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"apostate" Definitions
  1. a person who has rejected their religious or political beliefs

119 Sentences With "apostate"

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The evangelist or the apostate: That's how the choice was framed.
But apostate conservatives also deserve admiration for the sacrifices they're making.
"Your apostate brother was a loyalist to the tyrants," he said.
"Not if the father is an apostate," comes the freezing reply.
In the world of German economists, some view him as an apostate.
As an analyst, Frum has the advantage of being a semi-apostate.
It targeted a hotel frequented by the members of the apostate government.
He beat me and said I was an apostate for trying to leave.
Despite Mr. Veiroj's blithe Buñuel-like disdain for religion, "The Apostate" lacks teeth.
Then I started questioning things, did some research, and became a closet apostate.
" The apostate "needs to be eliminated by the death penalty, to protect Muslims.
But despite the church labeling him an apostate, Dehlin still considers himself a Mormon.
A secretive community of farmers, activists and apostate nuns seeks to "remediate" the land.
A Muslim who works for a government that ISIS deems apostate will still be targeted.
They accomplished this by running their own chosen candidates against any and all apostate dissenters.
The Shabab have called the new president, Mr. Mohamed, an apostate and an American puppet.
Al-Shabaab's second goal is to "liberate" Muslims in the region from so-called apostate rule.
Islamic State propaganda regularly portrays the Brotherhood negatively and its statements have called Mursi an apostate.
"Every infidel and apostate in Egypt and everywhere should know that our war ... continues," it said.
He is considered an "apostate," someone who turned his back on his prophet and the priesthood.
A month ago, a spokesman for Islamic State urged supporters to target "the secular, apostate Turkish government".
He calls on IS fighters "to wage war inside Turkey," calling the country apostate and double-faced.
What if We The People of APP could vote on whether a comedian is a patriot or apostate?
Callimachi: And you felt that he really was — I mean, so, the word "murtad" means an apostate, right?
The sudden arrival of a new class of tech skeptic, the industry apostate, has only complicated the discussion.
Willner's objection is significant because he isn't one of Facebook's apostate critics like Chris Hughes or Roger McNamee.
There's a special contempt reserved for the political apostate—an accusation of intellectual collapse, an odor of betrayal.
They are breakaway Buddhists, the apostate priest says; they worship the "Sun of God," not the Son of God.
It's an urgent subject for them, and only in part because, like all apostate professionals, they crave mainstream acceptance.
She chose instead to speak out and, as an apostate, threatens to do serious damage to the cult leader.
Mr Shekau justifies his murder of Muslims on the basis that anyone refusing to engage in jihad is an apostate.
Throughout the meal, a monk reads aloud from a text; during my stay there was something about Julian the Apostate.
"They told me I was an apostate," Young said, referring to his bishop Mike Kennington and stake president David Hruska.
He called the homeopath who combined his teachings and practices with conventional medicine "an apostate and a traitor," according to Ernst.
It said that "scores" of consulate personnel and "apostate Pakistani intelligence officers" died in the operation and that one attacker escaped.
Ironically, Ms Atwood's essay notes that "anyone who doesn't puppet their views is seen as an apostate, a heretic or a traitor".
And a fifth follow one of three Sufi schools of Islam, an esoteric and mystical branch derided as apostate by hardline Salafists.
The fight for Syria against the nominally Sunni "Takfiri" (apostate) ISIS, has been a gift to the Shia Hezbollah, spurring recruitment efforts.
Last month, Ellison was also singled out by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as an "apostate" worthy of death.
He also knows that he's hardly the first rich business leader to turn apostate and critique the capitalist processes that enriched him.
For the militant group, a Sunni apostate has no right to life or property, and they may be executed regardless of their faith.
The group said Adani targeted the operations room of the "apostate Security Belt", destroying it and killing and wounding all those inside it.
Her memoir, most valuable as an artifact of how one individual can escape mind control, tracks this transformation from zealous believer to apostate.
Iraqi insurgents considered them traitors and apostate to the faith; average Iraqi civilians considered them collaborators, and treated them and their families that way.
And our soldiers are presently sharpening their knives to slaughter the atheists, the mockers of the Prophet, and every other apostate in the region.
In fact, the Somali-born ex-Muslim champions free speech, human rights and lives under 24-hour guard for speaking out as an apostate.
So are conservatives angry at the apostate Trump or indebted to him for helping them politically when they were not able to help themselves?
It described the Reina nightclub, where many foreigners as well as Turks were killed, as a gathering point for Christians celebrating their "apostate holiday".
How could a jurist who was so carefully vetted for ideological purity have turned apostate on such a defining issue, saving Obamacare from oblivion?
It was the well-funded metastasis of extreme Saudi religious intolerance — its Wahhabi orthodoxy — into forms of murderous Islamist hatred of the apostate West.
The Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj's leisurely comedy-drama "The Apostate" has its charms, though the story (and its hero) could benefit from a tarter approach.
For too long, the Washington-led West has ignored Saudi Arabia's promotion of Wahhabism and its playing of the destructive sectarian card against "apostate" Shiites.
On Friday, April 2, using his pulpit at the Amr ibn al-As mosque during midday prayers, the victorious Shaheen declared the scholar an apostate.
Professor Hart was an iconoclastic conservative — some would say a political apostate — who supported stem cell research and criticized the Republican platform on the environment.
"Soldiers of the caliphate were able to eliminate the apostate, named 'Samir al-Din', by stabbing him with a knife," SITE quoted the group as saying.
In an online statement the group praised the shooting as an attack on an "apostate" celebration and revenge for a Turkish offensive against it in Syria.
He would notice a dismissive gesture in the congregation during his sermons, or someone would curse his wife, or mutter "apostate" or "infidel" as he passed.
But they had already shunned me as an apostate for my unbelief, and I know about their belief, so the conversations were awkward and over quickly.
That book sets the Latter-day Saints apart from other Christian denominations, who even today often view the relative newcomer faith as suspect — or even apostate.
This was followed in 2011 by Eve Annenberg's quite different "Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish," a clever transposition of Shakespeare featuring a cast of young apostate Hasidim.
A month ago, a spokesman for Islamic State called on supporters to carry out a wave of attacks and urged them to target "the secular, apostate Turkish government".
"Armed with machine guns and hand grenades, they raided the gatherings of the apostate Jordanian security and the citizens of the crusade alliance in Karak," read the statement.
That statement could be read as the movie's startling admission of guilt, except that it's the liberal, blithely apostate character who's saying it, so it can't be trusted.
In a Politico op-ed late last month, Jeff Flake, the pseudo-apostate Republican senator from Arizona, warned that his party was in "denial" about President Donald Trump.
An Islamic State operative called each of the Sunni captives' names, noting their hometowns, but when he turned to the Shiites, he just said " apostate," a death sentence.
Some consider Sufis to be apostate, because saints were not part of the original practice of Islam at the time of the Prophet Muhammad, who died in 632.
Under Islamic law, a Muslim woman cannot marry a non-Muslim, and Nasr was now considered an apostate, which meant Ebtehal had to be separated from the heretic.
In a written statement posted to its social media accounts, IS said the attack targeted "the apostate Yemeni army" and named the attacker as Abu Ali al-Adeni.
To be an apostate is a major crime in Islam, and the sheikh's supporters would have immediately understood that anyone guilty of such a charge had to be killed.
Gary Marcus is a pensive, bespectacled 48-year-old professor of psychology and neuroscience at New York University, and he's probably the most famous apostate of orthodox deep learning.
Islamic State said the attack targeted "the apostate Yemeni army" and named the attacker as Abu Ali al-Adeni, according to a statement posted on its social media accounts.
Understandably, given the hermetically sealed nature of the sect and the shattering designation of apostate applied to those who dare question the organization, memoirs of departure have been few.
The pamphlets left behind said the Islamic State claimed responsibility for attacking media which are "siding with the apostate army and government of Pakistan in their global crusade against Islam".
" The poem and the historic obscenity trial that followed turned Ginsberg into a culture hero and an apostate, treated in many quarters, as he later complained, like a "barbarian jerk.
"Soldiers of the caliphate in Bangladesh were able to assassinate the polytheist apostate Hafidh Abdul Razzaq, one of the top preachers for the Rafidha religion," SITE quoted the group as saying.
It is present at the outposts of Molina's Cantina around town, at the Original Ninfa's on Navigation, at the Ninfa's apostate El Tiempo Cantina next door, at Spanish Flowers, at Sylvia's.
DeWine is running as a pretty conventional Republican, but he's been forced to parry attacks from Taylor that he is an apostate to President Donald Trump's agenda on immigration and trade.
"The apostate Turkish government should know that the blood of Muslims shed with airplanes and artillery fire will, with God's permission, ignite a fire in their own land," the statement said.
During that visit, in what appeared to be an act of rebellion, Nayeri's mother also reached out to Jesus, knowing in Iran she would be considered an apostate, punishable by death.
The President-elect, who ran on populism rather than ideology and was once viewed as a political apostate by many conservatives, might represent the movement's most significant governing moment since Ronald Reagan.
Like a pinball, the word "apostate" bounced from minaret to minaret across Cairo, and by the following Friday, in sermons across the country, preachers went after Nasr—even in his own village.
As an apostate, under Islamic law, he had lost the right to live and—perhaps even more precious to him as a newlywed—the right to be married to a Muslim woman.
It told me that that apocalyptic Yawm al-Qiyamah (day of judgement) would come when I would be judged as an apostate, one of the worst of sins, and put into Jahannum (hell).
" On Monday the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the mass shooting, which left 39 dead and dozens more injured, calling the Reina club a gathering point for Christians celebrating their "apostate holiday.
The pamphlets left behind said "Islamic State Khorasan Province" claimed responsibility for attacking media that it accused of "siding with the apostate army and government of Pakistan in their global crusade against Islam".
Expressing confidence that his Islamic State fighters would prevail against Shi'ite Muslims, Western "crusaders" and Sunni "apostate" countries Turkey and Saudi Arabia, Baghdadi called on the jihadists fighting in Mosul to "wreak havoc".
"The apostate Turkish government should know that the blood of Muslims shed with airplanes and artillery fire will, with God's permission, ignite a fire in their own land," the Islamic State declaration said.
The president's willingness to stand up to China leads devout practitioners to see him as a savior "sent by heaven to destroy the Communist Party," Hurley, the Falun Gong apostate, told NBC News.
Human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali called for reformation of Islam, and has been condemned not only by the mullahs who regard her an apostate but by some western non-Muslims for doing so.
"The martyred brother Talha al-Khorsani was able to infiltrate a bus transporting elements from the apostate Afghani intelligence and detonated his explosive vest," Islamic State said in a statement posted on social media.
"I call on everyone ... to work to uproot this apostate, criminal and corrupt regime, and to jihad with weapons, money, word and actions, raids and ambushes, strikes and protests," Zawahiri said in the recording.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali al Shabaab Islamist militants, who have carried out frequent bombings in the capital, Mogadishu, said a former leader who defected to the government side was an apostate who could be killed.
After short pleasantries, they notified Young that a council of Mormon men would decide September 213 whether his public criticism of the church, including a 214-day hunger strike, had rendered him an apostate.
"They cannot go back to Saudi Arabia as they have renounced their belief in Islam and would be considered to be apostate by the Saudi government — something that carries the death penalty," he said.
The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, boasted that it had struck an "apostate crowd," and used a slur for Alawites, the minority group that predominates in the pro-government district in Homs.
"We are behind the attack at the checkpoint from where the president's palace, parliament house and the interior ministry of the apostate government are guarded," said Abdiasis Abu Musab, the group's spokesman for military operations.
"In a successful security operation, soldiers of the caliphate in Bangladesh were able to assassinate the polytheist apostate Hafidh Abdul Razzaq," the Islamic State said in a statement posted online after the murder on Monday.
In a statement claiming the attack on Monday, Islamic State described the club as a gathering point for Christians celebrating their "apostate holiday" and said the shooting was revenge for Turkish military involvement in Syria.
The full effect of the defections is unclear, although al Shabaab was needled into denouncing one former top commander, Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur, as an apostate after he publicly urged his clansmen to fight the insurgency.
"On '9 November 2015,' Anwar Abu Zeid – after repenting from his former occupation – attacked the American crusaders and their apostate allies, killing two American crusaders, two Jordanian apostates, and one South African crusader," the magazine says.
They are well aware that, by framing my historical assessment of early Islam as an attack on the Prophet, they are potentially marking me for death, either as an apostate or a slanderer, under Islamic law.
"I'd say Strobel's book did more to damage my faith than strengthen it," recalls Connell, who now runs his own former-fundamentalist blog called The Holy Apostate, mostly read by people grappling with their religious past.
DUBAI, July 31 (Reuters) - Islamic State on Sunday condemned as an "apostate" a U.S. Muslim soldier killed in Iraq whose story has re-ignited debate in the 2016 presidential election on the role of Muslims in American life.
Some extremist Sunni groups operating in Syria, like the Islamic State and the Nusra Front, apply the apostate label to Shiites, who make up Hezbollah's base and form a majority of the population of Iran, a Shiite theocracy.
Teodoro Petkoff, a fiercely independent Venezuelan political figure — whose cinematic trajectory from armed Marxist guerrilla to government minister to apostate under the country's socialist president, Hugo Chavez, reflected the evolution of the Latin American left — died on Oct.
This resonated strongly with me so I joined forces with Aliyah Saleem, a feminist ex-Muslim activist, and we started what grew to become "Faith to Faithless," an organization that creates online and offline platforms to promote apostate voices.
Concerted effort Thursday's meeting was especially intriguing because it appeared to be the most concerted effort yet by the conservative movement, many of whose adherents view the New York real estate mogul as a political apostate, to stop Trump.
In April the magazine carried an interview with the "emir of the caliph's soldiers in Bengal", who said they were "sharpening their knives to slaughter the atheists, the mockers of the Prophet, and every other apostate in the region".
"In continuation of the blessed operations that Islamic State is conducting against the protector of the cross, Turkey, a heroic soldier of the caliphate struck one of the most famous nightclubs where the Christians celebrate their apostate holiday," the statement said.
"The apostate Somali regime often resorts to fabricated reports in a desperate attempt manipulate public opinion and hide its mounting security failures in the capital and the endemic corruption hampering all its institutions," said Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, the insurgency's military operations spokesman.
"He tried to convince me that I was an apostate and that my parents were apostates too, and I have to convince my family to give up the pleasures of the world and return to Allah," the smuggler said of his 2015 imprisonment.
Looking at the history of the past two decades, and Saudi Arabia's consistent underwriting of the Wahhabi orthodoxy behind murderous Islamist hatred of the apostate West, it is impossible to argue that Iran has inflicted more harm on American interests than Saudi Arabia has.
"If you are unable to travel to the Levant (Syria), then fight the apostate armies in your country," 17-year-old Muhammad Riyad, the Afghan refugee who carried out the axe attack on a train in Bavaria earlier this month, urged other Muslims in a similar video.
Our team's captain, for a while, was a handyman for a bunch of wealthy tenants of Upper East Side town houses; reared in Detroit, he'd played college hockey at Liberty University, during a born-again-Christian phase, and then, as a pot-smoking apostate, had been Woody Allen's superintendent.
They bully and cajole ordinary Muslims around the world with this narrative: Support us in our claims for a caliphate, oppose Muslim governments and the West, and if you don't, then you are sinful; if you speak against us, you are an apostate, and we will kill you.
New criminal charges may also include racketeering, on the theory that the DOS organization in general was devoted to criminality, as well as financial charges related to supposed crimes previously outlined by an apostate girlfriend, such as bringing cash from Nxivm classes taught in Mexico over the border and visa violations.
The book went to press fractionally before the Brexit vote so the characterisation of Britain might now need to be sharpened up: the church's most sceptical member is not merely shuffling in the pews or refusing to sing hymns, but actually heading for the ancient oak door, as behoves a full-blown apostate.
It understands, in rare and terrifying way, the mental toll of feeling like either an exile or a dangerous apostate within one's faith community, alienated both from a caring God and from the platitudes that seem to satisfy others in the pews — of becoming convinced that if you're not frightened then you're purposely shutting yourself off from reality.
A Spanish writer who fought in the French Resistance and was at various points a Communist and a Communist apostate, Mr. Semprún is perhaps most known in the realm of movies for his screenplay for Costa-Gravras's political assassination thriller "Z" (showing on Saturday), a rare film in which a disclaimer at the outset — signed by both the screenwriter and the director — notes that any similarity to real figures is intentional.

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