How to Use "apostasy" with Example Sentences
- 1. If you abandon your religion , you commit apostasy .
- 2. A senior saudi government official said on sunday that while it wasn 't yet clear what charges mr. kashgari will face , charges will likely include apostasy , or renunciation of islam .
- 3. The council of ex-muslims of britain , set up by a group of non-believers five years ago , provides refuge for those who have renounced islam and tries to " break the taboo " about apostasy .
- 4. In the nun 's eyes , it was the kind of deformity that protestants were prone to ; it was for anne 's sake , as everyone knew , that henry viii had broken away from rome and plunged his entire nation into the darkness of apostasy .
- 5. Such cases reflect only one part of sharia : the system of corporal and capital punishments such as stoning for adultery , death formurder or apostasy ( abandoning islam ) , whipping for consuming intoxicants or the cutting off of a hand for theft .