It is sacrosanct.
Religion never was, and never should be, something so complicated that it takes decades of study and research to be able to answer one simple f-king question: Can a person believe whatever she wants to believe and enter & leave whatever religion she wants freely at will?
And the answer to that very simple question is Three letters/sadax xaraf:: Yes. Haa.
The “mainstream” understanding of Apostasy just like the “mainstream” understanding of slavery, over the past 1400 years has been horrifically misunderstood and is illegitimate, in toto. By that, I mean: putting someone to death because they choose to leave Islam, is fundamentally unIslamic, just as buying a slave-girl from a slave-market is fundamentally unIslamic, regardless of who practices it or said it’s ok. Regardless if they are Pious Predecessors or not. Both “apostasy = death” and “I finna get me slavegirl to have sex with” are as unIslamic as rape, murder, and theft. If you can execute someone because they choose to leave Islam, then, you should go ahead and also halal-ise rape, murder, and theft, because they are all on the same footing: illegitimate and heinous acts that have been deemed “halal” by a horrific misunderstanding and misinterpretation of Islam. The obvious solution, of course, is the blessed Reformation, but that’ll take us off-topic, so waa inoo iyo maalin kale doodaasi.
But for those of you who believe in the literalist manhaj/idealogy, let's just cut through the mealy-mouthed meandering and all the sophisticated nonsensical verbiage and tell you to accept one of two things:
- That you and yours(pious predecessors, sunni orthodoxy, Ulema papacy) are Thought Police Sanctioned by God who claim the right to police people’s beliefs, and when appropriate, murder them just because their “thoughts” and “words” were deemed to be politically incorrect and “incompatible”.
- That every single human being on Earth has the ABSOLUTE UNEQUIVOCAL UNQUESTIONABLE REVOCABLE right to believe whatever they want to believe, worship whatever they want to worship, however they want to worship.
Those are your two options.
Choose. Just like CaliQase and Mailman have made a clear choice and enthusiastically welcome the murder(by the state) of human beings that are found guilty of “thought crimes” and “blasphemy”, adigana choose-garay. Don’t hide behind “nuance” or “years and years of study” or “the only people who can make a apostasy capital punishment ruling are Grand Wizards Ulema like Gandalf the Gray and Dumbledore”.
We’re in 2015, brehs. If you want to remain captive to a UNISLAMIC idealogy(literalism) that was codified in the 8th, 9th, and 10th centuries by well-meaning men who were influenced by the prevailing racist & misogynistic Ay-Rab/Tur-kik/Per-shan culture of that era, then by all means, go ahead. But do not for one cabdi-bile minute think that the nonsensical bullshit you believe in is Islamic, because it’s absolutely not.
More importantly: the fact that we’re “debating” this simply shows how far we have fallen. From leading the world in science and naming two-thirds of the stars in the sky to actually holding a serious debate about whether you can kill someone because they changed their religion or whether you can buy another human being from the grocery store the same way you would buy xanjo from effin Tesco.
What the fuck are you gonna tell your grandchildren in 2050: “Awoowe, aahaay, waagi hore ee jaahiliyada iyo caqli-xumida na haysay ee ~2015, waxaan aaminsanaa adoonsiga inoo xalaal yahay, oo bani-aadam sooqa aan ka soo gadan-karo sida ari ama lax camal. Waxaan oo kale aaminsanaa qof deenta islaamka ka baxo in la dili-karo.”
If you are ignorant and mentally deficient enough to follow the unislamic teachings of dead men who lived centuries ago, centuries that were rife with racism and all sorts of ugliness, then please understand that you are held hostage by the forces of puritanical-literalism, and that time, and the rest of the human race(who are all going to hell, right?......right?), will march on and leave you behind to debate the following super-important matters:
- how many sex-slaves can a man own? Is there a limit?
- The superiory of Quraysh and Banu Hashim over non-Qurayshis and non-Hashemities
- Executing those who leave the deen: The best thing since canjeelo iyo beer? Or the bestest thing ever?
Stupidity boiled to an essence waaye sheekadu. The need for a Reformation of our understanding, interpretation, and implementation of Islam has never been more direly urgent.
