sudan-to-free-christian-woman-condemned-to-death-for-leaving-islam

Robert Spencer May 31, 2014 at 3:58pm Apostasy, Sharia, Sudan 0 Comments

This shows that negative publicity does get through to Islamic supremacists, and can be effective to get them to stand down from their Sharia hardline. That’s one chief reason why groups like the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and others work so assiduously to discredit, defame and destroy all those who speak out against jihad terror and Islamic supremacism: once there is no one left who dares to speak out, Sharia can be implemented without protest or dissent.
“Meriam Ibrahim: Sudan ‘to free’ death row woman,” BBC, May 31, 2014:

Sudanese authorities are to free a woman who was sentenced to death for having abandoned the Islamic faith, a foreign ministry official says.
Meriam Ibrahim, who gave birth to a daughter in custody, will be freed in a few days, the official told the BBC.
Abdullahi Alzareg, an under-secretary at the foreign ministry, said Sudan guaranteed religious freedom and was committed to protecting the woman.
Khartoum has been facing international condemnation over the death sentence.
In an interview with The Times newspaper, British Prime Minister David Cameron described the ruling as “barbaric” and out of step with today’s world.
The UK Foreign Office this week said that it would push for Ms Ibrahim to be released on humanitarian grounds.
Apostasy debate
Ms Ibrahim, 27, was brought up as an Orthodox Christian, but a Sudanese judge ruled earlier this month that she should be regarded as Muslim because that had been her father’s faith.
She refused to renounce her Christianity and was sentenced to death by hanging for apostasy.
On Wednesday, she gave birth to a daughter in her prison cell – the second child from her marriage in 2011 to Daniel Wani, a US citizen.
The court said Ms Ibrahim would be allowed to nurse her baby for two years before the sentence was carried out.
The court had earlier annulled her Christian marriage and sentenced her to 100 lashes for adultery because the union was not considered valid under Islamic law.
Sudan has a majority Muslim population and Islamic law has been in force there since the 1980s.
The ruling has revived a debate over apostasy, with liberal and conservative scholars giving different opinions over whether – and how – the act of abandoning the Islamic faith should be punished.