The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. Accordingly, some Muslims will never accept its being set aside: Allah’s laws override all man-made laws.
The death penalty for leaving Islam is based on the Qur’an: “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.” (Qur’an 4:89)
A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “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.
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 differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-‘ashriyyah, Al-Ja’fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.”
Qaradawi also once famously said: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.”
An update on this story. “Radical Muslims Protest Sudan’s Abolishment of Apostasy, other Islamist Laws,” Morning Star News, July 17, 2020:
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Radical Muslims in Sudan took to the streets today to protest the transitional government’s adoption of amendments to decriminalize apostasy and repeal other Islamist laws.
The apostasy law has been used for more than 30 years to persecute those who leave Islam. The government’s adoption this week of the Fundamental Rights and Freedoms Act also allows non-Muslims to drink alcohol and abolishes public flogging as a criminal punishment.
“We [will] drop all the laws violating the human rights in Sudan,” Justice Minister Nasredeen Abdulbari said.
Since the government announced plans for amendments to Sudanese law late Saturday night (July 11), Muslims took to social media to criticize the moves, terming them anti-Islamic and calling for massive demonstrations. Some called for “holy war” against the government for scrapping sharia (Islamic law) provisions.
Today (July 17) limited demonstrations took place in Khartoum, Khartoum North and Omdurman to protest the amended laws.
“Sharia, sharia or we die,” protestors shouted. “Listen you, Hamdok, this is Khartoum not New York.”
Dozens of people reportedly gathered in the protests. Brandishing banners reading, “No to secularism,” they shouted, “God’s laws shall not be replaced.”…
Binyaamin says
Is it not part of your deceitful democracy that people should be able to choose for themselves what they want?
You are just Islam phobic.
gravenimage says
Well, of course! Why don’t you ‘filthy Infidels’ want Muslims to rape and murder you? You must be “Islam phobic”.
And genuine democracy guarantees the rights of the individual–it is not just mob rule. Of course, no pious Muslim is capable of grasping this.
curious says
These people are not choosing for themselves. They are instead attempting to take away choice from others. No one is preventing them from continuing to sacrifice themselves to the hateful fraud of the dead charlatan Mohamad, but now others may freely choose to renounce it as any sensible person would.
gravenimage says
Spot on, curious.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Imam Francis must be busy jetting around the globe in an effort to set his fellow Islamists straight. Apparently, they’re confused with the facts.
Peter Buckley says
These “radical” (i.e.devout) muslims are protesting because they know that, as the number of apostates increases, and it becomes “safer” to leave Islam, publicly or not, many “muslims” are waiting impatiently to tell one and all that they’re not muslims at all, and possibly never were, even though they may have been identified as such (by others).
Here, an imam explains that it is the well-educated muslims who are leaving the religion, not the criminals or drunks, who are remaining muslims:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk4d8i-yGiw
Go figure…..
Mike says
So why would one want to leave Islam
could it be that they were not told the facts
could it be that it did not live up to the hype
could it be that were lied too about the facts of Islam
could it be that they don’t like the company
Could it be that Islam is not allow to have fun, enjoy life, treat loved ones equals
I could go on
if this is the real religion of peace then people you would think would be flocking to
so why is that not happening and Islam are forcing people to commit
to Islam
gravenimage says
Sudan: Muslims protest against abolition of death penalty for leaving Islam, call for jihad against government
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Well, *this* was predictable.
OLD GUY says
Muslims “religion” of islam the most violent, murderous, raping, slave trading, pedophiles of the world. Islam sounds just like the mafia or a drug cartel once you are a member you can’t get out without you and your family being killed.
How can anyone with any sense or education see islam as a legitimate religion. It is a CULT hell bent on taking control of the world with its dominate dictatorship rule.