Topic: WorldNetDaily
Aaron Klein has a new target to unleash misleading anti-Muslim attacks on.
A Jan. 23 WorldNetDaily article by Aaron Klein -- with the headline "Ground Zero imam: 'Apostates against Islam must be jailed'; 'You do not have the right to spread this conviction, lest you pollute others'" -- began this way:
Those who leave Islam and preach against the Muslim religion must be jailed, declared the imam who has become the new face of the proposed Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero in New York City.
"If someone leaves the din, leaves the path privately, they cannot be touched. If someone preaches about apostasy, or preaches their views, they're jailed," stated Imam Abdallah Adhami in a November lecture obtained and reviewed by WND.
Adhami was discussing the Quranic view of apostasy, or Muslims who decide to leave the Islamic religion.
In fact, Adhami was discussing the historical view of apostasy, and Klein cherry-picked statements from a 10-minute-long response to a question about "what Sharia said about apostasy and how we should deal with that today." Plus, Adhami wrote an article in 2007 that acknowledged the right to change one's religion.
We have the details at Media Matters.
