sooda
Veteran Member
Before I even attempt to analyse this, if I do, you seem to have gotten yourself into a logical dilemma.
How the hell do you differentiate between apostasy, where someone leaves their faith, and apostasy that's assigned to you by the state or others?
You might not think this is an important distinction, but then again I haven't heard of a rapist getting off their crime because they decided to rejoin their faith. However, for Muslims that leave their faith, they are given to option to rejoin the Muslim community and forgo any further punishment if they admit they were wrong. For instance, in the the OP link, for Yemen, "Furthermore, article 259 provides that individuals committing the act of apostasy may be punished with the death penalty.[83] It also waives the punishment for apostasy if the individual repents and returns to Islam and denounces his new faith. " Have you ever heard of a murderer being let off in an Islamic country because they denounced their new faith and/or returned to Islam?
I don't think you can reconcile this critique and your attempt to merge apostasy, without properly considering it, is fraught with logical inconsistencies and nonsense. I don't necessarily think this is your fault, but it may be a problem with Islam, in general, that's not been considering. However, I am dubious that you represent the mainstream or any stream
You may ask why this distinction is necessarily? I'd say just for logical and comprehension alone is sufficient, but without this distinction it would be like saying all killing is equal. However, there are distinctions between self-defence, murder, manslaughter, etc. Call the distinction what you will apostasty-leaving-believe-because-i'm-too-sensitive, or whatever, and without it you make no sense.
A crime like murder is ipso facto apostasy... I am not sure how to explain it to you. Apostasy may or may not be punishable, but murder is evidence for apostasy… and murder is punishable.