Australia: Muslim leader says ex-Muslim should be killed for leaving Islam
This is not an “extremist” position, or one that is unique to Hizb ut-Tahrir. 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.”
“‘You know what the Islamic position is’: Islamist extremist leader stares down a former Muslim and says he should DIE for renouncing his faith,” by Bryant Hevesi and Sam Duncan, Daily Mail Australia, August 29, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A leader of an Islamist extremist group has stared down a former Muslim while telling him he deserves the death penalty for renouncing his faith.Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Uthman Badar and Harris Sultan faced-off in a fiery debate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney last week.Mr Sultan pressed Mr Badar on a statement he made in March last year saying Muslims who change their religion should be killed.‘I want to know what would happen to me. I’m an apostate,’ Mr Sultan said.‘What would happen to me if it’s not a secular country… it’s an Islamic state.’Mr Badar said it would depend on individual circumstances, noting Mr Sultan knew ‘what it [the Islamic position] is’.‘If you want to focus on the Islamic position, we can do that without you coming up with scenarios about what happens to you and making it all about yourself,’ he said.‘I don’t know what would happen to you. Because you can do so many things.‘There’s a huge difference between an Islamic position and what may or may not happen in any particular circumstance.’The debate moderator then asked Mr Badar: ‘As an adherent to Islam, do you share the Islamic position?’‘Yes,’ he replied.‘Although it took him four minutes to answer the question… Uthman finally still proudly held his position that apostates should be killed in the Caliphate of Australia,’ Mr Sultan posted alongside a video uploaded to YouTube.‘In my debate at UNSW he tried to dodge the question but eventually gave in and re-affirmed his position that ex-Muslims like me should be killed,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.Mr Sultan manages the Ex-Muslim Atheist page on Facebook.‘I was born a Muslim in Pakistan, I was made to read Quran, while others only read, I understood it as well, that was enough to walk away from it,’ his Facebook page says.In March last year, Mr Badar told a forum in Bankstown in Sydney’s south-west that ex-Muslims deserved death.‘The ruling for apostates as such in Islam is clear, that apostates attract capital punishment and we don’t shy away from that,’ Mr Badar said in the presence of children.HIZB UT-TAHRIR STATEMENT ON APOSTASY‘The ruling of the Legislator, Allah the Almighty, for apostasy is death, due to the Messenger’s saying:“Whoever changes his religion, kill him”.’– From a statement issued by Hizb ut-Tahrir in May 2014 after the US condemned a death sentence given to an apostate by a Sharia court in SudanAn apostate is someone who decides to leave Islam, but both the definition of apostasy and the Islamic position on it are the subject of debate among Islamic scholars.There is no clear text in the Quran that calls for apostates to be killed, with that belief stemming from the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad known as the Hadith.‘If somebody [a Muslim] discards his religion, kill him,’ reads one saying, but others contain examples of unpunished apostasy….
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