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.
He was recently accused of apostasy even though he denied it on TV and insisted he is still a Muslim.
Just last month, her work brought an imam from Pittsburgh to call for her murder for the crime of apostasy.
Journalist Farag Foda, accused of apostasy for advocating women's rights, was gunned down in 1991 in front of his home in Cairo.
PAS, quoted the mufti (senior cleric) of Selangor as saying that several government leaders were guilty of apostasy for disputing Islamic laws.
" The Grand Mufti accused the unnamed European cleric of apostasy: "He who casts doubts about their infidelity leaves no doubt about his own infidelity.
Similar attacks in other parts of rural Egypt have targeted liquor stores, alleged brothels and, in one fatal case, a Muslim farmer accused of apostasy.
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.
Other controversial rulings include one where a judge forcibly divorced a couple because the wife's half-brothers complained she had married beneath her station, another whereby an Egyptian accused of apostasy was beheaded for allegedly putting a Koran in a toilet.
People of goodwill of every faith and nation must unite to ensure the triumph of religious freedom and of the "right" understanding of Islam, to avert global catastrophe and spare millions of others the fate of Sudan's great religious and political leader, Mahmoud Muhammad Taha, who was executed on a false charge of apostasy.
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.
That would make her, according to the comprehensive theo-political-legal program authoritative Islam calls Shariah, guilty of "apostasy" - a capital offense.
Buried in his essays are several examples of interesting apostasy.
The evidence for this is the apostasy of some in the time of the Prophet (PBUH), on whom the ruling was not carried out.
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.
She stated that several of her associates at the House of Prayer in Columbus knew of her concerns and fears of being killed for her apostasy to Islam.
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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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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.
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?
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.
The current textbooks do not spare most Muslims from the accusations of polytheism, deviance, hypocrisy, and outright apostasy.
Nevertheless, throughout much of Islamic history, Muslim governments have embraced an interpretation of Islamic law that imposes the death penalty for apostasy.
Ms. Bary stated that she believes Islamic law dictates she must be put to death for her abandonment of the Islamic faith which she refers to as apostasy.
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In Afghanistan, we welcomed the release last year of two converts from Islam who had been charged with apostasy and sentenced to death.
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.
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.
He saw earlier than many the madness of clinging unelectably to the old faith, and was more ruthless than most in his apostasy.
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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This is perhaps the first case ever of its kind where a Muslim woman, who is also a Sharia expert, has openly challenged Islamic apostasy laws.
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