Statistics on the Family Abandonment of Apostates
OP - June 19, 2016, 01:18 PM
Last Christmas I told my friend that 25% of Muslims in the UK support the death penalty for apostasy and also that Muslims who leave the religion are typically abandoned by their family. He did not believe me and was somewhat incredulous at this claim. So I sent him an email with a link to the poll that contains the 25% support for apostasy data. I couldn't find any compiled data on abandonment of apostates. The best I was able to do is find articles in the BBC, Guardian and other mainstream newspapers on the topic and extract the data.
The articles contained fourteen instances of Muslims leaving Islam.
My question is: Does anyone know of any sources that give data on abandonment or could be used to compile such data?
Sulaiman Vali; in fear of his life; disowned by family because he wouldn't pretend to be a Muslim
Nasreen, ex-Muslim for 9 years, but too scared to tell her parents
Imtiaz Shams, threats of violence, disowned
Sara, disowned and kicked out of house at 17; subsequently speaks with mother and sister; father will not have contact
Sofia Allam, father threatened to kill her; beaten by mother and forced out of home
Tasnim, ex-Muslim for 7 years, but too scared to tell her family
Aisha, hid apostasy from her family for years; was forced by her family to repent when it was disclosed, but still is a disbeliever privately
Hanif, staunch atheist for more than a decade, but too afraid to tell his family including his wife who he was married to in an arranged marriage
Shahid Abbas, secular debater, but too scared to tell his family he is an apostate
Maha Kamal, disowned by parents
Muz, was not disowned
Halima, too scared to tell her parents she is an apostate
Aylisha, father held knife to her throat and threatened to kill her, kicked out of home at age 14
Afzal Khan, disowned by family, friends threatened to kill him
Aaliyah, disowned by family who told her that other family members may kill her
Nissar Hussein (apostate family), multiple bricks through window, car torched, death threats from 'community'
"Hannah", daughter of imam has had to move 45 times after converting to Christianity; saturated with death threats including her father arriving at her house with 40 men to kill her
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