Apostasy from Islam
Article published earlier on “Former Muslims United” web site
If you convert you die
Few Americans know what is going on inside the Muslim world and what it portends for them. The fact is that, most Americans are subjected to much of the same misinformation with regard to Islam that I grew up with inside the Muslim world. Thus Americans are in the dark attempting to formulate their strategy to defend themselves against the threat of terror, domestic jihad and Sharia. While they get ridiculed for being ‘Islamophobes’, the Muslim world itself is undergoing a huge and painful awakening.
For instance, a prominent Egyptian lawyer and women’s rights activist Nagla Al Imam recently announced her conversion to Christianity in Cairo, Egypt. The announcement brought shock waves in and beyond Egypt. This is perhaps the first case ever of its kind where a Muslim woman, who is also a Sharia expert, has openly challenged Islamic apostasy laws.
Ms. Al Imam’s incredible courage was on display in an internet chat room, where she announced that she is not afraid, will stand up for the human rights of apostates and refused to leave her homeland, Egypt. This was immediately followed by attacks and calls for death of the 36 year-old graduate of Al Azhar Islamic University. Egyptian media not only reported the threat but actually participated in the attacks. Ms. Al Imam was literally lured by a TV station ‘Al Mihwar’ with the pretext of inviting her for an interview. Upon arrival to the studio she was told the show she was to appear on was cancelled. She was then taken forcibly to a room where she was held against her will for hours inside the studio. She was assaulted, threatened and insulted by several people. She was able to escape, and went to her internet chat room telling the world what happened and said she will demand protection from the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Such actions are common not only against apostates but also against Arab reformists, journalists, intellectuals and feminists who are critical of the oppression of Sharia. They are often intimidated, threatened or even killed for the slightest independent views using the apostasy card to keep them quiet. Journalist Farag Foda, accused of apostasy for advocating women’s rights, was gunned down in 1991 in front of his home in Cairo.
Another recent case in Egypt is that of a brilliant intellectual by the name of Sayed Mahmoud El Qemany. He was recently accused of apostasy even though he denied it on TV and insisted he is still a Muslim. That did not stop several fatwas of death from being issued against him. Mr. El Qemany reported 9 threats on his life and pleaded to the world when he wrote the following:
“I call upon the conscience of all humanity in the free world to come to me and my children’s rescue by providing moral support and the condemnation and denunciation of the radical thinking with quick solutions to save us from the danger that is luring around us. This is a distress call to all bodies and individuals. A call to the consciences of every free individual in the world. Signed: Sayed Mahmoud El Qemany- Researcher”
The relatively few number of Muslims who dare to convert to Christianity do that in extreme secrecy. That is because the penalty for leaving Islam is death in all schools of Sharia, both Sunni and Shiite. Those who wrote Sharia centuries ago knew that keeping Muslims in total submission would be very difficult to maintain, and thus they established barbaric laws condemning Muslims to death for exercising their basic human rights to choose their religion. Sharia never entrusted its enforcement only to the formal legal system. Islam promises heavenly rewards to individual Muslims who take the law into their own hands. Sharia states that the killers of apostates and adulterers are not to be punished as murderers. That is why, for Islam to achieve 100% compliance to Sharia enforcement, Muslim individuals were told they must be Allah’s enforces of Sharia on earth if the government fails to do so. That is the reason honor killing and killing of apostates happen in the West.
The end result is a chaotic society where everything happens behind closed doors but at a very heavy price to Muslim society and interpersonal relationships. Fear and distrust of others exist in all Muslim society. Muslims are not just distrustful of the West, but they are distrustful of one another. People are often more afraid of their neighbors and family members than the police. Thus we see husbands or father pressured to apply Sharia by killing an adulterous wife or daughter, or a perfect stranger participate in killing of an apostate in the public square. Very few get arrested or punished for such crimes across the Muslim world. The ingenious Sharia uses vigilante street justice to bring about Islamic submission. That is why civil unrest, assassinations, coups, and honor crimes go where ever Islam goes. The power of Islam comes from turning Muslim against Muslim with a reward in heaven.
But the 21st century has brought major change to the Muslim world. This is perhaps the first time in the history of Islam that Muslims finally have access to the truth about their own religion, thanks to the Internet and satellite dishes (invented by infidels). There are daily news reports of heart-broken Muslims who say they cannot believe what is written in Muslim scriptures and say that Muslims have been living under the greatest lie in human history, others simply deny the undeniable saying that it can’t be. While Saudi Arabia is spending billions to Islamize the West, many Muslim prisoners of Islamic law are dying or leaving the religion quietly.
Islamic tyranny is encapsulated in a law (Sharia) where many Muslims escaped from when they moved to America. But some Muslims claim it to be their religious right in America. Many American citizens who left Islam are living in constant fear from Islamist individuals and groups right here, in the land of the free and home of the brave. I am one of them.
Nonie Darwish
Author: Cruel and Unusual Punishment, the terrifying global implications of Islamic Law
Posted by Nonie Darwish
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I don't understand why there are still so many dickheads who still choose to pledge their allegiance to this religion of death. What kind of religion is this that demands the physical death of all its apostates while that dead moon-god Allah has already prejudged the apostates to taste eternal hell fire after they exit planet earth? How can this horrible religion be branded as the religion of peace at all? Instead, it should be renamed as the religion of revenge and cannibalism!
It is good omen that in 21st century muslims thinks about Islam.But the practical problem is that most of the muslims who refused Islam were educated & survive in secular atmosphere of non muslim state.Major muslim population in the world is illliterate & living in muslim countries.These peoples dont know about the truth of Islam.If somebody knows it wont be able to get out from Islam due to death penalty.The huge illliterate muslim population were victims of Islam & how much time will require to liberate these peoples from Islam.In the mean time the jihadi people may use these peoples & make world war against non muslims.
Islamists know that once oil is exhausted they will be at the mercy of the kaffars. So they are consolidating their position by funding madrassa that spawn these heartless sub humans we call jihadists. By investing in the brainwash of vulnerable children they are buying their future. One need not wonder if they succeed. the best fighter is one who has sold his conscience. Today millions of these young children are being turned in zombies and killing machines. In Islam the end is a caliphate. The means are immaterial. Islam is submission; so there is absolutely no place for individual thinking and conscience.
As the world gets more and more addicted to oil, the position of Saudi Arabia becomes stronger and stronger. American oil companies pander to KSA in the pursuit of the bitch goddess of "Profit at any cost". So any US president who is just the stooge of the business conglomerates has to lick the boots of Saudi Kings and Princes.
While Americans would change regimes wherever it suits them, they dare not touch the House Of Sauds who are among the most illiberal and oppressive rulers. While licking the boots of the Saudi Kings mean much profit, the common people have to pay for the blunders these western so-called diplomats commit in the name of "Profit at any Cost"
I am still waiting on the wedding invitation Gracey!!
Have a blessed day
The Islamic laws of apostasy act as a check valve on the coming and going of Muslims. The monotony and stressful mandates of Islam both physically and mentally are difficult to maintain. Such as death for apostasy is a necessary for Islam when viewed in the overall scheme of such a manufactured so called religion as Islam. Without the Islamic penalty for apostasy, Islam can not be maintained and will shrivel.
The Christian Bible Revelation 10:10 So I took the small scroll from the hand of the angel, and I ate it! It was sweet in my mouth, but when I swallowed it, it turned sour in my stomach.
Piety and obedience to Islam is difficult to maintain. Converts to Islam and even those born to Islam taste it as sweet initially. However after experience and reflection at times such as Islam with its all encompassing strangle hold on the personal activities of the individual does turns bitter.
Muhammad the inventor of Islam understood this and prepared for this eventual and not uncommon turn about of those that at one time had earnestly expressed Shahadah and that in the future would turn back, repent and regret.
The Pagan Islamic God understood how to maintain adherence by compulsion and deadly threats.
Quran 4: 89 They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.
Muhammad understood how to maintain adherence by compulsion and deadly threats.
Sahih Bukhari Volume 9, Book 83, Number 17: Narrated 'Abdullah: Allah's Apostle said, " The blood of a Muslim who confesses that none has the right to be worshiped but Allah and that I am His Apostle, cannot be shed except in three cases: In Qisas for murder, a married person who commits illegal sexual intercourse and the one who reverts from Islam (apostate) and leaves the Muslims."
The Supposedly learned holy ones of Islam understand how to compel adherence by deadly threats.
Islam online: Sheikh `Attiyah Saqr, former Head of Al-Azhar Fatwa Committee, states: " It is not right to deny the punishment of apostasy claiming that it has not been reported in the Qur'an, because it has been recorded in the mutawatir (Hadith which has been reported by at least four of the Companions in different times and places in a way that make a person sure that such Hadith is not fabricated) and the non-mutawatir Sunnah of the Prophet. Hudud (Islamic punishment specified for certain crimes) may, of course, be based on the non-mutawatir Sunnah."
The Christian Bible Proverbs 27:7 – He who is full loathes honey, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.
Apostasy from the foul clutches of Islam will continue to surge although mostly hidden. International laws must be compelled to protect and preserve apostates of Islam from the undue influence and specter of the deadly threats and actual killing of individuals for freedom of opinion, speech, religion and even the choice of no religion at all. That lacking we apostates and those so concerned must defend and protect ourselves.
You have to admire the courage of Nagla Al Imam. It's really amazing she is still alive.
I'm sorry to see Nonie also feels insecure in the West.
@ Ibn Kammuna, don't you know that my wedding invitation is cancelled and now, Dr Ali Sina, has became my beloved father?
If Europe,US and other free countries want to stop Islamic Terror and prevent the religion of peace from infecting them they should follow Saudi Arabia in one respect.
TREAT THE MUSLIMS EXACTLY LIKE NON MUSLIMS IN SAUDI ARABIA.No building of mosques,no quran in public,giving less value to a muslims word in court and the rest of the privileges non muslims endure in a muslim country.
Secularism should be redefined to exclude violent cults.
Oh..this is great
Speaking of father, my youngest child is 2 yrs old and is beginning to talk. Yesterday my wife called me while I was at work. My son wanted to speak with me…I talked with him..off course you can barely understand what he says, but I could since I am used to his "babble"..any way he was happy since he wanted to talk to "daddy"..and he did
that was special Gracey.
Have a blessed day
If Nonie Darwish was the rule and not the exception, the Mideast would be heaven on earth, and not the hell-hole it is.
Ibn Kammuna,
One thing I must bet that although you became apostate but you still carry Islamic culture and symols. As you will celebrate upcomming Eid ( animal sacrifice) festival for your child.Even falling from faith you are still circumcised and your Son will do. So your apostacy became curse in your life.
You can not get rid of your past.
Devon my friend Ibn Kammuna was brought up as Greek Orthodox and comes from the Middle East.
For Nagla Al-Imam:
Psalm 91;
5. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by
night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
6. Nor for the pestilence that walketh in
darkness; nor for the destruction that
wasteth at noonday.
7. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten
thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not
come nigh thee.
8. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold
and see the reward of the wicked.
9. Because thou hast made the LORD, which
is my refuge, even the most High, thy
habitation;
10. There shall no evil befall thee, neither
shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
11. For he shall give his angels charge over
thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.