I maybe should say the apparent contradictions of the author and the Qu'ran in the article. It is not clear and very confusing to understand. These were instructions for a millenia and a half ago - do you really think now one could be forced into exile in order to avoid the death penalty for 'fasad' - seen as treachery then, but read as apostasy today, in our modern time?
All the following are quotes from the article you linked to. It is apparent that the author believes that the Qu'ran does not allow death for apostasy but it is easy to understand why some traditions/sects/individuals see it as justifying it.
"Qur`an does not prescribe any such penalty while referring to the subject of apostasy many times.
only two crimes for which a person can be killed: eg Spreading mischief (fasad) in the land.
The recompense for those who wage war against God and his Messenger [4], and strive with might and main for mischief through the land [5] is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and for them in the hereafter is a severe punishment. (5:33)
A person cannot be compelled to enter Islam but a person who is a Muslim is subject to the laws of Islam and those laws require death for leaving Islam."
These are just a few I pulled out, there are more here and in other Qu'ranic quotes and haddith quotes I could mention.
Maybe you as a believer choose not to, or can't, see the human hand all over the Qu'ran - or the Torah or the Bible for that matter. That is your choice and you have every right to it - but that is why there are imams, scholars, rabbis and priests, so they can bamboozle and interpret in anyway they see fit not to burst the illusion of divine perfect revelation.
Just my thoughts.
:)
Peace
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
I maybe should say the apparent contradictions of the author and the Qu'ran in the article. It is not clear and very confusing to understand. These were instructions for a millenia and a half ago - do you really think now one could be forced into exile in order to avoid the death penalty for 'fasad' - seen as treachery then, but read as apostasy today, in our modern time?
All the following are quotes from the article you linked to. It is apparent that the author believes that the Qu'ran does not allow death for apostasy but it is easy to understand why some traditions/sects/individuals see it as justifying it.
"Qur`an does not prescribe any such penalty while referring to the subject of apostasy many times.
only two crimes for which a person can be killed: eg Spreading mischief (fasad) in the land.
The recompense for those who wage war against God and his Messenger [4], and strive with might and main for mischief through the land [5] is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and for them in the hereafter is a severe punishment. (5:33)
A person cannot be compelled to enter Islam but a person who is a Muslim is subject to the laws of Islam and those laws require death for leaving Islam."
These are just a few I pulled out, there are more here and in other Qu'ranic quotes and haddith quotes I could mention.
Maybe you as a believer choose not to, or can't, see the human hand all over the Qu'ran - or the Torah or the Bible for that matter. That is your choice and you have every right to it - but that is why there are imams, scholars, rabbis and priests, so they can bamboozle and interpret in anyway they see fit not to burst the illusion of divine perfect revelation.
Just my thoughts.
:)
Peace
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."