Islamist Sudan To execute by hanging Eight months Pregnant Woman convicted of apostasy.

Islamist Sudan To execute by hanging Eight months Pregnant Woman convicted of apostasy.(webpronews).

A woman in Sudan married a Christian man. She is now 8 months pregnant with their child. A court in Sudan has now convicted her of apostasy and says they will hang her after she has given birth.

“We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam,” Judge Abbas Mohammed Al-Khalifa told Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag. “I sentence you to be hanged to death.”

The woman was also convicted of adultery, for which she will receive 100 lashes. The adultery charge came, even though she is married, because her marriage to a Christian man is not valid under Islamic law.

Earlier in the proceedings, the judge had spoken with the Ms. Ishag for 30 minutes, trying to convince her to recant her faith and “convert back” to Islam.

“I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy,” she told him. Ms. Ishag was not raised a Muslim. Her father was a Muslim, but he was not around when she was raised. Her mother is an Orthodox Christian. Under Sharia law, since her father was a Muslim, she is considered a Muslim and has no choice. Therefore, by claiming to be a Christian, she is considered to have recanted her Islamic faith.

It was a family member who turned Ms. Ishag in to authorities, claiming she was an apostate for marrying a Christian man.

Groups supporting both sides of the issue protested outside the court. Those supporting the decision say that Sharia law must be upheld.

“This is a decision of the law,” one supporter of the verdict said.