KACHOMO, Uganda — A Muslim in eastern Uganda who recently attacked his wife for becoming a Christian told a judge that Islam allows him to kill any apostate, sources said.
Having moved to another village with their four children following an attack in 2015, Ntende Hawa, 38, said she was visiting her estranged husband to discuss child support April 4. Her husband, Dapharah Mumpi, was living at the couple’s home in Kachomo village in Budaka District.
Hawa reported the assault to police at the Kaderuna police station May 6, 2015, and Mumpi was summoned for questioning. Mumpi told the magistrate, “I cannot live with the kafir [infidel] in my house, unless she returns back to my religion. If not, I will not stop hunting for her life because our Holy Quran allows us to kill any apostate from Islam.”
Upon hearing Mumpi’s statement, the judge sent him to jail for 14 days. Islamic scholars say death for apostates from Islam is not explicitly stated in the Quran (as it is for “infidels”), but traditionally Islamic law has prescribed the death penalty for Muslims who commit apostasy.
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