All 8 Uses
infidel
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I Am Malala
(Edited)
- 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.
p. 32.7infidels = 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.
p. 33.1
- 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."
p. 33.4
- O Allah, please make war between Muslims and infidels so I can die in your service and be a martyr.
p. 34.4 *
- "I'd heard you were an infidel," he said to my father, "but there are Qurans in your room."
p. 94.9infidel = negative term for someone who does not believe in the "right" religion
- Fazlullah denounced Pakistani government officials as "infidels" and said they were opposed to bringing in sharia law.
p. 115.1infidels = negative term for people who do not believe in the "right" religion
- "Sir, the school you are running is Western and infidel," it said.
p. 121.9infidel = negative term for not being of the "right" religion
- ...described Pakistan's courts as un-Islamic and said, "I consider Western democracy a system imposed on us by the infidels."
p. 172.7infidels = negative term for people who do not believe in the "right" religion
Definitions:
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(1)
(infidel) a negative term describing someone as not believing in the "right" religion or god
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)