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 in Uganda Kills Adult Son for Accepting Christ,” Morning Star News, February 19, 2026:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in Uganda stabbed his son to death with a long knife for converting to Christianity last month, sources said.
Hamba Ahammada, 62, of Butaleja District killed his 33-year-old son, Hamba Juma, with a long knife known locally as a panga on Jan. 28 in Iganga District along the Kaliro-Iganga road about five kilometers from Iganga town, said the slain man’s wife, Nangobi Mariati.
Hamba Juma was father to four children, ages 12, 10, 7 and 3….
“When he reached there, my father-in-law picked up the panga and started cutting my husband, and he disappeared,” Mariati said. “But it seems that it was a planned move, because immediately people tried to look for him and they couldn’t see him.”
A neighbor told her that he previously saw a motorcycle rushing at high speed into town from the wilderness, she said.
“We suspect that maybe he was the one helping him to escape the scene of the crime,” Mariati said tearfully. “My husband screamed for help, we tried to make it to the hospital, but there he was pronounced dead.”
Mariati said her husband was killed because he and she had converted to Christianity from Islam.
“My father-in-law together with other family members have been insulting us, sending harsh words promising to kill all of us for leaving Islam,” she told Morning Star News.
At this writing police had not investigated….
Rooster says
Sharia at its best! And our dumb ass Congress doesn’t get it?
Tony says
Another day with Islam’s Muslims against Non-Muslims using discrimination, deceit, segregation, violence, and terrorism as guided by Islamic Law and taught from Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 4:89; 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.). Islam and its Muslims use Mosques, their Homes, Islamic Centers, Muslim Schools, etc. as Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprises to subjugate Non-Muslims. This Islam in a nutshell.
Islam, Allah’s genocidal ideology and Terrorist-Criminal-Gang Enterprise, in Qur’an 8:39 continuously commands Muslims to fight Non-Muslims until Non-Muslims surrender to Muslim rule and become Muslims when Allah says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Demonic Allah in Qur’an 5:51 says, “O you who have believed[Muslims], DO NOT TAKE the Jews and the Nasara(Christians) as FRIENDS. They are friends to one another. And whoever among you takes them as friends, so surely he is of them. Surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.” ISLAM IS THE PRACTICE OF ISLAMIC LAW(Qur’an 1:5; 3:51,101; 5:48, etc.). Islam and its Muslims, enemies of Non-Muslims, are a Muslim Terrorist Organization(MTO).
Subversive Allah commands Muslims to conquer and subjugate every territory for Islam using every tool available with their MONEY and with their LIVES wielding the power of the Government or the State. Hence, Islam and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Westerners via Governments, Tax Exempt Organizations, the Media and Hollywood, Foreign Funding, etc. because Islam violates and is incompatible with Western Laws(Qur’an 4:89; 8:60; 9:5,29, 111; 45:18; 47:4; 49:15; 65:4 etc.).
Allah describes Muslim women in Jenna, Allah’s Paradise, as whores of Allah in Qur’an 56:37. Also, Allah stirs hatred, cursing, and punishment against Christians until the resurrection day when Qur’an 5:14 instructs, “And some of those who say, ‘Surely we are Nasara (Christians),’ we took their covenant. So they have forgotten a part of what they were reminded of, so we have stirred up ENMITY and HATRED among them until the resurrection day. And Allah will inform them of what they were doing.” See also Qur’an 2:225; 60:4; 8:55.
Islam must be banned as illegal, and we have the legal right to defend ourselves from Muslim violence. Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid, nor believe in the religion of the truth among those who have given the book until they pay the jizyah out of hand and they are subdued.”
Muslims are supremacist terrorists for Allah with their MONEY and with their LIVES while undermining a society from within using the man-made book of lies and deceit, the Qur’an. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed jihad with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” Allah in Qur’an 4:101 says, “…Surely the infidels(Non-Muslims) were your clear enemies.”
MUSLIM BELIEVERS are a greater TERROR than Allah. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.” As a result, Non-Muslims are marked for death by Islam and its Muslims.
Westman says
These honor killings point to Muslims who made little personal investment in their children.
If what the neighbor and the fake god think is more important than the life of the person you created, then you are not a parent. You are a sperm donor or a baby factory, more interested in your own comfort, a sociopath formed by cult instruction which was designed to condition your mind to kill in wars of expansion without conscience. The enemy is all infidels, so if your child escapes the cult conditioning he/she is now your enemy. The war-cult kills your children by your own hand and you praise it – how contemptible.
Walter Sieruk says
That Muslim father who murdered his son for converting Jesus and therefore he left Islam’
Well , a clear different is what happened in Spain . A rather large Roman Catholic family, as it happened one the sons left the Roman Catholic Church and became a Protestant . His father was so disappointed and upset by the conversion of his son ,that he called him “the family dog,” and then refused to ever see him again or even talk with him over the phone.
The point being , he shunned his son, but didn’t murder him.
Andrew Blackadder says
Nothing says tolerant and compassion as murdering your Son because he changed his mind about what thinks God is or isnt.
muslimes are so shallow in their own faith that the very idea of somebody leaving that fascist Religious Cult of Death is a serious threat to their beliefs tells me just how shallow they really are.
If they call my belief in God in a angry and violent manner I gently inform them that their opinion of my faith is of zero importance to me and they are welcome to their own.
Kill them with kindness is the best way…
They know not what they are doing.