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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
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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.
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Apostates—people, like me, who leave the faith—are supposed to be killed.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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Apostates—people, like me, who leave the faith—are supposed to be killed.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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Apostates—people, like me, who leave the faith—are supposed to be killed.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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Apostates who have left Islam will have no security.
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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
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In the same year the Copenhagen theater Folketeatret produced her monologue De frafaldne [The Apostates] on totalitarian ideologies in the 20th century.
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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
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Instead, it came out "the Quorum of the Twelve Apostates."
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