Apostasy and Consequences: Former Muslims United Live Life Under Threat of Death
PJTV - March 26, 2010: Amil Amani and Nonie Darwish are Americans enjoying the same freedom of religion as everyone else. But as ex-Muslims, they face threats of violence and even death for their apostasy. Now, to respond here and abroad, theyve founded Former Muslims United. www.pjtv.com/.
VISIT: http://www.formermuslimsunited.org/
Nonie Darwish, Wafa Sultan and Amil Imani are all directors of Former Muslims United Incorporated. Former Muslims United is a new civil rights organization formed in late 2009 to advocate for the rights to religious freedom and freedom of speech for people who have left Islam, also known as apostates. Under the Islamic Shariah legal doctrine, Muslims are not permitted to leave Islam. Under Shariah law, apostates may be the victims of violence, forced divorce, discrimination and murder. Apostates are also denied free speech under Shariah law, as numerous Shariah authorities describe any criticism of Islam or Shariah by apostates as treason.
In the fall of 2009, Former Muslims United mailed copies of the Freedom Pledge, asking Muslims to repudiate the Shariah law consensus permitting execution of apostates from Islam, to over 100 Muslim American leaders. Only two pledges were returned.
Wafa Sultan
Nonie Darwish
Nonie Darwish & Ibn Warraq
Apostate Nonie Darwish Interview with Pamela Geller: Former Muslims United Press Conference
September 24, 2009 - Full coverage at Atlas Shrugs.com: I'm here in Washington at the Former Muslims United press conference. Nonie Darwish kicked it off. Here is a liveblog of her remarks:
"The worst kind of tyranny is of victims who are scared to speak." She explains that this is the situation of those who have left Islam. Being a Muslim, she says, does not involve a personal relationship with God. When it comes to Islam, however, one doesn't choose his religion, your birth certificate is stamped Muslim, and you have a relationship with the Islamic state.
The Muslim scriptures are inundated with commandments against those who leave the religion. It is being preached in mosques in America that one should kill the apostates wherever you find them. It is the law of Islam - Hanafi, Hanbali, Shafi'i and Maliki schools of law all agree that the person who leaves Islam must be killed. What's worse than the law, however, is when the religious and legal system tells Muslims that they can kill apostates and not be punished. Islamic law gives the right to the Muslim on the street to kill the apostate. Under Islamic law, such a murderer will not go to jail. This happened in Egypt - Faraj Foda was killed in front of his house and the killer is not prosecuted. This is the source of the apostates' fear - any Muslim on the street may kill them, and have no fear of prosecution.
This is the most severe aspect of Islamic law - turning father against children, turning brother against brother. I have been disinherited by my family already. Marriage of an apostate is immediately annulled. There was a case in Egypt in which a man was denounced as an apostate and was subjected to a third-party divorce. This is perfectly in keeping with the laws of Sharia. And we have people right here in America who believe in these laws. We are living in constant fear of our lives because we have left Islam.
There is not a day that goes by in which I do not think of that threat. Radical Muslims call me "Jew-lover," right here on college campuses in the U.S. Why did Wafa Sultan have to leave her beautiful home to live in an apartment? Why did I recently write an article about an Egyptian journalist who denied he was an apostate but merely criticized some aspects of Sharia law, and was accused of an apostate? 5,000 mosques declared he was an apostate and a heretic. Hosni Mubarak also was denounced as an apostate for giving this man an award. We don't have to declare that we are apostates. We just have to act at variance with Sharia - like the girl in Canada who acted like an apostate by refusing to wear the hijab and was killed by her father.
There is very little hope for reform in Islam. Nobody knows why Sadat was killed. I was a young woman living in Egypt. The radicals condemned Sadat as an apostate for making peace with Israel. Sadat told many of his confidants that he knew that by agreeing to peace with Israel he was signing his death warrant.
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Rifqa Bary: Former Muslims United Speaks to the Apostate Teen
Nonie Darwish explains how Rifqa Bary was the catalyst for the kick off of Former Muslims United.
Rifqa Bary: US Teen Flees Home & Her Honor Killing
Rifqa Bary's Attorney, Kort Gatterdam speaks out!
Justice for Rifqa Bary
Phyllis Chesler - Published August 06, 2010 | FoxNews.com: Christmas arrived early this year for this brave, young ex-Muslim convert to Christianity. On Thursday, at 5 p.m., Judge Mary Goodrich in Columbus, Ohio decided that Rifqa Bary, who will turn eighteen in five days, does not have to return to her family (all of whom are here illegally from Sri Lanka).
According to breaking local news, “Goodrich also said it’s not in the girl’s best interest to return her to her native Sri Lanka. Bary is (also) an illegal immigrant. The ruling allows her attorneys to file for a special immigration status to allow her to stay in the U.S. while she continues medical treatment following recent surgery for uterine cancer.”
Allow me to congratulate the Judge—and a special congratulations to Rifqa’s hard-working, dedicated, and skillful lawyers: Angela Lloyd and Kort Gatterdam. Most of all, allow me to congratulate Rifqa herself for her extraordinary strength and courage.
Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D. is a frequent contributor to Fox News and blogs regularly at Pajamas Media and NewsReal Blog. She is the author of thirteen books, including "Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman" and "The New Anti-Semitism," and may be reached at her website www.phyllis-chesler.com
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About the author: Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D. is a frequent contributor to Fox News and blogs regularly at Pajamas Media and NewsReal Blog. She is the author of thirteen books, including "Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman" and "The New Anti-Semitism," and may be reached at her website http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/
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