In October, Islamic scholar Jalal Abualrub announced the opening of the IslamLife Center in Richmond, Virginia. The center will offer Islamic studies for children aged 10-16, a bookstore, and an Internet radio station, Islam Life Radio.

Abualrub, who operates the website Islam Life, recently published a Q&A lesson in an article entitled No Compulsion in Religion’ vs. ‘Killing the Apostate’. In it he condemns former Muslims who “committed the crime of abandoning Islam.” The Quran verse so often cited by Muslim apologists, “there is no compulsion in Islam,” applies far less than claimed by those who would “corrupt Islam,” he fiercely insists. For apostates, there is plenty of compulsion in Islam – stay Muslim or die.

If you are or ever were Muslim and stopped praying, or committed adultery, or took a sip of wine, or cursed Mohammad, he warns you that Islam has plenty of compulsion for you too. For these “crimes,” he calls for punishment under the “Islamic Penal Code.” I’m pretty sure that doesn’t apply in Richmond, Virginia, but sharia courts elsewhere interprets that as anything from lashes and imprisonment to death by stoning.

Kill the Apostate! 04 October 2006, by Jalal Abualrub … Just like the Old Testament, Islam condemns the apostate to death, “He who reverts from his religion, then kill him“; [an authentic Hadeeth collected in as-Silsilah as-Sahihah 487]. This is the Law of Islam and we certainly believe in it. Compulsion in Religion and Killing the Apostate 02 June 2014, by Jalal Abualrub Q: Many Muslim groups in the US, like CAIR, MAS, MPAC, said that since there is no compulsion in Islam, how can [a Muslim government] execute the apostate … your website said that the apostate should be executed… A: This Ayah is about those who are not Muslim: Muslims are not allowed to force non-Muslims to embrace Islam. This does not have anything to do with the punishment of Muslims who commit the crime of abandoning Islam, thus, becoming non-Muslim after they had been Muslim… These are two completely different topics: forcing non-Muslims to embrace Islam vs. the punishment, carried out by the Islamic State –not individuals, of those who were Muslim but committed the crime of abandoning Islam… Should we also abandon the punishment for the adulterer, since ‘there is no compulsion in religion’? Should we abandon other parts of the Islamic penal code if the offense does not really harm others, such as abandoning prayer, drinking, cursing the Prophet, …etc., since ‘there is no compulsion in religion’? Who has any right to contradict the Prophet of Allah, …who says, “He who reverts from his religion, then kill him”?… Muslims should be strong and stand behind every part of their law, if they seek Allah’s Help and Support that is.

In a recent article, Thinking of Buying Slave-Girls from ISIS?, Abualrub asks:

How can anyone in the middle of these terrible conflicts think about buying women from ISIS? Have they no sense? These women, Muslim or non-Muslim, were not captured in a legitimate war or by a legitimate representative of a true Islamic state. They were captured by murderous gangs whose main harm is targeted against other Muslims… [Slaves] may be lawful, if they are captured while fighting the Muslims and defending the disbelievers. Allah entitled the victorious Muslims to take captives. Later, they may sell the captives and thus they become servants to anyone who buys them under certain rights and obligations… Therefore, those who may buy slave girls from ISIS, will be committing a major crime, a substantial sin. These girls were kidnapped from their peaceful areas and villages… by herds of Khawarij that have rebelled against Islamic law.

So for our newest instructor of Virginia’s children, rape isn’t a problem. Slavery isn’t a problem. The only problem with slaver rapists is if they aren’t legitimate representatives of a true Islamic state, or if the slave’s people weren’t defending disbelievers. Otherwise, Allah approves.

Abualrub demands that others show respect for Islam. No ideology, no idea, has a right to respect, only people do. But it does beg the question of how much respect Abualrub shows for the majority religion of his host country. He answered that in November in this post on his website:

Un-Pretty Evangelist in His Wife’s Night-Gown: The Lying Spirit of I Kings 22: That they lie and deceive is understandable in light of what their ‘holy’ book teaches them, “I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.” I Kings 22 is a story of lies and intentional deceit sanctioned by the god of the Old Testament. Allah is free from this terrible slander. So, it is natural for those who read such false stories and believe in them, to be lying devils in the mouth of Muhammad and his wife, Aishah.

Excerpts from more fundamentalist extremism Abualrub has posted on his website, IslamicLife:

Confirmation that Judaism and Christianity are Forms of Disbelief

11 March 2006, by Sheikh Muhammad Salih Al-Uthaimeen (Source) Q: One of the preachers in one of the mosques in Europe claimed that it is not allowed to consider Jews and Christians disbelievers… A: I say: The statement that came from that man is misguidance. In fact, it can be blasphemy. This is because Allaah has declared that Jews and Christians are disbelievers in His Book… Allaah’s curse be on them… “Those who disbelieve among the People of the Book and the idolaters will abide in the Fire of Hell.” [al-Bayyinah 98:6] … If anyone has any doubt concerning them being disbelievers, then he himself is also a disbeliever… Therefore, they all deserve to have the wrath of Allaah upon them…

On the Interfaith Movement 24 November 2010, by Jalal Abualrub In Islam, Christianity is rejected and those who believe in it are considered as true disbelievers. There is no praise for Christianity in the Quran… Allah (I) declares that the only accepted religion to Him, is Islam… Prophet Muhammad (r) declares that any Christian or Jew who hears about him, but does not believe in him, will enter Hell… [T]he Quran declares all religions, except Islam, to be false religions, and their followers of being failures. These Ayat are very clear in their call to Jews and Christians to become Muslim to avoid Allah’s anger and wrath. This is the only way they can attain peace. …We cannot take any more public peace, humanity, jobs, business, security, health or wealth from Christians. Ruling on the call to unite all religions

Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid, Fatwa (found also here). …One of the basic principles of belief in Islam is that we must believe that every Jew, Christian or other person who does not enter Islam is a kaafir, and that those against whom proof is established must be named as kaafirs and regarded as enemies of Allaah, His Messenger and the believers, and that they are the people of Hell… Hence whoever does not regard the Jews and Christians as kuffaar is himself a kaafir… …[C]alling for the uniting of all religions, and for them to be brought close to one another and cast in the same mould, is an evil and crafty call whose aim is to mix truth with falsehood, to destroy Islam and undermine its pillars, and to tempt its followers into total apostasy… It would break down the psychological barrier that exists between the Muslims and the kaafirs, and there would be no sense of al-Walaa’ wa’l-Baraa’ (loyalty and friendship towards Muslims, disavowal and enmity towards kaafirs), or jihaad and fighting to make the word of Allaah supreme in the earth of Allaah. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allaah, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allaah and His Messenger (Muhammad( (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islaam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” [Soorah at-Tawbah (9):29] The Seven Gates of Hell

13 April 2011 by Jalal Abualrub The First Gate… will scorch the faces of the men and women who enter it!!!… It will eat away at their flesh and Allah says: “Every time the fire eats away their flesh We will replace it with new flesh so they can taste the punishment…” The Second Gate… will eat away at their body parts one by one, both internally and externally… The Third Gate…nwill eat up the flesh of the human being and not his bones… The Fourth Gate… will shatter the bones of the human being and burn the heart and other internal organs. The fire will start at his feet and burn all the way through until it reaches the heart!!!… The individual in the fire will turn completely black when the sparks ascend up and scorch their faces, hands and bodies. They will cry tears until their tear ducts are completely exhausted then they will cry blood and when the blood is completely exhausted they will cry pus until the pus is completely exhausted!!!!… The Fifth Gate…, as Allah mentions in many verses: “Seize him and shackle him!! Then roast him in Jaheem (i.e. hell fire) in chains… it is actually one big piece of hot coal… The Sixth Gate… In it are 300 castles and in each castle there are 300 houses and in each house there are 300 types of punishments. In this particular level of hell there are scorpions and snakes, ropes, chains and shackles!! There is also something call the “Pit of Agony”, which is incomparable and unparalleled to any other type of punishment in hell… The Seventh Gate… is a mountain made of fire and the enemies of Allah will be laid on their faces on this mountain and their hands will be tied to their necks and their necks tied to their feet…

This is the “peace” now being taught to the children of Richmond. Welcome to Virginia, Sheik.

h/t Ex-Muslims Forum