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Liberal talk show host Tawfiq Okasha recently appeared on "Egypt 
Today" airing a video of Muslims slicing a young man's head off 
for the crime of apostasy, in this case, the crime of converting 
to Christianity and refusing to renounce it. The video--be 
warned, it is immensely graphic--is embedded here (the actual 
execution appears from minute 1:13-4:00). For those who prefer 
not to view it, a summary follows:

A young man appears held down by masked men. His head is pulled 
back, with a knife to his throat. He does not struggle and 
appears resigned to his fate. Speaking in Arabic, the background 
speaker, or "narrator," chants a number of Muslim prayers and 
supplications, mostly condemning Christianity, which, because of 
the Trinity, is referred to as a polytheistic faith: "Let Allah 
be avenged on the polytheist apostate"; "Allah empower your 
religion, make it victorious against the polytheists"; "Allah, 
defeat the infidels at the hands of the Muslims"; "There is no 
god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger."

Then, to cries of "Allahu Akbar!"--or, "God is great!"--the man 
holding the knife to the apostate's throat begins to slice away, 
even as the victim appears calmly mouthing a prayer. It takes 
nearly two minutes of graphic knife-carving to sever the 
Christian's head, which is then held aloft to more Islamic cries 
and slogans of victory.

Visibly distraught, Tawfiq Okasha, the host, asked: "Is this 
Islam? Does Islam call for this? How is Islam related to this 
matter?�These are the images that are disseminated throughout 
the electronic media in Europe and America�. Can you imagine?" 
Then, in reference to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis, 
whose political influence has grown tremendously, he asked, "How 
are such people supposed to govern?"

In fact, only the other day a top Egyptian Salafi leader openly 
stated that no Muslim has the right to apostatize, or leave 
Islam, based on the canonical hadiths, including Muhammad's 
command, "Whoever leaves his religion, kill him." Islam's most 
authoritative legal manuals make crystal clear that apostasy is 
a capital crime, punishable by death.

The first "righteous caliph," a paragon of Muslim piety and 
virtue, had tens of thousands of people slaughtered--including 
by burning, beheading, and crucifixion--simply because they 
tried to break away from Islam. According to the Encyclopaedia 
of Islam, the most authoritative reference work on Islam in the 
English language, "there is unanimity that the male apostate 
must be put to death."

Finally, a word on the "prayers" or supplications to Allah made 
by the Muslim executioners in the video: these are standard and 
formulaic. It is not just masked, anonymous butchers who 
supplicate Allah as they engage in acts of evil; rather, top-
ranking Muslim leaders openly invoke such hate-filled prayers.

See here for examples of prominent Muslims supplicating Allah to 
strike infidels with cancer and disease "till they pray for 
death and do not receive it," and even formalized prayers in 
Mecca, blasted on megaphones as Muslims pilgrimage and 
circumambulate the Ka'ba, supplicating Allah to make the lives 
of Christians and Jews "hostage to misery; drape them with 
endless despair, unrelenting pain and unremitting ailment; fill 
their lives with sorrow and pain and end their lives in 
humiliation and oppression."

"Is this Islam?" You decide.

By Raymond Ibrahim
Gatestone Institute


























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