'Murtad' (apostate) and 'Kafir' (disbeliever) is meant to dehumanize and belittle, just like the use of the n-word towards blacks. Muslims use these words to put us down and abuse us. We are the minority with no power that they want to stomp on and silence.
Dehumanizing is the first step on the path to evil. This is what the Nazis did to the Jews. They made them 'the other'. They accused them of spoiling their society and values and ruining their culture. Then they boycotted them and eventually started murdering them.
Many Muslims think its justifiable to kill exmuslims under certain conditions. What are these conditions? You openly defy Islam. You reject it. You leave it. And you live in a Muslim state with shariah law. Under these conditions your blood is halal to spill.
We need to condemn even this theoretical justification for taking our lives. We need to condemn it because everyone has the right to live and the right to choose their own religion (or no religion). Leaving Islam is not a crime. Not a real one anyway.
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