All 20 Uses
infidel
in
Three Cups of Tea
(Auto-generated)
- Finally, as Abdul wound down and bent over Ali with his hands cocked like weapons, Mortenson distinctly heard Abdul ask Ali if he was a Muslim or an infidel.†
Chpt 6 *infidel = negative term for someone who does not believe in the "right" religion
- He lunged toward Mortenson, grabbed the azarband, which hung outside the infidel's trousers, and tucked it inside the waistband.†
Chpt 6
- By afternoon, a dense crowd had gathered around the Bedford as word spread that an enormous infidel in brown pajamas was loading a truck full of supplies for Muslim schoolchildren.†
Chpt 7
- The girls wrapped their hands cautiously in their headscarves before touching the infidel.†
Chpt 8
- Mortenson was unsure how the mullah felt about having an infidel in the village, an infidel who proposed to educate Korphe's girls.†
Chpt 12
- Mortenson was unsure how the mullah felt about having an infidel in the village, an infidel who proposed to educate Korphe's girls.†
Chpt 12
- If the Balti respected Buddhism enough to practice their austere faith alongside extravagant Buddhist swastikas and wheels of life, Mortenson decided, as his eyes lingered on the carvings, they were probably tolerant enough to endure an infidel praying as a tailor had taught him.†
Chpt 12
- Korphe's women, accustomed by now to the infidel among them, stood at the edge of the firelight, their faces glowing, as they clapped and sang along with their men.†
Chpt 12
- "I have heard that an infidel has come to poison Muslim children, boys as well as girls, with his teachings," Haji Mehdi barked.†
Chpt 12
- "I know who you are, kafir," Mehdi said, using the ugliest term for infidel.†
Chpt 12
- Was he abducted because he was an infidel trespassing in a fundamentalist land?†
Chpt 13
- For a Balti to let a foreign man, an infidel, have that kind of intimate contact with your wife took an incredible leap of faith.†
Chpt 14
- An infidel and representatives from three warring sects of Islam.†
Chpt 15
- Parvi explained that it was best that they meet in a public place, until the mullah had made up his mind about the infidel, and suggested this busy lot near Mortenson's hotel.†
Chpt 15
- But I looked into his heart that day at the petrol pump and saw him for what he is—an infidel, but a noble man nonetheless, who dedicates his life to the education of children.†
Chpt 15
- And he asked me directly, 'Have you ever seen this infidel drink alcohol, or try to seduce Muslim ladies?'†
Chpt 16
- Mortenson brushed aside a heavy chocolate-colored velvet curtain and approached the mosque's inner sanctum, a place no infidel had been invited before.†
Chpt 16
- In the Holy Koran there is no law to prohibit an infidel from providing assistance to our Muslim brothers and sisters.†
Chpt 16
- And rippling out from Mortenson's headquarters in Skardu, over the parched dunes, through the twisting gorges, and up the weatherbound valleys of Baltistan, the legend of a gentle infidel called Dr. Greg was likewise growing.†
Chpt 16
- In the Jamia Darul Uloom Haqqania madrassa in Peshawar, which translates as the "University of All Righteous Knowledge," students later boasted to the New York Times how they celebrated that day after hearing of the attack—running gleefully through the sprawling compound, stabbing their fingers into the palms of their hands, simulating what their teachers taught them was Allah's will in action—the impact of righteous airplanes on infidel office buildings.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
-
(1)
(infidel) a negative term describing someone as not believing in the "right" religion or god
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)