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NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·DECEMBER 18, 2004
United Kingdom

the Prince of Wales was reportedly brokering efforts to end the Muslim death penalty

the Prince of Wales was reportedly brokering efforts to end the Muslim death penalty

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the Prince of Wales was reportedly brokering efforts to end the Muslim death penalty on converts to other faiths. He held a private summit of Christian and Muslim leaders at Clarence House earlier in the month to explore the centuries-old Islamic law under which apostates faced persecution and even death. As an advocate of inter-faith dialogue, Prince Charles had come under pressure to criticise the religious law that, campaigners said, had resulted in hundreds of executions in countries from Iran to Sudan. 
Patrick Sookhdeo, the international director of the Barnabas Fund which campaigns on behalf of persecuted Christians abroad urged the prince and Muslim leaders in Britain to criticise openly the traditional Islamic law on apostasy, calling for it to be abolished throughout the world. "My view, and I think the other Christians shared it, is that when something is wrong it must be stated as a wrong."
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  • (Sources: Daily Telegraph, 18/12/2004)