The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 150
150 which are totally dependent on their aid, are fed by them, get their weapons from them, would not ever dare to kill any Hindu, Christian or Jew. Indeed if their wrath was to descend on anyone it would descend on the fellow Muslims. If they were to destroy anyone it would be Muslims alone. They would have one Muslim sect declare another Muslim sect apostate, and have the sect with the greater sway destroy the one deemed by it as weak and apostate. A calamity would thus fall on the world of Islam and the rest of the world would curse the followers of the religion (as well as the religion itself) who regard the shedding of blood of their own brethren permissible and remain busy cutting each other's throats. This is the essence of the western conspiracy against Islam. OLD WAYS This scene has been enacted before within the Islamic world and is not a mere supposition. In actual fact, the countries where the Muslim governments have been in the clutches of the mullah, or where oppressive Muslim rulers have used the religious scholars to support them in achieving their objectives, a most horrendous performance has been staged in the name of death penalty for apostasy, the thought of which, even today, make hairs stand on ends. I shall present before you some incidents of the era of the Abbasid King M a m u n and of the subsequent