No Place to Call Home: Experiences of Apostates from Islam, Failures of the International Community

This report clearly demonstrates that apostates from Islam to another religion suffer a host of serious abuses from their families, communities, and nations. This is due to a combination of factors including the stance of traditional Islamic theology and jurisprudence on apostasy, increasing radicalism within Islam, the cultural dynamics of shame and honor, the role Islam plays in communal identities, and the perception that apostasy is akin to betraying the world of Islam.