Apostasy means leaving or giving up one's religious faith. The penalty for apostasy in Islam is death.
The Apostasy Law in Islam is an anti-conversion law, which contradicts Articles 18 and 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” - Desmond Tutu
The most influential Sunni leader in the Middle East has just admitted what many of us who grew up as Muslims in the Middle East have always known: that Islam could not exist today without the killing of apostates. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, head of the Muslim Brotherhood and one of the most respected leaders of the Sunni world, recently said on Egyptian television, "If they [Muslims] had gotten rid of the punishment [often death] for apostasy, Islam would not exist today." read more...
(Al-Qaradawi has published more than 80 books, including The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam and Islam: The Future Civilization. He has also received eight international prizes for his contributions to Islamic scholarship, and is considered one of the most influential such scholars living today.)
A United Nations independent expert today urged the international community to consistently respect, protect and promote the human right to freedom of religion or belief in the area of conversion."The right of conversion and the right not to be forced to convert or reconvert belong to the internal dimension of a person's religious or belief-related conviction, which is unconditionally protected under international human rights law," the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt, said in a news release, issued as he presented a report on his work to the UN General Assembly. read more...
What is the effect of blasphemy and apostasy laws on basic religious and political freedoms of Muslim-majority countries? What happens when Western governments and bodies like the United Nations begin passing similarly motivated restrictions on speech? These and other questions were addressed by Paul Marshall and Nina Shea as they discussed their new book, Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide at a Religious Freedom Project event on Tuesday, January 31, 2012. read more...
Persecuted Christians: Affliction or Privilege? The Impact of Islam in the East & West The Moody Church hosted an all-day conference on 12 November 2011 to increase awareness regarding the persecution of fellow Christians, specifically in Muslim countries.
Dr. Mark Durie discussed recent IFA fatwas on religious freedom, freedom of speech, and the question of whether and under what conditions Muslims are permitted by religious principles to participate as free citizens of non-Islamic, democratic states. He discussed the implications of these fatwas for religious freedom in the world today, for Muslims' ability to participate freely in secular societies, and for reformation of Islam. read more...
William Wilberforce fought against slavery and the slave trade. Mahatma Gandhi fought for freedom from colonial oppression. Martin Luther King had a dream that all would be treated equally regardless of skin color. Nelson Mandela won the battle against a dehumanizing political system. These men were leaders of movements for freedom. read more...
Very early in the history of Islam, a radical position became solidified against anyone who dared to go back on his or her Muslim faith. It had its origin in the defection of several Arab tribes from the Islamic Umma, soon after news about the death of Muhammad had reached them. In the summer of 632 A.D., Abu Bakr, the first caliph, and father of the Prophet’s favorite wife, Aisha, mounted military campaigns against the rebels and forced them back into the fold of Islam. Abu Bakr’s campaigns are known in Arabic as Huroob al-Radda, i.e. the wars against apostasy. read more...
Apostasy is the renunciation of religious faith, and apostasy from Islam in particular has always been a contentious issue. Although the Qur’an does not prescribe a temporal punishment for apostasy, the vast majority of traditional Islamic theology and jurisprudence has advocated the death penalty for a mentally sane male apostate and life-long imprisonment or harsh treatment for a female apostate. read more...
شاهد الأن ( فيلم وثائقى مدته 56 دقيقة تقريباً ) عن المتنصرون من إعداد قناة هيئة الإذاعة البريطانيةBشاهد الأن ( فيلم وثائقى مدته 56 دقيقة تقريباً ) عن المتنصرون من إعداد قناة هيئة الإذاعة البريطانية BBC .. ( تم تحديث ملفات الفيديو ليتمكن كاف...
Addressing Assembly, UN expert Heiner Bielefeldt urges States to do more to protect the right of religious conversion
The Organization of the Islamic Conference: Fatwas on Freedom and Democracy
