I don't think that is true for Malaysia. If you are Muslim and renounce your religion you can get in all kinds of trouble, but not to the point of execution ... and that is in a place where you can get executed for drug trafficking.

If you are some other religion it probably wouldn't matter.

I also doubt this. Certainly at best it's a old law on the books yet to be deleted and would never be enforced.

But I'd go as far as saying it's a misinterpretation of the law.

Like....perhaps.... Sharia law is an allowed part of the legal system for Muslims. Sharia law allows the death penalty for Atheism. Except Sharia Law within the system is not allowed to impose the death penalty.

Perhaps there is a legal interpretation that allows it but no one on the net has explained how it works.

I didn't find this article to be well researched. There is a minority of athiests living in Pakistan quite openly and no specific law in Pakistan carries the death penalty for athiesm.

All of them muslim countries.

I think a comparison matrix would be interesting: countries in the Y axis, ideologies and religions and other elements of personal identity (e.g. sexual orientation) in the X column. Would provide a quick at-a-glance map of what can get you murdered where.

In addition to atheism there are of course lots of places where just being the wrong religion can get you killed, etc.