Apostasy and Islam

Islam is an all encompassing, ‘complete' ideology that takes you from the cradle to the grave or as Muslims like to call what we call heaven, 'paradise.' Islamists will try to convince that Islam is peaceful and tolerate of other religions. Islamoapologists will try to sell us that Islam is forgiving if one ever leaves Islam ot converts to another religion. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Here Traveler breaks it down for those who may be new to learning about Islam or for those of here who have studied and followed what Islam is doing, what it is about, for quite some time. You have read about Rifqa Bary here before. She is a perfect example of how one gets treated if you convert out Islam like she did. One big difference in Rifqa's case is that she is here in the United States. If she had converted out of Islam in most Islamic countries she would already be dead. Rifqa would have already been an honor killing, statistic and nothing more. So it goes in Islam.

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Rifqa Bary-Apostate
Apostasy and Islam
By Traveler

♦ Those who turn their back on Islam (apostates), are to be put to death. This is confirmed by the words and deeds of Muhammad. There is no such thing as freedom of belief in Islam.

♦ The Qur'an:

Qur'an (4:89) - "They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them"

Qur'an (9:11-12) - "But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then are they your brethren in religion. We detail Our revelations for a people who have knowledge. And if they break their pledges after their treaty (hath been made with you) and assail your religion, then fight the heads of disbelief - Lo! they have no binding oaths - in order that they may desist."

This verse is speaking of infidels (ie. "slay the infidels wherever you find them" 9:5) who obviously became Muslim to escape the sword, but the Hadith make no distinction of how a Muslim came to be a Muslim. Apostasy is always punished by death.

Other verses that seem to support the many Hadith demanding death for apostates are Qur'an verses 2:217, 9:73-74, 88:21, 5:54, and 9:66.

Advocates for killing apostates have pointed out that the supporting hadith are reliable and thus qualify as law according to verse 4:80 - "Who so obeyeth the Messenger obeyeth Allah."

♦ From the Hadith:

The reason why executing apostates has always been well-ensconced in Islamic law is that there is an indisputable record of Muhammad and his companions doing exactly that.

Bukhari (52:260) - "...The Prophet said, 'If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.' "

Bukhari (83:37) - "Allah's Apostle never killed anyone except in one of the following three situations: (1) A person who killed somebody unjustly, was killed (in Qisas,) (2) a married person who committed illegal sexual intercourse and (3) a man who fought against Allah and His Apostle and deserted Islam and became an apostate."

Bukhari (84:57) - "[In the words of] Allah's Apostle, 'Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'"

Bukhari (89:271) - A man who embraces Islam, then reverts to Judaism is to be killed according to "the verdict of Allah and his apostle."

Reliance of the Traveller (Islamic Law) o8.1 - "When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostatizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed." (o8.4 affirms that there is no penalty for killing an apostate).

♦ Apostasy is taken so seriously by Muslims that it spawned the first of many major wars within the community immediately after Muhammad's death, when several tribes wanted to leave Islam and go back to their preferred religion.

Although it has been perfectly acceptable under Islamic law to kill Muslims who choose to embrace another religion, contemporary Muslims have realized how weak and draconian this causes Islam to appear. (A sound philosophy does not require a death threat to retain believers). As such, there is a modern tendency to deny fourteen centuries of Islamic teaching and even the very words of Muhammad himself - at least for Western ears.

Such defenders disingenuously quote verse 2:256 which states "Let there be no compulsion in religion, for truth stands out from error" and a fragment of verse 10:99-100, "Wouldst thou (Muhammad) compel men until they are believers?" But nearly all

Muslim scholars agree that both verses were spoken by Muhammad during an earlier time in his teachings, when he did not have the power to compel others. They are abrogated by later verses, such as verse 9:29, which clearly commands Muslims to fight unbelievers until they relent and either accept Islam or a state of humiliation under Islamic rule (an obvious illustration of compulsion).

These apologists also ignore the fact that apostasy is not mere unbelief, but unbelief that follows belief, which neither of these verses address Muhammad's recognition of the distinction is reflected in his own deeds, following his capture of Mecca, and in those of his companions following his death (the Ridda Wars).

In any event, the damage is done. Islam expanded across the globe by conquering people of other religions and then making life miserable for those who didn't "embrace Islam." Once spoken, a person was locked into the faith. Any sign of false witness - such as raising their children in another faith - was punished with death. Thus did Islam gradually supplant other religions.

Tellingly, the same modern apologists who lie about Islam's mandate to kill apostates do not champion the right of other religions to evangelize in Muslim countries. In fact, they discourage it. They know as well as anyone that Islam cannot compete within the arena of free ideas and must rely on brute force at some level to retain believers.


♦ Some famous Apostates:

♦ Mosab Hassan Yousef

Mosab is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founder and leader of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Throughout the last decade, from the second Intifada to the current stalemate, he worked alongside his father in the West Bank.

Mosab says that he was horrified by the pointless violence unleashed by politicians willing to climb "on the shoulders of poor, religious people." He says Palestinians who heeded the call "were going like a cow to the slaughterhouse”.

"I'd seen enough killing. I was a witness to lots of death . . . Saving a human life was something really, really beautiful

A British cab driver in Jerusalem gave him an English-Arabic copy of the New Testament and invited him to attend a Bible study session at their hotel. Mosab said, "I found that I was really drawn to the grace, love and humility that Jesus talked about,"

Mosab a convert to Christianity, now lives in California.

Mosabs father, Sheik Hassan Yousef said in a letter, that his family had renounced "the one who was once our eldest son, who is called Mosab, he disbelieved in God and "collaborated with our enemies."

In August 2009 Mosab had a Fatwa - death threat issued on his life.

Mosab said, "The problem is with the God of Islam. Muslims need to be liberated from their God. He is their biggest enemy. It has been 1,400 years they have been lied to."

More on Mosab:
facebook.com/mosab.yousef
radiantchristian.com/

♦Walid Shoebat

Walid's great grandfather, Abdullah Ali Awad-Allah, was a fighter and close associate of both Abdul Qader and Haj Amin Al-Husseini, who led the Palestinians against Israel. Walid lived through and witnessed Israel’s Six Day War while living in Jericho.

As a young man, Walid became a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and participated in acts of terror and violence against Israel, and was later imprisoned in the Russian Compound, Jerusalem's central prison for incitement and violence against Israel.

In 1993, Walid studied the Tanach (Jewish Bible) in a challenge to convert his Christian wife to Islam. Six months later, after intense study, Walid realized that everything he had been taught about Jews was a lie. Convinced he was on the side of evil, he became an advocate for his former enemy.

Driven by a deep passion to heal his own soul, and to bring the truth about the Jews and Israel to the world, Walid shed his former life and his work as a software engineer and set out to tirelessly bring the cause of Israel to tens of thousands of people throughout the world: churches and synagogues, civic groups, government leaders and media.

More on Walid
facebook.com/profile.php?v=wall&id=100000792577597
shoebat.com/blog/

♦ Rifqa Bary

Rifqa is an outgoing seventeen year old girl from New Albany, Ohio. She completed her Junior Year at New Albany High School, a nationally recognized school of excellence, where she was a model student. She earned good grades, was a popular cheerleader, and even held a part-time job at a local restaurant.

Rifqa's all-American-girl life was publicly shattered this summer when the teenager abruptly fled her Ohio home in fear for her life and surfaced in Orlando, Florida three weeks later.

As it turned out, Rifqa was living a private life and was constantly fearful of being discovered. When this secret was exposed to her parents by members of the Bary family's religious congregation - threats were made that scared Rifqa to the point where she felt forced to undertake drastic measures to save herself.

Her secret? Her crime? She converted from Islam to Christianity.
Currently Rifqa is safe in Orlando under the protection of Florida's Department of Children and Families.

More on Rifqa Bary:
rifqabary.com/


♦ Testimonial of Apostates:
answering-islam.org/Testimonies

♦ Famous ex Muslims:
Notable_Former_Muslims

♦ sources
online.wsj.com/
ROP
Rifqa Bary
floridasecuritycouncil