I thought that Islam is a religion of choice. You choose to do what you do. Then whey do muslims want to kill those people that chose some other beliefs over Islam- is it not their choice to Aposticise?
2006-09-18 00:49:04 · 19 answers · asked by Rico 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
From my study of my religion Islam, I find no indication that a Muslim who denounces Islam deserve to die if he wanted to live in peace within the Muslim community. On the other hand, if he started blotting against the Muslims or plan to hurt them like acting as a spy or so, it is (like in any worldly law, spys are sentenced to death), his punishment should be considered for the blot not for denouncing the religion.
Unfortunately, there are some muslims who would cosider denouncing Islam is a sign of intention to fight against Islam and they would want to kill him. THEY ARE WRONG. Please differentiate between Islamic roles that are so fair and Muslims practice that is in many cases is misinformed or misguided. Islam clearly endorses the free choice of religion.
In response to the friend who librated Afganistan, the Afgani convert who was sentenced to death, was released not only because American political pressure but also (you may did not hear it in CNN) because of many Islamic scholars contacting the Afganis explaining the points I explained above, would you read it!
2006-09-18 00:58:59 · answer #1 · answered by haggobti 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
.Many religions have death penalties for various crimes BUT, the laws re so hedged about with regulatins and requirements that it was rarely, if ever, carried out. Only in the mohommedan faith do they kill first and ask questions afterwards. In fact, they seem to be using penalties that are the reserved province of their allah. (similar to the "vengance is mine saith the lord" bit in xtianity).
The probable reason for the ruling on apostasy is simply that by keeping you imprisoned in the faith, your children will have to be raised as mohommedans as well. Then, they can spy on their parents religious practices and report to the local ayatollah - a technique that has proved very useful in the past! In addition, if one person leaves the faith, they may wall encourage others. People don't like to be made to face the facts that they've been conned. The religion would be decimated in weeks.
2006-09-18 08:54:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
most scholars says that he must be killed if he left islam, minority of them says he must not be killed because god mentioned the infidelity in quran several time and NO punishment was mentioned whatsoever (no death penalty, no nothing whatsoever, only the punishment from god on the judgement day), but the scholars who supports killing ex-muslims are relying on several hadiths (sayings of the prophet(pbuh) ) that support killing the ex-muslims although those hadiths are not certain (we call them "weak hadiths" ), i personally supports the second opinion (not killing ex muslims) because killing people is something not easy, so if god wanted us to kill who converts from islam, he would unquestionably mentioned it in the quran, also, there is several verses in quran that says that everyone is free to chose his own religion, but unfortunately, most scholars goes like (without searching the right decision): "from hundreds years ago they've been killing those who leave islam, so we will continue doing this, old scholars knows religion much better than us", also there wasn't a case of a muslim who converted from islam when prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was alive, so we didn't know what he would do in this case, so that what made the debate about this issue
i hope i helped you
peace..
2006-09-18 08:20:41 · answer #3 · answered by Cat Stevens 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am not mulsim, but ANYBODY who believes that rejection of Islam deserves death has strayed from the true religion. Jesus (a great prophet in Islamic religion) was a pacisfist.
Rejecting Islam is not the same as rejecting God, and such extremists need to realise this.
2006-09-18 07:57:06 · answer #4 · answered by Michael H 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Islam is all about population even though the person that became a Muslim no nothing about the Quaran
2006-09-18 07:53:59 · answer #5 · answered by arveen paria arasuk 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Islam religion is very corrupt, in my opinion.
The Koran itself is quite a threatening and intimidating book.
To Mohammed perhaps, they deserve to die but no, of course they don't deserve to do. That would be immoral.
2006-09-18 09:37:27 · answer #6 · answered by lelinafed 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the Koran specifies death as a punishment for apostacy, it's one of only four specific punishments in the book (the others are losing a hand for theft, death for adultery for women and death for falsely accusing a woman of adultery).
There is only an opt-in not opt-out from the true faith.
2006-09-18 07:51:48 · answer #7 · answered by nkellingley@btinternet.com 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Islam is the only religion, which orders killing of those who leave islam
Are we in 21st Century ???
2006-09-18 08:35:19 · answer #8 · answered by ۞Aum۞ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no compulsion in the religion; Truth stands out clear from error; so whoso disbelieves in idols and believes in God, has laid hold of the most firm handle, which cannot break; and God is Hearing, Knowing.
Al-Quran (2:256)
2006-09-18 08:09:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
FACT: A Muslim in Afgan was sentenced to DEATH for coverting to Christianity. Wow. Good thing we "liberated" that country. Lets hear it for the religion of Peace and tolerance.
What choice are you talking about???????????
He was saved NOT beacuse of muslims but beacuse of US intervention that had given so many US LIVES for Afganistans "freedom."
I gave YOU the link-- show me YOUR link that shows MUSLIM help for this man.
You KNOW what I say is true, and you are embarrased.
Now HERE is the link:
2006-09-18 07:52:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋