Harvard's Muslim chaplain raises questions on death penalty for apostates

April 24, 2009

Diana West of the Washington Times wonders why the media in Boston have not noticed the campus controversy at Harvard, where a Muslim chaplain said that the Islamic law that decrees the death penalty for those who forsake the faith is a wise tradition and "one should not dismiss it out of hand." Although Taha Abdul-Basser stresses that he personally does not approve of killing apostates, West observes that the Harvard chaplain's views illustrate the difficulty of finding Muslim leaders who will condemn violence forthrightly.

 

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Further information:

• Shariah goes to Harvard (Washington Times)