(US Admin 2) Excerpt: Dr. Hatem al-Haj, a senior committee member for the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA), confirmed in the below fatwa from July 2011 that the Islamic punishment for apostasy is death. A couple of things stand out to me about this fatwa. First, this fatwa was taken down from AMJAs website as far back as October 2011, along with other fatwas on the same topic, possibly in response to an article written by my colleague Andrew Bostom exposing the rulings in that same month. (See the fatwa on archive.org, while the link on AMJAs website is broken.) So either AMJA changed their minds about the penalty for apostasy; or, more likely, they just dont want non-Muslims seeing what they really think on controversial topics. If thats the case, then what else are they not telling us?
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:18:18 +0000
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