They jumped into Islam without having any idea what they’re getting into. Now the new converts should hope that none of the Muslims around them are interested in enforcing Islam’s death penalty 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.”
“The Rise and Fall of the Gaza Converts,” by Maggie Phillips, Tablet, November 24, 2025:
In the months after October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel and the war in Gaza began, a wave of young Americans—mostly progressive women—embraced Islam. Taking to TikTok and Instagram, they called themselves “reverts,” the Muslim term for converts who have returned to the faith of humanity’s origin. For a generation raised on social media activism, the apparent religious conviction of Gazans under bombardment looked like the purest form of authenticity.
Two years later, many of those same converts are quiet on the subject of Gaza—and, facing pushback from within the Muslim community, many have gone quiet on social media altogether. The enthusiasm that once filled TikTok with teary testimonies, hijab tutorials, and verses from the Qur’an has ebbed. The algorithm has moved on, and the women who found God through Gaza have had to learn what faith looks like when the cameras turn elsewhere. The fervor has thinned into a few scattered believers contending with backlash, burnout, and the realities of a faith that doesn’t behave like an online fandom.
Like many converts, these young women were initially full of zeal and excited to share it. But the “reverts” of TikTok have learned the downside of posting through their faith journeys. Among the most prominent progressive reverts is Megan Rice, who came to Islam through progressive advocacy for Palestine after October 7. “Here they are losing everything, quite literally everything,” Rice said in a YouTube interview last year. “but they’re still praying to God.” She said she picked up a Quran and found that it contained that matched her pre-existing concept of God. Around two weeks later, Rice said she reverted.
Now, videos about prayer and Islam class are increasingly mixed in with trendy coffee reviews and cookie tastings.
But the support she first experienced proved short-lived. The heat, she said, is not coming from Islamophobes, but from Muslims themselves. On TikTok, they call them “the Haram Police,” holier-than-thou voices that show up in their social media comments to tell reverts what they’re getting wrong….
SKA says
Anyone who jumps into Islam based on whimsical romanticism deserves to be called a fool!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Generally, if somebody has a TikTok account, my opinion of that person’s intelligence plummets. It’s almost at the same level as having pronouns as a part of one’s bio
Remember, these are the same geniuses who read Osama’s letter to the West and concluded that he was someone profound. I’m just appalled at how easy it is to influence them
40 rounds says
Like I’ve said many times: dupes!
Luchtpint says
Quite so. You can expect to be closely scrutinized by your new-found “community”. Flakin’ idiots they are. Any critic of Islam could have told them this way beforehand. But they are not likely to listen, either way.
Duped by their own fanatical stupidity…
ploome says
I am having problem accessing articles here, getting 404 error notice on my laptop. Is anyone else having issues with Jihad Watch or is it my computer?
somehistory says
I had one yesterday.
ploome says
it is a 400 error..the cookie is too large or something…
I am very technology impaired….:-(
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I sometimes get the Sucori firewall. Sometimes, it complains that the site can’t take https:// (as opposed to http:// – port 443 vs port 80). I think it depends on the ISP and what filters they have set up either at the CPE end or the Central office
gravenimage says
If this is a continuing problem contact Marc Louis–at the “technical” part of the “Contact Us” section. He is *very* helpful and patient, even with the non-tech savvy people like myself.
James Lincoln says
Definitely a case of FAFO “F* Around and Find Out”.
KufarDawg says
I really can’t blame these fools. Just look at the islamic propaganda they consume from: the enemedia, our public schools, our institutions of “higher learning”. If this islamic propaganda is all you knew about islum, what else would you think but that it’s a wonderful religion of peace, tolerance and virtue?
OLD GUY says
You’re right, As taught in our colleges and Universities across our country, Why, because our higher education system and media’s have been bought with billions of dollars from Islam.
KirkB says
They just want to cosplay as victims. The left worships victimhood so claiming they are victims of Islamophobia is a way of getting social cache for them. They don’t realize it’s not like going to a church or even a synagogue.
gravenimage says
Synagogues do not harm those who leave Judaism.
Isabella van der westhuizen says
Talk about buyers regret with these guys
Brian Ozzy says
“She said she picked up a Quran and found that it contained that, (that) matched her pre-existing concept of God.” Well I would love to know what passages she read. I have forced myself to read the utter dribble, mind boggling hatred and plagiarized rubbish four times in disbelief that nigh on 2 billion people are motivated by it. If there is anything that approaches religious text or kindness or enlightenment then I must have missed it completely every time.
If only our ignorant politicians would take the time to read it they might wake up to islam and its plans and stop bleating about the “religion of peace!”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
She probably just read 5:32 – that favorite verse of mohammedan spokesmen in the West – the one about killing one perseon equaling killing all of humanity, blah blah blah. Actually, I have followed Robert’s “Blogging the qur’an” that he did in the 00s w/ HotAir, and I’ve watched some of his videos w/ Hatun. That tells me all I need to know about the qur’an. Yeah, there is the analysis that Christoph Luxembourg does on the qur’an to suggest that it had Aramhaic origins, which might be of some historical and literary interest, but honestly, the qur’an is not worth wasting one’s time at all
somehistory says
If the book of demon filth has something that matches,’ anyone’s *concept of God,* that person has evil at their core.
So as Infidel wrote, likely one little bit…
Likely she just wanted what seemed to be *trending,* and the lies/propaganda misled her.
Sadly, these young females get themselves entangled and then risk death to be free again.
gravenimage says
Yep.
gravenimage says
TikTok conversion to Islam fad has ended, Muslim ‘Haram Police’ harassed them into silence
They jumped into Islam without having any idea what they’re getting into. Now the new converts should hope that none of the Muslims around them are interested in enforcing Islam’s death penalty for apostasy.
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Well, the government is not going to help protect them, sadly.