.... If you google "should apostates be killed", one of the first links that comes up is to one Bassam Zawadi, who appears to be a prolific Islamic spokesman, particularly on the topic of "refuting Christianity". He has this to say under the defiant heading, Of course Apostates Should Be Killed:
There seems to be a problem with many "modernist and liberal" Muslims out there who would like to "sugarcoat" the religion of Islam by distorting what it really teaches. There are those that go at length to deny that Islam teaches that apostates must be killed. They either deny the explicit hadith that speak about this or reinterpret it to only refer to those apostates that would fight the Muslims. [Mick Hartley] Read more