“Mr Muhammad, who works as an English teacher and headmaster, refused the group’s orders to hand his school building over to them so they could turn it into an Islamic school.”
That was an unconscionable display of effrontery from a man who, as far as the Muslims of Failaq al-Sham were concerned, should have submitted meekly to their hegemony, in accord with the Qur’an’s command that Muslims must make non-Muslims “feel themselves subdued.”
And now he is in serious trouble. The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s 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 Sunni hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). This is not just a Sunni idea; 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.”
“Kurdish man arrested and accused of apostasy,” Christian Solidarity Worldwide, August 13, 2020:
CSW has learned that a 40-year-old Syrian Kurdish man was arrested and accused of apostasy by Failaq Al-Sham, an Islamist group loyal to Turkey, on 30 July.
Local sources report that on 30 July fighters from Failaq Al-Sham arrested Radwan Muhammad at his home in the village of Jaqmaq Kibir near Rajo, a small town in northwest Syria close to Afrin. Mr Muhammad, who works as an English teacher and headmaster, refused the group’s orders to hand his school building over to them so they could turn it into an Islamic school. According to local sources, Mr Muhammad told the group: “I will hand you the building in one case only: if Jesus Christ comes down to earth again.”
Mr Muhammed’s wife died recently, but the group prevented the family from washing and shrouding her body according to the customs of that region. She had converted from Islam to Christianity a while ago.
Pastor Nihad Hassan, who leads a Kurdish church in Beirut, Lebanon, and who is originally from Afrin himself, told CSW: “We are extremely worried about Radwan’s life and wellbeing, he is being held at [Failaq Al-Sham’s] Headquarters in Afrin and they may execute him. Those Islamist groups and their Turkish masters are walking in the footsteps of IS. In fact, many of their fighters are former IS and al Qaeda members.”
Failaq Al-Sham is an Islamist group affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. It functions in northwest Syria under the Syrian National Army, an umbrella group for different Islamist factions under direct Turkish command.
In March 2018 the Turkish army captured the city of Afrin with the help of some Syrian Islamist groups. Amnesty International reports that since then “Afrin residents [have been] detained and tortured, with houses and businesses looted and confiscated, and schools destroyed or taken over.”…
Peter Buckley says
JW readers may or may not be aware of this recent speech by Trump:
“It’s — if I — if I had information and if I had absolute proof — some of the stories that we’ve heard, which are not easy, which is not easy to get — I would go in and do a number to those countries like you wouldn’t believe.”
https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2020/08/18/trump-christians-treated-horribly-beyond-disgracefully-in-middle-east/
James Lincoln says
Here’s a short clip, Peter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR8ck8Ypryg
Peter Buckley says
Nice one.
GreekEmpress says
I heard him say it too, Peter!
john smith says
Thanks for that James.
Red Pill says
Trump for president. Biden does not defend Christians.
mortimer says
Biden recently gave a speech to Muslims to ‘change things with their hands’ … in other words to implement vigilantism in America in order to establish Islam as the state religion.
Biden is beyond ‘flaky’ … Biden is unconcerned with reality.
FYI says
I hope Biden doesn’t get in.
Biden would get lost in his own bathroom.
James Lincoln says
mortimer says,
” … Biden is unconcerned with reality.”
It’s even worse than that.
Due to his progressive cognitive decline, any semblance of reality for Sleepy Joe is slipping away.
Sad, but still very dangerous for the country…
gravenimage says
Yes–good to hear Trump speaking out.
DearDiary says
You can give your life to service and build a good school after many years and God knows how much suffering OR you can do it the old school Muslim way – take it and pretend it was always yours.
gravenimage says
Syria: Muslims demand Christian convert teacher turn over his school to them, arrest him for apostasy
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*Terrifying*–this poor man.
And so much for the idea that Christians have freedom in Syria.
Sam says
Lol , this article s funny, and your comment is funnier .
Google last Christmas on Syria to see how Christians are treated and very well respected.
All of this website are fake and hateful, pure lies.
Anytime a Christian is treated badly in the arab/Islamic world is treated badly, the group treating him/her badly is related to a group funded, sourced, created by the mossad/uk/us powers, period.
gravenimage says
How does a Christian convert being arrested and his school seized prove that Christians are respected?
And persecution of Christians is intrinsic to Islam, and was practiced by the “Prophet” Muhammed himself. “Sam” himself has affirmed that Muslims have the right to wage violent Jihad against us–while at the same time schizophrenically claiming that 9/11 was pulled off by Mossad. How does this even make any sense? But then, pious Muslims reject logic.
Mateen says
This area of Syria is not under the control of the Syrian government, which traditionally has been a staunch supporter of religious minority rights (since Pres. Assaad himself and his tribe are from a religious minority — the Alawites), and Christians have lived with much greater freedom of religion than in other parts of the Middle East or Muslim world in general. The area in question, in NW Syria, is under the control of Turkey, working hand in glove with radical Muslim insurgents. Under their purview, Christians have no rights, particularly those who have apostatized from Islam.
Sam’s comment that any Muslim groups persecuting Christians has been “funded, sourced, created by the mossad/uk/us powers, period” is ignorant and laughable. Christian persecution, supported by the Qur’an, Hadith and personal example of Muhammad, has long predated the existence of Mossad, the USA or even the UK. Sam appears so wrapped up in conspiracy theories that I fear his brain has become oxygen-deprived.
gravenimage says
Thank you for that information, Mateen–I know there are still parts of Syria not under the control of the Syrian government.
And you are quite right about the grotesque Muslim apologist “Sam”.
roberta says
Ethnic cleansing/tribal disputes when Christians are slaughtered by muslims.
Genocide of muslims when Christians fight back.
I support Pres. Trump, but he is suspiciously late to the game on this one. Makes it appear like a shoring up of the Christian voting block.
Most of Africa is still in the Dark Age, heck, maybe the Stone Age. I dont know what “Age” came before that, but islam is taking it there.
Sam says
Who is slaughtering who??
Christians killed 11,000,000.00 Muslims in the past 25 years, how many Christians did the Muslim kill?
roberta says
”11,000,000.00”
Nice try, but your translator made the 11mil look like 11mil dollars. Get you decimal points right,
Thanks for the laugh.
Question for you mohamad, how many muslims did muslims kill in the last 25 years?
FYI says
islam has a religious apartheid system that pits muslims{‘the best community’ koran 3:110 against non-muslims{‘the WORST of created beings’ koran 98:6}
It seems allah MISSED the Golden Rule,the 2 chief Commandments{Deut 6:4-9,Lev 19:18} and the concept that people are made in the spiritual image of God{Genesis 1:27}
All this information is in the Bible a book allah confirms{koran 3:3] and tells muslims to consult{koran 10:94}:all these things are either missing or contradicted by the Holey Koran
I like a laugh myself: I can’t help it I’m an infidel..and so..
5 funny things about muhammed{from islamic sources}
1.muhammed was a fat midget[Abu Dawud 40:4731]
No offense intended to anyone who is obese etc:this is an islamic source.
2. muhammed ate poisoned meat cooked by a Jewish woman whose family he had killed:he KNEW it was poisoned.But he ATE IT ANYWAY.He died after years of agony.muhammed was thus the architect of his own misfortune and a ..MORON.muhammed taught that women were stupid and Jews were apes.
And who kills him?A Jewish woman.
3. When muhammed was dying he shouted out to Aisha that he felt his AORTA was being Cut{Sahih Bukhari 4498} a statement that according to the koran’s definition of who could be a false prophet{koran 69:44-46}could ONLY come from someone who suspected he was a false prophet.
4.muhammed actually admitted he was a false prophet{Al Tabari 6:111}
5.muhammed had a magical winged flying donkey with a woman’s face called buraq and once flew on it from mecca to Jerusalem to visit a mosque that couldn’t have existed in mo’s time koran 17.1
Sam says
Yes, the 11,000,000.00 means 11 millions … your question of how many people did Mohammed killed in his first 25 years … well, even if he wanted to kill millions, the tools were not enough to “acheieve” such numbe5s, battles were fight using swords, used by both combating forces?, then, we have what we call propaganda which is lies and false news … just imagine, 9-11 was commuted by Saudi Arabian, when the while world knows that it was commuted by the mossad/cia/UK and other Zionist organizations so that America will start it’s ongoing genocide against the middle East, starting with Iraq, an invasion that was based on lies, such as all American ugliness ruling this world … stop being a fool, think, use the computer that is on top of your 2 shoulders?
gravenimage says
More from “Sam”:
Yes, the 11,000,000.00 means 11 millions …
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Where did “Sam” get this figure from? My guess is his posterior.
More:
your question of how many people did Mohammed killed in his first 25 years … well, even if he wanted to kill millions, the tools were not enough to “acheieve” (sic) such numbe5s (sic), battles were fight using swords,
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Is “Sam” fretting that his “Prophet” was unable to slaughter as many Infidels as he wanted to? Poor guy…
More:
used by both combating forces?, then, we have what we call propaganda which is lies and false news …
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Actually, there are many accounts in the texts of Islam itself that Muhammed attacked unarmed victims. His attack on the Khaybar oasis, for instance, shows that he attacked while the farmers were heading out unarmed into their fields.
More:
just imagine, 9-11 was commuted by Saudi Arabian, when the while world knows that it was commuted by the mossad/cia/UK and other Zionist organizations so that America will start it’s ongoing genocide against the middle East, starting with Iraq, an invasion that was based on lies, such as all American ugliness ruling this world … stop being a fool, think, use the computer that is on top of your 2 shoulders?
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The idea that Jihad is waged by “Mossad” makes no sense whatsoever. Why would Muhammed wage violent Jihad, but not pious Muslims today? Is “Sam” here actually opposed to violent Jihad? He has spouted apologia for it elsewhere.
Mateen says
Sam, please offer some documentation proving that “Christians killed 11,000,000.00 Muslims in the past 25 years.” And please don’t refer to Western governments, as these are not organs of the Christian faith. Likewise, avoid naming secular right-wingers like Brenton Tarrant, the Christchurch mosque shooter, whose self-description identified him as anything but Christian. Please list all the bloodthirsty Christian terrorist organizations and individuals, who have murdered all these Muslims in the name of Jesus Christ. I’m eager to learn what secrets you know concerning such evil Christians so that I can denounce them and seek to have them publicly removed from any Christian community with which they identify.
On the other hand, the list of individual Muslims and Muslim terror groups targeting the kuffar as well as fellow Muslims whom they dismiss as munafiqun or murtaddun, and as such worthy of execution, is almost endless — certainly too long for the comments section. In spite of the fact that these killers are publicly known, the Islamic community around the world has done little to condemn their actions, much less contain and punish them.
I await your response with bated breath.
Francis Weber says
Dead man walking.
Thanks to the Murderous Ideology of Islam.