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Tanweer Akhtar Shahid considers whether Islam sanctions any punishment for apostasy and asks: Is conversion a crime?

by Tanweer Akhtar Shahid 1st November 2013

It appears that the general perception about Islam in the West is that it is a religion that has no regard for human rights. It is said that Islam permits the use of force to convert others and that it authorises the death sentence for those who renounce Islam and convert to any other religion by answering the voice of their conscience.