Under shari’ah, the penalty for leaving Islam is death. Thus, Ex-Muslims face extreme persecution in their home countries. As of 2021, there are at least ten Muslim-majority countries in which apostasy is a capital offence. In the West, where apostates from Islam should be protected by human rights legislation and the principle of free speech, Ex-Muslims face similar threats from a burgeoning Muslim population.

To reverse this appalling situation, Ex-Muslims in the United Kingdom have created an international campaign to Legalise Apostasy. A major part of this initiative has been to design a petition, asking the elected representatives of liberal democracies to stand with apostates from Islam in demanding the freedom to change religion – as defined by Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In February 2020, we had the privilege of hosting Nissar Hussain, head of Legalise Apostasy UK, in Dublin. Following up this successful endeavour, our members collaborated with the Legalise Apostasy team to create an Ireland-specific petition, calling upon all members of Dáil Éireann to support the abolition of apostasy laws in the Muslim world – and thus, to oppose any attempts to introduce shari’ah in Ireland.

On September 15^th 2020, we posted hard copies of our Petition to Legalise Apostasy to every one of Ireland’s 160 members of parliament (TDs). We have requested that they put their signatures to it, in good time. The extent to which our elected representatives honour this request will be a direct measure of their support for Ex-Muslims and opposition to shari’ah; this will be continuously documented here.

Petition to Legalise Apostasy (PDF Download)

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Which TDs support the rights of Ex-Muslims and oppose shari’ah?

1. Joan Collins (R2C) – Signed on Sep 16th 2020 (PDF Download)
2. Thomas Pringle (IND) – Signed on Sep 22nd 2020 (PDF Download)

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Nissar Hussain, an Ex-Muslim convert to Christianity and a father of six. In 2015, when it became known in Bradford that Nissar had renounced Islam for Christianity, members of the Muslim community began violently threatening him and his family. After months of this abuse from the disciples of Islam, in November 2015, they set upon him with a pickaxe and a baseball bat as he was exiting his car, beating him half to death.

In the end, Nissar and his family were forced to permanently vacate their Bradford home and leave the area under armed police escort. They now live in hiding, for fear of further attacks by frenzied lynch mobs and militant shari’ah enforcers. This manifest injustice is just one example of how Ex-Muslims suffer at the hands of our Muslim oppressors in the West, enabled by a state that is under the heel of Islam.