infidel

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“Word battles were wild and furious; and Liberal soon became known, not only as an infidel or atheist town, but as a very strange town,” author J.P.

From Washington Times • Jan. 8, 2017

Its slickest publication had been Dabiq, a magazine named for a Syrian town where, in the seventh century, Armageddon was prophesied to play out in an apocalyptic battle with infidel forces from the Roman Empire.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2016

He proudly calls himself an infidel and a deplorable.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2016

There was an assumption that they would be greeted as liberators, rather than infidel invaders - as shown by the removal of hard hats for soft berets in the early stages of occupation.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2016

Then, one of the conditions of the treaty of 1229 had been that within two years he should proceed to Palestine and wage war there with the infidel for five years.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles