Rasmussen also said: “I would expect the Afghan government as well as all Afghan institutions to live up to the requirements as stated in the Afghan constitution including full respect for human rights.” But that is precisely the problem. The Afghan constitution identifies the country as an Islamic republic, and says that “followers of other […]
Afghanistan: Red Cross worker to be hanged for converting to Christianity
“Hello, Hamid? It’s Hillary…Yes, yes, peace be upon those who are rightly guided indeed…Fine, thanks, and you?…A double eagle on a par-5 hole! Wow, that’s terrific…Yes…Look, Hamid, about this Said Musa character, or Musa Sayed, or whatever. You know who I mean? Yes, that’s right, the accursed murtadd dog. Look, Hamid, I know how you […]
Shocker: “Afghan rights fall short for Christian converts”
Nothing should be surprising about this. It is built into the Afghan constitution, which stipulates that Afghanistan is an Islamic republic, and that “followers of other religions are free to exercise their faith and perform their religious rites within the limits of the provisions of law, ” but “no law can be contrary to the […]
Somalia: Islamic supremacists confiscate Christian farms
“Five of the farms were owned by Somali Christian converts from Islam,” who have now fled and are in hiding, no doubt because of Islam’s death penalty for apostates. “Islamic Somali Militants Confiscate Christian Farms,” from International Christian Concern, February 3: Washington, D.C. (February 3, 2011)-International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that members of Al-Shabaab, […]
New imam of Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero: “Apostates against Islam must be jailed”
Muhammad, the prophet of Islam and supreme example of conduct for the Muslim (cf. Qur’an 33:21), said: “Whoever changes his Islamic religion, then kill him.” (Bukhari 9.84.57) 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 asked to repent. […]
Palestinian Islamic court forcibly divorces West Bank couple after declaring them “apostates”
The Islamic spokesmen in the U.S. who insist that Islam mandates no penalty for apostasy are no doubt jetting over to the West Bank as we speak, to clear up this Islamic court’s misunderstanding of Islam. “Palestinian Islamic court forcibly divorces West Bank couple after declaring them ‘apostates,’” by Diaa Hadid for the Canadian Press, […]
Somalia: Misunderstanders of Islam murder mother of four for apostasy
We’re told again and again in the West that there is no death penalty in Islam for apostasy, and that those who think otherwise are greasy Islamophobes. Unfortunately, a persistent group of Muslims refuses to get the memo. And in reality, Muhammad, the prophet of Islam and supreme example of conduct for the Muslim (cf. […]
Iran arrests 70 for apostasy from Islam
Here we go again: yet more evidence that statements about Islamic doctrine like these from Muslims in the U.S. do not reflect Islamic doctrine as it is actually understood in Sharia states. So are al-Marayati, Bassiouni, Eteraz and all the others who say such things actually reformers? Unlikely, given the fact that they do not […]
Iran arrests dozens of converts from Islam to Christianity
These people could be murdered, for that is the traditional penalty for apostasy in Islamic law. Islamic apologists in the U.S. routinely deny that Islamic law mandates that apostates from Islam be murdered. “Rev. Lorenz is then quoted in a local television station report saying that if a Muslim leaves his religion and does not […]
Malaysia: Islamic agency vows to enforce Islamic apostasy law
Islamic apologists in the U.S. routinely deny that Islamic law mandates that apostates from Islam be murdered. “Rev. Lorenz is then quoted in a local television station report saying that if a Muslim leaves his religion and does not return to Islam in a couple of days, then he must be killed. He claims that […]