“Wanted Dead”
Facebook allows death threats against Islam renegade Abdel-Samad:
This DW story doesn’t say it, but Abdel-Samad was declared an “apostate,” and hence is under the threat of death, for envisioning an Islam “without sharia or jihad, without gender apartheid.” So this is yet another example of someone who would reform Islam being threatened with death — those who think that the solution to our problems is a reformed Islam should ponder just how difficult such an Islam will be to attain.
An update on this story. “German author in hiding after receiving Islamist death threats,” from DW, June 11:
A German author of Egyptian origin has gone into hiding after having recieved [sic] death threats from Islamists. Hamed Abdel-Samad is one of Germany’s highest-profile experts on Islam.The news of the death threats against Abdel-Samad was announced by his publisher on Tuesday.
“Hamed Abdel-Samad is taking the call for him to be murdered seriously and has gone into hiding,” the head of the Munich-based Droemer Knaur publishing house, Margit Ketterle, said in a statement.
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