Fwd: Kill the Apostates? How do you integrate that?

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GuruRatings , " Tony OClery " <aoclery wrote:

 

The daughter of a British imam is living under police protection

after receiving death threats from her father for converting to

Christianity.

 

The 31-year-old, whose father is the leader of a mosque in

Lancashire, has moved house an astonishing 45 times after relatives

pledged to hunt her down and kill her.

 

The British-born university graduate, who uses the pseudonym Hannah

for her own safety, said she renounced the Muslim faith to escape

being forced into an arranged marriage when she was 16.

 

She has been in hiding for more than a decade but called in police

only a few months ago after receiving a text message from her brother.

 

In it, he said he would not be held responsible for his actions if

she failed to return to Islam.

 

Officers have agreed to offer her protection in case of an attempt on

her life.

 

Last night the woman said: " I'm determined to live my life the way I

want to because I should have that freedom in this country.

 

" If you make the choice to come to this country, as my parents did

from Pakistan, you have to abide by the laws of this country and that

means respecting the freedoms of other people.

 

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Mosque:

Muslims who convert away from the religion are considered an apostate

 

 

" I know the Koran says anyone who goes away from Islam should be

killed as an apostate, so in some ways my family are following the

Koran. They are following Islam to the word.

 

" But I do not think every Muslim would act on that.

 

" My situation is frightening, but I'm not going to let it frighten me

to the extent I can't live my life.

 

" I pretty much feel like I've lost my family and that's very hard.

 

" Some days I feel very low and what my father might do preys on my

mind. But I regularly change my phone number to avoid him catching up

with me.'

 

Hannah was born in Lancashire to Pakistani parents who raised her and

her siblings as strict Sunni Muslims.

 

She prayed and read the Koran, wore traditional Muslim clothes and

was sent to a madrassa, a religious Muslim school.

 

She ran away from home at 16 after overhearing her father organising

her arranged marriage.

 

Hannah was taken in by a religious education teacher and decided to

convert to the Christian faith.

 

 

 

Dr Michael Nazir-Ali: The Bishop of Rochester warns that 'freedom to

believe' is under threat in Britain

 

Although unhappy, her parents tolerated their daughter's dismissal-of

Islam as a " teenage phase " .

 

But when she opted to get baptised, while studying at Manchester

University, her family were incensed and the death threats began.

 

Her father arrived at her home with 40 men and threatened to kill her

for betraying Islam.

 

" I saw my uncle and around 40 men storming up the street clutching

axes, hammers, knives and bits of wood, " she said.

 

" My dad was shouting through the letter box, " I'm going to kill you " ,

while the others smashed on the window and beat the door.

 

" They were shouting, 'We're going to kill you' and 'Traitor'.

 

" It was terrifying. I was convinced I was going to either die, but

suddenly after about ten minutes the noise stopped and the men

suddenly went away. "

 

Since then Hannah, who gives talks to churches on Islam, has been on

the run from her family, often being forced to flee her home with

only a few minutes' notice.

 

After receiving the latest text threat from her brother, in June, she

finally went to the police.

 

No one has been arrested or charged in connection with the death

threats, but officers have put her on an " at risk " register and have

given her a panic number to call if she fears for her own safety.

 

Yesterday Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, told

delegates at the launch of a religious charity that Muslims in

Britain who wished to change faiths were living in fear of their

lives because of Islamic hostility to conversion.

 

A study this year found that 36 per cent of British Muslims between

16 and 24 believe those who convert to another religion should be

punished by death.

 

In July an Iranian immigrant to Britain, who converted to

Christianity, was saved from deportation after it emerged she would

be stoned to death in her own country.

 

 

 

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With her parents being 'sunni muslims', they obviously had to convert

to Islam at one point in their life - why can't they accept it if

their daughter converted to another religion with what she feels

comfortable with? It doesn't, or should I say 'shouldn't' matter

which way you choose to believe in god - there is only one god isn't

there?

 

 

- Raul, Leicester - UK

 

Awful lot of people on here making ironic statements about Islam and

Muslims. We're talking about a small group of people here, they don't

represent Muslims any more than I represent all of the Christians.

It's that sort of lazy talk that breeds hatred and intolerance. If

you think you're " better " than this lynch mob then prove it by

denouncing the individuals concerned, and not the religion they

masquerade behind.

 

- Milt, Shooters Hill

 

So when will we see the father in court?

 

- Mm, London

 

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