1/31/2005 05:56:59 PM|||Toni|||FrontPage magazine.com :: Muslim Apostasy: When Silence Isn't Golden by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The more I learn about Islam the more bizarre this religion becomes. Last week I learned there are not multiple versions of the Koran as there is with the Christian Bible. People may argue that there are different interpretations of the Koran but I've heard this is not correct. It's interesting how Evangelicals or Born Again Christians are berated for narrow judgemental beliefs by the left in this country yet no one ever talks about how restrictive and punitive the religion of Islam can be. Why is it that the left considers Islam okay?

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For the vast majority of Muslims residing within the Islamic world, this freedom does not exist. Conversion out of Islam is illegal in at least fourteen countries, and is punishable by death in at least eight. Although official proceedings against Muslim apostates are relatively rare, they do occur. Most recently, Asia News reported on December 17 that Emad Alaabadi, a Saudi Arabian convert to Christianity, had been taken into custody by Saudi authorities.

Even in Muslim states that don’t officially prohibit conversion out of Islam, the legal system is often used against those who leave the faith. In Egypt, for example, the government refuses to issue new identification papers to converts that reflect their new religion. Without new identification papers, converts’ children must be raised Muslim and the converts have to live their lives as though they were still Muslim. Those who attempt to raise their children in their new faith when their papers list their religion as Islam may be charged with blasphemy. Because of this, apostates in Egypt are routinely charged with falsifying documents.

|||110718741105911130|||I Had No Idea? Did you know Conversion out of Islam is illegal!