They are often intimidated, threatened or even killed for the slightest independent views using the apostasy card to keep them quiet.
The evidence for this is the apostasy of some in the time of the Prophet (PBUH), on whom the ruling was not carried out.
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.
Abdul Rahman, a Muslim convert to Christianity, narrowly escaped the death penalty for apostasy when the Afghan government acting under enormous international pressure sidestepped the issue by ruling that he was insane and unfit to stand trial.
Abdul Rahman, a Muslim convert to Christianity, narrowly escaped the death penalty for apostasy when the Afghan government -- acting under enormous international pressure -- sidestepped the issue by ruling that he was insane and unfit to stand trial.
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.
For their part, the devout immigrants considered the English Jews doctrinally lax to the point of apostasy.
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There is jihad against any non-Muslim country and that is very linked to the concept of apostasy.
Some columnists even called for the Islamic penalty for apostasy death to be imposed on the book's author and publishers.
Just last month, her work brought an imam from Pittsburgh to call for her murder for the crime of apostasy.
Talk that some were labeling the prime minister an apostate (apostasy, or renouncing the faith, is a mortal sin in Islam) spread quickly.
While Dr. al-Haj confirms that the penalty for apostasy from Islam is death, he also recommends that when explaining this to others, you should start with the caveat that this is something which should only be carried out in a Muslim country through the court system.
This unsatisfactory ruling left unanswered a question of enormous significance: Does Islam truly require the death penalty for apostasy, and, if not, why is there so little freedom of religion in the so-called Muslim world?
Shariah is Islamic law, and it is the identical legal doctrine that demands capital punishment for apostasy and blasphemy and provides the legal and political mandates for global jihad followed religiously by the world's Muslim terrorists.
Before Mr Thurmond's apostasy, the Republicans were little more than an esoteric cult in the South.
Some fundamentalists even maintain that adding anything to the ground beef is apostasy.
Nevertheless, throughout much of Islamic history, Muslim governments have embraced an interpretation of Islamic law that imposes the death penalty for apostasy.
Second, the question that leads to the fatwa is tellingly not asking what the ruling is on apostasy, but rather how to explain this ruling to others, including non-Muslims.
Dr. Hatem al-Haj, a senior committee member for the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA), confirmed in the below fatwa from July 2011 that the Islamic punishment for apostasy is death.
Ominously, as he might also have noted, in those places where shariah is most completely applied (think Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia), one finds the most abominable abuses of human rights anywhere in the world (including amputation, flogging, stoning, and the death penalty for apostasy-which is hardly "irrelevant" if you're Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who today faces hanging for leaving Islam).
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It is set to be rancorous and protracted, with one faction keen to bury the Blairite modernisation project, condemning it as apostasy, and another arguing that, on the contrary, it was the betrayal of Blairism that caused the debacle.
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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.
" The Grand Mufti accused the unnamed European cleric of apostasy: "He who casts doubts about their infidelity leaves no doubt about his own infidelity.
Muslim theologians must revise their understanding of Islamic law, and recognize that punishment for apostasy is merely the legacy of historical circumstances and political calculations stretching back to the early days of Islam.
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.
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.
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.
In continuation of her interview, Ms. Bary stated that she was in fear of being killed for her "apostasy" or conversion from the Islamic faith to Christianity, which she characterized as a violation punishable by death in Islam.
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Such cases reflect only one part of sharia: the system of corporal and capital punishments such as stoning for adultery, death for murder or apostasy (abandoning Islam), whipping for consuming intoxicants or the cutting off of a hand for theft.
Clerics have denounced Kashgari for apostasy, a capital offense under the totalitarian Islamic code known as shariah.
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