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From: jnawaz@skat.usc.edu (Jemshed Nawaz)
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Subject: Re: The Qur'an and Apostates (Rushdie??)
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Date: 5 Nov 90 07:03:25 GMT
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In article <1990Nov3.210034.11923@nntp-server.caltech.edu> paul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
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The Islamic Law justifies death penalty for apostacy. Shari'ah is derived 
from the Holy Qur'an as well as the Sunnah, and you will find hadith where our
Prophet put the apostates to death. Apostacy is not merely turning non-Muslim
or saying something against Islam, but doing so in a manner which threatens
the Muslim commmunity, as in the Quranic verse:
	"A party of the People of the Book said: `Believe in the morning
	what has been revealed to those who believe, and then deny it in 
	the evening that they may thus retract (from their faith)'"(3:72)
Since the discourse of which this verse is a part is addressed to the Jews,
the rabbis sent agents to publicly embrace Islam and then reject it and to
tell people that the reason they rejected Islam because they found faults 
with it so to put doubts in people's minds and give Islam a bad reputation, 
and thus making it difficult for Muslims to invite others to Islam.