It could have been worse. Sofia Ahmed’s Muslim relatives could have murdered her outright. If they had done so, they would not think they had done anything wrong. 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.”
“Young Christian Woman in Somalia Recovering from Assault,” Morning Star News, June 5, 2026:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A 22-year-old woman is recovering from serious injuries in a hospital in Somalia’s Lower Juba Region after Muslim relatives beat her for putting her faith in Christ, sources said.
Sofia Ahmed suffered a broken nose and significant loss of blood after the attack on May 28 in her home on the outskirts of Hagar (also spelled Xagar), said a source who visited her in the hospital.
Ahmed accepted Christ on March 25 after learning the gospel from a Christian leader. When an uncle, Sharif Hussein, visited her and questioned her about her absence from Friday mosque prayers, she told him she was engaged in some tasks away from home, sources said.
Hussein visited her several more times, emboldening Ahmed to share about Christ. When he appeared to show interest, she suggested to him that he also put his faith in Christ, the sources said. Hussein departed without responding.
On May 28, he returned with three other male relatives. Hussein asked her again if she had converted to Christianity.
“I kept quiet,” Ahmed told a Morning Star News contact, adding that immediately they began attacking her.
The relatives beat her with sticks and struck her nose with a sharp object, the sources said. The attack drew the attention of neighbors who came in large numbers, seized the assailants and called police.
Officers arrived and arrested the four men, but Ahmed’s Muslim parents intervened and persuaded police to release them, the sources said.
“Family members later advocated for the release of the suspects, believing the actions were justified because of Ahmed’s decision to leave Islam and embrace Christianity,” the Christian leader said.
Underground Christians described her as an enthusiastic young Christian with aspirations of community outreach and church planting.
Ahmed was admitted to Hagar Maternal Centre in the Lower Juba Region of Jubaland, southwestern Somalia, where she underwent two surgeries. She remained under medical care and may require several more weeks of hospital treatment, the sources said….
PATRIOT64 says
GOD Bless her. May she get out Somalia. To a safe Christian Nation.
OLD GUY says
Islam applying its peace and love. Or should I say hate and violence.
somehistory says
This is no surprise because muzzlims are bloodthirsty and hate anyone not exactly like them. They find pleasure in satisfying their lusts.
And from Ireland a somali engages in the same kinds of evil as in his native country.
“Horror in Northern Ireland as suspect is arrested over alleged beheading attempt
A Somalian migrant has been arrested after a barbaric video shows someone seemingly trying to behead another man in the middle of a UK street in scenes likened to “something out of a ho…
Bexarkat says
GB’s national suicide will eventually reach its peak. However, perhaps this “Somali migrant” can be let loose into the Irish Free State to do his due. That might create a greater appreciation for Israel.
Mo says
Oh, Lord, grant her protection and strength and encouragement! Provide people who can help her. Keep her trust in You strong. Let her know You are with her. Bring her full healing. Help her with medical costs. May her family also come to know You!
abu taleb says
Matthew
5:10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
I am sad and angry when somebody is tortured, killed, raped etc. But, for those who are persecuted because they are righteous, know that God is on your side, the real God
somehistory says
The Real God knows how many hairs they have on their heads and the thoughts and feelings of their hearts. He will not forget the “love they have shown for His name.”
Bexarkat says
My comment was to be “well, all things considered, she got off lightly.” However, Mr. Spencer’s opening sentence implied that. Perhaps she can sneak across the border to freedom in Somaliland.
dumbledoresarmy says
The apostasy law is or should be the ‘deal-breaker’.
Every political leader in every western country and not a few non-western countries has to be asked: would you admit into your country large numbers of card-carrying proudly-identifying members of a cult, one of whose rules is that any member of the cult who becomes dissatisfied with it, and leaves, must be hunted down and KILLED??? that if you are born into it, you CANNOT leave; if you do leave, you must be killed…? That if you have – foolishly – joined it and then experience ‘buyer’s regret’, you CAN’T leave, because if you do, you are supposed to be KILLED???
That cult is Islam. No different from an organised crime gang. Nobody gets to leave, on pain of death.
Ex-Muslim Patrick Sookhdeo wrote a useful book, ‘Freedom to Believe: Challenging islam’s Apostasy Law’. He was lucky.. when he left Islam as a teenager , in the UK, and became a Christian, his family did not kill him.. they merely threw him out into the streets in the clothes he stood up in.
Hannah Shah, daughter of an imam in a northern British town, was less lucky.. when her parents found out she had converted to Christianity (this being after she had fled from the family because of being abused – including sexual abuse inflicted by her own father!)… her father the imam sent a mob of men with axes to attack the house in which she was staying. Luckily they did not succeed in breaking in.. or she would likely have been hacked to pieces.. IN BRITAIN.
There is another ex-Muslim in the UK – his name at present escapes me – who converted to Christianity (as did his wife and children). He has been hunted from pillar to post, threatened, physically attacked.. IN BRITAIN. By Muslims.
THIS IS Orthodox bog-standard classical traditional ISLAM! This is the very same cult that UK PM and King Charles have fulsomely praised in public.. the cult that murders or tries to murder or at the very least ferociously persecutes its defectors…
gravenimage says
Spot on, DDA.
gravenimage says
Somalia: Muslim woman converts to Christianity, her relatives beat her, breaking her nose and seriously injuring her
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This *poor woman*, But yes, it could be even worse–and probably will be–if she is unable to flee Somalia.