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November 1935 A.D. George
Leonard Carey Born—Former Archbishop of Canterbury (103rd) Pushes Islamists to Permit
Conversions to Christianity
Johnston, Ian. “Apostasy case: Former Archbishop of
Canterbury Lord Carey calls on British Muslim leaders to back the right to
convert from Islam.” Independent. 18 May 2014.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/apostasy-case-former-archbishop-of-canterbury-lord-carey-calls-on-british-muslim-leadersto-back-the-right-to-convert-from-islam-9393056.html.
Accessed 19 May 2014.
Apostasy case: Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey calls on British
Muslim leaders to back the right to convert from Islam
Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has
called on leading British Muslims to support the right to convert from Islam to
another religion after a court in Sudan sentenced a woman to death for apostasy
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Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has
called on leading British Muslims to support the right to convert from Islam to
another religion after a court in Sudan sentenced a woman to death for
apostasy.
The peer said it was “accepted doctrine” that Muslim
converts should face the death penalty. He also said there were examples of
ex-Muslims in Britain who had been forced to “almost go underground”.
“Isn’t there something fundamentally wrong with Islam at
its core that it cannot allow people to change their religion?” he told
The Sunday Times.
“It is accepted doctrine in Islam [that] you don’t
convert and if you do the penalty may be death.” He added: “I want to hear
Muslim leaders say ‘we allow Muslims to become Christians if they wish to’.”
Lord Carey spoke out after Meriam Ibrahim, 27, was sentenced to death by a sharia court in Sudan after refusing to recant her Christian faith. The sentence has
been suspended as she is pregnant.
Read more: Apostasy - What you need to know
But a leading British Muslim thinker Dr Ghayasuddin
Siddiqui told The Independent that the Koran said people should have the
freedom of religion.
The idea that former Muslims should be put to death was
introduced later as part of “man-made sharia” law, he said, adding that the
issue was being debated by Muslim scholars around the world.
“I think hopefully at some stage consensus will emerge
that this is a very divisive, anti-pluralism approach and it must be
abandoned,” he said. “The basic rule of the Koran is there is
freedom [of religion]… the basic rule of Islam is there’s no compulsion
in religion.”
Asked whether Muslims should be allowed to convert, Dr
Siddiqui, a fellow of the Muslim Institute, said they “should be allowed to do
whatever they want”.
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