Some Wiccans regard the Horned God as dying at Lammas, August 1; also known as Lughnasadh, which is the first harvest sabbat. It’s important to note that the holiday doesn’t actually fall on the first day of the first month of the Jewish calendar. Saudi Arabia has no penal code, and defaults its law entirely to Sharia and its implementation to religious courts. Kashgari repented, upon which the courts ordered that he be placed in protective custody. The Mauritanian law requires that an apostate who has repented should be placed in custody and jailed for a period for the crime. In a separate case, Ould Mkhaitir, a Mauritanian engineer, was arrested for apostasy in 2014 as well, for publishing an essay on racism in Mauritanian society with criticism of Islamic history and a claim that Mohammad’s discriminated in his treatment of people from different tribes and races. In 2014, Jemal Oumar, a Mauritanian journalist, was arrested for apostasy, after he posted a critique of Mohammad online.

Similarly, two Saudi Sunni Muslim citizens were arrested and charged with apostasy for adopting the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam. Articles 12 and 259 of the Yemen Penal Code address apostasy, the former requires Sharia sentence be used for apostasy and the latter specifies death penalty for apostates of Islam. Article 1 and Article 66 of UAE’s Penal Code requires hudud crimes to be punished with the death penalty. Omani jurists state that this deference to Sharia, and alternatively the blasphemy law under Article 209 of Omani law, allows the state to pursue death penalty against Muslim apostates, if it wants to. Under Article 295-C of its penal code, any Pakistani Muslim who feels his or her religious feelings have been hurt, directly or indirectly, for any reason or any action of another Pakistani citizen can accuse blasphemy and open a criminal case against anyone. The Pakistani judge hearing the case rejected the idea, saying that Iqbal could only be sentenced if it could be proven he had committed blasphemy. The case law in Saudi Arabia, and consensus of its jurists is that Islamic law imposes the death penalty on apostates.

The prescribed punishment for apostasy is the death penalty. Its Law 11 of 2004 specific traditional Sharia prosecution and punishment for apostasy, considering it a hudud crime punishable by death penalty. The penal code of Morocco does not impose the death penalty for apostasy. However, Islam is the official state religion of Morocco under its constitution. However, under Law 32 of 1997 on Personal Status for Muslims, an apostate’s marriage is considered annulled and inheritance rights denied when the individual commits apostasy. For example, Saudi authorities charged Hamza Kashgari, a Saudi writer, in 2012 with apostasy based on comments he made on Twitter. Saudi Arabia school textbooks include chapters with justification for the social exclusion and killing of apostates. He fled to Malaysia, where he was arrested and then extradited on request by Saudi Arabia to face charges. Apostasy law is actively enforced in Saudi Arabia. Apostasy is a crime in Somalia. Apostasy is a crime in the United Arab Emirates. Apostasy in Islam is a crime in Qatar. UAE law considers it a crime and imposes penalties for using the Internet to preach against Islam or to proselytize Muslims inside the international borders of the nation.

Apostasy is a crime in Yemen. In 2012, Yemeni citizen Ali Qasim Al-Saeedi was arrested and charged with apostasy by Yemeni law enforcement agency after he posted his personal views questioning the teachings of Islam, on a Yemeni blogging site and his Facebook page. In 1991, Tahir Iqbal, whose had converted to Christianity from Islam, was arrested on charges of desecrating a copy of the Qur’an and making statements against the Prophet Muhammad. Apostates can be prosecuted under Pakistan’s blasphemy law, if they desecrate the Quran or make derogatory remarks against the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. Further, Pakistan has blasphemy law that carries death penalty, but the law does not define blasphemy. CEMB assists about 350 apostates a year, the majority of whom have faced death threats from Islamists or family members. It was launched in Westminster on 22 June 2007. The Council protests against Islamic states that still punish Muslim apostates with death under the Sharia law. Given this nation’s robust, longstanding commitment to freedom of religion and belief, it is no surprise that the United States is among the most religious and religiously diverse nations in the world. But thanks to the political upheavals in Russia at the time (it was staring down two revolutions and a world war) the Tunguska event wasn’t investigated until almost two decades later, when a scientific team led an expedition to the area in 1927. Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know hosts Ben Bowlin and Matt Frederick are joined by Stuff to Blow Your Mind’s Joe McCormick to examine all the evidence and attempt to explain the real cause behind Fire in the Sky.