(n.) An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The residents told AP that the militants claimed the mosque had become a place for apostasy, not prayer.
(2) Anonymous callers or others using names such as the Cyber Army of Allah have accused BBC Persian staff of being drug dealers, converting to Bahaism or Chrstianity – potentially a capital offence in Iran as it is considered to be apostasy – or taking bribes.
(3) Referring to the two hadith in which Muhammad reportedly condemns apostasy as a capital offence, Maher Hathout , author of In Pursuit of Justice: The Jurisprudence of Human Rights in Islam writes: "both of them contradict the Qur'an and other instances in which the Prophet did not compel anyone to embrace Islam, nor punish them if they recanted."
(4) According to a placard tied to his corpse, Asaad was accused of apostasy.
(5) His parents were Methodists, a fact to which he attributed his lifelong political and intellectual apostasy.
(6) The video condemns the doctrine of the Trinity as a form of apostasy, and brands Christians as infidels.
(7) There is a lot of confusion in the air regarding the thorny issue of conversion and "apostasy" in the Muslim world.
(8) Instead of living stoically and ironically with her "contradictions", she broke ranks to explore the creative possibilities of disintegration: mental illness, political apostasy, the sex war, and the cold war between generations.
(9) Those who convert to other religions risk arrest or even execution for apostasy.
(10) You can spend your life believing women should be second-class citizens and homosexuality and apostasy are crimes that in an ideal Islamic state deserve the death sentence and never harm anyone apart from your wife and children.
(11) However, his bitter criticism of the conduct of the miners' strike of 1984-85 and the leadership of Arthur Scargill was regarded by many of his old comrades as an apostasy too far.
(12) Before the apocalypse arrives, it is pledged to destroying all 200 million Shia Muslims, whom it regards as heretics, all other Muslims who by accepting secular governance confirm their apostasy, and the “army of Rome” (the west).
(13) People should know I am not against anyone here, I am an artist and I am just looking for my freedom.” Fayadh, who co-curated a show at the 2013 Venice Biennale , was originally sentenced to four years in prison and 800 lashes for apostasy by the general court in Abha, a city in the south-west of the ultraconservative kingdom, in May 2014.
(14) They included people killed on the grounds of homosexuality, practising magic and apostasy.
(15) Under the Gulf nation’s strict version of sharia law, drug trafficking, rape, murder, apostasy and armed robbery are all punishable by death.
(16) Although Mona won the case, El Sadaawi says that this, and another court case in 2002 – brought by a lawyer who sought to have El Sadaawi forcibly divorced on the basis of apostasy (abandonment of religion) – has left her bruised.
(17) Had he been a Christian or an atheist, he would have been killed for apostasy under Saudi law.
(18) Kasich’s apostasy would make him interesting if Republicans weren’t in Trump’s thrall.
(19) Its appalling reputation for human rights abuses has been reinforced by the cases of the free-thinking blogger, Raif Badawi , sentenced to be flogged, and the Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh , who is facing death for the crime of “apostasy”.
(20) A user known as Abu Mohammed, a founder of RBSS, also reported that the woman was killed after her son accused her of apostasy.
Disaffection
Definition:
(n.) State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike.
(n.) Disorder; bad constitution.
Example Sentences:
(1) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
(2) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
(3) Why would disaffected Liberals be inclined to give their protest votes to a Labour party that has abused them at every turn since last May?
(4) Feelings of guilt were related significantly to disaffected patterns such as dogmatism (p less than .001), hostility (p less than .001), and aggression (p less than .05), which suggests a turning inward of feelings of anger and disappointment in addition to their outward expression.
(5) With the coming of the meritocracy, the now leaderless masses were partially disfranchised; as time has gone by, more and more of them have been disengaged, and disaffected to the extent of not even bothering to vote.
(6) That's different to the protests we've seen in the Middle Eastern countries, where you've had economic dislocation for a prolonged period of time, and a lack of economic alternatives for disaffected youth."
(7) And yet London sometimes feels absolutely ready for an angry new movement that can take advantage of the disaffection and dispossession growing inside a city where property has become an asset class for international speculation, with even the pokiest flat well beyond the means of anyone earning the average wage.
(8) It exacerbates an environment of disaffection and disempowerment and does nothing but isolate the very community that best understands these challenges.” Race relations have reached a low ebb following the release of the government’s anti-terrorism laws, which many Muslims say have dredged up Islamophobia in the community by equating terrorism with Islam.
(9) After his meeting with De Villepin, Boubakeur launched a veiled attack on the minister's outbursts, in which he called the disaffected young men on estates 'louts'.
(10) As Isis’s international notoriety grows, so too may its unifying appeal to the fanatics and fundamentalists, the disaffected and the dispossessed, and the merely criminal of the Sunni Muslim world.
(11) I don’t think my voice is heard.’ I feel that disaffection.” Last year, Lone co-wrote a fascinating report on disaffection among the white working class for Open Society Foundations and yet it still seemed surprising when she decided to contest a 98% “white seat” rather than one closer to home in multicultural Manchester.
(12) This looks like a deluded bolt-on to the “35% strategy” whereby Miliband will supposedly sweep into Downing Street thanks to Labour’s core vote and disaffected former Lib Dem supporters; it only compounds the sense that people at the top of the Labour party are lost in the psephological woods.
(13) "I'm not surprised at people getting disaffected with society," said one senior commander.
(14) In actuality, Isis is the canniest of all traders in the flourishing international economy of disaffection: the most resourceful among all those who offer the security of collective identity to isolated and fearful individuals.
(15) With discontent growing, the Kremlin had attempted to build a loyal liberal opposition party that would bring in the disaffected middle class and boost Kremlin support inside parliament in the event of disastrous results for United Russia.
(16) There is an urgent need for institutional designs and procedures that promote legality, accountability and transparency in government if the population's disaffection is to be overcome and corruption reduced.
(17) But he rejected the “35% strategy” – that Labour could secure victory with a relatively small share of the total vote by targeting core voters and disaffected Liberal Democrat supporters.
(18) Like the kind of heedless, scatter-gun approach pursued by America and Britain that transformed al-Qaida from a small band of fairly well-educated violent extremists into a youthful social movement that appeals to many thousands of disaffected Muslim immigrants in the western diaspora, and many more millions who are economically and politically frustrated back home.
(19) The current uprising is spread far more widely across the country and includes a broad spectrum of disaffected citizens.
(20) In his address, Francis said he was grateful for efforts made by Anglicans to understand why his predecessor, Benedict XVI, had introduced a structure – the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham – to allow disaffected members of the C of E to convert.