There are seven Moslem countries that have a law on the books forbidding Moslems to convert to another religion. They are Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Yemen, and Maldives. In other Moslem dominated countries, conversion from Islam will bring on persecution and even death for the convert although their governments have not specifically outlawed it. Persecutors and murderers will not be prosecuted for what they do to an ex-Moslem. In India it’s the Hindus that have officially outlawed conversions, specifically to Christianity, in most provinces. Even in those provinces that have no such law a convert’s life is in imminent danger if he lives among infidels. Sometimes a convert’s own family passes a death sentence on a member who leaves the family religion, be it Hindu or Moslem. Other non-Christian countries have various ways of making life miserable for a person who “apostastizes,” such as in Israel, which has outlawed “prosyletizing.” Certain other countries, such as Russia, have outlawed proselytizing the Orthodox, which measure is only a prelude to outlawing conversions. Nor does living in the West secure religious liberty for a Moslem’s conversion to Christianity because the Moslems are everywhere now and many of them take their sharia law with them in their heart and, if they can get away with it, they will apply it. The way the world is going it will only be a matter of time before “prosyletizing” is outlawed everywhere.
So, we have this priest in Egypt, Father Mattaos Wahba, who did not even prosyletize, being arrested. Here is the story.
