get a grip folks-----no one is suggesting that honor killing be made legal in the USA. HOWEVER for some reason SOME people have concluded that islam should be afforded SPECIAL STATUS that no other ideology seems to have. only some people. Like----one cannot "insult" muhummad (?????) Jesus does not enjoy such a status----nor does ELIJAH and certainly not MARY.----even SIVA does not (or shiva?? I am not sure)
You're making shit up
still making shit up
Punishment by different Islamic schools of jurisprudence[edit]
The
Quran does not explicitly mention any worldly punishment for blasphemy (
sabb allah or
sabb al-rasul), as it does for apostasy (
riddah). Islamic jurisprudence (
fiqh) of Sunni and Shia
madhabs have declared different punishments for the religious crime of blasphemy, and they vary between schools. These are as follows:
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Hanafi – views blasphemy as synonymous with apostasy, and therefore, accepts the repentance of apostates. Those who refuse to repent, their punishment is death if the blasphemer is a Muslim man, and if the blasphemer is a woman, she must be imprisoned with coercion (beating) till she repents and returns to Islam.
[104] If a non-Muslim commits blasphemy, his punishment must be a
tazir (discretionary, can be death, arrest, caning, etc.).
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Maliki – view blasphemy as an offense distinct from, and more severe than apostasy. Death is mandatory in cases of blasphemy for Muslim men, and repentance is not accepted. For women, death is not the punishment suggested, but she is arrested and punished till she repents and returns to Islam or dies in custody.
[106][107] A non-Muslim who commits blasphemy against Islam must be punished; however, the blasphemer can escape punishment by converting and becoming a devout Muslim.
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Hanbali – view blasphemy as an offense distinct from, and more severe than apostasy. Death is mandatory in cases of blasphemy, for both Muslim men and women, and repentance is not accepted.
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Shafi’i – recognizes blasphemy as a separate offense from apostasy, but accepts the repentance of blasphemers. If the blasphemer does not repent, the punishment is death.
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Ja'fari (Shia) – views blasphemy against Islam, the Prophet, or any of the Imams, to be punishable with death, if the blasphemer is a Muslim.
[113] In case the blasphemer is a non-Muslim, he is given a chance to convert to Islam, or else killed.
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Blasphemy against beliefs and customs[edit]
The punishment for non-conformity with prevailing beliefs and customs varies by jurisdiction.
[99] In September 2009, Abdul Kahar Ahmad pleaded guilty in a Malaysian Sharia court to charges of spreading false doctrines, blasphemy, and violating religious precepts. The court sentenced Ahmad to ten years in prison and six lashes from a rattan cane.
[115] In October 2009, Somalia's hardline Islamist group
al-Shabaab whipped women who were wearing a bra, and whipped men for being beardless. The group said violation of Islamic custom deserved whipping.
[116] In Malaysia, Islamic scholars issued a fatwa declaring
yoga as blasphemous, because yoga is a form of spiritual practice in Hinduism.
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In 2014, an Egyptian state prosecutor pressed charges against a former candidate for parliament, writer and poet Fatima Naoot, of blaspheming Islam when she posted a Facebook message which criticized the slaughter of animals during Eid, a major Islamic festival.
[120] Naoot was sentenced on January 26, 2016 to three years in prison for "contempt of religion." The prison sentence was effective immediately.
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