The two most serious threats to religious critics remain blasphemy laws and apostasy laws in Muslim nations, which deny citizens the right to free speech and association on matters of religion. Apostasy is particularly lethal since Muslims in many countries follow what they believe to be the need to kill anyone who renounces Islam. Morocco’s Higher Council of Religious Scholars (CSO) has this week taken a step back in time with a fatwa demanding the death penalty for Muslims who renounce their faith. In the Hadith, Bukhari 52:260 quotes Mohammad as saying “If somebody [a Muslim] discards his religion, kill him.”
Bukhari 84:57 also quotes Mohammad as saying “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” among other provisions calling for the killing of people simply because they no longer wish to worship in this faith.
This council dictates the official Islamic rules for the country and announced that Muslims who reject their faith “should be condemned to death.”
The most direct impact of these fatwas is to encourage Muslims to take such matters into their own hands as a moral killing or beating.
Apostasy remains one of the most fundamental barriers to freedom in the Muslim countries. The right to choose one’s own faith is a fundamental human right, including the right to have no faith. With blasphemy, apostasy laws remain the sirens of religious opposition in the world.
Source: News Tribune as seen on Reddit
I have always wondered about the difference between a Fatwa and a Skinnywa.
The only people who have to obey the rules of a cult are those who belong to it. Those who quit the cult of islam don’t have to obey it, and the muslim cultists aren’t (or at least, shouldn’t be) allowed to impose their religious filth on those who left.
The people who leave cults aren’t “apostates”, they are either educated and give up all religious belief or they swapped addictions for another cult. The murder of those who quit isn’t religious punishment, it’s terrorism.
Nations run by religions are nations run by savages. Always have been, always will be.
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The ”Peaceful” Religion strikes again!!!!
Frankly – “Arabic nations kept science and reason alive while Christian Europe went religiously insane for a thousand years”
If the christian crusaders had possessed airplanes, they would have done a 9/11 attack on Saladin’s citadel.
Regarding other christian savagery, the christian crusaders turned cannibalistic and ate muslims when they ran out of food. At least that’s one thing the muslims can say they never did, then or now.
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Malisha, If a neighbor dog takes a dump on my lawn is that “properly taking care of business”?
Bron, no, it’s a sign that god has things all assbackwards. Most dogs (some of present company may be excepted while others are accepted) religiously tend to properly taking-care-of business.
to the dog pack:
Why is dog spelled backward God and vice versa? Is that a sign from God that dog is God’s emissary on earth?
I think that there is more to the story than what is being told. In other words, the Iraq War/Invasion of 2003 was viewed as an attack on the 2nd largest Islamic city (Baghdad) of learning & culture by Muslims worldwide for no reason (thank Bush, Jr., Tony Blair, & other ‘world leaders’ for this. We still have a significant military presence in Iraq).
It seems like the Crusades (war between Christian & Islamic countries or kingdoms) haven’t ended.
Islam, Imam, Irag, Iran, …. all these Eye things leading to death, destruction, corruption, prostitution, malfeasance, misfeasance, rear end collisions….
Ya, the 9th Day, Mankind got the 8th Day off for good behavior. Before the barkin started.
If ya believe that 8th Day Thing then you will believe anything. It was the 9th Day. I know from where I bark.
Yeah, religion is a crock. Except where we dogs come in. Arf.
Yeah, the rest is Comedy Central. Or Eastern Standard.
God had a plan. On the Eighth Day He Created Dog to Watch Over Mankind (women inclusive).
–Levi II, Ch 8, sub sec 5, para 2, sentence 1
I think it is a fundamental contradiction to believe that an all powerful, all knowing God needs humans to enforce his will. If God wanted heretics dead, why wouldn’t they just drop dead? Have a stroke, or heart attack, or burst aneurysm, or slip and fall and break their neck? Or get struck by lightning, or choke to death on their food?
I find it equally odd that believers attribute such accidental deaths to God’s Will and God’s Plan, without recognizing that if such accidental death does NOT befall an evil person or non-believer, that would necessarily ALSO be God’s Will and God’s Plan. If one believes God is all powerful and all knowing, then what happens on Earth, and what does NOT happen on Earth, are all God’s Will and God’s Plan.
Religion was a lot more logically coherent under the Greeks, when Gods had more human traits and could be tricked, defeated, or just unlucky, and had some credible competition (each other).
As the customs go in Islam….not much has really changed….
Islam is about 500-600 years younger than Christianity. Thinking back to where Christianity was around the 14-1500’s and I am seeing a pattern. The Arabic nations kept science and reason alive while Christian Europe went religiously insane for a thousand years, perhaps the West will return the favor &, hopefully, the insanity currently playing out in the Muslim world will abate.
Till then there is not much we can do as outsiders but highlight the insanity, offer support to those fighting it and thank god that our own religiously insane have failed in their repeated efforts to bring the same sort of environment here.
What happened to the hippy paradise of CSNY’s “I’m going to Marrakesh”?
Morocco used to be the freedom Mecha back in the 60’s. Guess its not the same old place.
We need something like a Free State Project, where govt stops telling what we can and cannot do with our personal choices.
Turnabout is fair play. If there was a mosque withiin walking distance the dogpac would leave a yard full of turds out front for them to consider when they show up for services.
Morocco is a quasi Pirate Territory. Dont drive out of the main city and dont take a boat near their shore. They have an ambassador in the UN who went to Oxford but he represents a Pirate Territory, not a civilized nation state. Fly of and flush.
Religion, humankind’s most violent, repressive and deadly invention….. It would be a comedy act if it wasn’t so serious. We must obey the man made laws of an invented just God by killing those who don’t believe in the same God…..