Hi everyone and welcome, this is the Apostate Prophet
It is 2019, and in over a dozen countries it is illegal to stop identifying with the
local religion and to renounce it.
In a dozen countries, it is punishable by death.
In some it is the law of the country, in others, it is a specific state or region,
and in every case, it is an Islamic law.
In short, these Islamic countries and places have thoughtcrimes where you can pay fines,
be tortured, lose your freedom or your life for making a life decision:
It is 2019.
That’s not all.
In fact, in many other countries besides those where it is the law, it is a social taboo,
unacceptable and extremely unsafe to publicly declare that you don’t believe in this religion
any longer, and it is almost always in most Islamic countries, a very terrible idea to
go out there and explain why you don’t believe in this religion
and to declare what you believe in instead and why you believe in that.
In fact, when you ask the people living in many Islamic countries, among those who think
Islamic law should be the law of the state, and that is the majority, a huge number of
people believe that people should be killed for leaving Islam.
Imagine this for a second.
You live in Egypt, were born into a Muslim family, don’t believe in it anymore, and
80% of people around you believe that you should be killed for not believing in Islam.
In Afghanistan, you are again surrounded by people, 80% of people, who believe you deserve
death, for no longer identifying with the religion of them and the state.
In Pakistan, you are alone, and 6 out of 10 people think you don’t deserve to live.
Your only crime is thinking for yourself, changing your mind, using your brain, making
your own decisions for your own life.
Even when it is only 30% or 20% or 10%, 10 out of 100 people believe you need to be killed for
being who you are.
And when you live in such an environment, silently escape, and carry the scars, maybe
literally, some people try to tell you that all that was a religion of peace.
Why would you hate it?
They school you about hate and tolerance, and about what is and is not peaceful.
Isn’t it pretty unsurprising that someone who leaves Islam ends up hating Islam and
what it does to people?
Isn’t it understandable that such a person wants to go out there and help?
But what is the motivation for all these people wanting to kill apostates
and all those states punishing people?
Is it 1001 Nights?
Is it The Lord of the Rings?
Is it a piece of inspiration that people in Muslim culture magically receive in the womb
of their mothers? That's why they coincidentally think like that.
Is it the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Is it the Jews?
No, it is Islam, of course.
For 1400 years, Islamic scholars have vastly agreed that leaving Islam carries a punishment
and that this punishment is death.
This is the agreed rule in all schools of Sunni Islam, which are Hanafi, Shafi, Hanbali,
and Maliki.
And it is also firmly established in Shia Islam.
This law was also in place in the Islamic empires and has therefore arrived in our time
and become the law of multiple Islamic governments, which are the only ones that have such a law.
This entire inhuman mentality goes back to Muhammad.
The Prophet of Islam, Muhammad, said in numerous reports:
“Kill those who change their religion.”
And: "The blood of a Muslim who confesses that
none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that I am His Apostle, cannot be shed
except in three cases: In retaliation for murder, a married person who commits illegal
sexual intercourse and the one who reverts from Islam and leaves the Muslims."
We find these two reports in numerous sources which is Islamic proof that Muhammad said it.
Muhammad’s words, and reports about him, are secondary or equal to the Quran, which
is why this ruling has been an Islamic ruling forever until modernity and human rights started
being an obstacle to it.
Some sources of our time try to tell us that the death penalty for apostasy was just something
to be applied in an Islamic Empire that actively fights enemies, but that is just a strategy
to talk themselves out of it, because the proponents of such arguments also believe
that everyone should convert to Islam, and that if there is a Muslim majority,
we should establish Islamic rule.
And if Islamic rule is established, then we should spread Islam
which includes creating an empire. And if there is an Islamic empire and Islamic rule,
it means kill those who leave Islam.
Do we really want such a religion?
Some people try to justify the killing of apostates and compare it to how states treat
treason.
Very bright individuals like Zakir Naik, whose speech is beautiful and magical music to my
ears, say things like:
???
I would love to translate, but I have no idea what he said.
But what he basically means is that there is also a treason law in India
or in America, or the UK, comparable to the law of apostasy in Islam.
But that is a complete false equivalency.
Treason is an extremely rare charge today in America, for example,
and is applied for heavy stuff like working
in important federal positions and revealing secrets or working with enemies in ways that
would heavily damage the nation or put people in danger.
No one is executed for giving up their American citizenship or for saying, I don’t like
the laws of the Unites States anymore, I think they should be changed. I believe in different laws.
Whereas Islam directly executes for disbelieving.
Also, even if states did that or do that, how does that absolve Islam?
You excuse the atrocities of your good divine religion by comparing it to human states?
One more such poor argument that comes from Islamic apologists
is the deflection, not really an argument,
that Judaism and Christianity have such a law for apostasy, too.
and that Islam is not alone in this.
First off, this sounds like: "Other people kill minorities, too, so why do you care about our minorities?
This is also called Whataboutism, where you bring up the fault of a different party to
deflect from your own and free yourself from having to make a defense.
Even if Christianity and Judaism had the same law, it wouldn’t absolve Islam from guilt,
but moreover, Christians and Jews don’t kill apostates today, so we’ll keep talking
about Islam, but most importantly, do Christianity and Judaism really have such a rule?
Judaism has a Biblical order, from Torah times, to kill those who entice others to worship
idols.
The punishment here is not for the one who commits apostasy but for the one who incites
apostasy among people.
I know, that’s not much better, but Judaism abolished this law over a thousand years ago,
the Talmud condemns death penalties although it prescribes them here and there, and Biblical
laws would only possibly be applied under a proper Jewish state
In a hypothetical case where the Jewish Messiah finally arrives,
which I’m personally not worried about.
Christianity doesn’t have any death penalty at all.
It has right or wrong, moral or immoral.
The New Testament neither rejects nor advocates the death penalty, but it doesn’t prescribe
any death penalty for any crime at all.
First Christians opposed the death penalty altogether while later Christians,
especially the Roman Empire and other kingdoms and realms,
had the death penalty for things they considered
right or wrong.
Christians don't believe that their religion actively orders the killing of apostates.
There is no scriptural basis for that and no Christian today believes that.
In the end, the vast majority of both religious groups
agrees that there shouldn't be such a rule.
The only religion and group we have is Islam and Muslims.
If Turkey, the country I left, was ruled by Islamic law, I would be captured
upon my return, be held, judged, and executed without any chance to appeal, because I left
Islam which is punishable by death, I spoke it out, which is punishable by death, and
I spoke against Islam, which is punishable by death.
Let’s not talk about me.
Take any random person, let’s say a man in his early 20s who was before a devout believer,
who simply stopped believing in Islam and made it public as anyone would inherently
have the urge to do.
If this man returned to or landed in a place that is truly ruled by Islamic law, he would
walk among all those people who want him dead.
Soon, he would be brought in front of a court.
He would be asked to repent and return to believing in Islam.
He would be asked to believe again, forcibly.
And if he rejected that, he would soon be killed so no one in the public commits the
same crime.
The crime is: changing your mind, not believing in a religion any longer.
What a horrible crime.
Imagine, Allah wants other flawed humans to kill you
for such a natural flaw, for thinking, for not believing
and condemns you then forever.
It is funny that some say, apostasy itself is not punishable, making it public is punishable.
What if we did the same with being a Muslim?
What if we said, being a Muslim alone is not punishable by death, as long as you keep it to yourself,
But if you make it public and practice Islam, then you will be judged accordingly and executed,
simply for being a Muslim.
How does that sound to anyone?
Shocking and unthinkable?
How does that sound to a Muslim?
What would the world do right now if such a law was established anywhere in the world?
I would never advocate for such inhumanities, of course, but would you, dear Muslims?
It is 2019.
Let's be human.
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