Muslim World Must Stop Double Standards
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - Tawfik Hamid
The story of Rifqa Bary, who recently escaped from her father in Ohio for fears of being killed after converting from Islam to Christianity (which would be in accordance with Shariah law), has raised important issues about the Muslim world and has drawn attention to how the Muslim world deals with apostates.
Under normal circumstances, the lives of apostates in the Muslim world are threatened, and they are usually subject to humiliation and disrespect from their society. For example, the following innocent people and thinkers were either killed or received death threats in accordance with the Redda law, which prescribes the killing of apostates:
- The Egyptian thinker Farag Fouda, who was declared an apostate by al-Azhar scholar Mohammed al-Ghazali and shot to death in his office on June 8, 1992, by two Islamic fundamentalists.
- Sudanese reformer Mahmoud Taha was killed on the government’s authority on Jan. 18, 1985.
Read more: http://www.newsmax.com/tawfik_hamid/rifqa_bary_muslim_obama/2009/09/23/263871.html
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