Apostasy Bill Calls for Death to Converts from Islam

WASHINGTON, May 9 /Christian Newswire/ -- A new apostasy draft bill has been sent before a standing committee in Pakistan's National Assembly. If passed, the Apostasy Act 2006, adopted in first reading by the parliament and tabled by the six-party Islamic alliance, the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal or MMA, would sentence to death all Muslim men found guilty of leaving Islam. Muslim women would face life in prison for the same crime.

The draft bill goes into great detail over qualifications for conviction of "offenders".

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