The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam

by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad

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The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 5

5 factions that advocate the legitimacy of the use of force [Jihad by 'sword'] against the opponents of Islam, and those who promote the idea of subjugating and conquering the opponents of Islam through the use of combative force, are constantly engaged in cutting each other’s throats. The sword of the Islamic world is being drawn against the world of Islam, and the daggers of the Islamic world are being used to stab the world of Islam in the chest. Whether it is the conflict between Iran and Iraq, or between two rival factions of Palestinian Muj a hid i n ; whether it is the contention between Syria and Jordan, or that between Libya and Egypt, whichever way you look at the Islamic world the forces of Islam are locked in combat against each other, to the detriment of the world of Islam. It is quite odd that today Islam is split into two partisan blocs such that certain Islamic countries, by alledgly basing their views on the teachings of the Holy Qur’an and Sunna, proclaim that Islam is red, and Islam and communism are only nominally different from each other: whether you add God to communism, or subtract God from Islam, in either scenario the two ideologies of life would appear to be identical. While in the other camp, the name of Islam is being used to forcefully advocate the cause of Western imperialism, as if the sole purpose of Islam’s advent in this world was to buttress capitalism, and it had no objective other than this.