Nah. An indonesian muslim is more closer to a somali than a non muslim somali. Dont let these liberal muslims fool you
I agree with that comment. Islam is universal: of course you’d relate to someone who shares the same faith as you. You’re closer to them only because you share the same value as them.
But what about culture, language, history or lineage? These things are also what makes us distinct from them.
. Somali is an ethnicity but Islam is our religion and state religion and to disavow Islam would count as treason which would result in a harsh consequence such as death penalty if we lived back in somali dynasties. However since we live in modern times the most you’d just be excommunicated from the community and your family. Islam and somalis are so deeply enmeshed you can’t separate those two. Dna isnt the only thing that makes someone somali. Islam plays a bigger factor . Rendille were a somali tribe were cast out for leaving or rejecting islam
The ruling for death penalty for treason is actually reference for those who were spying against the Muslim people.
They’d be times when Islam was expanding there were spies who’d pretend to convert just so they could betray the Islamic state.
This had context and I agree through that context that treasonous should be punished.
But now we are living in a different times.
Islam is worth a billions of people. Soon it’ll overcome Christianity.
A person leaving the faith is not the same as betraying his party members.
leaving a religion is not the same as betraying a countrymen because there’s nothing political in leaving a religion.
So this punishment needs further context on why Muslims don’t take it lightly when someone leaves their faith.