On Being a Girl in Islam > What's worse than being a girl in Islam, than being a Christian girl in Islam

 

Ethiopia: Muslim girl converts to Christianity, Muslims threaten to murder her

Jul 9, 2026 11:00 am By Robert Spencer4 Comments

Even her family likely wants her dead. The Qur’an depicts Abraham saying to his non-Muslim relatives: “We have done with you. And there has arisen between us and you hostility and hatred forever, until you believe in Allah alone.” (60:4).

The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)

Of course, there is no real history of Abraham ever doing anything remotely like that. But the hostility is accurate as God's Angel spoke to Ishmael's mother, telling her that "He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him..."

A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence.

This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated: “The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-‘ashriyyah, Al-Ja’fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.”

Qaradawi also once famously said: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.”

Indii Mikaa’el, International Christian Concern

Teenage Girl Faces Death for Following Jesus

International Christian Concern, July 3, 2026:

Since she decided to follow Jesus in June 2025, 15-year-old Indii Mikaa’el has lost her education and the comfort of her home. She could also lose her life.

Born into a Muslim family in Haroji Wado, near Ethiopia’s border with Sudan, Mikaa’el now lives under constant threats from her family and community. Although Christians worship freely and openly in Ethiopia, Christian converts from Islam in Muslim-majority areas often face violence and even death threats.

“When my family found out that I had decided to follow Jesus, everything turned against me; they became very hostile,” she recalled. “They said I had brought shame to the family; others told me I had betrayed my family and my community. They warned me that I would be killed if I did not go back to Islam.”

The persecution soon became life-threatening. Armed men were reportedly placed near her home in Dambi Dollo, with plans to kill her. Because of threats, she was forced to leave school in September 2025 while still in fifth grade.

“I live in fear every day,” Mikaa’el said. “I cannot sleep peacefully because of thinking about whether someone will attack me. Sometimes I feel trapped because there is nowhere safe for me to stay. I loved going to school, and I wanted to continue learning and have a better future. But the threats became serious, and I had to stop studying.”…

Islam in Islam > Iran, the real sexual torture; Somali woman badly beaten for converting to Christianity

 

In Iran, the Real Sexual Torture

Jun 9, 2026 2:00 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald10 Comments

While Nicholas Kristof recently published in the New York Times his baseless accusation that the IDF engages in sexual torture, including his claim that Israeli soldiers “train dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners,” the real victims of sexual torture in the Middle East are to be found elsewhere. These are the prisoners that the Islamic Republic of Iran holds in Evin Prison and similar torture houses. And the New York Times, that continues to defend Kristof’s infamous column and to accuse his critics of trying to “stifle journalism,” when all they are trying to do is to point out his lies, has failed completely to report on the sexual torture inflicted on prisoners in Iran. More on that torture can be found here: 

Iranian men and women describe horrific abuse at the hands of regime guards specialising in ‘sexual torture'

by Eliana Silver, Daily Mail, May 17, 2026:

Evin House of Detention, Ehsan Iran, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0

Detainees in Iran’s prisons are being subjected to beatings, rape and psychological abuse, according to testimonies that lay bare the lengths the Islamic Republic will go to crush dissent.

Despite the regime’s long-standing reputation for brutality, accounts of sexual violence and intimidation reveal a particularly disturbing pattern of abuse.

In a harrowing account to The Australian, a woman identified as Mina, a pseudonym, described her experience inside one of Iran’s notorious prisons.

‘They repeatedly struck my head with a Koran so hard that my nose began to bleed. The interrogator also touched my body under my clothes while using disgusting sexual language, and repeatedly asked which newspaper editors I had slept with.’

She added: ‘He told me, “I will bring your 12-year-old son here and make him rape you. Then you will confess on television”.’

Such accounts are not isolated, with a report by Amnesty International last month finding that thousands of Iranians are at risk of sexual violence, with children as young as 14 among those assaulted by IRGC-linked forces during the January protests.

Evidence suggests this pattern stretches back decades.

Researcher and former political prisoner Iraj Mesdaghi has documented abuses from the 1980s, including testimony from a 14-year-old boy tortured by Mohammad Mehrayin, known as the ‘Butcher of Evin’….

The mainstream media in the United States — television, radio, newspapers, news sites online — should have reported on so many cases of sexual torture in Iran, that so many different sources have reported on, including those who were its victims, but until now their stories have received very little attention. Why is that? And why has Nicholas Kristof, with his great interest in the use of sexual torture, and his bully pulpit at the most prestigious American newspaper, not provided a single report on how that torture has been inflicted on prisoners, including children, in Iran?

Somalia: Muslim woman converts to Christianity, her relatives beat her, breaking her nose and seriously injuring her

Jun 9, 2026 11:00 am By Robert Spencer8 Comments

It could have been worse. Sofia Ahmed’s Muslim relatives could have murdered her outright. If they had done so, they would not think they had done anything wrong. The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)

A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence.

This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated: “The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-‘ashriyyah, Al-Ja’fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.”

Qaradawi also once famously said: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.”

Street in Kamboni (Lower Juba region, Somalia) by Ahmad Fais, Public domain

Young Christian Woman in Somalia Recovering from Assault

Morning Star News, June 5, 2026:

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A 22-year-old woman is recovering from serious injuries in a hospital in Somalia’s Lower Juba Region after Muslim relatives beat her for putting her faith in Christ, sources said.

Sofia Ahmed suffered a broken nose and significant loss of blood after the attack on May 28 in her home on the outskirts of Hagar (also spelled Xagar), said a source who visited her in the hospital.

Ahmed accepted Christ on March 25 after learning the gospel from a Christian leader. When an uncle, Sharif Hussein, visited her and questioned her about her absence from Friday mosque prayers, she told him she was engaged in some tasks away from home, sources said.

Hussein visited her several more times, emboldening Ahmed to share about Christ. When he appeared to show interest, she suggested to him that he also put his faith in Christ, the sources said. Hussein departed without responding.

On May 28, he returned with three other male relatives. Hussein asked her again if she had converted to Christianity.

“I kept quiet,” Ahmed told a Morning Star News contact, adding that immediately they began attacking her.

The relatives beat her with sticks and struck her nose with a sharp object, the sources said. The attack drew the attention of neighbors who came in large numbers, seized the assailants and called police.

Officers arrived and arrested the four men, but Ahmed’s Muslim parents intervened and persuaded police to release them, the sources said.

“Family members later advocated for the release of the suspects, believing the actions were justified because of Ahmed’s decision to leave Islam and embrace Christianity,” the Christian leader said.

Underground Christians described her as an enthusiastic young Christian with aspirations of community outreach and church planting.

Ahmed was admitted to Hagar Maternal Centre in the Lower Juba Region of Jubaland, southwestern Somalia, where she underwent two surgeries. She remained under medical care and may require several more weeks of hospital treatment, the sources said….

Another Christian teen abducted, converted, and married to abductor, Police do nothing in Pakistan

 

Pakistan: Muslims abduct and forcibly convert another Christian teen girl while police remain intentionally inactive

Apr 21, 2026 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams3 Comments

The Pakistani police are as corrupt as the government. Christian and Hindus girls are routine targets for rape, forced conversion and forced marriage; authorities do nothing. Mission Network News just published an article entitled Modern-day slavery threatens Christian girls in Pakistan. An excerpt:

This pattern has been going on for years. When Christian or Hindu daughters go missing, their families often encounter police inaction, falsified birth records for their underage daughters, and long legal battles.

Even if a girl escapes or the marriage ends, says Nehemiah, she may still be in danger from her captors and unable to reunite with her family.That’s because Islamic marriage ceremonies require a profession of faith in Allah.

“Once someone is recognized as a Muslim, leaving Islam, known as apostasy…

And apostasy is punishable by death!

 

Yet the left, which pretends to care about human rights, turns a blind eye to the most savage abuses committed in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings.

Protest against forced conversion of Christian girls in Pakistan organised by Pakistan Church organisations, Banksboomer, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

Police action lacking in abduction of Christian girl in Pakistan

Morning Star News, April 17, 2026:

Police in Pakistan have declined to recover a 15-year-old Christian girl who was abducted at gunpoint, forcibly converted to Islam and married to the kidnapper, according to her father.

Afzal Javed Masih of Chak No. 648-GB village in Jaranwala, in Punjab Province’s Faisalabad Division, said that his daughter, Sidra Bibi, was taken from their home in the early hours of March 27 by a Muslim, Ali Murtaza, and two accomplices. The men scaled the wall of his house at around 3 a.m. and took Sidra away at gunpoint, he said.

Masih, who collects scrap in Sialkot District to provide a livelihood for his family back in the village, said relatives home at the time informed him of the kidnapping.

“I immediately returned to the village and registered a First Information Report [FIR] the same day, hoping for my daughter’s safe recovery,” he told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News.

Police promptly registered the case but inaccurately recorded Sidra’s age as 17 year old instead of 15 and seven months, as stated on her official birth certificate, Masih said.

“I am illiterate and only learned of this discrepancy later, when a rights activist pointed it out,” he said.

Police initially detained relatives of the suspect but later released them after documents surfaced purporting that Sidra had converted to Islam and married Murtaza of her own free will in Rahim Yar Khan District in South Punjab, Masih said.

He rejected the authenticity of the documents, which included an affidavit allegedly signed by his daughter stating that she was an adult and had embraced Islam after exposure to religious content on social media….