UN Urged to Protect Muslims Who Change Religion
 

By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com Pacific Rim Bureau Chief
August 02, 2004

Pacific Rim Bureau (CNSNews.com) - Campaigners for religious freedom have urged the United Nations to act to protect "Muslims who choose to convert to another faith."

A petition signed by almost 90,000 people in 32 countries was presented last week to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, the organization spearheading the campaign said Monday.

The Barnabas Fund, a UK-based charity working among Christians in Islamic societies, said Muslims who change religions, often called "apostates," should be "free to do so without having to face a lifetime of fear as a result."

The organization's advocacy manager, Paul Cook, said the petition was launched a year ago on behalf of apostates who face persecution and prejudice in many countries.

Under Islamic (shari'a) law, Muslim men who decide to adopt another belief and refuse to return to Islam -- usually within a limited period of time -- may be put to death.

It remains a contentious point in Islam, but countries where people have been accused or convicted of apostasy include Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Mauritania.

In 2002, a shari'a-based penal code was introduced in a Malaysian state controlled by an Islamist party. It said any Muslim who converted to another faith had three days to repent, failing which he faced having his property forfeited and being sentenced to death.

The criminal code of Mauritania similarly provides for a three day period of reflection and repentance for any Muslim guilty of apostasy "whether by word or action." "If he does not repent within this time limit, he is to be condemned to death as an apostate and his property will be confiscated by the Treasury."

Although the Koran says "there is no compulsion in religion" (sura 2:256), the Islamic canonical tradition called the Hadith contains references to execution for apostasy, including one in which Mohammed commands, "Any [Muslim] person who has changed his religion, kill him."

002.256 Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error: whoever rejects evil and believes in Allah hath grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold, that never breaks. And Allah heareth and knoweth all things.

 

From the same chapter:

 

002.190 Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you, but do not transgress limits; for Allah loveth not transgressors.

 

002.191 And slay them wherever ye catch them, and turn them out from where they have Turned you out; for tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter; but fight them not at the Sacred Mosque, unless they (first) fight you there; but if they fight you, slay them. Such is the reward of those who suppress faith.  Why would the immigration officials mix such a religion through-out this world?
 

002.193 And fight them on until there is no more Tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah; but if they cease, Let there be no hostility except to those who practise oppression.  Even when ye ...."GO ABROAD" ???  004.094} O ye who believe! When ye go abroad in the cause of Allah, investigate carefully

 

008.067 It is not fitting for a prophet that he should have prisoners of war [slay them] until he hath thoroughly subdued the land.
 

002.216 Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not.

 

Jam 3:12 No fountain [of God] both yield salt water and fresh. [cannot drink the salt water. You'll die]

 

1Jo 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

 

The New Testament does not break one single humanitarian law.

 

Nor does the old testament...because God did say:

 

Deu 32:1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

 

Isa 1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

 

Hag 2:6 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land.

 

Mat 13:49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.

 

Humans are not aloud to slay each other.

No reply [From the U.N. who did set themselves as kings of this world]

005.033 The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger

is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet

 

That is a command that breaks ALL humanitarian laws!!!

IS IT NOT ???

 

SEE}  Men Armed Only With Words Can Commit Genocide

 

"You were fully aware of the power of words, and you used the radio ? the medium of communication with the widest public reach ? to disseminate hatred and violence,"

 

The U.N. sentenced 3 men to life in prison for words that

 

"disseminate hatred and violence"

According to the Barnabas Fund, even in countries where converting to another religion is not punished by law, apostates often face hostility from their families and communities.   Luk 6:43 A good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Luk 6:44 For every tree is known by his own fruit.

The organization said supporters of the campaign had over the past year written to Muslim political and religious leaders around the world, "urging them to speak out on this crucial issue."  They can't.  They will be violating the book they hold as sacred...the Koran. [Why do you think they're so silent?]

009.005 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).   

 

009.029 Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day

 

047.004 Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks. [Behead them]

Luk 6:44 Every tree is known by his own fruit.

 

Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. [the same goes for nations]

 

Mat 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

 

The New Testament does not break ANY humanitarian laws. [Analyze it to see if that is not so]  The True God does not have any darkness in Him]

In Britain, it said, not only has there been no reply from the Muslim Council, the main umbrella body, but also "virtually no response" from leaders of major Christian denominations who had been contacted. 

Mat 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

WOE unto them!

 

Rom 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

 

1Jo 5:12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.  God hath shewed it unto them.

 

Luk 12:48 Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.  [They were given MUCH!  A voice in this world...that should have been used for the saving of souls, but instead...is used for their own gains]

"It is a tragic day when so few politician or religious leaders can be found who are prepared to stick their necks out by simply publicly affirming the most basic of human rights to change one's religion," said Barnabas Fund international director Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo.

He noted that the right to change religion had been enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for more than 50 years. How could they appoint Libya as HEADS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION?   What 'human rights' are they defending after all?

Sookhdeo said he hoped and prayed that campaign would "help to end the turning of a blind eye to the suffering of converts from Islam, and instead put their desperate needs firmly on to the international human rights agenda where they very much belong."

Last April, four experts held a panel discussion on apostasy in Geneva where the U.N. Commission on Human Rights was holding its 60th annual session.

One of them was Dr. Younas Sheikh, an intellectual who was freed in November 2003 after spending three years in prison in Pakistan accused of "blasphemy," most of that time on death row.

The Arabic word kafir has been used to describe both an "apostate" and a "blasphemer."

The Barnabas Fund says many people accused of "apostasy" are not converts at all, but rather Muslims who have questioned fundamentalist interpretations of Islam and called for a more tolerant approach. There is NO such thing in their Koran.  It is the Koran that needs to be placed upon the tables of the U.N.  SEE} Out of the mouth of 'allah'

They include Sudanese Islamic scholar Mahmoud Mohamed Taha, who was executed for apostasy in 1985, after publishing a leaflet calling for the reform of Islamic law to make it more just and humane.  That is a violation of the Koran:

009.029 Fight those who believe not in Allah

 

004.076 Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah and those who reject Faith Fight

 

004.095 Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) Hath Allah promised good: But those who strive and fight Hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward.

 

The ones who refuse to fight are not as 'worthy' as the ones who do...for their 'allah'

In 2002, Iranian history professor Hashem Aghajari was sentenced to hang for blasphemy, after saying in a speech that Muslims were not "monkeys" and "should not blindly follow" clerics.

002.065 And well ye knew those amongst you who transgressed in the matter of the Sabbath: We said to them: "Be ye apes, despised and rejected." [The Jews and the Christians]

 

005.060 Say: "Shall I point out to you something much worse than this, (as judged) by the treatment it received from Allah? those who incurred the curse of Allah and His wrath, those of whom some He transformed into apes and swine, those who worshipped evil;- these are (many times) worse in rank, and far more astray from the even path!"

 

007.166 When in their insolence they transgressed (all) prohibitions, We said to them: "Be ye apes, despised and rejected."

 

005.041 O Messenger! let not those grieve thee, who race each other into unbelief: (whether it be) among those who say "We believe" with their lips but whose hearts have no faith; or it be among the Jews,- men who will listen to any lie.   

The death sentence was later reviewed after widespread student protests, and a retrial saw him jailed for five years instead. Last week, Aghajari was freed on bail.

The SILENCE on this issue of those who have made themselves 'humanitarian' kings of this world....Is a disgrace of a biblical proportion. [Just for the reason that so many lives are at stake]

Zec 8:16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

 

Eph 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

 

The commandment is...To speak the Truth:

The Koran violates the laws of the U.N.