Leaving Islam — apostasy — can be a dangerous business.
There is a large body of Islamic texts, traditions, and Islamic jurisprudence, that prescribe the death penalty for apostasy: “The conscious abandonment of Islam by a Muslim in word or through deed.”
Muslims who dispute this interpretation can themselves be deemed “hypocrites” or even as “apostates” and thereby subjected to violence or murder, by those who do support the traditional, long-held interpretation. Although that interpretation is not unanimous among Muslims, it is almost unanimous among all current and all past Islamic scholars, stretching back over a thousand years.
Such was to be the fate of Xavier, a young, British-born, devout Muslim lad, the son of Muslim immigrant parents. A little over a year ago, Xavier decided to sit down and properly read through the Quran.
Like many Muslims who have done just that, he concluded Islam was not for him.
Now an apostate, his family and his Muslim community — wanted him dead.
“All this because he loves this country, this heritage and the freedom that everyone else takes for granted!” explains Toni Bugle, the founder of MARIAS (Mothers Against Radical Islam & Sharia).
Here is the letter Xavier sent to MARIAS …
I’m Xavier and I’m an Ex-Muslim.
I was disowned by my family and had nowhere else to turn.
I decided to tell some other Ex-Muslims that I was in this situation and I was put in contact with MARIAS straight away.
MARIAS worked long and hard to get me a refuge where I could stay temporarily till I found work and a place to stay myself.
After a week of multiples to different families and organisations (and a lot of rejections from many), MARIAS eventually found me a place I could stay to sort out my life as no one else would.
There’s no one more willing to help apostates as there was a great risk associated with people like me.
Now I’m working, have my own place and I’m on track to fixing my life and deciding my own future for once.
I know if I didn’t find a place to stay away from my family, I would end up killed*, either by being sent abroad or have it done here
“These men have been found guilty of the most heinous crimes against vulnerable girls, plying them with drugs for their own sexual gratification … The multiple convictions show a calculated operation of grooming girls for sex and then threatening violence in an attempt to stop their victims speaking out.”
Mehdi Zare (left) and Mohammad Rostami
Amy’s family has connected with MARIAS and asked us to share the following account from Amy;
Seven years ago, when she was 14 years old, Jade was sexually harassed, intimidated, humiliated and almost raped by a local gang of Muslims.
Police and Social Services provided zero assistance.
Thankfully, she escaped, but — as the above map shows — many, many other innocent British girls have not. In fact the above map is just the tip of the iceberg.
“… police, social services … did not help at all. And because of this, multiple girls have been abused and raped by this gang time and time again,” writes Jade.
She briefly shares her personal story with MARIAS.
Thank you for your resilience and courage, Jade. And for joining the effort to put an end this travesty.
I wanted to write a message to get my point across. Yes, everyone knows it happens with white men . But grooming gangs of Muslim descent are a whole lot different. There’s more than one man, there are many, many men that pass girls around. I’ve seen it happen – there are things they do.
I was now living in a mostly Muslim area, whereas before that I had lived in other places which were mostly white. I have no problem with either as I have a mixed-race family.
It was peaceful and lovely at first in my new area as I was right by my friends and it was fun. Until one day me and my friends went to a canal, right at the bottom of my street. My friends and I were 14 at the time.
There were a gang of Muslim men that looked to be between 17 and 30. They had said hello and were being polite, so we started being friendly back. One came over, picking me up from behind and shouting “fresh white P****’”.
I was disgusted and told him to put me down — which he refused to do. So in the end one of the other lads told him to put me down. They still wouldn’t let us walk off, they had been pulling on our arms, trying to give us vodka and asking us to join them at a party. We said no. At no point did these men ask for our ages.
“We were harassed (and) called dirty white trash, white whore …”
Austrian President, Alexander Van der Bellen, recently suggested — without a trace of irony — that if “Islamophobia” continues to rise:
“A day will come when we will have to ask every woman to wear a headscarf in solidarity with those who wear it for religious reasons.” (Translated from German.)
RT (formerly “Russia Today”) invited Toni Bugle (Mothers Against Radical Islam & Sharia — MARIAS) and Catherine Shakdam* (Director of the Islamic pro Sharia, pro Iran, Shafaqna Institute for Middle Eastern Studies ) to respond.
“The West is blaming Islam for the violence it itself professes.”
“… the West has equated and conflated JIHAD with violence, bloodshed, imperialism, and injustice. The word JIHAD has been stripped of its true meaning so that western capitals could sell their wars to a gullible public and in one smooth movement of the hand position themselves holier and greater than thou!”
“Nowadays the public associate JIHAD with terrorism and of course Daesh (ISIS). Such was the plan all along.
“As long as Islam and Muslims can be blamed for all the violence that befell the world since 2001 then no party will question America’s neocons.
“… The West wants control over the Islamic world for the riches its nations house but also out of fear that Islam one day will come to challenge its imperial complex.
… Islam, true Islam is the threat for it offers freedom and empowerment.
… Iran more than any other nations in the world understands liberation since it enacted its own in 1979 by establishing the Governance of the Jurist. (Editor: This is a reference to Theocratic/Sharia law as advocated by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran)
2012: cardboard cutout of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Celebrating anniversary of the Iranian Revolution
In 2017 Political Correctness harms policing more than anything else. Its effects are worse than staff shortages, chronic underfunding, and even terrorism. The reason of course is that these three main problems in policing are often directly caused by political correctness and then worsened by it in an ever decreasing spiral.
On its own it would be bad enough, but now the police service is subject to draconian internal discipline regulations which see almost every misdemeanour however small, as gross misconduct.
Added to this destructive mix is the zealous way in which the public are told to make their complaints about officers, and even the internal discipline system, the Professional Standards Department, the PSD, running an ‘inform on a colleague’ confidential hotline which is apparently very busy.
The result is a police service firmly shackled in their duties, causing very many individual officers to be hesitant, timid, unimaginative and afraid to enforce the law impartially. Cops are told ‘any conversation you have on police premises belongs to the police’. Even their personal Airwave radios can be used to listen in on cops without their knowledge. You will see cops standing in the open, in the top corner of the police car park, deep in conversation; it’s the only way to talk privately while at work.
I worked the front line, in uniform, as an ordinary copper for thirty years. If anyone knows Nottingham, when I tell you it was Hyson Green you will know the type of area. 270 languages are currently spoken in Hyson Green. It is the busiest part of the entire force area, and officially known in modern parlance as ‘very challenging’. In all my time there, and my millions of public interactions, not once was I ever accused of racism. You cannot hide racism for thirty years.
