That would be APO + STATES, or the word APOSTATES.
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" But, she writes, groups like ISIS have taken "some of the ideas of Wahhabism — a preoccupation with apostates and with purifying Islam — to new extremes, targeting Shia and other 'apostates' with brutal violence.
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Like other apostates, he was treated with respect, not scorn.
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But they have now been described as apostates, as murtadeen. Why?
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Shi'ites are considered apostates by hardline Sunni Islamist insurgents in Iraq.
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Islamic State frequently targets Afghanistan's Shi'ite minority, which it calls "apostates".
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The militants said numerous "apostates" were killed, including Al-Baghdadi's police chief.
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ISIS, a mostly Sunni movement, considers Kurds and Shiites apostates and heretics.
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Anyway, if these designers are sometimes rule breakers, they are not apostates.
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" The Iranian regime, he noted, is "seen as apostates by al-Qaeda.
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Could we be as frail and fallible as those apostates so visibly are,
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In claiming the Coptic bombing, IS vowed to continue its "war against apostates".
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So it is now possible for apostates to get their old houses back.
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People in this camp will remain interesting, as converts and apostates often are.
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The Yazidis' ancient faith made them apostates in the eyes of the militants.
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Some women deemed apostates by more radicalized women have reported beatings and mutilation.
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They are taught to hate outsiders and apostates alike, believing us to be Satan's people.
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Islamic State says Shi'ite Muslims are apostates and has regularly attacked their mosques and events.
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Why do self-declared Islamic states impose harsh laws that oppress minorities, women and "apostates"?
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You don't have to look elsewhere for the destructive utopianism that turns believers into apostates.
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A great many of these extremists — if not all — consider us apostates and politically naïve.
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A minister in Najib's cabinet said later that Muslim apostates should be "hunted down vehemently".
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Under Islamic State's ultra-hardline Sunni Muslim ideology, Shi'ites - the majority in Iran - are considered apostates.
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"If we refused, they will consider us apostates and they will kill us," Abu Ibrahim explains.
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"Our swords will not stop slaughtering the heads of apostates wherever they are," the statement said.
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Islamic State, which follows a hardline Sunni Muslim ideology, considers Shi'ites apostates who should be killed.
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They were fellow sidearm and submarine pitchers, apostates in a sport that reveres the overhand throw.
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From the perspective of members of his "team," however, apostates' disloyalty is the worst moral offense.
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The Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim group, considers Hazaras apostates and has targeted them for attack.
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Few Americans know that Wahhabism, a branch of Sunni Islam, looks down on Shia Muslims as apostates.
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Islamic State has said the Saudi rulers are apostates and has declared its intention to topple them.
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Derna and its suburbs had been "completely liberated from the apostates", the council said in a statement.
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A handful have become apostates from the MAGA faith by getting ignominiously fired or resigning on principle.
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But it has declared those who refuse to pledge allegiance to it as murtadeen -- those who become apostates.
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Many of these voices are not your typical professional worrywarts, but former Silicon Valley execs and apostates themselves.
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They can try to flee but be branded by ISIS as "apostates," for which the penalty is death.
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The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, considers Alawites apostates, a possible factor in the death.
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A pro-Islamic State news agency said the assailants had targeted Shi'ite Muslims, whom they regard as apostates.
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All of this has led extremist groups like the Islamic State to call Saudi Arabia's ruling family apostates.
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For example, ISIS classified Shiites and Alawites as apostates, meaning they are summarily subject to punishment by death.
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A pro-Islamic State news agency said the assailants had targeted Shiite Muslims, whom they regard as apostates.
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The church also announced that married gay Mormons would no longer be treated as "apostates" within the church.
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"We tell you, O Zoroastrian apostates," said a fighter called Abu Mujahid al-Baluchi, naming Iran's pre-Islamic faith.
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For a moment, religious tensions were forgotten as FLDS members, apostates and outsiders searched side by side for survivors.
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In practice, the death sentences are rarely carried out; more commonly, apostates are merely thrown in jail and tortured.
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In Oman, Kuwait and Jordan Islamic courts can annul the marriages of apostates or prevent them from inheriting property.
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"As they were shooting they were shouting, 'You apostates, you enemies of God,'" the soldier was quoted as saying.
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The Islamic State considers Shiites apostates, and it has long carried out a campaign of sectarian killings in Iraq.
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They see Europeans as anti-Semitic unless proven otherwise, Reform Jews as apostates, and Islam as terrorism's gateway drug.
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JI has condemned ISIS as apostates, but it's not obvious that all Indonesian militant groups feel the same way.
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Boko Haram, a Nigerian jihadist group, released a video showing its members murdering eight villagers it accused of being apostates.
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Any expression of support for free speech, especially that of bloggers, would be twisted into support for atheists or apostates.
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Many Islamic scholars regard the Bahai as apostates; their first believers had been Muslims, who reject all prophets after Muhammad.
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Hours after the bombing, the Islamic State said it had targeted Shiites, whom the extremist Sunni group considers as apostates.
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The trial featured testimony from several "apostates," once prominent FLDS members who have left the church or been chased out.
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Hence Muslim jurists saw no problem in "protecting the religion" by executing apostates and blasphemers, and by enforcing religious observance.
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Khawarij is a term for radical groups such as the Islamic State who declare Muslims they disagree with as apostates.
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One day, I saw Joel playing around with APOSTATES in a grid, to be parsed as A-P-O STATES.
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For two years, the city's children have attended public executions and learnt to count by enumerating apostates killed by suicide-bombers.
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Like the Kurds, the Yazidis in Iraq are seen as apostates and have been subject to numerous forms of violent suppression.
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"In Islam (it) is clear that apostates do attract capital punishment, we don't shy away from that," said spokesman Uthman Badar.
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It also declared members of the church who are in same-sex marriages—even loving, monogamous ones—apostates subject to excommunication.
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Within a year, she was telling her family that they were betraying their religion and living in a land of apostates.
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The "Tracking Down the Apostates of Egypt" campaign is advertised as an alternative for supporters who cannot join the fight in Sinai.
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The group recently threatened the lives of 11 Muslim imams and scholars in the West, calling them "apostates" who should be killed.
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Take, for example, the words of Azam Kamguian, an Iranian former Muslim, in "Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out," a collection of memoirs.
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Before then, the church considered same-sex couples "apostates" and wouldn't allow their children to be baptized without special approval from leaders.
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The Taliban, who remain Afghanistan's main armed opposition group, tend to view Shias as apostates, but they do not systematically persecute them.
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Same-sex couples will also no longer be seen as "apostates," which refers to those who have turned their back on the church.
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But ISIS, which regards Shia Muslims as apostates, targeted Shia neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital in simultaneous bomb attacks in October and November.
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They will be indoctrinated in extreme intolerance, taught that apostates and blasphemers should be put to death: the antithesis of freedom of religion.
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Jihadists will take Saudi money but often consider the royal family apostates and Western puppets — and will often attack the Saudi government itself.
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"Disbelievers and apostates, die with your anger," read one post seen by Reuters this month that praised the killing of a Sufi cleric.
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Moreover, Iran's government is run by Shiite Muslims, while Al Qaeda and its affiliates are Sunni Muslims who consider Shiites to be apostates.
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Its punishment for Sunni apostates is more severe, such as the burning alive of the Jordanian pilot, Moath al-Kasasbeh, in January last year.
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" It was a counter-terrorism strategy, though administration officials occasionally wandered into theology, as when former Secretary of State John Kerry called ISIS "apostates.
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I've heard the stories about FLDS boys tossing rocks at strangers and apostates and wonder if that explains the huge crack across Jessop's windshield.
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"The apostates must know, starting with the tyrant judges, that their blasphemous judgments ... will not pass without severe punishment," the Islamic State statement said.
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Tuesday when ISIS took responsibility for a deadly attack against what it described as "apostates" in a town about 25 miles north of Baghdad.
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Iran is a majority Shiite Muslim nation while Al Qaeda is a hard-line Sunni group whose members generally consider Shiites to be apostates.
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An Islamic State spokesman warned the United States in the tape to "beware vengeance (against) their nation and their brethren of infidels and apostates".
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They include the Syrian affiliate of Al Qaeda and the jihadists of the Islamic State, both of which are Sunni and consider Shiites apostates.
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Shia-majority Iran is one of the most influential forces in the fight against the Sunni terror group, which regards Shia Muslims as apostates.
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The extremists are dug in on the outskirts of the two cities and have repeatedly targeted Shiites, who they view as apostates deserving of death.
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"Bleakest quotes: "Western culture, for example, does not endorse the oppression of women, the murder of apostates or the execution of homosexuals ... Muslim cultures do.
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Al-Qaeda had been focused on getting the West out of Muslim lands and ending its support for Arab dictators it deemed apostates and stooges.
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At the same time, Shabab assassination teams have fanned out across Mogadishu and other major towns, stealthily eliminating government officials and others they consider apostates.
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"We killed 30 apostates including MPs and soldiers....the operation was victorious as planned," Abu Musab said, adding they had injured 60 during the assault.
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While some Muslims view Sufis as quirky, even eccentric, some fundamentalists and extremists see Sufism as a threat, and its adherents as heretics or apostates.
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Among its alumni is Abu Usamah at-Thahabi, who has preached in British mosques, promoting holy war and the killing of gay men and apostates.
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In 2016, before he became president, he defended the church's then-new policy of calling LGBT couples "apostates" and effectively barring their children from baptism.
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The targets do not change: the West, Jews, Shiites, the secular governments and security forces of Islamic countries, and Sunni Muslims who are deemed apostates.
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Among the supporting documents submitted as part of Arwa's asylum application was a copy of a newsletter in which she and two others were declared apostates.
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They frame their engagement as an existential struggle against the Sunni Muslim fighters of Islamic State, who see Shi'ites, the majority of Iran's population, as apostates.
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"You can mobilise against others if you can declare them apostates," says Raffaello Pantucci, of the Royal United Services Institute, a defence think-tank in London.
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ISIS claims in the new issue of an English-language magazine from the terror organization that a list of "overt crusaders" and "apostates" should be killed.
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The Islamic State, a Sunni movement, has long considered Sufis, along with Shiite Muslims, apostates, and has a history of attacking their mosques in other countries.
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But the Taliban and other Muslim militant groups spurn Sufi shrines and have often attacked Sufi mosques and shrines, accusing devotees of being heretics or apostates.
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Iran and ISIS Iran, with its largely Shiite population, has been helping the governments in neighboring Iraq and Syria fight ISIS, which considers Shiites to be apostates.
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The Sunni Muslim extremists of IS view them as apostates, and have a history of abducting members of other religious minorities and keeping women as sex slaves.
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The group published a photo of the attacker it identified as Abu Isa al-Ansari, and said the bombing "killed around 20 apostates and wounded 60 others".
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Worse yet, such influential apostates will probably become not merely post-religious but anti-religious, bringing more conflict to Muslim societies and deepening the crisis of Islam.
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Baghdadi also called on Iraqi followers to keep up attacks against Shi'ite Muslims and what he described as apostates — a reference to Sunni Muslims fighting against his group.
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Many apostates are left closeted, afraid to put at risk their relationships with their parents, on whom they may still depend, or with their siblings and their friends.
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Jacqueline Jones Compaore Florence, S.C. Left Behind I read with interest George Packer's review of Daniel Oppenheimer's book "Exit Right," about left-wing apostates ("Turned Around," February 22nd).
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They use the religious freedom in the West, for example, to seek converts to Islam, while condemning converts from Islam to another religion as "apostates" who deserve death.
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Some Iraqi Shi'ite militias have been accused of revenge attacks against Sunnis who lived under Islamic State, which had carried out mass killings of Shi'ites, calling them apostates.
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ISWAP said the two Muslim women, a midwife and a nurse, deserved to die because they worked for the Red Cross, which it argued proved that they were apostates.
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Its current incarnations and hybridisations include groups as diverse as Ennahda, a peaceful Tunisian political party, and Islamic State (IS), a violent jihadist group that calls the Brothers apostates.
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Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement, saying it had killed and wounded dozens of "crusaders and apostates", referring to the peshmerga and Western military advisers.
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Wahhabism has been molded over the years to serve the interests of the monarchy, emphasizing obedience to the rulers and condemning terrorist attacks, even against those seen as apostates.
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Actor and director prepared the shot: a bare foot pressed to a piece of copper, the face of Christ worn smooth by the feet of countless apostates before him.
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WHEN Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the bomb that killed nearly 30 worshippers at the Coptic cathedral in Cairo in December, it vowed to continue its "war against apostates".
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The army denied any involvement, but pro-military social media sites were quick to label the abductees blasphemers, apostates and traitors—in a country where blasphemy remains punishable by death.
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Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and Islamic State view the Arab coalition as a pawn of the West and see the Shi'ite Muslim Houthis as apostates deserving death.
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If people are brought up within a society that dislikes Jews or considers millions of Muslims to be apostates, inevitably that prejudice fertilizes the soil within which extremism can grow.
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Trump has encouraged a with-us-or-against-us mentality among his voters, and it is an especially sharp division between Trump's base and the Republican apostates who oppose him.
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"In any area liberated by the army, Daesh (Islamic State)considers us apostates, so it is permissible to kill us," said the boy's father, who asked not to be identified.
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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and Islamic State view the Arab coalition as a pawn of the West and see the Shi'ite Muslim Houthis as apostates deserving death.
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Establishment of the United Order created a highly stratified and hierarchical society of elites, regular priesthood holders, people "on restoral" who are trying to earn their way back in, and apostates.
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Inman added that Shakil sent messages home saying "that it was part of your faith to kill the murtadeen (apostates) and ... you wanted to die a martyr," the Associated Press reports.
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He has overtaken and destroyed the structure of the Republican Party, unleashing its ugliest elements to chant his praise and stroke his ego like drunken apostates dancing around a golden calf.
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The ultra-hardline Sunni jihadist group, which considers Shiites apostates, claimed a twin suicide bombing in Sadr City in February that killed 70 people — the deadliest attack in Baghdad in months.
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"As they sliced their heads they would tell us 'liberate yourself from the apostates'," he said as some his eight children played, oblivious to the sound of sniper rifles and mortar bombs.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia is investigating an international atheist organization, a minister said on Monday, after a picture of the group's local chapter went viral, sparking claims that Muslim apostates were involved.
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No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but jihadist groups, like the Syrian affiliate of Al Qaeda, have a presence in the area and consider Shiites apostates who should be killed.
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The Jordanian convict and violent Islamist extremist came to Iraq after the US invasion, to wage holy war on the occupation forces, the United Nations, and Shiite Muslims, whom he viewed as apostates.
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The ultra-hardline Sunni jihadist group, which considers Shi'ites apostates, has claimed recent attacks across the country as well as a twin suicide bombing in Sadr City in February that killed 70 people.
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In a statement issued via the social-media app Telegram, ISIS said a "martyrdom brother" blew his explosive vest up among a group of "apostates" and killed and wounded a number of them.
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Other apostates, including former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, alleged former sex partners Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels, and campaign operatives such as Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos threaten to do even more damage.
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After enacting strict anti-LGBTQ policies in the past, including a 2015 policy classifying people in same-sex marriages as "apostates," the church has been changing its stance more recently, according to NPR.
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That might sound trivial but it isn't: one of the hallmarks of murderously extreme jihadists is that they are quick to describe Muslims less fanatical than themselves as apostates or deviants from the faith.
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Seven of the militants, including a 20-year-old who was the youngest of the group, were filmed standing behind bound captives, described as "apostates," who were either beheaded or shot in the clips.
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By the 1970s, displays were pushing limits as well as products: While Moore designed miniature dioramas that mixed the exquisite and the everyday for Tiffany's, a younger generation of apostates was on the rise.
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"There are so many people who disagreed with the policy the whole time, and we've been looked at as apostates and heretics, because you are not supposed to disagree with the prophet," she said.
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Both the Islamic State and the Taliban movement, which grew out of Islamic seminaries in the 1990s, have claimed responsibility for attacks on clerics and religious scholars whom they view as traitors and apostates.
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The ideology of the Islamic State has more in common with that of the more radical elements of Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi religious establishment — including their shared disparagement of Shiites as apostates who deserve death.
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The latest issue of Dabiq also includes a lengthy refutation of the Muslim Brotherhood, which the group considers to be apostates, and includes a list of imams working in the West that it condemns.
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Youngstown, a steel city whose long decline was accelerated by the recession of 28-2100, also voted for Mr Trump in the Republican primaries—and around a quarter of the voters there were Democratic apostates.
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The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks — its first successful strike against Iran, whose Shia leaders it regards as apostates, and which it has been increasingly targeting in its propaganda efforts in recent months.
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Largely because of apostates like Friedrich Nietzsche, Pinker thinks, intellectuals would rather fret over espresso and wear black than acknowledge that it is a great time to be alive and that human potential is boundless.
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Checks and Balances' members are effectively using that currency to provide cover for others who may fear professional reprisals from a vindictive White House, and to preemptively defuse attempts to paint members as conservative apostates.
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"O lions of Mosul, Raqqa, and Tal Afar, God bless those pure arms and bright faces, charge against the rejectionists and the apostates and fight them with the strength of one man," said al-Muhajer.
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Having chased out a number of Republican apostates, such as Bob Corker and Jeff Flake, Trump surely is less than eager to welcome one of his harshest critics to the Republican caucus in the Senate.
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As Eddie hides his doubts (the Meyerists are not kind to apostates) and Sarah is drawn into Cal's power struggle with the sect's higher-ups, the three form a triangle that's both emotional and spiritual.
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In rejecting his appeal on Sunday, a revolutionary court ruled that he was "spreading corruption on earth," an Islamic ruling often reserved for apostates, political figures and fraudulent businessmen, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.
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Tayeb, widely seen as one of the most moderate senior clerics in Egypt, has repeatedly condemned Islamic State and its practice of declaring others as apostates and infidels as a pretext for waging violent jihad.
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"Support the jihadis and report the information of apostates around you be they soldiers, agents, conscripts, policemen, officers, bank managers, Christian leaders, atheists, crusaders or Zionists who live among you," Islamic State urged its supporters online.
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"On '9 November 2015,' Anwar Abu Zeid – after repenting from his former occupation – attacked the American crusaders and their apostate allies, killing two American crusaders, two Jordanian apostates, and one South African crusader," the magazine says.
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In the seventh issue of its glossy propaganda magazine, Dabiq, "From Hypocrisy to Apostasy: The Extinction of the Gray Zone," ISIS's English-language mouthpiece reveals the group's polarized view of a conflict between believers and apostates.
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"Historical events show that the mujahedeen of the Islamic State prevented the apostates from enjoying a single day of safety and security," the article says, in an ominous warning of what might be next for Iraq.
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Islamists seek to tarnish all those who do not subscribe to their narrow interpretation of Islam as deviants, and in some cases declaring them as apostates -- an accusation that often comes with the threat of death.
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The US-allied Kurdish forces who liberated the area rule over an overwhelmingly Arab population, and they are seen by those who share ISIS's toxic ideology as murtadin, or apostates, who collaborate with the American crusader.
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" Muhammad Syed, the head of Ex-Muslims of North America, a group that helps former Muslims, told CNN that some Saudi women, who have renounced Islam, decide to relocate to neighboring countries that "grant apostates more freedoms.
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The speech came the same month that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which owns the university, reversed its policy deeming married gay couples "apostates" and barring their children from baptism in most cases.
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It's a marked contrast to the atmosphere in Short Creek, where those deemed disloyal to Jeffs are banished and bullied, and divisions between FLDS followers and apostates have pushed the community to the brink of civil war.
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According to him, there is but one human estate, belonging to all, and those who keep any more of it for themselves than barest necessity dictates are brigands and apostates from the true Christian enterprise of charity.
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"Thanks be to God who has allowed the Islamic State's soldiers in Sinai in applying his law and instituting religion in spite of all the infidels, apostates and envious Jews," one fighter can be seen and heard saying.
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The militants named this Friday's attacker as Abu Mohammed al-Bengali and said he had detonated his explosive jacket in the midst of police officers it dismissed as "apostates" in a message posted on supporters' social media accounts.
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The decision, announced on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' website Thursday morning, reverses a 2015 policy that deemed same-sex couples to be apostates of the faith, which made their children ineligible for baptism.
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Last major attack in 2010 Iran -- which is more than 90% Shiite -- has been involved in military actions against Sunni terrorist groups such as ISIS, who regard Shiites as apostates, but such terror attacks in the country are rare.
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Whether this is an intentional misreading of the Rubio report or a rhetorical device to impose a radical free-market straightjacket on any apostates who dare to argue that government can have some legitimate role is not the point.
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These could include the renunciation of "takfiri" ideology (which brands other, non-jihadist Muslims as death-deserving apostates), the repudiation of Al Qaeda's goals and methods, the abandonment of terrorism and a commitment to a nonsectarian future for Syria.
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Among those who understand what that feels like are other refugees from the Trump White House, who despite devoting what they described as endless hours trying to make his presidency a success are now branded apostates for speaking out.
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But in recent years, as casualties have mounted, they have been more outspoken about their engagement, framing it as an existential struggle against the Sunni Muslim fighters of Islamic State who see Shi'ites - the majority of Iran's population - as apostates.
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On the steel shutters of several local businesses, the words "Sunni Muslim" have been scrawled by Islamic State militants, to distinguish the owners from locals of other faiths, or from those they consider apostates - both punishable by death under their rule.
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In an address to Mormon millennials in 2016, President Nelson defended a controversial church policy set down by President Monson that declared gay Mormon couples to be apostates, and barred their children from most religious rites until they turn 18.
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"A knight of the knights of martyrdom, brother Hamza al-Muhajir... was able to detonate his explosives-laden car at a post of the apostates of the militia of (President Abedrabbo Masour) Hadi," the IS statement said, according to AFP.
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"The Daesh people hung the bodies out and said that these were agents passing news to the infidel forces and apostates," he said referring to the Western allies backing the campaign and the Shi'ite-led government of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
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"He tried to convince me that I was an apostate and that my parents were apostates too, and I have to convince my family to give up the pleasures of the world and return to Allah," the smuggler said of his 2015 imprisonment.
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The real founder of ISIS was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian convict and violent Islamist extremist came to Iraq after the US invasion to wage holy war on the occupation forces, the United Nations, and Shiite Muslims, whom he viewed as apostates.
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Recent interviews with two dozen voters there, a mix of blue- and white-collar workers, revealed the full Democratic spectrum, from progressives eager for a nominee who leans hard left, to party apostates who voted for Mr. Trump and remain solidly behind him.
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Mormon Church rescinds policy: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has said it will allow children of same-sex couples to be baptized, reversing a 2015 rule banning such ceremonies and labeling those in same-sex marriages as apostates.
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Eventually, any Saudi jihadists fighting in Syria or Iraq will come home — battle-hardened and far more intimately connected to powerful jihadist organizations with money and resources — and may turn their attention once again to the Saudi monarchy they see as illegitimate apostates.
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At Tuesday's hearing, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle criticized the Saudi Arabian government for funding the spread of Wahabi Islam, a fundamentalist interpretation of the ancient religion that "teaches that apostates should be persecuted and in some cases killed," said Texas Rep.
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"We give the Rafidi government three days to release all Sunni detainees from prisons in exchange for releasing these apostates, or else their fate will be that of their predecessors," said one of the gunmen, using a slur for Shi'ites regularly employed by Islamic State.
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LeJ, a group which subscribes to the hardline Takfiri Deobandi school of Islam, considers Shi'ites apostates and has carried out scores of bomb and gun attacks in the southwestern province over the past two decades, most of them aimed at the Shi'ite Hazara community.
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The court documents reveal the inner turmoil of a sect under pressure from federal authorities as well as "apostates," former members who remain in the vicinity of the FLDS home base of Short Creek, the abutting communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona.
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Their argument was simple: the towns and their utilities services take their orders from the religious leaders of the FLDS and discriminate against gentiles (non-members) and apostates (ex-members) by withholding utilities from, extorting, and harassing those who are not of the FLDS faith.
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And after a number of Saudis who had joined the Islamic State killed their own relatives, some noted that Ibn Taymiyyah, a 13th-century scholar widely admired in Saudi Arabia, had said it was permissible to do exactly that if one's relatives were apostates.
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The decision rolled back a 2015 rule that had ripped congregations apart by declaring that church members in same-sex marriages were apostates and subject to excommunication, and that children of same-sex couples were banned from rituals like baptisms and baby-naming ceremonies.
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More apostates soon followed, including Minnesota Senator McCarthy, whose peace campaign attracted youthful long-haired hippies who promised to "Get Clean for Gene" and oust Johnson as a liberal pretender more committed to waging war in Southeast Asia than bolstering peace around the world.
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Like ISIS, the zealots took a non-contextual view of the military successes of early Jewish leaders, murderously cleansed the holy land of Romans, infidels and apostates, and believed the end of the world was nigh with the imminent arrival of the Messiah and a war of global conquest.
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A Hezbollah official, Hussein Haj Hassan, reiterated that idea, telling Al Manar that Mr. Badreddine had been in the vanguard against what he described as an alliance of Israel, the United States and takfiris, a derogatory term for extremist Sunni militants who often regard other Muslims as apostates.
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ISIS, which controls parts of Iraq and Syria, claimed responsibility for both attacks on its Amaq news agency website, with the Sunni Islamist group saying the attacks were purposely designed to hit gatherings of Shia Muslims — whom they view as apostates that should be subject to the death penalty.
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"It looks like it will be a hot summer that will burn the pockets of the rejectionists and apostates, as well as their hearts," Islamic State wrote in its al-Naba newspaper last month, referring to Shi'ite Muslims and Sunnis who do not subscribe to its interpretation of Islam.
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"Beware vengeance (against) their nation and their brethren of infidels and apostates, and carrying out the will of the commander of the faithful in his last audio message, and getting closer to God with the blood of polytheists," an ISIS spokesman said in the tape, according a translation reported by Reuters.
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It came on the heels, too, of an academic year that has included the church's reversal of a contentious policy that had condemned members in same-sex marriages as apostates and subject to excommunication, and in the wake of a grass-roots movement on campus to reform the university's honor code.
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"The martyrdom-seeking brother Abu Usama al-Irelandi - may Allah accept him - set off with and detonated his explosives-laden vehicle on another gathering of apostates, in Aghazil al-Kabir village, south of Tal Afar, killing and wounding dozens of them, and destroying several of their vehicles," SITE quoted the IS statement as saying.
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While hardliners regard Ahmadis as worse than apostates — Muslims who turned away from the true faith — many in mainstream Islam still believe the group does not belong in extended family, a source who works closely with Muslim groups in the UK told Mashable, under condition of anonymity because he fears for his own security.
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The Saudi regime's domination of women; the public executions of apostates; the floggings for blasphemers; the patrols of the morality police; the prohibition on buying or consuming alcohol; the subjugation of the individual under sharia law — all of that calls to mind the horror of daily life in Raqqa, a stronghold of Islamic State.
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On the first page of the book is a diagram depicting the Islamic State's view of humanity: on one side are Muslims who have pledged allegiance to ISIS's self-declared Caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi; on the other are apostates—including Muslims who support democracy and secular government, and the Shia—and infidels, including Hindus, Yazidis, and secular humanists.
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It was ideas of this kind, denying Muslims an identity that had defined them for centuries, that translated in the minds of gunmen at Sarajevo and Srebrenica and a host of other killing grounds into a conviction that the Muslims were worthless apostates and non-persons, for whom death under Serb guns constituted the proper verdict of history.
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It comes, too, on the heels of a decision earlier this month to allow children of same-sex couples to be baptized, reversing a contentious 2015 policy that declared church members in same-sex marriages were apostates and subject to excommunication — a major move that signaled attempts by the church to heal rifts within its ranks.
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In a nearly hourlong audio recording, released inside the group's chat rooms in the messaging app Telegram, the spokesman called on fighters to redirect their ire toward the leaders of Arab nations in the region, whom he described as "apostates," a term the group uses to refer to fellow Sunnis who have strayed from its extreme interpretation of the faith.
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"One must either take the journey to [ISIS's self-proclaimed caliphate], joining the ranks of the mujahideen [fighters] therein, or wage jihad by himself with the resources available to him (knives, guns, explosives, etc.) to kill the crusaders and other disbelievers and apostates," the extremist group wrote in the new issue of the magazine Dabiq, which circulated on the internet Wednesday.
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