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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.”
“Hindu minor girl renounces Islam, irks Pak mullahs,” Pragativadi News Service, February 9, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Islamabad: The Hindu minor girl who was forcefully converted has renounced Islam. This act has irked Pakistani mullahs who demanded death penalty for her.
Reports said the radical Islamists and clerics in the Islamic nation are up in arms against Hindu girl Mehak Kumari for retracting her previous statement that she had accepted Islam of her own free will.
Kumari said she was forced to accept Islam. Her statement has caused widespread furore among the Islamic fanatics.
After the girl renounced Islam, rabid Islamists in Pakistan are demanding death penalty to the minor accusing her of insulting Islam. They have rejected the probe and proceedings of Sessions Court and have already moved to the high court threatening to go to the Shariat Court if the girl is not brought to justice in a manner they want.
One of the clerics told the media that as the girl has renounced Islam they will be acting on the Sharia law in the future.
The term “barbarians” is too mild by far to be applied to these fiends in human shape.