Apostasy and the classical law
Islam keeps its members by threat. The punishment for leaving is death, which proves the religion holds people the way a cult holds them.
Apostasy Law
Religion by registration
Malaysian law makes every Malay a Muslim by definition. My family was registered at birth, none of us was ever asked, and there is…
Blasphemy and the Rushdie case
A novelist was sentenced to death for a book. Islam cannot tolerate being spoken against.
“I keep coming back to the hadith that whoever changes his religion should be killed. I cannot read it as anything except a threat aimed at me.”
Start with tonight. Doubting is an offence nowhere. Questioning is an offence nowhere. Reading this page is an offence nowhere. Whatever that sentence has…