Man Stabbed By Suspected Muslim Faithfuls For Converting To Christianity

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.”

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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)

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“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….

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