daily Ramadan fast at about 7:30 p.m., and Hussein’s husband was not present. The team found Hussein unwell and complaining of Jinn (supernatural beings from the unseen world in Islam) power menacing her; they prayed for her and left for another village, the leader said.
On March 17, Hussein phoned the team to let them know that that since the time of prayer, she had felt peace and comfort in her heart and invited them back to her house. When they arrived, she happily requested more prayer and said she would pay them $100 USD – which the team declined, telling her that salvation was a free gift of God through his Son, Issa (Jesus), the leader said.
Hussein told the team that she had heard the voice of God telling her, “Receive my power so that you can pray for others for healing as well,” he said.
“She needed some clarification on this, and we took time explaining to her that she is a vessel of God, and she was receiving salvation in Christ Jesus,” the leader told Morning Star News. “After her receiving Christ as her Savior, then we left the village to another area for mission outreach.”
On March 19, Hussein boldly shared her new faith with her husband, Ibrahim Suleiman. Angry with her for embracing a faith different from Islam, he informed her parents, and Hussein’s father told Suleiman to send her back to him so that he could “deal with the issue,” Hussein said.
On March 20, Hussein’s husband sent her back to relatives without their three children ages 7, 5 and 3, she said. Undaunted, she began sharing about the love of God with her sister, the Christian leader said.
On March 22, Hussein’s father learned about her sharing Christ with his other daughter and began mistreating her, the leader said, recalling that Hussein told him, “My father started beating me with sticks and threatening to kill me and immediately kicked me out of the family by chasing me away with a sharp sword. He even told my husband to beat and even kill me whenever I am seen around.”
Driven from both families, Hussein is lonely and praying for them to receive what she has received, the leader said. His team has connected her with a nearby underground Christian family, a stop-gap measure that he does not regard as safe in the long term.
Hussein said she was trusting God to take her to a safe place where she can have freedom to worship God.
“I have lost my children, but the peace of God will continue comforting my heart,” she told the leader. “Please tell Christian families wherever they are to continue praying for me and support me with money to buy food to sustain me wherever I will be staying, so that I do not become a burden, and more so that God will sustain and meet all my physical and spiritual needs. I am lonely, but Issa is with me.”…
jerry glenn says
The religion of peace strikes again.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
They just drove her out instead of killing her? They must be moderates
Too bad her 3 kids are still in the clutches of the islamic dad and/or grandparents
somehistory says
She is better off not being in the *family,* but I worry for her children. They need her, she needs them and they need protection from the ghouls of islime.
Hoi Polloi says
Oh, they definitely proved that the power of islam rests solely in violence and perversion; such a smart move. Prayers commenced, Fatuma.
somehistory says
Yes. Their ‘god’ is actually powerless to do what he really wants to do, so he uses humans who follow him to cause injury, pain and death. Prayers for this woman and her little children. And if her sister was listening favorably, her too.
somehistory says
Jesus said that this would be the case; that family members would turn against, and even murder, those who seek Him and His Father.
But, He also promised rich rewards to those who put their faith and trust in Him, even to ‘fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers and children’ as well as life eternal.
Prayers for her comfort, her needs, her faith and her children.
dumbledoresarmy says
Those who leave Islam like this are the bravest of the brave.
I wonder just how many there have been, throughout history, who have left Islam.. but whom no-one knows about, because they were … summarily disposed of, killed, by their own Muslim families or by their Muslim next-door neighbours, when their departure from Islam was discovered?
OLD GUY says
Such loving families in islam. If you don’t do what they want, you get beaten, raped, killed or if you’re lucky they just kick you out. What a society!