The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 170
170 can never be. God will certainly never allow you to do this. This doctrine is only fit to die, and it shall. Even if the Ahmad i s have to lay down their lives for this, they shall do so. They shall erase this stigma from the Holy Prophet sa even if they have to erase these smears with their own blood! THE TIMES HAVE CHANGED It is a pity that the officials and the mullahs of Pakistan do not realise that times have changed, that all the opponents of the Prophets as —about whom the Holy Qur’an states that they had suggested punishments for apostasy—are now repentant and have abandoned this belief. At present followers of no religion of the world maintain death penalty to be the punishment for apostasy. Even if the collective judgment of all the faiths of the world in the times of the Holy Prophet sa was death penalty for apostasy or imprisonment or expulsion from township, times have indeed changed now. Now even the Jews say that death penalty is not the punishment for apostasy, that it is a crime in the name of humanity and a smear on religion. Today even the Christians say with reference to their historical past that if they had killed the fellow Christians mercilessly for the crime of apostasy then they have greatly wronged themselves and are now embarrassed to note that history. They say that their heads hang in shame reading the history of the Spanish Inquisition or the