A state that is run by Sharia-Muslim law is required to put to death any Muslim who forsakes Islam for another religion. More subtly, when the world's best-known Protestant, the Rev. Billy Graham, went to the the Soviet Union, one of his messages was the need to obey the authorities even as the K.G.B. was dragging away Christian individuals from the very church in which he preached. The religious establishment in Israel resists the conversion to Judaism of thousands of non-Jewish Soviet emigres married to Jews because they will not live according to absolute fundamentalist understanding of Jewish religious law.
