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Moslems Executing Apostates is Like UK or US Executing Traitors
From Khilafah.... One idea that requires a response is the attack on aspects of the Sharâiah as barbaric. They claim that the standards for acceptability over 1400 years ago are different from the acceptable norms today. Therefore they say it is barbaric to stone the adulterer and lash the fornicator and cut the hand of the thief and - most controversially in their eyes â to kill the apostate. There Iâve said it. I can just imagine the human rights organisations rallying their capitalist brethren and the defeatist Muslims cringing. Yet it is an irrevocable command from the Creator, without distortion, abrogation or capitulation. The Messenger of Allah SalAllahu alaihi wasallam said: "Whoever changes his religion, kill him". This goes against the Capitalist grain. How can someone be killed for choosing to reject Islam, does this not go against the concept of Freedom of Religion? And what about the Qurâanic injunction, "Let there be no compulsion in religion ...." Doesnât this safeguard the right of Freedom of religion? The simple answer to this is it doesnât. This verse relates to the rejection of forcibly converting someone to Islam against their will not to a Muslim who rejects Islam and becomes an apostate (Murtaad). Instead of defending or sidelining this command, we must take the fight back to the Capitalist West. In Britain for example the death penalty for Murder was only abolished in 1965, but few even know that it remained on the statute books for killing a member of the British Royal family and for acts of treason including military offences until 1998. Therefore theoretically up until 1998, a person could be executed for an act against the state. .... Aside from the states which carry the death penalty for civilian crimes, the US also has a stipulation for execution of military servicemen during wartime. There are 15 offences which carry the death penalty in wartime, they include desertion and disobeying the orders of an officer. What this tells us is that there is an acceptance in the US and until recently in the UK that the one who betrays his country ought to be killed. .... Therefore there is an actual acceptance in the US and a wide base of opinion in British society as a result of the sensationalist press that the one who betrays âhis countryâ ought to be punished severely, whilst the one who breaks the covenant with his Creator ought to be allowed to practice his personal freedom. .... Oâ Muslims it is not allowed for the Muslims to dilute the pristine Islamic thinking, believing it will contribute to the acceptance of Islam by the masses. .... Muslims must present all of the Islamic rules and laws in the pure and pristine manner that they were conveyed by the Messenger of Allah .... Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-05-25 |
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