Apostasy in Islam Arafat (without Yasser!) writes an interesting piece on this issue. He analyzed Rushdie and found: 'Where there is no...
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Apostasy in Islam
Arafat (without Yasser!) writes an interesting piece on this issue.
He analyzed Rushdie and found:
'Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.' -from The Satanic Verses.
Rushdie says:
I am not a Muslim. I do not accept the charge of apostasy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one cannot be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in matters of religion.'
Arafat concludes:
Isn't that exactly what so many of us always try to point out - that we can't be Muslims just by birth? So if people grow up and freely decide on their own not to believe in the Islamic faith of their parents/family, should they be considered apostates? What's the point of being a Muslim (or anything else, for that matter) if it's not one's own personal choice?
Truly so.
Arafat (without Yasser!) writes an interesting piece on this issue.
He analyzed Rushdie and found:
'Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.' -from The Satanic Verses.
Rushdie says:
I am not a Muslim. I do not accept the charge of apostasy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one cannot be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in matters of religion.'
Arafat concludes:
Isn't that exactly what so many of us always try to point out - that we can't be Muslims just by birth? So if people grow up and freely decide on their own not to believe in the Islamic faith of their parents/family, should they be considered apostates? What's the point of being a Muslim (or anything else, for that matter) if it's not one's own personal choice?
Truly so.
