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Note that this article below from FreeWest Media only discusses apostasy in reference to Islam. From the website Humanists International (a site whose political affiliations are unknown to us, although this page on their site mentions Soros obliquely) comes this information on the countries where Islamic apostasy is currently punishable by death:
In an article we link to below in reference to Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who is a prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood, comes this introduction (our emphasis):
The Muslim Brotherhood is an Islamic mass movement whose worldview is based on the belief that “Islam is the solution” and on the stated aim of establishing a world order (a caliphate) based on Islamic religious law (Shariah) on the ruins of Western liberalism. With extensive support networks in Arab countries and, to a lesser extent, in the West, the movement views the recent events in Egypt as a historic opportunity. It strives to take advantage of the democratic process for gradual, non-violent progress towards the establishment of political dominance and the eventual assumption of power in Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries.
We also recommend this interesting piece from the Irish Times (2006): Conversion issue is one of the most controversial areas of Islamic law.
The powers that be, who have clearly encouraged Muslim immigration as well as other forms for decades, leading us deliberately into multiculturalism, well understand this issue and the impossibility for genuine societal integration it presents.
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The dilemma Muslims face with integration
In Germany, “ex-Muslims”, those who have turned their backs on Islam and have tried to integrate have become scared because many Muslims see atheism as a “disease” and consider converts as “defectors”.
FREEWEST MEDIA
Sharia law requires the death penalty in the case of apostasy. “The unity of the Islamic community must be preserved at all costs,” says Laila Mirzo.
“Those who step out of line are traitors and must be punished severely. For since its inception, Islam is at war. In the war against the infidels and in the war with the doubters in their own ranks.”
One prominent advocate of the death penalty for apostasy is Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who has regularly appeared on Egyptian TV. The preacher studied Islam at Al Azhar University in Cairo, the highest Sunni institution. His word has weight: he is one of the most influential imams in the Arab world.
In an interview in 2013, al-Qaradawi admitted,
“If they had abolished the death penalty for apostasy, Islam would no longer exist today. Islam would have ceased to exist with the Prophet’s death. So holding on to the death penalty in apostasy helped keep Islam alive.”
Violence and repression are experienced by ex-Muslims in Germany, even within the family.
Mirzo argues that anyone who seriously debates the recognition of Islam as a public enterprise allows for the systematic persecution of all ex-Muslims.
“Because when Islam attains the status of a church, it also gains control over its members. The central organ of the Islamic faith community would gain full access to Muslims’ reported data.”
This is how it is handled in Austria, where since 1912 the so-called “Islam Law” has made Islam a church equivalent to the Catholic and Protestant religious communities. In the constitution of the Islamic Religious Community in Austria (IGGÖ) it is written in summary that for all Muslims who have stated “Islam” in the register of religious confession, membership in the IGGÖ “is suspected”.
(ER: See this BBC piece from 2015 titled Austria passes controversial reforms to 1912 Islam law, in which foreign funding for mosques and imams has been prohibited.)
This is a “declaratory statement”, which can only be actively counteracted by a contradiction.
Therefore, if people no longer feel they belong to Islam, they have to actively resign. If they do, they are publicly pilloried and socially outlawed on social media. The response to their resignation goes from insults to physical violence.
Even murders of ex-Muslims are expected in view of the strengthening of the orthodox wing of Islam in Germany because Islam dropouts are a danger to Islam. Their courage could “infect” others, says Mirzo.
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The Miracle IMHO is that out of the Billions that follow the two major world religions. Christianity and Islam only a small % follow their scriptures [Old Testament and the Quran] to the letter.
Christians fought many wars between different versions of Christianity. it was only with the rise of the enlightenment did the control of the state by religion wain. Then Christianity and its beliefs itself could be interrogated with any safety. There were Laws on blasphemy in Christendom which could result in the death penalty.
Muslims are forever, if they are criticised by the west, pointing out the Crusades. But ignoring the fact that it was a Christian response to the retaking of the Holy Land in particular and the Mediterranean countries in general from the Muslims. Who indeed where trying to retake what had been known as the Eastern Roman Empire based in Constantinople [Istanbul]
Indeed whilst Mohammed may have founded the faith of Islam it was. After Muhammad’s death in 632 CE, his friend Abu Bakr was named caliph and ruler of the Islamic community, or Ummah. Who started the spread of Islam through what was a mainly Christian countries that looked out onto the Mediterranean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr
As Islam is running about 600 years behind Christianity it [Islam] is in much need of a similar reformation to what Christianity past through during the enlightenment. But it face two major problems
1] It does not allow any interpretation of its holy book, it sees it as the final word. Much as the Christian Church did.
2] Any critics of the book is met by hostility and violence, be they Muslim’s or not.
Not to mention that most Muslims live within their own areas and there is very little mixing with the host communities. Marriages between male Muslims is allowed, but if a female Muslim tries to marry outside of the faith, then?
So this leads to both fear of Islamic leaders within the Muslim community. These leaders impose their views on the Muslim community, should we say sternly. Which in turn allows the imposition of their version of true Islam on the Muslim community.
Some Muslims, that I have spoken to, left their homeland for what they saw as a better life for themselves and their children, but have come up against what they see as twin evils?
Western decadent society, break-down of family values etc and the fact that there is within the Islamic community an infrastructure that is not only trying to, but succeeding to impose a form of Shariah Law that they had hoped to have left behind in their countries of origin.
What is the answer?
In England the Preachers of the Church of England must be registered by the state. That would be one idea for Iman’s to be licensed.
All marriages that take place within Islam, to be registered under State Law, again much the same as within the UK. A Catholic, may get married within their Church, but the marriage must be registered by the State. This gives protection to the bride and a legal status within UK Law. Preventing Islamic divorces and remarriages, or indeed multiple marriages.
Only a start but my main argument is all the citizens of a state must be treated equally under the state, no more and no less. Not two forms of legislation operating within a country, state law is supreme in all cases.
Sunni Muslims believe that Abu Bakr was the proper successor, while Shi’a Muslims believe that Ali should have succeed Muhammad as caliph.
There is no compulsion in Islam!
Al-Baqara 256 – (There is no compulsion in religion), meaning, “Do not force anyone to become Muslim, for Islam is plain and clear, and its proofs and evidence are plain and clear. Therefore, there is no need to force anyone to embrace Islam.
And yet;
But the Quran says there is no compulsion in religion – i.e. no pressure to convert to Islam.
Where does the Quran say that there is no compulsion in religion?
“There shall be no compulsion in religion. The right course has become clear from the wrong. So whoever disbelieves in false deities and believes in Allah has grasped the most trustworthy handhold with no break in it. Allah is Hearing and Knowing.” – Quran 2*:256
Say, “O disbelievers, I do not worship what you worship. Nor are you worshippers of what I worship. Nor will I be a worshipper of what you worship. Nor will you be worshippers of what I worship. For you is your religion, and for me is my religion.” – Quran 109*:1-6
But the Quran’s “no compulsion” statement above contradicts its prescription below to kill non-Muslims if they don’t pay the infidel tax, and to massacre:
“Excepted are those with whom you made a treaty among the infidels and then they have not been deficient toward you in anything or supported anyone against you; so complete for them their treaty until their term. Indeed, Allah loves the righteous. And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the infidels wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and pay tribute tax, let them [go] on their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.” – Quran 9*:4-5
“It is not for a prophet to have captives [of war] until he inflicts a massacre in the land. Some Muslims desire the commodities of this world, but Allah desires the Hereafter. And Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.” – Quran 8*:67
Why does the Quran contradict itself as above?
Quran began to be written when Muhammad led only a small group of followers in Mecca and had no military power. The parts of the Quran written during this period were not belligerent and only sought recognition for his new religion.
After Muhammad moved his group to Medina and became a powerful warlord, his Quran became belligerent and intolerant towards non-Muslims (see War Against Islam).
Muslims today employ Taqiyya and claim that Islam is still a Religion of Peace, but they know that through Naskh, the early non-violent surahs in the Quran have been abrogated by the later violent surahs, which apply to the Muslims of today.
* Quran’s surahs are not ordered chronologically. After Muhammad died in 632 AD, different versions and elements of the Quran abounded. In 651 AD, caliph Uthman ibn Affan ordered a small group to produce a standardized version of the Quran. The group produced 114 surahs ordered mainly based on their length (longer surahs near the front). Their work was accepted and comprise the Quran the world has today (Uthman ibn Affan ordered all other versions and elements of the Quran burned). Surahs 2 and 109 above came early in Muhammad’s life, while surahs 8 and 9 came later, after Muhammad achieved military dominance in the region. See Muhammad.
Continue…https://www.billionbibles.org/sharia/no-compulsion-in-religion.html