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 […]
Uganda: Sheikh converts to Christianity, is poisoned by Muslim relatives
Islamic apologists in the West routinely claim that Islam has no death penalty for apostasy. Unfortunately, misunderstanders of Islam abound in large numbers, and for some reason they cannot shake the notion that Islam does mandate death for those who are considered to have left the faith. Why do they persist in this misunderstanding? Maybe […]
Denmark: Muslim attacks apostate from Islam at asylum center
Nice to see that Danish authorities are taking sharia seriously, and are equipping Muslim apostates with alarms that with a press of a button are supposed to call in the asylum center’s guards. This time, though, the alarm failed. Via 10news.dk, translated from DR by Nicolai Sennels: An asylum seeker has been attacked because he converted to Christianity. Now he […]
Nigeria: Father charged for murdering daughter in church for leaving Islam
Islamic apologists in the West routinely claim that Islam has no death penalty for apostasy. Unfortunately, misunderstanders of Islam abound in large numbers, and for some reason they cannot shake the notion that Islam does mandate death for those who are considered to have left the faith. Why do they persist in this misunderstanding? Maybe […]
Nigeria: Islamic jihadists screaming “Allahu akbar” murder 17, attack “apostate” mosque
Islamic apologists in the West routinely claim that Islam has no death penalty for apostasy. Unfortunately, misunderstanders of Islam abound in large numbers, and for some reason they cannot shake the notion that Islam does mandate death for those who are considered to have left the faith. Why do they persist in this misunderstanding? Maybe […]
“My name is Layla Murad. I left Islam in April 2013.”
Here is a fascinating and illuminating exposition of the journey of a mind, as a young Muslim woman explores and examines Islam, and ultimately decides to leave it altogether. Her exercise of her freedom of conscience in this way has placed her life in perpetual danger, thanks to Islam’s death penalty for apostasy — an […]
Somalia: Islamic jihadists behead mother of two girls and her cousin after discovering they were Christians
From their names, they seem to have been converts from Islam to Christianity. Leaving Islam is, according to Islamic law, a capital offense. 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 […]
The Double-Edged Sword of Jihad
Islamic nations are again learning that the jihad is a volatile instrument of war that can easily backfire on those who preach it; that “holy war” is hardly limited to fighting and subjugating “infidels”—whether the West in general, Israel in particular, or the millions of non-Muslim minorities under Islam—but can also be used to fight […]
Nigeria: Muslim hacks daughter to death with machete 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 […]
Egypt wars with latest jihadi group
The clashes took place in the region of Sheikh Zawid, where earlier reports had said militant groups were terrorizing the civilian population and using women and children as human shields. Sources also said that several weapon caches were destroyed or seized. Six of the eight slain were members of the jihadi organization Ansar Bayt al-Muqadis, an […]