In PJ Lifestyle today I discuss an unremarked aspect of the still-roiling Reza Aslan brouhaha: Recently I had a conversation on a train that raised an issue about the leftist media’s darling of the moment, Reza Aslan, along with larger questions about Islam and Christianity. Oddly enough, for all of the Left’s continuing outrage over […]
Sharia in action in Saudi Arabia: rights activist gets 7 years jail, 600 lashes for insulting Islam
“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam,” said Barack Obama. America, behold your future. “7 years jail, 600 lashes for Saudi rights activist, lawyer says,” from AFP, July 29 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): A Saudi court sentenced on Monday a rights activist to seven years in jail […]
Egypt: Assassin of secularist Farag Foda justifies his act: “The punishment for apostasy is death”
Muhammad said: “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. The Tafsir al-Qurtubi, a classic and thoroughly mainstream exegesis of the Qur’an, says this about Qur’an 2:217: “Scholars disagree about whether or not apostates are […]
Iran tries convert from Islam to Christianity in Revolutionary Court
Wait, isn’t the new President of Iran supposed to be a “moderate”? Anyway, Bishop Jaime Soto was unavailable for comment. Islamic Tolerance Alert from the Islamic Republic Republic of Iran, which takes very seriously Muhammad’s command “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). “Christian Convert Tried in Tehran,” from Mohabat News, July […]
Sudan: Islamic leader calls for decisive action against converts from Islam to Christianity
Muhammad said: “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. Yet Muslim spokesmen such as Harris Zafar, Mustafa Akyol, Salam al-Marayati, M. Cherif Bassiouni, and Ali Eteraz (among many others) have assured us that Islam […]
Pakistan: Taliban kidnap teenage boy who converted from Islam to Christianity
Muhammad said: “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. Yet Muslim spokesmen such as Harris Zafar, Mustafa Akyol, Salam al-Marayati, M. Cherif Bassiouni, and Ali Eteraz (among many others) have assured us that Islam […]
Somalia: Muslims shoot young man to death after identifying him as a convert from Islam to Christianity
Muhammad said: “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. Yet Muslim spokesmen such as Harris Zafar, Mustafa Akyol, Salam al-Marayati, M. Cherif Bassiouni, and Ali Eteraz (among many others) have assured us that Islam […]
Pakistan: Taliban kidnap 16-year-old convert from Islam to Christianity
Muhammad said: “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. Yet Muslim spokesmen such as Harris Zafar, Mustafa Akyol, Salam al-Marayati, M. Cherif Bassiouni, and Ali Eteraz (among many others) have assured us that Islam […]
Iran hauls off Christian pastor, shuts down church in new sweep
No worries: Barack Obama, David Cameron and Boris Johnson will soon take to the airwaves and assure us that what the Islamic Republic of Iran does has nothing to do with Islam. “Iran hauls off Christian pastor, shuts down church in new sweep,” from FoxNews.com, May 28: Government agents shut down Iran’s largest Persian-language Pentecostal […]
Syrian jihadists screaming “Allahu akbar” murder eleven “apostate” Syrian soldiers in accord with Sharia court ruling
“There’s really no such thing as just Sharia, it’s not one monolithic Continuum – Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways over the 1,500 years in which multiple and competing schools of law have tried to construct some kind of civic penal and family law code that would abide by Islamic values and principles, […]