How To Use Kafir In A Sentence

  • They who can see the name "Kafir" upon the forehead of Osama bin Laden are the Believers: for upon him is the name "Kafir" as the Arabic wordfor "Unbeliever"; and all who follow him; or secretly believe in his cause; and fund or in any way helphis false Jihad; andthe ad-Dajjal'sLawlessness as that of the Son of Perdition himself: the Son of the Devil. OpEdNews - Diary: Darkness and Light; the Caliphate of Barack Obama and the Judas of Islam
  • I suffer the ornament of the Kafir, that of the Persian, that of the Slovak farmer's wife, the ornaments of my cobbler, because they all have no other means of expressing their full potential.
  • Is it permissible to greet a kafir with something other than 'Salam'? Irish Blogs
  • For Kochhar (2000: 186, 222) "non-RgVedic Aryans" (presumably he means speakers of Dardic or Kafiri languages) arrived around 2000 (or 1700) BC, to be followed by the "actual RgVedic people" in around 1400 BC. The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis
  • “persuasion” and indigenous origin: so Reynard the Fox has its analogue amongst the Kafirs and the Vái tribe of Mandengan negroes in Liberia235 amongst whom one Doalu invented or rather borrowed a syllabarium. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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  • About noon, we arrived at a spot called the Kafir's Grave. First Footsteps in East Africa
  • Perhaps he'll enjoy one day being of kafir status. .though of course being a 'grandee' he may expect special treatment and a little rule bending .. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Neither did he attempt to steal that which to the Kafir is the most coveted prize of all -- a fat ox. The Settler and the Savage
  • Of course I knew that this was a common practice among the Kafirs, the claws of the lion and the leopard being either worn by them as potent amulets, or converted into muti, that is to say, medicine, which is implicitly believed by them to impart the quality of courage to the one who takes it; but I had been foolish enough to think that, having solicited me to destroy their enemy for them, they would have regarded the carcass as sacred from mutilation. Through Veld and Forest An African Story
  • And Gharib tourneyed right and left among the Kafirs who gave way before him, till he came to King Barkan's pavilion, with Kaylajan and Kurajan on his either hand, and cried out to them, "Loose your lord! Arabian nights. English
  • “Soumahe” or heathens, and asserts that it corresponds with the Arabic word Kafir or unbeliever, the name by which Edrisi, the Arabian geographer, knew and described the inhabitants of the First footsteps in East Africa
  • I little thought that the pains I took to make a huntsman of myself would hereafter befit me for a general of renown in Kafir warfare. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
  • An intelligent modern traveller derives "Somali" from the Abyssinian "Soumahe" or heathens, and asserts that it corresponds with the Arabic word Kafir or unbeliever, the name by which Edrisi, the Arabian geographer, knew and described the inhabitants of the Affah (Afar) coast, to the east of the Straits of Bab el Mandeb. First Footsteps in East Africa
  • But very funny enough, we - so we're going to be kings of Kafiristan, I remember saying. Michael Caine Reflects On His 'Hollywood' Career
  • Is it permissible to greet a kafir with something other than 'Salam'? posted in forum Mosque Reform by AHaaj on January 14, 2010 at 3: 57 pm Anti-MPAC. ie website established posted in forum Fiqh Issues, Manhaj Issues, Naseehah by Khadijah on January Irish Blogs
  • It was until then known as Kafiristan -- land of the infidels -- and still battles a reputation for insecurity and backwardness. Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
  • He said he was a "Hlubi" Kafir from Qumbu in the territory of Griqualand East, but that he had for some time past been living in Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories
  • It was an act like lightning; either the Kafir would send the assagai first, or the shot must fall. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
  • One, usually called the Kafir-boom, has large flowers of a brilliant crimson. Impressions of South Africa
  • For Kochhar (2000: 186, 222) "non-RgVedic Aryans" (presumably he means speakers of Dardic or Kafiri languages) arrived around 2000 (or 1700) BC, to be followed by the "actual RgVedic people" in around 1400 BC. The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis
  • I am proud to say I had as much influence over the Boers as over the Kafirs, and by a kind and persuasive manner in expostulation, had they meditated such a step, I could at once have deterred them. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
  • And for those that don't know, it's the Rudyard Kipling story of these two sergeants in the English Army in India who finished their service and then sort of become these rogue scammers and then have this idea that they will have this plot to become a king of Kafiristan. Michael Caine Reflects On His 'Hollywood' Career
  • The Kafirs were arming, and the farmers with their flocks and herds had fled in panic from the frontier. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
  • And yesterday I saw Kafiristan on the television, and it's a major Taliban stronghold ... Michael Caine Reflects On His 'Hollywood' Career
  • I was later told that the attackers were targeting people who were not wearing the songkok or tudung (headscarf) as they considered these people "kafir" (infidels). Nst online
  • But no Kafir was to come near us with an assagai The Kafir was a clever fellow, and wanted me to name a place to meet Hintza. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
  • Hereupon the kafir put her into confinement, and called a palaver upon the bushreen's conduct. Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 01
  • And here, this scene is fairly late in the film where, in fact, you have made it to Kafiristan. Michael Caine Reflects On His 'Hollywood' Career
  • Malay, looks upon the Englishman as little removed from a "Kafir" -- an uncircumcised Philistine -- who through ignorance constantly offends in minor points of etiquette, who eats pig and drinks strong drink, is ignorant of the dignity of repose, and whose accidental physical and political superiority in the present world will be more than compensated for by the very inferior and uncomfortable position he will attain in the next. British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo
  • The Kafir's fall created delay sufficient for the foremost of the Guides, Southey, to approach within gunshot. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
  • persuasion" and indigenous origin: so Reynard the Fox has its analogue amongst the Kafirs and the Vái tribe of Mandengan negroes in Liberia [FN#235] amongst whom one Doalu invented or rather borrowed a syllabarium. Arabian nights. English
  • From this originated the name Kafiristan ( "country of infidels"), applied to the region north of the Punjaub of India and south of the Hindu-Kush The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
  • The Dikele grammar proves the language, which is most closely allied to the Benga dialect, to be one of the great South African family, variously called Kafir, because first studied amongst these people; Ethiopic (very vague), and Nilotic because its great fluvial basin is the Zambezi, not the Nile. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • Arabs, especially Hazramís193, who recommended him to the King; and this King (who was a Kafir) trusted him and advanced him to the captainship of his body guard. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • They were dreadfully frightened, but at last one laid down his assagai and by degrees in about an hour approached my Kafir. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
  • The pair of rogues planned to become kings of a backward country called Kafiristan, north of Afghanistan. Films of Michael Caine #27: The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
  • Mir also repeatedly asks the caller to crosscheck Khawaja for his contacts with the CIA and being an agent of the international network of Ahmadiyya; and says that in his opinion Qadiyanis (the Ahmadiyya) are 'worse than kafirs (the non-believers),' thus encouraging the militant commander to kill him. Abdulhadi Hairan: How a Top Pakistani Journalist Encouraged a Militant Commander to Kill a Former Official
  • Meanwhile, the languages of the Kafiri-Nuristani and Dardic language families, spoken in northeastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, have forms of Indo-Aryan that are considered earlier than their counterparts in Avestan and the RgVeda (Witzel 1995a: The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis
  • Kafir tribes from the north-east were chased southward into the mountain country now called Basutoland, most of which had been previously inhabited only by Bushmen, and here the Basuto kingdom was built up out of fugitive clans, by the famous chief Moshesh, between 1820 and 1840. Impressions of South Africa
  • Meanwhile, the languages of the Kafiri-Nuristani and Dardic language families, spoken in northeastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, have forms of Indo-Aryan that are considered earlier than their counterparts in Avestan and the RgVeda (Witzel 1995a: The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis
  • The public works department considered that a wage of 8s. a day was enough to elevate a kafir job 'to the level of civilized labour. Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 15
  • The Hausas refused to be federated with southerners and other non-Muslims whom they considered "Kafiri". Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Unitarian fell upon the misbelieving Persians in the gates, and the blood of the Kafirs ran in the streets like a torrent till they threw down their arms and harness and called out for quarter; whereupon the Moslems stayed their swords from the slaughter and drove them to their tents, as one driveth a flock of sheep. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

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