Just today some Twitter clowns (including a professor of Islamic Studies) were claiming yet again that Islam actually has no death penalty for apostasy. Funny how so many Muslims didn’t get the memo. Muhammad commanded: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57), and the alleged “numerous verses in the Koran” that “guarantee […]
Attorneys for Meriam Ibrahim, the woman sentenced to death for leaving Islam, barred from leaving Sudan
Meriam Ibrahim, who was sentenced to death for apostasy in Sudan because her father was Muslim but she was Christian, is now safely out of Sudan. And so it appears that Sudan’s Islamic supremacist government is taking out their anger over not being able to murder her on her lawyers. “Attorneys for Meriam Ibrahim Banned […]
Turkish ex-mufti on Muhammad: “So many people can’t live properly because of him”
Turan Dursun was “a former mufti and imam and an open critic of Islam who fought for a freer and more humane world despite pressures from the state, the public, and even his own father, whose dream was to see him become a devoted cleric.” He lived in Turkey. He was, as was tragically predictable, […]
Yemen: Woman burned to death by brother for converting to Christianity
Muhammad commanded: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). 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 […]
New Zealand: Saudi convert from Islam to Christianity kidnapped by Saudi agents and forcibly flown back to Saudi Arabia
Muhammad commanded: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). 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 […]
“From the moment I left Islam I stopped being an anti-semite, homophobe and mysogynist”
“When I stopped hating, I realized how hate poisons you and distorts your world view.” Here is a fascinating interview in which an ex-Muslim speaks honestly about how he was indoctrinated into a world view of hatred and violence. “The Jihadist – Former Convicted Jihadi talks about Homosexuality & Women,” by Saif R. Rahman, the […]
Islamic State jihadis imprisoned in Iran threaten to kill Christian in same prison
“He’s already under threat because he is a convert to Christianity. Now we understand that ISIS members in the prison have said he is their number one target.” But in the U.S., Muslim spokesmen assure credulous non-Muslims that Islam has no death penalty for apostasy, and that is the end of the matter — no […]
Sudanese Christian woman who escaped apostasy death sentence meets with Pope Francis
“Francis thanked Meriam, who was accompanied by her husband and two small children, for her ‘testimony of faith’ and ‘perseverance.’” A Vatican spokesman said that Francis wanted the meeting to be a “sign of closeness to all those who suffer due to their faith and practice of their faith.” One may hope that his encounter […]
Sudanese Christian woman escapes apostasy death sentence, arrives in Italy
“There were no details on what led to the 27-year-old’s departure from Khartoum, and there was no immediate comment from the Sudanese authorities.” But as she “arrived at Rome’s Ciampino airport with her family and Italy’s vice minister for foreign affairs, Lapo Pistelli,” it would appear — at least on the basis of this story […]
Sudan: Muslim family drops suit against “apostate” Christian woman
“The case was brought by 27-year-old Meriam Ibrahim’s Sudanese Muslim father to formally establish her as his Muslim daughter” — so that she could be executed as an apostate from Islam. The dropping of their suit means that one significant obstacle to her leaving Sudan has been cleared away. But she is not safely away […]