The Right Of Choice When It Comes To Belief
This is nothing new. The story of Hazrat Isa is example of how Israelite straight up tried to kill him on the accusation that he was leading people away from the religious tradition. This behavior happens, the story of the seven sleepers in Quran is about followers of Hazrat Isa trying to escape persecution for changing their religion in their search for truth (Qur’an 18:24). This is part of the scheme of God where humans are allowed to abuse free will and create evil so that obedient can be distinguished from the disobedient and matter of Paradise and Hell are finalized. It is the responsibility of scholars and leaders to understand religion properly and make up a system where extremists don’t rule religion in the same way as Pharisees ruled in time of Hazrat Isa. But in same way as Israelite erred, murdered prophets of God (let alone ordinary people changing religions) and were punished by God, Muslims will too face the same fate if they do not reform. As far as the oppressed goes and feel like their religious rights are being violated then God commands them to migrate as is the case of Muslims fleeing to Madinah. As for those who were stuck in Makkah, God sent the army He made in Madinah to free them. This is again the problem of leaders and scholars in modern time, Muslims nations should be looking out for those who are religiously persecuted, tell their fellow nations to reform or else liberate the oppressed through military intervention. For the individual, they can educate anyone who is willing to listen under their right (e.g teacher informing the student, parent informing child, ruler informing citizens) about religion having no compulsion, they can uplift scholars like Ghamidi Sahab who is speaking against this oppression. That is the principle answer. I personally fear that people won’t respond well to education in many cases, leaders don’t do their jobs and in the end, God will take His revenge as He did before with Israelite.