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If you have a belief, it’s a challenge when someone abandons the belief that you hold, and another person may have held, and believes in something else. However, the right to change ones religion or abandon religion altogether is a vital one for a free society. There should be a free exchange of religious ideas so that people can find the right faith for them or even profess no faith at all.

Such rights to freedom of religion may exist in free countries and in free communities, but they do not exist in Islamic countries or in Islamic communities within non-Muslim nations. Today’s ‘Bearded Savages of the Day’ story shows us all the lengths that Muslim communities will go to to keep people within Islam.

According to a Christian news site called ‘Morning Star News’, life for those who leave Islam and choose Christianity is dangerous. As the story shows, leaving Islam can swiftly bring a whole bunch of armed Muslims to a person’s door.

The Morning Star News said:

“A secret Christian in coastal Kenya escaped Muslim in-laws who last week sought to stab him and took his wife and children, less than two weeks after Islamic extremists further south torched two church buildings, sources said.

Former Muslim Hassan Ali said he narrowly escaped death when Muslim neighbors and in-laws armed with knives and a dagger known as a “Somali sword” on Nov. 11 knocked on his door in Witu, Lamu County at about 8 p.m.

“I thank God that I am alive,” Ali said. “I know they were out to kill me. I am praying that my wife will not lose her faith in Christ.”

He said area Muslims may have come for him after noting his lack of mosque attendance.

“I heard people talking outside my house and mentioning my name,” he said. “Fear caught me up, and I went inside my inner room. Then they knocked at my door in an unusual manner, and my wife opened the door for them, and they immediately started asking of my whereabouts. I knew I was in trouble when they started questioning my wife about her faith. I then escaped through the window.”

Ali, who said he later learned from his wife that those who arrived at his home were armed, traveled for two hours before reaching the house of a Christian family who provided accommodation for him.

“Ali arrived at my house restless,” the head of the family said. “He was worried about the fate of his family in the hands of the Muslims who stormed his house.”

Early the next morning (Nov. 12), the host, whose name is withheld for security purposes, called Ali’s wife and found that her relatives had taken her and their two children, a 7-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl, to her parents’ home.

“The parents are telling Ali’s wife that the children should start going to a madrassa, an Islamic elementary school,” the host said. “Ali’s wife is facing pressure from her parents to recant the Christian faith, and she is emotionally troubled.”

Ali said it will be “very difficult” to return to his house or see his family again.

“What is worrying me at the moment is that communication between my wife and me has now been disconnected,” he said. “I cannot reach her again. I know my wife and my two children, Hussein and Mariam, will be Islamized. This is making me to have sleepless nights.”

After embracing Christianity 10 months ago, Ali’s family had moved from their home village of Katsakakairu, about nine miles from predominantly Muslim Witu town, to an area near Witu where a few Christians live. Christians in Witu on several occasions had visited Ali’s house for Bible Study and prayers, and Muslim neighbors discovered the meetings, Ali said.

Before the incident, a Muslim neighbor questioned Ali about whether he was a Christian because he had heard prayers using the name of Jesus in his house; he asked Ali why he was using the name Ali, which some Muslims believe can be used only by Muslims, if he was Christian.

The host said Ali is depressed at being separated from his family.

“He needs prayers at this difficult moment,” he said.”

Violence, forcing kids to attend a Madrassa, Christians living in fear and people having to flee because of mobs like this, is sadly par for the course for many people who decide to change from Islam to Christianity or to any other faith. Despite what the Islamic apologists may tell you, Islam is not a religion of peace and tolerance, it’s a religion of violence and intolerance and slavery.

Unfortunately this sort of behaviour by Muslims when one of their own decides to leave Islam is not uncommon. It’s found wherever there are large numbers of Muslims or where the followers of Islam have some degree of political control. It happens in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Saudi, Egypt and elsewhere.

We should never forget that there is no religious freedom in Islam, none at all. Islam has more akin to a prison than a belief system.