(n.) One of a race which, with the Hottentots and Bushmen, inhabit South Africa. They inhabit the country north of Cape Colony, the name being now specifically applied to the tribes living between Cape Colony and Natal; but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs.
(n.) One of a race inhabiting Kafiristan in Central Asia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The attackers stormed into the hostel and said they wanted to know where the kafirs [unbelievers] were,” he said.
(2) Among them was a 16-year-old from Manchester who celebrated the shootings on Twitter, while another British woman greeted the Charlie Hebdo shootings by saying: “May Allah help them kill as many kafirs they can #parisshooting.” Another potential name to be added to the ICSR database is Hayat Boumeddiene, partner of one of the Paris attackers, Amédy Coulibaly, and France’s most wanted woman.
(3) The six-count indictment – which also covered his alleged efforts to provide support and resources for al-Qaida groups attacking US troops abroad – said he "planned to commit acts of violence against the United States" with the goal of "decapitating" the nation's military center "and killing as many 'kafirs' [non-believers] as possible."
(4) Hazara are Shia muslims, “kafirs” (infidels) to the Sunni Taliban.
(5) The clip, which has not been independently authenticated, concludes with footage of a young child in military-style fatigues, who warns in English: “We are going to go kill the kafir [non-believers] over there.” In a seemingly deliberate emulation of Isis videos featuring the British extremist Mohammed Emwazi , the footage focuses on one man wearing a balaclava and repeatedly addressing the prime minister directly.
(6) At the beginning of this course you were a kafir (an unbeliever),” he said.
(7) Islamist websites call him an apostate, accuse him of selling his nation for Russian cash, and make clumsy puns on his surname with the Arabic word kafir (unbeliever).
Pagan
Definition:
(n.) One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew.
(n.) Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or superstitions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Professor Ronald Hutton , a leading expert on paganism based at Bristol University, said he believed there were at least 100,000 practising pagans in Britain.
(2) First, medicine was despised as a mechanical art or suspected of paganism because of its literary sources.
(3) Beltran moved to right field so that Pagan could play in center in New York to protect his knees.
(4) Pagan featured in one of the game's key plays, when a line drive hit the third base back and bounced away from Miguel Cabrera for a two-out double that eventually led to a three-run inning.
(5) The most famous image of suffering in the Renaissance was an ancient statue dug up in 1506 of the pagan priest Laocoön being strangled by snakes , his face a contorted image of pure suffering.
(6) This is a question which can be answered in entirely pagan ways, but there, too, you come up against something quite like the Christian problem of evil.
(7) 1.24am BST Cardinals 0 - Giants 0, Bottom 1st Angel Pagan, or Crazy Horse as he is sometimes known gets the crowd up by leading off the inning with a base hit to his old teammate, Carlos Beltran in right.
(8) The rookie shortstop boots it, bobbles it, picks it up and fires home and nails Angel Pagan who is trying to trot home!
(9) A recent proposal (Maggio, M. B., Pagan, J., Parsonage, D., Hatch, L., and Senior, A. E. (1987) J. Biol.
(10) 2.45am BST Giants 5 - Tigers 0, Bottom 4th Pagan grounds out to end the inning, but the Giants tack on another run at AT&T Park.
(11) Pagan can't check his swing on a slider out of the zone, 0-1.
(12) Boko Haram has repeatedly stated its opposition not only to western education - its name means western education is forbidden” in the Hausa language – but also to democracy and secular government, which it regards as a form of “paganism”, and its attacks could intensify to discourage voting.
(13) As a Christian, she is wrestling with the problem of other people's faiths, including paganism.
(14) Starting with standards arising from the relationship between medicine and art in classical antiquity, biblical tradition and teutonic-pagan antiquity, this article roams through german literature from the Middle Ages up to the 20th century, from Hildegard of Bingen to Gottfried Benn and Alfred Döblin, guided by the question, how strongly medical knowledge and medical practise are reflected in the poetry of writing physicians.
(15) Updated at 1.57am BST 1.51am BST Angel Pagan really is a Crazy Horse.
(16) In spite of the hookline ("Smother the fire … "), it retains a seasonally appropriate, huddled under pelts, Game Of Thrones vibe: slightly pagan, but definitely pleasantly warm.
(17) The Giants, who this week brutally lost their starting center fielder, Angel Pagan , for the season, to back surgery, have a mathematical chance at overtaking LA, but more likely will be fighting for home-field advantage in the NL wild-card game.
(18) 1.49am BST Giants 2 - Tigers 0, Top 2nd There are nervous cheers from the Detroit crowd after Pagan grounds out to Fielder at first to retire the side.
(19) One boy was told by his Isis commander: “Even if you see your father, if he is still Yazidi, you must kill him.” Isis has openly referred to the Yazidis as a “pagan minority [whose] existence … Muslims should question”, adding that “their women could be enslaved … as spoils of war”.
(20) On Tuesday, they accused liberal bishops of imposing a "neo-pagan worldview" by supporting gay marriage and claiming there should be "a recognition of God's grace at work in same-sex partnerships".