A question to Muslims

Geoff: What is your opinion on the death sentence being handed down to Meriam Yehya Ibrahim?

A Sudanese court has sentenced a woman to hang for apostasy - the abandonment of her religious faith - after she married a Christian man.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27424064

I am curious to know what the opinion of other Muslims around the world is regarding this situation.

cheflaq: Unreal....

harlett anathema: darn good thing your weren't holding your breath waiting on a answer...Eh...Geoff......meanwhile could i add a ?????...directed at Muslims..i can TY..

I am horrified ta find out this morning that a 25 year old Pakistani woman on her way to court was waylaid then stoned tooo death by her family because they didn't give HER permission too marry the Man she just Married...and because they don't like him...Do you all agree with this action...are any of You some how for some reason you could explain are on the same page of this now DEAD 25 year old Woman's Family..must be nice ta be able ta stone any freaking WOMAN any MUSLIM CHOOSES TA for little ta no reason then make it a offense against ???

Geoff: @Harlett.

I saw that news report too, and was absolutely horrified by it.

However, I have spoken with Muslim friends who assure me that "Such behaviour has no place in Islam" and it can be put down to the fact that "Some people who call themselves muslim are actually nothing more than barbarians."

harlett anathema: this event happened in Pakistan....they have no problem with it... i didn't hear the first word,that even suggested that anyone who threw rocks at the 25 year old be charged with MURDER..

meanwhile....the Husband ta the Woman you opened this thread about isn't allowed too see his own just born INFANT Daughter Islam has deemed Him a unfit Father

Geoff: She was stoned to death by her family because they didn't agree with her choice of husband.

She was pregnant, and her husband's family were desperately trying to get the police to protect her.

It was outside the high court in Lahore. She was there because her family were charging her husband with rape and kidnapping.

Like I said, barbarians.

harlett anathema: <--- for HER .......

OCD_OCD: There was a barbarian father here in Texas who did an "honor killing" of his two beautiful teenage daughters because he thought they were becoming too Westernized. What a hateful, spiteful, disgusting human.

Geoff: for all my sisters.

And yea, I call all women "sister", except she whom I really love - for it is wrong to love your sister that much.

OK... so a lot of them I love like daughters.

Doesn't stop me wanting to slap some sense into a lot of them.

lori100: Aww...thanks Brother Geoff.....

Geoff: lol - you too Lori

You're still blocked though.

lori100: ...not very brotherly of you....

Geoff: Aww, sorry.

lori100: To err is human...to forgive divine.... be divine like Odin or Thor....come on....I'll be good... ( I do miss reading your angry Monday rants....)

orkanen: Seems no Muslim wants to comment on this, for some reason or other. I wonder why. Is it because it is true to the ramblings of Muhammad, but some Muslims dare not support it until they're in majority, is it because the command sounds too preposterous for it to have come from Muhammad, or is it something else?

dr_frankenstein: The girl has been free'd' the govt negotiated with her family not to hurt her. Alls well that ends well i guess!
Meh, muslim, christian, jew, even bhuddists...religions a sticky subject.lol

lori100: Great if that news^^ is true!...seems the publicity helped...

Geoff: It was apparently mentioned in passing by a Sudanese minister, however it has not been confirmed and the lady's husband has said that he has been told nothing of it.

So, basically, the Sudanese government are highly embarrassed about all this. However, it is a matter that can only be resolved in the courts - which ignored the country's constitution in coming to this judgement in the first place.

Geoff: Yeah, I am not going to tolerate outright offensiveness.