Re: Muslims converting to other religions
On several political levels it is a threat; you're now at the very least non-committed to the state ideology , which implies that you are no longer interested in it's propagation or participation within society, you may well have aligned with a new faith or social group...and so on.
in the context of this thread and most of the time its used these days, it is taken as a religious matter. but i see ur point and thats wot i have been trying to tell people that the examples of apostates being punished they cite are not valid in a religious context. They were punished becasue of the political threat they posed to the islamic state.
about the second point...
There would be other groups present in the state who might not be committed to the state ideology(read religion). Would they be considered traitors then? If one more person is added to their numbers how does it elevate the level of threat? This is the peron in question here. Apprehension of his/her motives is one thing but prescribing capital punishment is going really overborad.