Apostasy is a crime in Islam punishable with death. There is no dispute among Islamic scholars on this, although there is slight disagreement as to what exactly should be done to the apostate:
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. One group say that they are asked to repent and, if they do not, they are killed. Some say they are given an hour and others a month. Others say that they are asked to repent three times, and that is the view of Malik. Al-Hasan said they are asked a hundred times. It is also said that they are killed without being asked to repent."
To be anything but Muslim in an Islamic country puts one at risk, to be a convert from Islam to any other religion, or none at all gives all Msulims the right and the requirement to kill you.
Christians, as we have seen recently are being "cleansed" from the lands where their ancestry lives, their churches burned or blown up and the vestiges of their habitation are quickly being reduced to piles of rubble.
All schools of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) agree that death is mandated for those who forsake Allah.
From Jihad Watch Jan 7 by Robert Spencer
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 return to Islam in a couple of days, then he must be killed. He claims that someone showed him the verse. There is no such verse, Rev. Lorenz. In every faith, apostasy is shunned but ultimate judgment is left to God, not people." -- Salam al-Marayati
"A Muslim's conversion to Christianity is not a crime punishable by death under Islamic law." -- M. Cherif Bassiouni
"It becomes really difficult, in light of this information, to persuasively argue that Islamic Law should permit a death penalty for apostasy." -- Ali Eteraz
Unfortunately for the apostates, the facts are otherwise.
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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 someone showed him the verse. There is no such verse, Rev. Lorenz. In every faith, apostasy is shunned but ultimate judgment is left to God, not people." -- Salam al-Marayati
"A Muslim's conversion to Christianity is not a crime punishable by death under Islamic law." -- M. Cherif Bassiouni
"It becomes really difficult, in light of this information, to persuasively argue that Islamic Law should permit a death penalty for apostasy." -- Ali Eteraz
Unfortunately for the apostates, the facts are otherwise.
Here is the original source from UPI.
Read it all
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