Egypt's al-Azhar 'Moderate' Grand Imam: "apostasy punishment should be death". (Australian)
About six weeks ago, in a televised
address during Ramadan, the leading Muslim cleric in Egypt, Ahmed
al-Tayeb, grand imam of al-Azhar University in Cairo, who is hailed as
one of the leading “moderate” teachers in the Islamic world, denounced
apostasy from Islam as “grand treason”.
He stated categorically: “Those learned in Islam and the imams of the four schools of jurisprudence consider apostasy a crime and agree that the apostate must either renounce his apostasy or else be killed.”This prominent cleric has been a critic of Islamic State, of Salafist radicals and of the Muslim Brotherhood. He was appointed by former dictator Hosni Mubarak as grand mufti of Egypt and has been welcomed by Pope Francis to the Vatican.
Yet here he is backing condign penalties for apostasy from his religion. Pew Centre surveys across the Muslim world show that many Muslims do not support such penalties, although most Muslims in Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Malaysia do so.
In (Sunni) Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Somalia, as well as (Shia) Iran, death for apostasy is official state policy and has been defiantly defended against UN principles of the universal human right to freedom of religion. Hmmmm.....there is no Islam 'Light', Islam is Islam. Read the full story here.
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