Case Dismissed

The apostasy case against Abdul Rahman in Afghanistan has been dropped due to 'lack of evidence'. Well, that is good news - although his future safety in Afghanistan is highly questionable. And it leaves open the question 'is apostasy punishable by death'?

Reading various blogs on the subject written by Muslims, the consensus is 'no, don't be a nitwit', and there's plenty of quotes from the Quran - 'Allah will be the judge', 'no compulsion in religion' etc. So once again we see that the nature of Shari'a boils down to interpretation, and interpretations differ widly from one sect to another and from one country to another. They can't all be right, so where is the mechanism to fix them?