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I get this all the time. Don't judge religion by its fundamentalists and its extremists. No, why should I? I don't have to. I judge it by its foundational texts and I judge it by the statements of its authorities.
They take a case from the Muslim foundational documents, the Hadith, which have equal canonical authority. They say if someone becomes an apostate, leaves or changes their religion, they must be killed. The sentence is death. Don't anyone be telling me that's a metaphor. Oh, it's just intended as a sort of general admonition. No, it means what it says and it's been applied to a couple of people who now have to live friends of mine as a matter of fact as political refugees in Washington DC who know how true the impact of their hadith. There's no wiggle room there.
So the question for a Muslim must be asked, do you think this is the word of God or don't you? Because if you don't, you're saying that God shouldn't be able to tell you to do an evil thing and if you do, you're saying he should. In either case, faith falls as a reinforcement of ordinary morality.