what about the term "kafir"?

Submitted by Xavier (India), Nov 25, 2005 at 05:19

Perhaps Mr. Pipes should ask the Muslims to stop using the term "kafir", which doesn't mean merely "unbeliever, but which is an insulting and degrading term.

"Kafir" is as loaded with hatred and contempt as the term "ni**er", when not even more, for it has Allah's sanction.

It is definitely a racist term and it should be deleted from all Muslim texts. (The problem is that it is in the Koran, starting already in the few first ayahs of the Baqara sura. "Wa inna l-lazina kafaruu savaaun aleihim, a andhartahum wa lam tundhirhum wa la yash'uruun...").

Meanwhile one should tell this to the Muslims loud and clear: "Don't complain guys because your alleged "anti-Muslim racists" are doing nothing that you don't do at least tenfold...""

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