- In 2005 a Muslim scholar named Mahmoud Muhammad Taha was
executed for apostasy. His crime in sharia law had been to say that the
message of the Koran could be divided into two parts: the (relatively
tolerant) Meccan verses which were meant to have eternal and global
applicability and the (genocidal discriminatory) Medinan verses which
were only supposed to apply to that time and that place. See Andrew
March, Apostasy: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide, Oxford
University Press, Yale, 2010, p.18. ↵
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