We should love heretics, not kill them, says an unconventional scholar. On the face of things, Sudan is stony ground for Islamic reformers.
It is a country where allegations of apostasy—departing from Islam, or merely straying slightly from the received interpretation of the faith—have often been deployed as a lethal weapon in political power struggles. In 1985 a leading opponent of the regime was hanged after a court declared him to be an apostate. [The Economist] Read more
