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The evidence for this is the apostasy of some in the time of the Prophet (PBUH), on whom the ruling was not carried out.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: hatemalhaf
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On both sides of the Atlantic, I know plenty of people who are in my position - successful wage earners thrown out of work for the apostasy of turning 50.
BBC: Class calculator: A US view of the class system
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They issued a 15-point declaration full of fine words about loving God and one's neighbour, but omitting any reference to the thorny problems of apostasy and religious conversion in the Middle East.
BBC: Reaching across the religious divide
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For their part, the devout immigrants considered the English Jews doctrinally lax to the point of apostasy.
ECONOMIST: The many mansions in one east London house of God
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Before Mr Thurmond's apostasy, the Republicans were little more than an esoteric cult in the South.
ECONOMIST: Lexington
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Some fundamentalists even maintain that adding anything to the ground beef is apostasy.
NPR: Building a Better Burger
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For the haredim, the ultra-Orthodox, who believe that the Jews should return to their Biblical homeland only after the appearance of the mashiach, the Messiah, Zionism was a threat, even an apostasy, which ran counter to the traditional attachment to Jewish law.
NEWYORKER: The Party Faithful
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If he is no longer making fun of himself, because he is too busy proving to the nation that he is a serious commander-in-chief-in-waiting and if his followers regard humour as apostasy, then the man is in danger of becoming an icon on a pedestal.
BBC: Washington diary: Political humour
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Richard Lugar and Orrin Hatch -- both stalwarts of the GOP who have committed apostasy by trying to work across party lines -- face primaries this season that imperil their survival: A poll Thursday morning found Lugar down 5 points to a tea party-backed challenger in Indiana, and Hatch failed to secure a 60% supermajority at his party's convention in Utah, sending his race to a primary.
CNN: What's wrong with American politics
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These were considered by the dominant Left culture to be an intolerable apostasy and resulted in a blight on Ron's ability to get work anywhere in the entertainment industry.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Ron Silver, a profile in courage
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He saw earlier than many the madness of clinging unelectably to the old faith, and was more ruthless than most in his apostasy.
ECONOMIST: The meaning of Mandelson