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I blame these brazen riddah statements on feel good preachers who refuse to teach the reality. Throughout Islamic history, across all madhahib, statements far less severe than this were treated as clear cut kufr and riddah. Calling this out is not some fringe takfiri position, it is well within the bounds of mainstream Islam.