News:
A Sudanese judge has sentenced a Christian woman to hang for apostasy, despite appeals by Western embassies for compassion and respect for religious freedom. The case, thought to be the first of its kind to be heard in Sudan, involves a woman whose Christian name is Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag. "We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam," Judge Abbas Mohammed Al-Khalifa told the woman on Thursday, addressing her by her father's Muslim name, Adraf Al-Hadi Mohammed Abdullah. "I sentence you to be hanged to death." Khalifa also sentenced Ishag to 100 lashes for "adultery". Ishag, who rights activists say is pregnant and 27 years old, reacted without emotion when Abbas delivered the verdict at a court in the Khartoum district of Haj Yousef. Earlier in the hearing, an Islamic religious leader spoke with Ishag in the caged dock for about 30 minutes. Then she told the judge: "I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy." Sudan's government introduced Islamic law in 1983 but extreme punishments other than flogging are rare. (Source: Al Jazeera)

Comment:
Once again, Sudan's arbitrary Shariah laws are causing controversy. Although Sudan is a majority Muslim nation, its constitution is vague and based on secular thought as well as some aspects of Islam. Its wording is indicative of the Shari' as the basis but its ambiguity leaves out the necessary detail required to settle inter-religious disputes, as well as modern day issues. Applying any rule of law in an inconsistent manner will always result in oppression or dhulm of another. Any government that perpetuates this is clearly serving its own agenda and not serving the best interests of society and we should be clear that all the Muslim governments today are guilty of this.

Adultery is a major sin in Islam and of course the hudood must be taken from Shari', however along with the hudood should be the correct atmosphere and culturing of the entire society at all levels. Where the Islamic hudood is not only feared, but acclaimed and admired by Muslims and non-Muslims alike, where the society's thinking is higher and people realise the honor of a woman and therefore the value of segregation and the Islamic dress code, as well being convinced of the evils that arise from free mixing and extra marital relationships. Also the wider effects of apostasy will be acknowledged with no need to be apologetic in the face of western secular liberalism.

Allah swt says, ((يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا ادْخُلُوا فِي السِّلْمِ كَافَّةً وَلَا تَتَّبِعُوا خُطُوَاتِ الشَّيْطَانِ)) "Enter into the fold of Islam completely, and follow not the footsteps of the Shaitan." (Al Baqarah: 208). Proving there is no concept of following only some aspects of Islam, as individuals or as an ummah.

Unsurprisingly the western media in its malicious blood lust towards Islam has constant coverage of this case day and night, not due to a concern for Mariam and her children as they would have us believe, but in their desire to demonise any aspect of Shariah law and obliterate it from hearts and minds of the Muslims as a sadistic and barbaric one. Even the beautiful wisdoms of suckling a child for two years are brazenly ridiculed by the so-called educated ideologues, and all this because the Sudanese government has failed to uphold Islam in its entirety, from which the world could witness social progress, education, justice and tolerance. Instead its incorrect application of Sharia along with all the checks and balances also necessitated by Shariah, has further made Islam into a topic of ridicule, hatred and a deviation from civilization. The exact opposite of what Hukm Shara has been revealed to achieve, and did achieve for over 1400 years.

Only the return of the promised Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashida will give protection for the Islamic Shariah Rule.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Um Mohammed