re the inimitable rushdie in article c hkv epv blaze cs jhu edu arromdee jyusenkyou cs jhu edu ken arromdee writes in article bu edu jaeger buphy bu edu gregg jaeger writes judaism for one maddi has confirmed this for one and again i reiterate that one can easily leave the religion at any time simply by making a public declaration if one is too lazy to do that then the religion cannot be held responsible there are many islamic countries where publically renouncing islam can be quite dangerous these countries might not according to you necessarily be practicing true islam but the danger still remains one cannot blame failure to publically renounce islam on laziness as opposed to a desire to stay alive and well of course if you re planning to pull a rushdie then declaring one s leaving the religion is little to be concerned about compared to one s other plans in rushdie s case the one under discussion one can it is tragic that in some islamic countries this is so there are however islamic countries whose constitutions contains statements that islamic law is to be incorporated e g kuwait where one can freely make such statements without fear not to mention that it has already been pointed out that rushdie has said in his books that he s not a muslim and there have surely been enough readers of his books to provide the appropriate number of witnesses this story has become tiresome the conditions are clear if you care to make your point clear then make a chronology and show that he had made public statements about leaving islam prior to his writing of tsv if he did make such statements then he should have made that clear rather than trying to rejoin islam or go on talking about his personal feelings gregg
