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 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.”
And as for terror, the Qur’an says:
“Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah and your enemies…” (8:60)
“When your Lord was revealing to the angels, ‘I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers; so strike the necks, and strike every finger of them!” (Qur’an 8:12)
“We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve for what they have associated with Allah of which He had not sent down authority. And their refuge will be the Fire, and wretched is the residence of the wrongdoers.” (Qur’an 3:151)
“Man who converted to Christianity from Islam is living in terror after being stabbed for apostasy,” by Matthew Agius, Malta Today, February 12, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Police suspect that a Muslim man’s conversion to Christianity was the motive behind a stabbing in a Mosta garage on 26 January, with his lawyer arguing that he was living in fear of his assailants, who are on bail.
Simar Halil Hannan, the 26-year-old Syrian man charged with grievously injuring 29-year-old Lamir Mohammad, also Syrian, whom he stabbed in the neck, claims he hit the man by mistake during a fight that erupted at a garage in Triq il-Kappar, Mosta, at around 10pm on 26th January.
In a sitting before magistrate Joe Mifsud this morning, a police sergeant testified that Lamir had told police that he was meant to meet another man – a certain Jomah- to receive some money owed to him, but when he went to the man’s garage he found Simar waiting for him.
The sergeant said Lamir had explained that he had been a Muslim and had converted to Christianity to marry a Maltese woman. “In Syria there was a practice whereby if they kill an apostate, they are assured passage to Heaven in the afterlife”, the sergeant went on.
On his part, Jomah had told police that he had owed money to the victim over some aluminium works and had hit him by mistake whilst working.
Parte civile lawyer Matthew Xuereb, appearing for Lamir together with lawyer Lucio Sciriha, repeatedly insisted that the prosecution should add the crime of attempted murder to the charge sheet, adding that his client was now living in terror of the men. This led to a heated exchange with the court, which ordered the lawyer to be quiet, reminding him that the parte civile had no right to dictate what charges should be pressed….
Aldo Rozatto says
Muslim clerics are responsible for these crimes. They brainwash retarded Muslims to commit all kinds of atrocities. Islamic clerics should be banned, expelled or eliminated from Western societies
Michael Copeland says
“Stabbed” is a rather inadequate term. The image above is pixellated, but the man’s throat has evidently been slashed. Remember Waltham police saying the triple slaying victims had been “stabbed in the neck”? Years later a spokesman said their throats had been slashed with such ferocity that their heads had almost been severed, “It was like something out of Al Qaeda!”.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/07/a-triple-unsolved-murder-unconnected-dots/
gravenimage says
Important point, Michael.
elee says
These things didn’t happen when the Brits ran the joint, did they?
Honest Ali says
Learn how to fight and cultivate a very bad attitude… or live by Jesus’s advice, and fear not those who can destroy the body… But, do not live in fear!
Submission to fear is how Islam wins.
Raja says
You are right Ali,
Either take Jesus seriously (be willing to die bodily) and look for God’s providence to save your body and soul as He has done to his people through ages or die a miserable double death that is loved by the hopeless Lefties.
Raja says
The European leaders won’t worry about this incidence though the similar incidents are ready to be flooded in Europe with the exception of Hungary, Poland etc.
Now they will be most keen to make this tragedy to look like a picnic so that people get used to it. The authorities will target those who expose the evils of Islam. Was it the London Mayor who said people should get used to terrorism?
Fortunately for France she has developed (or pretended to develop) some spine after Samuel Patty’s beheading.
James Lincoln says
And Malta is just 2.6% muslim…
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/muslim-population-by-country
gravenimage says
Malta: Man who converted to Christianity from Islam is living in terror after Muslim stabs him for apostasy
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Just horrifying–this *poor man*. And Malta is not even a Muslim country.
Andrew says
islam is a Fascist Religious Cult.
Fascist, because you cannot speak out against it.
Religious, because they speak about god… a lot.
Cult, because if you wish to leave it, you will be killed.
Lets call it what it really is…. Satanic, pure evil.. a curse on humanity…
Raja says
Andrew, you are correct indeed
OLD GUY says
And Joe wants to allow more of these muslim people into our country. I sincerely hope he plans on moving them into his neighborhood so his family can experience the love and joy of these migrants first hand. I think a mosque across the street from his mansion screaming out the call to prayer 5 times a day might change his mind.