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Saudi Islamic scholar reaffirms Islamic law’s death penalty for leaving Islam
MAR 12, 2023 5:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
Jihad Watch
It would have been interesting to see if Ahmed Al-Ghamdi had any comeback to Abd Al-Rahman Abd Al-Karim’s quotes from Muhammad and Abu Bakr. But really, what could he say?
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. The late Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who was once the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, 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 the world would be a far better place.
Saudi Islamic Scholar Ahmad Al-Ghamdi In TV Debate:
Islam Does Not Sanction The Killing Of Apostates;
Saudi Islamic Scholar Abd Al-Rahman Abd Al-Karim:
Consensus Is That Punishment Is Death
MEMRI, March 2, 2023:
Ahmed Al-Ghamdi: “People who do not adhere to the Islamic faith are free to do so. They must not be coerced. The same is true for people who converted to Islam and then became apostates. There are unambiguous verses in the Quran regarding their freedom to do so. Allah said [in the Quran:] ‘There is no coercion in religion.’ This is an unambiguous verse, and it applies to an infidel before his conversion to Islam, as well as to people who converted and then became apostates. They are free to do so, as Allah made it clear in the verse ‘There is no coercion in religion.’
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“There isn’t an explicit verse in the Quran saying that an apostate should be killed as a punishment for his apostacy.”
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Abd Al-Rahman Abd Al-Karim: “There has been consensus among Islamic jurisprudents about the punishment for apostasy. First of all, according to a hadith, the Prophet Muhammad said: ‘He who changes his religion — kill him.’ In addition, when some people renounced Islam after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, [Caliph] Abu Bakr said: ‘By Allah, I will kill those who renounced Allah’s religion!’ And indeed, he applied the [death] punishment in that case.
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“This is beyond discussion. These are the rules and punishment in the shari’a. There are seven religious punishments mentioned in the Quran, and one is allowed to doubt these religious punishments.”
Interviewer: “What are they?”
Abd Al-Rahman Abd Al-Karim: “The punishments for highway robbery, fornication, homosexuality, drinking alcohol, apostacy, murder, and theft. The punishment for these seven crimes are mentioned in the Quran.”
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Moroccan jihadist calling himself ‘Allah’s hitman’
jailed by a court on the Balearic island of Mallorca
By Chris King •
11 March 2023 •
EuroWeekly
Image of a man arrested in handcuffs next to a laptop. Credit: Ground Picture/Shutterstock.com
A court on the Balearic island of Mallorca has jailed a Moroccan jihadist who called himself ‘Allah’s hitman’.
A 50-year-old Moroccan jihadist who called himself ‘Allah’s hitman’, was sent to prison by a judge in a court in the town of Campos on the Balearic island of Mallorca this Thursday, March 9. He had recently been found guilty of radicalising his messages and threats.
An investigation was launched last September after a social media profile was detected making pro-jihadist posts. Initial investigations discovered that one person was managing different profiles on social networks, in which he had hundreds of followers.
Through these accounts, he was seen to be constantly making threatening posts against any type of authority, police and military, calling himself a jihadist, mujahidin, and ‘Allah’s hitman’. The owner of these accounts was found to be a Moroccan male with no fixed address in Spain.
It turned out that he had been detected in recent years in different Spanish provinces, where he had been managing criminal profiles on social networks from his mobile device.
At the beginning of this year, he travelled to Egypt where he was arrested by the authorities of that country when he tried to travel to Sudan. That was when he was expelled to Spanish territory.
The pro-Daesh threats and propaganda that he shared on social networks among his numerous followers had multiplied in recent weeks. His messages had also become more radical in their nature.
In one of his last posts, he directly incited his followers to commit an attack against police officers, which subsequently led to his immediate arrest.
During his arrest, documentation, an electronic device, and a knife that he always carried with him were seized. He was made available to the courts today who decreed his entry into incommunicado prison, as reported by mallorcadiario.com.
Pakistani migrant kills his mother with hammer;
23-year-old son is arrested in Italy
The murder took place in an apartment in the center of Pinerolo
A 45-year-old woman was killed this morning by hammer blows by her 23-year-old son , of Pakistani origin. The murder took place this morning in an apartment in via Sommeiller 32, in the center of Pinerolo , in the province of Turin. It would have been the victim's husband to raise the alarm.
Rescue efforts were useless, there was nothing they could do for the woman. The young man was arrested. The investigations are entrusted to the carabinieri of the Pinerolo company. At the moment, the motive for the crime is not known.
Shocking moment Iraqi immigrant, 28, stabs teen in brutal
daylight attack because he WANTED to get deported
By Carl Bennett
Published: 09/03/2023 - 15:39. Updated: 09/03/2023 - 15:45
A 28-year-old Iraqi immigrant stabbed a teenage boy in broad daylight because he wanted to be deported from Britain.
Rebaz Mohammed attacked Ellis Wheeler, 18, in December 2022 as he was walking through a park on his way home from the gym.
Wheeler was left fighting for his life after the kitchen knife punctured his lung.
CCTV footage shows the attack happening for all to see as Mohammed approaches the student, before savagely stabbing him.
After fleeing Wheeler passed out before being taken to hospital where he underwent surgery for a collapsed lung.
Mohammed was arrested at the scene and told police he attacked Wheeler so he could be deported to his home in Iraq.
The Iraqi had originally entered the country illegally and had served a prison term previously.
He pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm with intent and possessing a knife blade in Southampton Crown Court.
Mohammed has been sentenced to six years in prison, with a four year extended licence.
As a result of the brutal attack, Wheeler missed exams and struggles with his sleep due to the anxiety caused.
A friend had been able to call 999 after the stabbing, applying pressure on the wound until the emergency services arrived.
Prosecutor Andrew Houston stated that Mohammed knew he needed to do something to be deported and had spoken with people who were familiar with the immigration system.
Rebaz Mohammed was sentenced to six years in prison, Hampshire Police
He had previously been cautioned for criminal damage and battery and was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison for racially-aggravated harassment and stalking in May 2022.
Richard Tutt, defending Mohammed, said the 28-year-old had been "making what efforts he could to be deported" but could not afford to leave.
Tutt said: "He believed, from what he had been told, that he needed to commit an offence that was serious enough.
"He presents as a very naive person. He has experienced remorse, or at least sorrow."
Is 'naive' another way of saying "really stupid"?
Mohammed initially chased after Wheeler. Crown Prosecution Service
Judge Brian Forster KC criticised the defendant for inflicting the injuries to "achieve his own end".
He said: "When anyone carries out an attack with a knife it is down to chance.
"This was an indiscriminate attack. Any member of our community could have been the victim.
"You were willing to inflict a serious injury with a weapon to achieve your own end. You could have killed the victim."
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