Is this true about Islam? Will family members and friends really kill one another?

Question

When I was a missionary in Japan (for the LDS church), I was instructed not to teach some Islamic men about my church, because if they converted to Christianity, they would face intense persecution, maybe even death, at the hands of their family and friends when they returned to the Middle East.

Is this true? I'm looking for honest answers from Muslims with first-hand knowledge about Middle Eastern culture and traditions. I suppose it depends on the country and the religious group, so please excuse my ignorance.

Thank you.

EDIT: Yes Hellbone...that's why I'm asking. Do you have an answer to the question?

Answer 1

I think it's more to do with family honor.
I've heard stories of families that have killed for the sake of honor -a son for being gay, a daughter for marrying without permission or for dating, or for choosing to marry non-muslims.
But, while the penalty for apostasy in Islamic law is death, I never (in 22 years of living in the Middle East) heard of a government killing someone for apostasy, except in Afghanistan during Taliban rule.

Answer 2

It really depends on the country. There are many different groups of Muslims just like there are many different denomonations of Christianity. The problem is Americans like to get their info from the media instead of actual Muslims.

For example, so many people think that Muslims worship Allah. What they don't care to realize is that "Allah" is the arabic word for god. I have many Bosnian friends that are Muslim and they are very different from the Muslims in the middle east.

The real problem is that people don't want to learn the difference between culture and religion. It's a culture that carries out the atrocities, not the religion.

Answer 3

It depends on the country and also the gender of the person who converts.

I'm not Muslim, but have written to persons in many countries for Bible studies and to send Bibles and literature.

I've been told that in strict countries (this includes places like Malaysia as well as heavy Muslim countries)....that it does, most especially for the man. One of my studies told me they are encouraged to reproduce like mad (have kids) so men who convert may be beheaded while the women get raped by soldiers to get them pregnant as the children will be Muslim since they are owned by the man not the woman.

I've heard of a great many male beheadings including people of my own Christian faith in Muslim countries/areas even the Philippines, but few of the women being killed......rape or imprisonment is a common punishment for women.

Turkey is the only really reasonable heavy Muslim country I know of, but Christians are still watched there too. And they do not generally put women to death for dating or fornication (sex outside marriage).

Debbie

Answer 4

Try reading the Koran. Your just going to get lies from muslims because its not convienient for the West to know the truth and according to their book its quite alright to tell and infidel a bold face lie because they are unbelievers. Yes they will be killed for converting to any religion from Islam.

Further more, Just look at the violence against each other that takes place in "Muslim" countries. When they lose Jews Christians Hindu's homosexuals, feminist, atheist and others to persecute and kill they turn on each other for not being the right "ite". For example in Iraque Shiite Shunite. blah blah blah. It simply is the sad truth. Islam does not mean peace as has been widely touted but means submission.

Answer 5

yes, the penalty for apostasy, in Islamic law, is death. Islam is conceived as a polity, not just as a religious community. It follows therefore that apostasy is treason. It is a withdrawal, a denial of allegiance as well as of religious belief and loyalty. Any sustained and principled opposition to the existing regime or order almost inevitably involves such a withdrawal

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0327/p01s04-wosc.html

Answer 6

My mother used to be a Muslim, and then she converted to Protestant Christianity. I can tell you that if you try to convert a Muslim in a Muslim country and get caught by authorities, then you will be beheaded.

Jesus did say though that brother would betray brother to death and father his son and children will rise up against parents and have them be put to death.

Going back to that verse in the book of Matthew, I would say that it is going on in the world outside of the United States.

Answer 7

It depends on the country, but the penalty can be death.

I don't care what you are taught, the law is on the books.

Last year a man killed his sister just because she married out of sect.

Answer 8

It is not accepted in Islam - it is a sin; but that does not stop uneducated and unrational Muslims from doing it.

Answer 9

Sorry, I am not a Muslim but do know of some of their beliefs. Muhammed will not return to the earth until all people are muslim. In the most strict of muslim countries, if a Muslim becomes a Christian, he or she can be put to death. The really deep rooted muslims want Muhammed to come quickly so they become car bombers and blow themselves up to kill Jews first and Christians next. The only way to get out of this is join the Muslim church or be killed.

Answer 10

As I am sure you are aware, this law is also found in the Old Testament, that you guys (christians and mormons) read, but don't follow.

Some in Islam probably do follow the letter of the law, but they are only following their interpretation of the word in faith.