Apostates from Islam in Germany

Today and in the past couple of days both on Vlad’s youtube channel as well as here on the blog, a few Muslims have made the claim that Islam is not at all how it is represented here, and that there is indeed freedom of conscience etc. ad nauseum. In that spirit I offer this morsel from German TV. An account of a family who converted from Islam to Christianity

As usual this was a group project. Thank you Baron for the edit and JLH for the translation and many others in this process, not to mention of course the German TV station that actually filmed it.

Here is some supplementary info from Former Muslims United, Noni Darwish’s excellent org:

Maher El Gohary and his daughter, Dina, who converted to Christianity, have been denied by the Egyptian government permission to change their identity cards identifiying them as Christians. The Goharys live clandestinely in Cairo. They daily face the threat of possible extra judicial punishment, including death. Dina, the Gohary daughter wrote President Obama following his Cairo speech at al Azhar University in June 2009 drawing attention to their plight. In her letter to President Obama, Dina Gohary noted:

“Mr. President Obama, we are a minority in Egypt. We are treated very badly. You said that the Muslim minority in America are treated very well, so why are we not treated here likewise? We are imprisoned in our own home because Muslim clerics called for the murder of my father, and now the Government has set for us a new prison, we are imprisoned in our own country.” The Egyptian girl asked President Obama to mediate with the Egyptian government on their behalf.

Maher El Gohary had filed a legal acton in Egyptian courts. His petition was rejected: Gohary said:

“If the Egyptian nationality is the cause of my imprisonment within my home and being unable to move, then I do not want it,” he said. El-Gohary said he’d rather hold any other nationality than stay in Egypt where he said he and his daughter are “suffering imprisonment within the walls of my apartment and without any freedom.”

The quandary of the apostate Hegazy family is compounded by the refusal of Egyptian government to permit registration of their children as Christians. Note this application made on behalf of the Hegazys to the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights by the European Centre for Law and Justice, an affiliate of the American Center for Law and Justice:
“[Mohammed Bishoy] Hegazy and his family members are Christians converted from Islam. Furthermore, Mariam, their two year old daughter,was born of two Christian parents, and her birth certificate must state the correct information related to her faith.”
Their lives and home has been threatened .

Jussuf al Badri, the Egyptian Islamic jurist states that under Sharia, “God has commanded us to kill those who leave islam”. Such is the fragile and tragic plight of apostates in Muslim countries who daily face the threat of vigilantism and death. And Islam promotes the fiction that it is the religion of peace? Not the case as exemplified by the Gohary and Hegazy cases and millions of other silent apostates whose very existence is daily threatened with death under Sharia fatwas in Muslim lands.

Transcript below:

[00:00:00.00] Maher El Gohary and his fourteen year-old daughter today in front of the state court building in Cairo
[00:00:09.00] They want to gain the right to leave Egypt.
[00:00:11.00] They say the police, as harassment, have refused them permission.
[00:00:15.00] “Since we converted to Christianity, our future is ruined.
[00:00:21.00] We are discriminated against. I do not believe that we will receive justice.”
[00:00:24.00] Although they converted to Christianity years ago, they are still officially Muslims,
[00:00:31.00] because the authorities refuse to enter the change of religion in their identification papers,
[00:00:38.00] although that would be permissible according to the constitution.
[00:00:40.00] The Goharys live clandestinely in Cairo. Maher’s daughter was forced
[00:00:46.00] to attend Islamic instruction and because she is officially a Muslim,
[00:00:49.00] she can never marry a Christian.
[00:00:52.00] Moreover, they fear for their lives. “We will run, under threat.
[00:01:00.00] Radical sheikhs have called for our blood to be shed.
[00:01:03.00] We are afraid of the uneducated people on the street.”
[00:01:07.00] In fact, apostasy in the eyes of many fanatics, is a crime worthy of death.
[00:01:15.00] Condemnation by the sheikhs can be interpreted as a death order.
[00:01:20.00] One of their spokesmen, Jussuf Al-Badri, whose fatwas…
[00:01:24.00] — religious opinions — are especially feared by converts.
[00:01:28.00] “God has commanded us to kill those who leave Islam.”
[00:01:34.00] According to Badri, conversion to Christianity is a fatal sin.
[00:01:40.00] Bishoy Boulos, too, has converted to Christianity.
[00:01:44.00] According to his Pass, he is still a Muslim
[00:01:47.00] Bishoy blames the sheikhs, but also the government.
[00:01:50.00] “The sheikhs have called for me to be killed, …
[00:01:53.00] … my house has been set on fire, I have been shot at,
[00:01:57.00] If they kill us, the government will not punish the murderers.”
[00:02:01.00] According to information from the Coptic Church,
[00:02:04.00] hundreds want to convert from Islam to Christianity,
[00:02:08.00] but the government refused recognition and is fomenting a climate of fear.
[00:02:13.00] “The interior minister himself wrote in a letter that was published in a newspaper:
[00:02:19.00] Converts are to be killed.”
[00:02:22.00] However, anyone who wishes to moves from Christianity to Islam is very welcome.
[00:02:25.00] Recognition and entry in the Pass (of the new status) are immediate.

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One Reply to “Apostates from Islam in Germany”

  1. There’s the face of the enemy-right there lookin’ at you. What’s his name? Sheikh Jussuf Al-Badri. You can kill Taliban and Al Queda with your Blackhawk helicopters and your predator drones, all day long, but it won’t make any difference as long as guys like this can go home at the end of each day and not feel any consequences for their actions. They put contracts out on people, just like the Mafia, and for some reason it’s just fine with the world community. Imagine this guy Badri, not languishing in the damp prison cell that he deserves, but at home after a grueling three-hour work day, chewing on some Halal barbeque ribs, watching his big screen tv. Who wouldn’t want a gig like that! Why doesn’t this stuff ever get mentioned? Oh, yeah, I forgot. We have to spend all our time thinking about Israelis building settlements in their own country and Canadian troops handing captured prisoners over to the mean, torture-prone Afghan authorities. When the Ayatollah Khomeini put his famous fatwa out on Salmon Rushdie, the British should have responded, quite properly, with a cruise-missile right through the bastard’s front door. The fact that they didn’t is one of the reasons we are in the mess we are in today!