Source: Express India
Wire Service: Reuters
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=92044
The Hague, September 11: A 22-year-old Dutch-Iranian will launch a campaign on Tuesday for Muslims to have the right to renounce their faith and find support from peers, a view which has made him the victim of three physical attacks.
Although similar initiatives have started elsewhere in Europe, Ehsan Jami's group has stirred intense interest in the Netherlands, which has one million Muslims, and has re-ignited the country's highly-emotive Islam debate.
"We have an enormous problem with apostasy in Islam. We see a lot of problems where people want to leave Islam but they can't," Jami said in an interview, while body guards stood watch at the door.
"There are five sharia schools in Islam which say if you leave Islam you must be killed," he said. Apostasy is punishable by death or imprisonment in some Muslim countries and deplored throughout the Islamic world.