infidel
Example Sentences
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Islamic State considered them to be infidels and carried out a genocidal assault.
From BBC
Medieval, crusader and Viking aesthetics are especially beloved by white supremacists, who like to imagine, entirely wrongly, that Europe in the past was populated only by White Europeans who battled nobly against infidels and won.
From Washington Post
“This is the duty of everyone to fight against the invaders and infidels who occupied our land,” said his uncle Muhammed Karim, 48, in response to a question about why the Taliban recruited children.
From Washington Post
“They wanted to beat us. They called us infidels and American spies.”
From New York Times
When they first rose to power in the mid-1990s, the hard-line Sunni militants massacred, kidnapped and uprooted thousands of Shiite Hazaras, declaring them infidels.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
