Islam for the day

The BBC has an article about apostasy:

A Sudanese court has sentenced a woman to hang for apostasy after she left Islam and married a Christian man. "We gave you three days to recant but, if you insist on not returning to Islam, I sentence you to be hanged to death," the judge told the woman, AFP reports.
Western embassies and rights groups had urged the Sudan to respect the right of the pregnant woman to choose her religion. Local media report the sentence would not be carried out for two years after she has given birth. Sudan has a majority Muslim population, which is governed by Islamic law. It rules that apostasy, the abandonment of one's religious faith, is a crime. The judge also sentenced the woman to a hundred lashes after convicting her of adultery, because her marriage to a Christian man was not valid under Islamic law.
Earlier in the hearing, an Islamic cleric spoke with her in a caged dock for about thirty minutes, AFP reports. Then she calmly told the judge: "I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy."
Amnesty International said the woman, Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag, was raised as an Orthodox Christian, her mother's religion, because her father, a Muslim, was reportedly absent during her childhood.
In court, the judge addressed her by her Muslim name, Adraf al-Hadi Mohammed Abdullah. She was convicted of adultery on the grounds that her marriage to a Christian man from South Sudan was void under the Sudan's version of Islamic law, which says Muslim women can not marry non-Muslims.
The woman was originally sentenced to death on Sunday but given until Thursday to return to Islam. The BBC's Osman Mohamed, in Khartoum, says death sentences are rarely carried out in the Sudan.
The embassies of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands issued a joint statement expressing "deep concern" about the case and urged the Sudan to respect the right to freedom of religion, AFP says.
The woman was arrested and charged with adultery in August of 2013, and the court added the charge of apostasy in February of  2014, when she said she was a Christian and not a Muslim, Amnesty International said. The group called for her immediate release.
She is said to be eight months' pregnant.

Rico says that, beyond hoping that MERS takes them all out, you can only shake your head over idiocy like this... (Of course, if you say apostasy three times fast, it does sound funnier.)