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a negative term describing someone as not believing in the "right" religion or god

infidels = negative term for people who do not believe in the "right" religion

The infidel enemy has been badly wounded at the hands of your brothers and is close to its demise...
Mustafa Abu al-Yazid

infidel = negative term for people who do not believe in the "right" religion

They condemned a Saudi religious edict calling for the death of two writers and said religious scholars who branded other Muslims as infidels were "clerics of darkness, fooled through their arrogance and inflated by their status into thinking that they speak in the name of God."

infidels = negative term for people who do not believe in the "right" religion

He had never talked to them about God nor his belief, but they wanted to kill him as an infidel.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- Crime And Punishment
This is what we do with infidels who commit crimes against Islam!
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

infidels = people who do not believe in the "right" religion or god

Tremble lest in that case you should be numbered with those who have denied the faith, and are worse than infidels!
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

infidels = people who do not believe in the "right" religion or god

O Allah, please make war between Muslims and infidels so I can die in your service and be a martyr.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

infidels = negative term for people who do not believe in the "right" religion

He tried to make us act plays and to enter into masquerades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

infidels = people who do not believe in the "right" religion or god

He was reminded of the image of Santiago Matamoros, mounted on his white horse, with the infidels beneath his hooves.
Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist

infidels = people who do not believe in the "right" religion or god

...described Pakistan's courts as un-Islamic and said, "I consider Western democracy a system imposed on us by the infidels."
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

infidels = negative term for people who do not believe in the "right" religion

"Sir, the school you are running is Western and infidel," it said.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

infidel = negative term for not being of the "right" religion

Fazlullah denounced Pakistani government officials as "infidels" and said they were opposed to bringing in sharia law.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

infidels = negative term for people who do not believe in the "right" religion

"I'd heard you were an infidel," he said to my father, "but there are Qurans in your room."
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

infidel = negative term for someone who does not believe in the "right" religion

They had examples like "If out of 10 Russian infidels, 5 are killed by one Muslim, 5 would be left" or "15 bullets – 10 bullets = 5 bullets."
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

infidels = negative term for people who do not believe in the "right" religion

The clerics of the mosques would often talk about the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in their sermons, condemning the Russians as infidels and urging people to join the jihad, saying it was their duty as good Muslims.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

infidels = negative term for people who do not believe in the "right" religion

He made Afghanistan a rallying point not only for the West, which wanted to stop the spread of communism from the Soviet Union, but also for Muslims from Sudan to Tajikistan, who saw it as a fellow Islamic country under attack from infidels.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

infidels = negative term for people who do not believe in the "right" religion

...they worked their way forward through alien territory populated by infidels, where the Christian fighters felt they could afford to wreak havoc.
Crusade - Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade (retrieved 05/20/06)
Nevertheless I know that I am, in spite of myself, exactly what the Christian would call, and, so far as I can see, is justified in calling, atheist and infidel.
Agnosticism - Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic (retrieved 05/20/06)
...looking with much reverence at one who had devoted his life to the overthrow of the infidel.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- The White Company
I am quite an Infidel about it, and shall never be converted.
Dickens, Charles -- David Copperfield

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