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  • They were branded as "Apostates" from their anti-slavery faith; but slavery had perished forever, and every man of them would have been found fighting it as before, if it had been practicable to call it back to life; while many of their assailants had distinguished themselves by mobbing Abolitionism in the day of its weakness.

    Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 George W. Julian

  • Iran: Mandatory Death Penalty for ‘Apostates’ Scrapped: the Parliamentary Committee has stricken the mandatory death penalty for those who leave Islam from proposals for an amended penal code.

    Persecution Journal: July 16, 2009 2009

  • Apostates—people, like me, who leave the faith—are supposed to be killed.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • Apostates—people, like me, who leave the faith—are supposed to be killed.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • Apostates—people, like me, who leave the faith—are supposed to be killed.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • Apostates who have left Islam will have no security.

    Iran: Parliament passes apostasy death bill 2008

  • So in the immortal words of Cooper himself, let's start "keeping 'em honest" by presenting his Posse of Apostates as they truly are ...

    Scientologists vs. Anderson Cooper: Church Attacks CNN Host 2010

  • In the same year the Copenhagen theater Folketeatret produced her monologue De frafaldne [The Apostates] on totalitarian ideologies in the 20th century.

    Danish publisher hopes to publish The Jewel of Medina 2008

  • So in the immortal words of Cooper himself, let's start "keeping 'em honest" by presenting his Posse of Apostates as they truly are ...

    Scientologists vs. Anderson Cooper: Church Attacks CNN Host 2010

  • Instead, it came out "the Quorum of the Twelve Apostates."

    RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

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