Misleading BBC Headline

The BBC lead a story:

Somali executed for 'apostasy'

Which implied that the Somali, Abdirahman Ahmed, had been executed because of supposed Apostacy. In fact the "Islamists" actual beef with Abdirahman Ahmed was that he had helped the Ethiopians

Mr Ahmed was also accused of spying for Ethiopian forces, said to be backing the forces of warlord Barre Hiraale in trying to recapture Kismayo.
He is believed to be the first politician executed by the Islamists.
Ethiopian forces are pulling out of Somalia, two years after they intervened to try to oust Islamists from the capital Mogadishu.

Which lead to:

Sheikh Hassan Yakub - the spokesman for Kismayo's Islamist administration - told the BBC's Somali Service that Mr Ahmed had admitted during his interrogation that he worked with those backed by Ethiopia. This, he said, was the basis for the court's opinion that he had changed his religion.

Om other words there was an assumption of apostasy based on his backing of Ethiopia. Now that's not acceptable to me, but it is clear that Mr Ahmed did not commit apostasy, rather he aided an "enemy government force" which is treason. That the Somalis put it in religious terms is besides the point. Mr. Ahmed could have recited the Shahada and still be executed.