Is leaving the faith of Islam punishable by death.

Submitted by Joseph (United States), Sep 25, 2007 at 00:08

Hi, i would like to find out if it's true that leaving the faith of islam is punishable by death and is this in the koran or any other books of the muslim faith.

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