30 September 2011

This brutality is not Islam

.... Muslims have to ask ourselves: Is the God we worship so weak and needy that he requires us to force our fellow humans to worship him? Is our religion so frail and insecure that it cannot tolerate any rejection whatsoever?

And why are we silent as an innocent Christian is sentenced to death in the name of Islam? To hang a man for refusing to believe in Islam is theologically and morally unjustifiable; it is not just unIslamic but anti-Islamic.

[A COMMENT] Simple fact is, the Hadiths (which the majority of Muslims follow) do prescribe death for apostasy. At the moment, Muslims have a much more literal reading of the Koran and the Hadiths than say most Christians. [Guardian Cif] Read more