The odds of him being executed are much smaller than 1 in 25. I doubt there will be an official opening of a court case. I don't know which way out they take but the worst to happen to him the official way is him to be declared insane.

Well, that's the good old way of totalitarian mindsets and countries.

On the other hand, the words of Islamic mullahs are deeply worrying. Some of them really think that way and argue that way and we both know that some of the followers take that verbatim. This religion must start to realise it is one among many and that freedom of religion also means that one may stop being a Muslim without any punishment. The German Islam scholar Hans-Peter Raddatz argues that the idea of apostasy being completely impossible for any sane Muslim is so deeply entrenched in the core of the faith that they are not even remotely likely to give up this idea.


Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice, and freedom, either individually or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching.

One misses a similar freedom in the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam which has some interesting deviations from the UN version.

Wolfgang