I guess my point is being lost....Regardless of what the muslim faith may say, does a person not have any rights to decide their own religious beliefs? The person who converted in the article from Islam to Christianity...is he muslim or Christian? He thinks he is Christian. Isn't that what matters - the person's personal journey?
Yes, your point is being lost, but this is your own doing, not mine... the very wording of your question demonstrates that you really do not understand the moslum perspective... you refer to the moslum faith as if it were just another religion like christianity, judaism, baptism, and so on... but the moslum religion is not a set of internal personal beliefs about a deity and our relationship with this deity in the same way Western religions are perceived... islam is a way of life as well as a political perspective... so, you ask, can one born into the moslum faith convert to another religion? No, they cannot... the link I provide you earlier states the following:
"Under a widespread interpretation of Islamic law, converting from Islam is apostasy and punishable by death _ though killings are rare and the state has never ordered or carried out an execution on those grounds.
Most Muslims who convert usually practice their new religion quietly or leave the country. Egypt is overwhelmingly Muslim. Only 10 percent of the 76 million population is Christian and converts are typically ostracized by their families. If the conversion becomes known, they may receive death threats from militants or harassment by police, who use laws against “insulting religion” or “disturbing public order” to target them.
This case is disturbingly similar to that of Adbel Rahman, an Afghan man who was sentenced to death for converting to Christianity in 2006, and who was later forced to leave the country because of it. Things may not get that bad for Hegazy, but the mere fact that he’s been forced into hiding because of his religious beliefs is, I think, an indication of the nature of the enemy we’re dealing with."
Do not confuse our Western religions with a moslum perspective, it is not a Western type religion as you think, and this is the problem most all of us Westerners have, we really have no clue how very different it is... obama would not disappoint his moslum father, whom he loves dearly and who resides in Kenya... when obama visited his father, he went to the mosque with his father and embraced the moslum way... there is absolutely no doubt that should things come to critical mass, that obama would choose his birth religion over christianity and islam over America...
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