I’ve read that the Koran itself doesn’t proscribe an Earthly execution for apostates, rather it says to let them think as they will. The punishment of death comes in the next life. This is all Islamic doctrine of course, I’m a Christian, I’m just describing it academically.
Now, there is no denying that many sects of Islam do carry out such punishments, but not all Muslims are that way. The more isolated and backwards sects do, but the Muslims that have more dealings with non-Muslims are, by necessity, less backwards and violent. At least they tend to be.
Are you willing to bet this girls life on your ‘understanding’?
It's not like they just walk up to an apostate and kill him though. They offer him a chance to recant, and if he doesn't then they kill him.
That's the Koran.
Concerning the Hypocrites who distort the words of the Prophet the Koran provides for death in their case too.
There's no ifs, ands, or buts about it ~ just kill the deviationists.
Obviously some people get away with Hypocrisy and found new Islamic sects. They and their followers have to watch out forever after because members of other sects may kill them.
Remember, all the BS in Islam occurs outside the Koran in misrepresentation of the Hadiths (the sayings of the Prophets followers, and other materials), or in that vast body called Sharia Law.
Many Moslems place more faith in Sharia than the Hadiths or the Koran.