Apostasy of a child

Submitted by Jan (Austria), Jan 15, 2008 at 16:54

Islamic law generally considers only persons who are

• adult
• sane
• under no compulsion

AND leave Islam as punishable by death.

Islam defines adulthood for boys as the ones that have reached puberty (visual signs of it) ,which is nowadays stretched to 18 years old.

So the question is if Obama was adult by any definition when he became a christian.

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