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.”
“Women allegedly kidnapped by relatives used Snapchat to reveal location to police, court told,” by Marta Pascual Juanola, The Age, September 16, 2022:
Two women who were allegedly kidnapped, gagged and bound by their relatives after they fled an environment of extreme religious and cultural control used Snapchat’s location feature to alert authorities to their whereabouts as they were transported from Victoria to NSW.
A court heard the young women, who cannot be named to protect their safety, had been stalked by their cousin for three days before relatives broke into their Melbourne home, tied them up with rope and duct tape and drove them back to Sydney.
The pair had fled their home in NSW with the help of the police in March after enduring what an officer described as years of violence and “extreme control due to strict religious and cultural beliefs” at the hands of their relatives.
A woman and three men were arrested and extradited to Victoria last week following the alleged kidnapping, which began in Melbourne’s northern suburbs and ended in western Sydney with police intercepting a car and freeing the women.
A 51-year-old man, a 48-year-old woman, a 21-year-old man and a 33-year-old man, whose identities cannot be revealed to protect the women, faced Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Thursday morning charged with kidnapping and assault.
Police allege that on August 27, a cousin of both women drove from Sydney to Melbourne and checked into the Novotel hotel in Preston, where he waited for the mother and brother of one of the women to fly in from interstate.
Three days later, on August 30, the trio broke into the women’s home and waited for them to return from work. They armed themselves with two knives they found in the kitchen and put on blue plastic gloves they found under the sink.
The trio had also packed duct tape and rope for the kidnapping, the court heard.
As the women returned home later that evening, the cousin grabbed one of them from behind, covered her mouth and held a knife to her neck.
Another relative grabbed the other woman by the hair, pulled her to the ground and held the other knife to her stomach, allegedly telling her: “You bitch, you think you can run away from home? I have a knife in my hand. Don’t move, don’t scream.”
At one point during the ordeal, the cousin allegedly ripped a gold cross necklace from around the neck of one of the women, who had converted from Islam to Christianity.
The women were then bound, gagged, forced into the back of a car and driven back to Sydney, their wrists and mouths concealed by coats and face masks. Meanwhile, the father of one of the women drove a truck to Victoria and cleared the home of their belongings….
Detective Senior Constable Ardi Yavari, who is the informant in the case, said investigators were also concerned about relatives trying to coerce the alleged victims into withdrawing their statements.
The court heard the women had already been contacted by an unknown phone number suspected to be linked to a family friend or relative, pressuring them to withdraw the charges.
“I, myself, am fearful for their lives,” Yavari told the court….
Magistrate Carolyn Burnside said both women had been subjected to “a very high level of threatening and humiliating behaviour” from their relatives.
“It’s all about shaming the family,” she said….
somehistory says
the judge is right. these women brought to the mozlums a loss of face among their mozlum “community” and that just isn’t allowed. Many young women are murdered for this fake ‘honor’ thing.
There is no honor in islam, but many are murdered for this sham claim that their actions to leave islam, or just not wear the restrictive garb brings dishonor to the family.
I’m glad these creeps were stopped from killing these two young women and glad that they are resisting the pressure to give in to the terror.. Glad too that the judge and the police understand these things.
Raja says
Somehistory,
These converts are the only hope for bringing about real peace in the communities. You see how Iran is struggling with its Islamic regime and we get carried away by the revolt of the man on the street forgetting that the whole nation voted for Sharia law in 1906 much before the oil boom came to surface. Otherwise you have another good option for producing good humans as the saying goes- The only good Muslims is a dead one.
Muslims have a bloated honor and a fake one too. I didn’t know an ideology can play such a havoc on the minds of its adherents. I can vouch that even an impoverished Muslim would not eat at the community feast organized by a Christian church or a Hindu temple. The Odious hatred for Kuffar runs so deep.
somehistory says
Yes, Raja, satan is behind islam and it’s a tool for him to control humans and murder people so they will not “come out of the great tribulation” alive.
Hank says
“A 51-year-old man, a 48-year-old woman, a 21-year-old man and a 33-year-old man, whose identities cannot be revealed to protect the women, faced Melbourne Magistrates’ Court”
Common sense will tell the Magistrates Court that Islam and its faithful don’t fit into non-Islamic infidel societies and need to be deported asap.before citizens get killed too.
Scotsman48 says
Any religion that wishes to kill one of their flock who has changed their mind about the religion should be named as a Cult as islam is in every way a Fascist Religious Cult of evil, the devil, satanic and hate.
Zero tolerance, compassion or love.
gravenimage says
Australia: Muslim relatives kidnap women, terrorize them for converting to Christianity
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As Robert Spencer notes, murdering those who dare leave Islam is orthodox Islam–and this is often done by the state in Dar-al-Islam.
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“Women allegedly kidnapped by relatives used Snapchat to reveal location to police, court told”
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If these women hadn’t been rescued by police they likely would have been killed,
More:
A court heard the young women, who cannot be named to protect their safety, had been stalked by their cousin for three days before relatives broke into their Melbourne home, tied them up with rope and duct tape and drove them back to Sydney.
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So often these Islamic “Honor” crimes are a family affair in Islam.
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Another relative grabbed the other woman by the hair, pulled her to the ground and held the other knife to her stomach, allegedly telling her: “You bitch, you think you can run away from home? I have a knife in my hand. Don’t move, don’t scream.”
At one point during the ordeal, the cousin allegedly ripped a gold cross necklace from around the neck of one of the women, who had converted from Islam to Christianity.
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Pious Muslims don’t want *anyone* to be able to escape the horrors of Islam–especially for Christianty.
Raja says
+ 1
gravenimage says
Thank you, Raja.
tim gallagher says
I had not heard about this appalling case despite living in Australia. I’m glad that Jihad Watch has reported it. What primitive, knuckle dragging specimens these Muslim family members are. They are a hopeless addition to any humane, civilised western society. It is pure fantasyland thinking to believe that they should be allowed into any modern society. Because “The Age” is a left wing newspaper, so I hear often, because I have never read it, I was looking to see whether they actually mentioned islam in the article. Good to see that they did report on this case and did mention islam, as in the brief mention that they had “converted from islam to Christianity”. Of course, now Australia will be stuck with the knuckle dragging scum for the rest of their primitive lives. We won’t be able to kick them out of the country. We almost never do, unless they happen to have dual citizenship, which very occasionally is the case.
Hank says
Well, Australia is a sovereign state and can decide for itself if they want to repatriate the knuckle dragging scum back to their Islamic cult nation or send them on a permanent “vacation” to the Islamic country they seek refuge from but like to vacation in.
But more important would be to stop voting for wimpy politicians who encourage and facilitate the illegal Muslim migration by doing nothing to stop it. Following the thread leads to the citizen voter who keeps voting for these wimpy politicians and then complain about the Islamization of their non-Muslim society, terrorist acts,beheading, sharia laws, Mosque planting, no-go zones, so-called honor murders, FGM, rioting, et al. What is needed is forceful and immediate repatriation of this illegal Muslim migration farce. Use Rwanda as a processing station (not dump station) for immediate onward distribution to the origin of this farce.
tim gallagher says
I agree with what you say, Hank, about the types of politicians that Australians vote into power (and I think it is no different in other western countries). I would prefer to see Muslim immigration into Australia ended. I have written to many politicians here in Australia suggesting a ban on Muslim immigration. I can’t see it ever happening. On deporting these primitive creatures, they seldom seem to do it. Maybe attempts to deport them end up getting caught up in endless appeals which cost the taxpayer heaps of money. From what I hear, leaving people stateless is hardly ever done. If they have become Australian citizens and have no other citizenship we, unfortunately, seem to be stuck with them. If they haven’t bothered to become Australian citizens then they seem to be thrown out . I remember Ardern whingeing about us throwing out New Zealand crims who had lived in Australia for years but never bothered to become Australian citizens.
Walter Sieruk says
There are some Muslims who use the menacing threats of violence to gain “converts” to Islam.
The reason that they proselytize that way is because the Islam is completely lacking in firm valid reasoned based arguments of logic to sway people into entering into the religion of Islam, so those Muslims use violent threats to attempt to force a person into accepting Islam as his or her religion.
Likewise in this specific case ,with a Christian, there are no verses that they are able to take from the Bible taken in the entire scripture context to show that Muhammad is a genuine prophet of God and thus “prove” Islam to be true.
So that’s why those Muslim to gain a proselyte for Islam make threats in order to obtain “converts.”