Cynthia Yacowar-Sweeney

Earlier this week I wrote about Morocco’s religious council prescribing the death penalty for Muslims who commit apostasy from Islam, at AmericanThinker. Vladtepesblog had initially alerted me to Moroccan news website Lakome that reported on the religious council’s fatwa to condemn apostates to death. The Supreme Ulema Council, run by secular King Mohammed Vl of Morocco, consists of religious Muslim scholars (ulema). The Council voiced its opinion on the death penalty back in April 2012, and its fatwa was published last week in Arabic-language Moroccan daily newspaper Akhbar Al Youm.

Condemning apostates to death in Morocco? This is a country recognized as being one of the most moderate of Muslim countries. As the Moroccan regime talks about all the democratic political reforms it made with its new and improved 2011 Constitution, the highest religious government institution in the country talks about killing Muslim apostates.

Here’s some background. For the first time ever in Moroccan history, an Islamist party (the Justice and Development Party or PJD) won power and formed a government in November 2011. However, Morocco’s largest Islamist opposition movement, a more radical Islamist movement banned from politics (the Justice and Charity movement or Al Adl Wal Ihsane) is gaining in popularity and could eventually oust the PJD…or possibly the King. The Justice and Charity movement refuses to recognize the King’s political and religious legitimacy (his title is “commander of the faithful”), rejects foreign intervention, and most importantly, advocates the establishment of an Islamic state in Morocco under Sharia Law. Are the terms “justice” and “charity” of Al Adl Wal Ihsane to be defined according to Islamic law, or according to Western standards?

And why would a member of the radical movement Al Adl Wal Ihsane, a movement that is pro-Shariah, condemn the pro-Sharia ruling of the Supreme Ulema Council, as he did when contacted by Lakome? The former outwardly claimed that “Al Adl Wa Al Ihssan is for the Freedom of Conscience. Our position is based on the principles of Sharia and we regard the Freedom of Conscience as one of its central elements. Moreover, the numerous chapters of the Koran that evoke the subject and affirm Freedom of Conscience, provide the founding principles of Sharia.”

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Oz-Rita was kind enough to title this in German and French for us. I do think this is a very important admission at a few levels, not the least of which is that he is unequivocally clear that the punishment for leaving Islam not only is death, but must be death.

Please forward this link to any German speakers or German language sites you might know.

The embed code, should anyone wish to embed this video at their site is:

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French:

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Portuguese:

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I have posted this clip here before, another translation of 1 minute of this clip that Magic Martin originally sent to me a couple of weeks ago. But I felt it was so important that I wanted to have it re done, the entire clip and as clearly as possible.

This admission by one of Islam’s most senior representatives and arguably the most influential man in the Muslim Brotherhood, (which of course means Al Qaeda, Hamas, CAIR and CAIR-CAN) is basically admitting that if you gave people freedom of conscience  they would have left Islam 20 minutes after the death of Islam’s founder, a certain Mohamed something-or-other, and that Islam would have failed then and there. Also his admission that death for apostasy is undeniable and scripturally confirmed is something we in the non-Islamic world had better understand is something they mean. We will see it being enforced in more and more areas as Islam continues to wax across the world.

It might also be worth noting that as one can never know what is really in another man’s heart, it is safe to say that this death penalty is really more for losing your commitment than your faith. Which makes it even more obvious that at least early Islam was more of an organized crime racket than it was a religion as we think of it.

Thank you Russkiy for taking the time and trouble to translate this clip. I know it was awkward as it was both modern and classical Arabic, and The Baron from The Gates of Vienna for your help as well.

A couple of days ago, Magic Martin sent me a 90 second clip of Muslim Brotherhood principle, Al-Qaradawi (sp) explaining that without the ‘Death for Apostasy’ laws, Islam would have failed with the death of Mohamed, as people would never stay in this religion otherwise.

Truly a stunning admission.

I have been attempting to get a good translation of this, but meanwhile, a friend of ours managed to do one of most of it here. I am working on creating what will be a more thorough version of it nonetheless but for the moment, please check this version out.

Also, please have a look at Andrew Bostom’s archive on Apostasy and its importance here.

Who he is:

Yusuf al-Qaradawi is an Egyptian-born fundamentalist cleric and a prominent leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. The MB was suppressed by the Egyptian establishment for decades, so Sheikh Qaradawi lived in exile in Qatar for almost fifty years, until February 2011, when the Arab Spring enabled him to return to Egypt in triumph.

Christmas interview with Sabatina James from EuropeNews TV on Vimeo.

Sabatina James, an ex-Muslim of Pakistani origin, explains the dire situation for those in Pakistan and elsewhere who do not accept Islam as their religion, but are finding that Christianity is a more humanitarian religion and are putting their faith in Jesus. A human rights disaster usually ignored by our governments.