What's the difference between muslim and pagan?

Muslim


Definition:

  • (n.) See Moslem.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
  • (2) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (3) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
  • (4) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
  • (5) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
  • (6) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
  • (7) Yet it is liberal Muslims such as Sadiq Khan who are best placed to challenge extremist views within their own communities.
  • (8) Could a devout Muslim be a wholehearted supporter of Ukip?
  • (9) But today, Americans increasingly no longer shy away from saying they oppose mosques on the grounds that Muslims are a threat or different.
  • (10) Photograph: Jared Malsin for The Guardian They are among at least seven Egyptians – six Christians and one Muslim – who are believed to be held hostage in Libya, though that is regarded as a conservative estimate.
  • (11) But perhaps the most striking example of how differently much of the world sees London – and the importance of religion – from the way the city plainly sees itself came from the US, where Donald Trump caused uproar with a call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.
  • (12) The Vatican spokesman said two of the 12 whose feet were washed were Muslim inmates.
  • (13) But when in mid-October two of the artists received death threats, the menaces were widely reported and rekindled debate, prompting vicious, anti-Muslim comments on Danish talk shows.
  • (14) The rioting began on Wednesday after a deadly argument between a Muslim gold shop owner and his Buddhist customers in Meikhtila.
  • (15) Scaf criticised the Muslim Brotherhood for its premature announcement of the results and stated it was "one of the main causes of division and confusion prevailing the political arena".
  • (16) The previous Ba’athist and Shia governments tried to deviate the Muslim generation from their path through their educational programmes that concord with their governments and political whims.
  • (17) It claims, with no factual basis, that Muslim men seek relationships with Hindu women in order to convert them and increase the Muslim population as a result of this.
  • (18) There were 18 primary cases amongst pilgrims returning from Mecca and 15 subsequent cases among Muslims over the following 19 months.
  • (19) The city council’s community safety team, now responsible for a leaflet campaign urging young Muslims not to join Isis, used to employ 31-year old Mashudur Choudhury as a racial harassment worker.
  • (20) In an interview with the Guardian, Chishty said there was now a need for “a move into the private space” of Muslims to spot views that could show the beginning of radicalisation far earlier.

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".