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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

He delivered a sermon the other day in Chicago, in which he takes the ground that Christianity is kindness, and that, consequently, no one could be an infidel.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

During the civil war, the Druze were largely unwilling to ally with Assad but were wary of the opposition, which was dominated by hard-line Sunni Islamist groups, some of whom viewed Druze as infidels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025

A religious minority living in Iraq for nearly 6,000 years, the Yazidis were considered infidels by the IS fighters.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2023

The word “kuffar” is Arabic for nonbelievers or infidels.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2023

This wasn't only because the Western rulers were infidels.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2022

Yet their effect was undoubtedly to import into the Church and into the contemplation of churchmen something of that enthusiasm, trained now and subdued to authority, which had been the possession of infidels and sectaries.

From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More