Apostacy or Ridda Wars :-
How true are the claims of the followers of Muhammad, that the Pagan Arabs accepted Muhammad's Islam because of its SUBLIME, MORAL, SPIRITUAL & JUDICIAL messages.
Let us investigate together.
In Arabic, the word for Apostasy is RIDDA which means: The renunciation or abandonment of a religious or political belief or principle.
Apostasy in Muhammadani Islam ( irtidad or ridda) is commonly defined as the rejection of Muhammad's version of Islam in word or deed by a person who has been a Muhammadan Muslim.
When Muhammad died, Abu Bakr was chosen by a very small clique of Muhammad's companions to take over the leadership of the Muhammadan Muslim community called Al Khalifa. However, many Bedouin tribes that had converted to Muhammad's version of Islam through TERROR, BRIBERY or GREED, refused to recognize Abu Bakr's leadership.
They regarded their allegiance to the Muhammadan Muslim community as having been a personal allegiance to Muhammad himself - hence, when Muhammad died, so did their allegiance. In FACT, this was the reality.
Abu Bakr refused to accept this and launched the Wars of the Ridda, or wars of Apostasy, in order to combat and defeat the many apostates who existed throughout the Arabian Peninsula. Eventually, through slaughter and mass murder, Abu Bark was able to re-impose the authority of Muhammadan Islam once again, upon the UNWILLING Arabs of the Peninsula under the leadership of Mecca.
All major schools of Islamic jurisprudence agree, that a sane male apostate must be killed. A female apostate may be put to death, according to some schools, or imprisoned, according to others.
It is clear from the verses of the Quran that "the apostate is threatened with punishment in the next world only" however "in traditions, there is little echo of these punishments in the next world ... and instead, we have in many traditions a new element, the death penalty, by decapitation, in this world"
Al Baqara 2: 217 .. " And if any of you turn back from their faith [yartad] and die in unbelief [kafiroo] their works will bear no fruit in this life and in the Hereafter; they will be Companions of the Fire and will abide therein
*** The jurist Al-Shafi'i, interpreted this verse as providing the main evidence for apostasy being a capital crime in Islam ***
Al Baqara 2:256 "Let there be no compulsion in religion: Surely the Right Path is clearly distinct from the crooked path."
*** This particular verse is used by the modern followers of Muhammad to DECEIVE those IGNORANT of the FACTS about Muhammadan Islam.
The unwary are of course unaware that this particular verse, among another 120 conciliatory verses, were ABROGATED/OVERTURNED by the subsequent more devastating FIGHTING & AGGRESSIVE verses of the Madina Period.
In this manner, people would be lulled into believing that Muhammadan Islam is a truly peaceful Belief System ***
Al Imran 3:90 "But those who reject Faith [kafaroo] after they accepted it, and then go on adding to their defiance of Faith,- never will their repentance be accepted; for they are those who have gone astray. As to those who reject Faith [kafaroo] , and die rejecting [kuffaroo] ,- never would be accepted from any such as much gold as the earth contains, though they should offer it for ransom"
Al Nisaa 4: 89 [the Hypocrites] but wish that ye should reject faith [kafaroo] as they do and thus be on the same footing: but take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah. But if they turn renegades seize them and slay them [wa-qtuloohum] wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks.
4:137 "Those who believe, then reject faith [kafaroo] , then believe (again) and (again) reject faith [kafaroo], and go on increasing in unbelief,- Allah will not forgive them nor guide them on the way."
Al Tauba 9:5 "But when the forbidden months are past then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them and seize them beleaguer them and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war…
Al Nahhl 16:106-109 "Any one who, after accepting faith in Allah, utters Unbelief [kafara],- except under compulsion, his heart remaining firm in Faith - but such as open their breast to Unbelief, on them is Wrath from Allah, and theirs will be a dreadful Penalty. This because they love the life of this world better than the Hereafter... Without doubt, in the Hereafter they will perish."
*** In all the relevant Quranic verses quoted above, there is no mention of an EARTHLY RETRIBUTION against an APOSTATE but only in the AFTERLIFE.
There is no mention of a DEATH PENALTY either.
The Sharia' follows the SUNNA of Muhammad and NOT the Quran ***
Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights-
"Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance."
Article 306 of the Mauritanian Constitution-
"If a Muslim is found guilty of the crime of apostasy, either through words or through actions, he will be asked to repent during a three day period. If he has not repented within this time limit, he will be sentenced to death as an apostate and his property will be seized by the Revenue office.
Every Muslim who refuses to pray will be asked to comply with the obligation to pray within the prescribed time limit. If he persists in his refusal, he will be punished by death."
*** Muhammadan Islam is the ONLY ' belief system' in the world that mandates the murder of anyone who joins it but later changes one's mind and decides to leave it.
If it were such a great and 'peaceful religion', why act with such depraved indifference and brutality towards the conscience of the individual? ***
Sunan of Abu-DawoodHadith 4487 Narrated by Uthman ibn Affan
AbuUmamah ibn Sahl said: We were with Uthman when he was besieged in the house. ..He came out to us, looking pale.
He said: They are threatening to kill me now.
We said: Allah will be sufficient for you against them, Commander of the Faithful!
He asked: Why kill me? I heard the Apostle of Allah say:
It is not lawful to kill a man who is a Muslim except for one of the three reasons:
Kufr (disbelief) after accepting Islam, fornication after marriage, or wrongfully killing someone, for which he may be killed. I swear by Allah, I have not committed fornication before or after the coming of Islam, nor did I ever want another religion for me instead of my religion since Allah gave guidance to me, nor have I killed anyone. So for what reason do you want to kill me?
Uthman bin Affan, the third Khalifa was subsequently murdered by other so called Muslims.
Believers and Unbelieving Kuffar, what happened to?
Al Baqara 2:256. "Let there be no compulsion in religion: Surely the Right Path is clearly distinct from the crooked path."
Ladies & gentlemen, the FACTS as recorded by the Muhammadans themselves prove that most of the Bedouin Arabs who had rallied out of fear to the banner of 'Islam' under Muhammad, changed their mind after his death.
It took almost two years of bloody fighting and slaughter under the first Khalifa, Abu Bakr and under the generalship of Khalid Ibn al Walid, the mass murderer called (The Sword of Allah), to subdue, subjugate and force those secessionists and apostates to return them - once more - to the fold of PEACEFUL 'Islam'; but of course, not through dialogue & conviction, but at the point and edge of SWORDS.
Contrary to all the platitudes, disinformation, misinformation, lies and falsifications of the historical records conducted by the followers of Muhammad, his version of 'Islam' was born by the shedding of a SEA of blood in the Arabian Peninsula, followed by the shedding of an OCEAN of blood of millions of subjugated, humiliated and plundered peoples on three continents.
Muhammadan Muslim bloodshed by bombs, guns and swords continues to this day, not only against so called 'Unbelievers' but also against other BELIEVERS as we see daily in the news media, all over the world.
