Islamic Sharia law contains many inhumane legal verdicts related to the treatment of non-Muslims and Muslims alike. Without delving into the subtle differences that exist between the various schools of Sharia law, which is beyond the scope of this article, it should be noted that all of the inhumane legal pronouncements made in the Sharia are sourced directly from Islam’s core texts (the Quran, hadith and sira). Due to the fact that Islam is both a religion and a legal system, the consequences of this reality are troublesome and profound.
The fundamental problem that exists, therefore, is that the inhumane laws found within the Sharia are essentially nothing more than the contents found within Islam’s most sacred texts, texts believed by the majority of Muslims to be immutable and authoritative, that Muslim scholars and clerics have applied to real life human affairs. Ex-Muslims such as I are well aware of these pernicious roots of Islamic law. This gets right to the heart of why the religion of Islam and its accompanying legal system are so problematic.
When Muslims are questioned as to whether or not they want the Sharia and its accompanying blasphemy laws, etc., implemented, invariably a significant percentage of Muslims support the idea. When Muslims say that they do not want to implement the Sharia, they find themselves opposing fundamental, mainstream Islamic teachings, and often find themselves coming into bloody conflict with their strict Muslim coreligionists, Muslims who choose to obey all of the Islamic teachings, for refusing to do what is commanded in the supposedly perfect Qur’an and Sunnah.
Qur’an 4:59: O you who believe! Obey Allah, and obey the Messenger, and those charged with authority among you. If you differ in anything among yourselves, refer it to Allah and His Messenger, if you do believe in Allah and the Last Day: That is best, and most suitable for final determination.
Qur’an 33:36: It is not for a believer, man or woman, when Allah and His Messenger have decreed a matter, that they should have any option in their decision. And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he has indeed strayed in a plain error.
Hadith: Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 8, Number 387:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Allah’s Apostle said, “I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.’ And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah.” Narrated Maimun ibn Siyah that he asked Anas bin Malik, “O Abu Hamza! What makes the life and property of a person sacred?” He replied, “Whoever says, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah’, faces our Qibla during the prayers, prays like us and eats our slaughtered animal, then he is a Muslim, and has got the same rights and obligations as other Muslims have.”
Some Muslims often lie to unbelievers, saying that they do not desire the implementation of the Sharia. Due to the fact that the Qur’an gives Muslims permission to lie to unbelievers, it is virtually impossible to trust a Muslim’s word on the issue of approving of the implementation of Sharia and other important matters.
As mentioned above, the structure and nature of Islamic theology encourage Muslims to become liars and to deceive non-Muslims about the reality of the Sharia, so as to protect the often cruel, illiberal teachings of the Islamic religion itself.
The moral and legal depravity sanctioned by Islamic theology is seemingly endless as it pertains to the issue of lying to and betraying non-Muslims on many vital issues facing society.
Consequently, my conscience will not allow me to condone support for Islam. As for Muslims who are unaware of the depredations of Islam, I believe it is my duty as an ex-Muslim to inform them of its many falsehoods and evils, and urge them to safely walk away from this murderous Arabian cult turned major religion.
Due to the fact that many Muslims react with such intransigence and hostility when Islam is criticized or prevented from being practiced in full, the world can expect much more bloodshed and strife in both the Islamic and non-Islamic world.
The Sharia also stipulates that Muslims who leave the fold of Islam are to be killed.
Qur’an 4:89: They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah . But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.
Sahih Bukhari 4:52:260: Narrated Ikrima: Ali burnt some people and this news reached Ibn ‘Abbas, who said, “Had I been in his place I would not have burnt them, as the Prophet said, ‘Don’t punish (anybody) with Allah’s Punishment.’ No doubt, I would have killed them, for the Prophet said, ‘If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.’ ”
Sahih Bukhari 9:84:57: Narrated ‘Ikrima: Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to ‘Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn ‘Abbas who said, “If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah’s Apostle forbade it, saying, ‘Do not punish anybody with Allah’s punishment (fire).’ I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah’s Apostle, ‘Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'”
Reliance of the Traveller, a classic Sharia manual hailed widely throughout the Islamic world and endorsed by Islamic scholars at the foremost institution in Sunni Islam, al-Azhar, states that Muslims who apostatize from Islam have committed a death penalty offense, as the prophet of Islam himself proclaims in the hadiths quoted above:
08.1 When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostatizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed.
08.2 In such a case, it is obligatory for the caliph (A: or his representative) to ask him to repent and return to Islam. If he does, it is accepted from him, but if he refuses, he is immediately killed.
08.3 If he is a freeman, no one besides the caliph or his representative may kill him. If someone else kills him, the killer is disciplined (def: (17) (0: for arrogating the caliph’s prerogative and encroaching upon his rights, as this is one of his duties).
08.4 There is no indemnity for killing an apostate (0: or any expiation, since it is killing someone who deserves to die).
08.5 If he apostatizes from Islam and returns several times, it (0: i.e. his return to Islam, which occurs when he states the two Testifications of Faith (def: 08.7(12))) is accepted from him, though he is disciplined (017).
08.6 (A: If a spouse in a consummated marriage apostatizes from Islam, the couple are separated for a waiting period consisting of three intervals between menstruations. If the spouse returns to Islam before the waiting period ends, the marriage is not annulled but is considered to have continued the whole time (dis: m7.4).)
Walter Sieruk says
About Islamic law ,otherwise known and Sharia law. It should be made known that the actual origin of Sharia law is revealed in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995. The point is this history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” .page 150.
There is the above and other references imply that such pagan teachings were incorporated into the religion that Muhammad manufactured and then started.
Thus this further reveals that a lot of ancient paganism is part of the whole religion of Islam.
In other words, ancient paganism makes up much of Islam. Therefore Islam is a hoax.
gravenimage says
Good point, Walter.
Dave from San Antonio says
If it wasn’t a death sentence to leave islam…I doubt it would exist today. Why are they so afraid of people leaving islam? Maybe it would mean no more ‘control’?
Daniel Triplett says
Perhaps though there’s more to it that makes Muslims adhere to Islam Dave.
Muslims in the West know they won’t be executed for apostasy. They’re protected by our Western laws. So, why don’t they all apostatize?
Why don’t Muslims immigrating from Islamic theocracies apostatize the moment they set foot on Western soil?
Consider also that while 20,000 Western Muslims apostatize each year, 20,000 to 30,000 non-Muslims freely convert into Islam each year without being forced.
katherine says
Why don`t they apostasize – because all these Western governments are AFRAID to uphold their own laws !
Because they allow Sharia to persecute the Muslims in every way – they even pass laws and regulations and impose them on their own citizens in support of sharia laws.
The Muslims who wish to break away fear for their lives because they Know these western governments are cowardly unwilling to protect them from the nasty murderous laws of the Islamic cult.
Daniel Triplett says
Where in the West is death for apostasy condoned and such murders not prosecuted?
I agree with you that the West doesn’t recognize the true enemy here, and we’re not using our counter-Conspiracy laws to proscribe prosecute Muslims as the criminal conspirators they all are, proscribing the practice and promotion of Islam altogether. And particularly in Europe, there are many “No-go” zone enclaves where Muslims are foolishly allowed to somewhat self-govern autonomously. But where is murder and honor killings tolerated?
Some Muslims report feeling social and familial pressures to remain Muslim, but how many in the West truly fear bodily harm or death for not adhering to Sharia?
I think we’re fooling ourselves to believe that since some of us view Islam as repulsive, retrograde, and diabolical, therefore Muslims must regard it the same way we do, and only adhere to Islam because they’re forced. Sure, maybe for a small few, but I’m talking about the 30,000 foot big picture view.
Would be great if that were true, as the strategy for victory in this war would be much easier, but the evidence seems to show most Muslims truly buy into it. We’d see a whole lot more apostasy in the West if they didn’t.
The scant Islamic apostasy we do see in the West is more than offset by free Western conversion into Islam, for a net Ummah gain.
gravenimage says
Yes–in fact, many Muslims, far from wanting to leave Islam, themselves uphold death for apostasy.
katherine says
And about those countless thousands of non-muslims who willingly convert – since when have western education systems ever taught the truth about the totalitarian Fascist political system known as Islam.
Pro-islam revisionist history is being taught in schools : politicians of every color are praising it and extolling the `religion of peace` : Pope Stupidus-1 preaches about brotherly love for our `co-religion` to accept another Abrahamic faith and the corrupted 5th estate of democracy, the media condemns all non-Muslims while supressing any bad news about Islamic wrong-doings.
And yes their men are oh so virile and exotic.
Daniel Triplett says
Absolutely Katherine. Agreed.
gravenimage says
Katherine, it is not just Infidel women who convert to Islam, but also Infidel men. Prisons are hotbeds of Islamic Daw’a–as well as coerced conversion.
katherine says
Uh, forgot about the prisons there – but Triplett was talking about Willing Conversions which I had seen a lot of : desperately poor men who were eyeing the inducements (land and money) of the Da`wah authorities : calculating rich men who see huge contracts accruing from Muslim privilege and even lustful opportunists who use the god-given rights of muslim males to have another wife and another and another……..
rubiconcrest says
First I want to thank Saleem Smith for his educational article. Second, I want to thank the Muslim speaker in the photo for telling the truth when describing what Islam does to apostates. Stunningly honest he is. In essence is no free will in Islam. Islam has 1400 years and counting. If it’s a hoax why has it worked for such a horridly long time? The fight is not going well in the land of the free.
The left has adopted similar rules to defend ‘wokeness’. If you stray from the orthodoxy you are banned or exiled from the community; shadow banned, sued or physically threatened(killed for your blasphemy). In the same way if you apostatize from the ‘Left’ you will be figuratively killed or worse. If you walk into a crowd today with a red hat you run the risk of being assaulted.
Need more proof? The USA elevates a Muslim Brotherhood figure as being the 8th most significant civil rights leader in 2020. Has everyone gone mad? Not at all. Muslim death for apostasy and blasphemy is now ‘woke’.
elee says
Why is this evil cult tolerated?
gravenimage says
Because most people in the West know nothing about it–and many don’t *want* to know.
pfwag says
Islam is not only asinine but evil and you have to have some serious mental deficiencies to even be a Muslim.
Wellington says
Islam is the most immensely harmful scam perpetrated upon the human race over the longest period of time.
Doubt me? Well then, what is your choice? Mine here remains with Mo’s warped creed. Here it is indeed #1 as best I can configure. It is part of the reason, but only part, why I detest Islam and always will. May Allah strike me dead tonight if I have offended Allah.
Be back tomorrow. Count on it.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“Islam is the most immensely harmful scam perpetrated upon the human race over the longest period of time.”
100% true, a total scam.
The ruined financial lives caused by scam artist Bernard “Bernie” Madoff, who orchestrated the greatest Ponzi Scheme of all time, would not even constitute a “rounding error” compared to the total destruction of lives and property caused by islam.
gravenimage says
The Evils of Islamic Law: the Death Penalty for Apostasy
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This is evil, all right.
And good to see Saleem Smith contributing to Jihad Watch again.
Michael Copeland says
“Using deception to mask intended goals”
Is a stated aim in the Muslim Brotherhood plan.
It’s quite unaffected by Western opinion polls,
And is something we need to accept as soon as we can.
Michael Copeland says
Sometimes great lengths are gone to to track down and kill apostates, such as all the way from Afghanistan to Germany. It is, after all, “Killing Someone Who Deserves to Die” (see “Reliance of the Traveller” o8.4 above).
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/08/killing-someone-who-deserves-to-die/
gravenimage says
Yes–hideous.