The word "apostate" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that is used to describe someone who has renounced or abandoned their religious beliefs or practices. For example, "The former priest had become an apostate, denouncing his faith publicly."
She became a member of parliament, and won a dangerous kind of fame as an ex-Muslim apostate.
He is Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the state's chief minister, a poet and playwright, the translator of the great Colombian-born novelist and a life-long communist.Since taking charge of West Bengal in 2000, Mr Bhattacharjee has embraced business with apostate zeal.
A year ago, Islamic litigants got Egypt's highest court to brand a university professor an apostate, forcing him to flee the country.
The Republican National Committee and the leaders in Congress regard Mr McCain as an apostate, who has gone from defiance on particular issues to a frontal assault on party orthodoxy.
The jihadists' main war is not against the West but against apostate Muslim regimes: where they do battle with outsiders, it is mainly against occupying powers Russia in Chechnya, America in Iraq, India in Kashmir and Israel in Palestine.New depth to an old splitThe two most important arguments about Islam are both internal ones.
A number of leading Islamic figures, such as Egypt's grand mufti and Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a Qatar-based preacher, say that the death penalty is deserved if the apostate "subverts society" or "damages Islam".
In Iraq, America has deposed an apostate, with a number of satisfying results.
And once they start to spill blood, they become ever more indiscriminate: first they attack the "apostate" rulers or their foreign backers, then the ministers, then the security forces, then the civil servants, then anybody who objects to the violence, and so on.
The left would like to revile him as a Jesse Helms-like conservative, only nastier; the right wants to denounce him as an apostate, his faith destroyed by the compromises of a Senate career that began in 1976, when he filed his candidacy on the last possible day and went on to defeat the third-term Democratic incumbent.
The wider point is that the economic model she advocated, and which her apostate Labour successors embraced, has been discredited.
"Four months after my brother's death, my father was called to Evin prison and told that his son had been an apostate and there was no place in this world for him and no place in the other world either," said Lawdan Bazargan.The tribunal, which has enthusiastic backing from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has no power to do anything bar publicising the testimony of witnesses.
