Apostasy

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Experts have declared that Islam's mandated death-penalty for apostasy has kept Islam alive since the 1400s. What is apostasy? According to experts, apostasy is the voluntary abandonment of a faith which a person has once held. Official reports have shown that countries like Saudi Arabia adhere to at least certain radical concepts such as the death penalty for blasphemy, conversion or apostasy. Meanwhile, a survey in Britain after the subway bombings demonstrated 20% of the Muslim population in Britain who approved of the violence. Meanwhile, in Lebanon some Muslim women were found to question their religion! As a resuls, various Islamist groups have voiced out that questioning Islam is considered as an act as apostasy. Therefore, they claimed that the takfirs people who have committed apostasy, should be condemned and punished. Yet, researchers have underlined that the punishment for apostasy in Islam is a controversial topic for Muslims living in the West...