One brave woman speaking her/the truth

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recent episode of the BBC program The Big Questions was anomalous: instead of pumping out more of the usual fog of obfuscation and denial regarding the aspects of Islamic law incompatible with Western standards of human rights and human dignity — as do most BBC shows — it actually featured an honest discussion of Islam’s death penalty for apostasy.

Or it would have, that is, if the Muslim spokesmen on the show had been remotely honest about that penalty. Instead, they offered an instructive case study in how Islamic supremacists deal with uncomfortable aspects of Islam when speaking with infidels.

Despite denials from Muslims in the West, Islam’s death penalty for those who leave the faith is abundantly established.

The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence. This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite.

Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated:

The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi`i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-`ashriyyah, Al-Ja`fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.

There is only disagreement over whether the law applies only to men, or to women also — some authorities hold that apostate women should not be killed, but only imprisoned in their houses until death.

Female Critics of Islam under Attack on College Campuses

Just like black conservatives shunned as “Uncle Toms” for not toeing the Democratic party line, female Muslims who decry how Islam mistreats their gender are rejected as blasphemers and traitors. It’s a phenomenon that takes place on college campuses, mostly recently at Duke University, where Asra Nomani—a former Wall Street Journal reporter who wrote “Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam”—was temporality disinvited from her speaking gig there earlier this month after its Muslim Students Association complained she is an Islamophobic sympathizer.
What prompted such a label? Among other things, she’s advocated that women and men should be allowed to pray in the same areas within a mosque, and that “Muslim women have the right to orgasm, an intimacy too often denied in societies with a tradition of female genital mutilation.” She eventually gave her talk at Duke, which called the disinvitation a misunderstanding. “By standing on stage, I was standing up to the forces in our Muslim communities that are increasingly using tactics of intimidation and smears such as ‘Islamophobe,’ ‘House Muslim,’ ‘Uncle Tom,’ ‘native informant,’ ‘racist’ and ‘bigot’ to cancel events with which they disagree,” Nomani stated in a recent Time op-ed.

In her piece, Nomani also cited how difficult it is to get the documentary “Honor Diaries” screened on college campuses. The film chronicles the many hardships women endure under Islam, but opponents have decried it as shallow and claim it incites prejudice against Muslims. In March, an “Honor Diaries” screening was abruptly canceled at the University of South Dakota, but was eventually shown this month as part of the annual Women and Gender Conference, and after pressure not to kowtow to hyperbolic attacks. But over the last year, several universities have canceled screenings, including the University of Michigan at Dearborn and the University of Illinois in Chicago.


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