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Reader comment on item: Muslim-Controlled Governments Subsidize Conversions of Kafirs
in response to reader comment: For Abdul Rahman: is the word kaffir offensive?
Submitted by Abdul Rahman Reijerink (Australia), Jul 4, 2006 at 07:33
It means someone who covers up the truth.
It is the same word for a farmer, one who covers up the seed with soil. A metaphor.
So to be a Kaffir, someone has to know the truth and then consciously cover it up.
If you do not believe Islam to be true and never did, how can you be a Kaffir?
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| Malaysian Govt. PaysPreachers for Marrying Kafirs [18 words] | S.C.Panda | Aug 18, 2006 01:46 | 53311 | ||
| ... Wrong fact! [44 words] | fade ley | Aug 6, 2006 00:47 | 51764 | ||
| minorities in malaysia [54 words] | RAJESH GOGNA | Jul 1, 2006 06:07 | 48644 | ||
| Discrimination in Muslim majority country [167 words] | Gopal | Jul 1, 2006 01:46 | 48636 | ||
| Malaysian Government Pays Preachers for Marrying Kafirs [23 words] | steven l | Jun 30, 2006 22:00 | 48624 | ||
| Kaffirs reference offensive [101 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Abdul Rahman Reijerink | Jun 30, 2006 11:59 | 48560 | ||
 For Abdul Rahman: is the word kaffir offensive? [780 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 1, 2006 07:41 | 48560 | ||
 your interpretation is wrong [61 words] | Abdul Rahman Reijerink | Jul 4, 2006 07:33 | 48560 | ||
| Abdul Rahman: Islam and the turth! And how do you propose that one can cover the truth? [142 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 4, 2006 17:37 | 48560 | ||
| wrong [230 words] | Abdul Rahman Reijerink | Jul 6, 2006 05:47 | 48560 | ||
| For Abd al-Rahman (this is the proper transliteration of your name) [710 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 6, 2006 18:48 | 48560 | ||
| hostile and nasty [638 words] | Abdul Rahman Reijerink | Jul 14, 2006 06:07 | 48560 | ||
| Dr. Pipes [71 words] | Abdul Rahman Reijerink | Jul 14, 2006 06:14 | 48560 | ||
| For Abd al-Rahman: Do you really know what are really diacriticla points and not marks as you claim? [216 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 14, 2006 21:55 | 48560 | ||
| For 'Abd al-Rahman and the poor muslim theology [765 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 15, 2006 08:01 | 48560 | ||
| What is a decent translation? [60 words] | Kevin M | Jul 15, 2006 20:55 | 48560 | ||
| addressed to the arrogant one [286 words] | Abdul Rahman Reijerink | Jul 16, 2006 06:20 | 48560 | ||
| For Kevin: And a good translation of the Qur'an [696 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 16, 2006 08:11 | 48560 | ||
| For 'Abd al-Rahman and who is really a kaffir? [73 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 17, 2006 06:43 | 48560 | ||
| read properly [234 words] | Abdul Rahman Reijerink | Jul 18, 2006 22:12 | 48560 | ||
| refutation [234 words] | Abdul Rahman Reijerink | Jul 19, 2006 07:32 | 48560 | ||
| For 'Abd al-Rahman and "connotation and denotation" Chutzpah and other sordid matters [1169 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 19, 2006 18:52 | 48560 | ||
| please explain [190 words] | Abdul Rahman Reijerink | Jul 20, 2006 05:32 | 48560 | ||
| For 'Abd al-Rahman and Chutzpah!!! [562 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 21, 2006 07:25 | 48560 | ||
| For 'Abd al-Rahman and "covering of sins" and the word kaffir!! [168 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 22, 2006 07:15 | 48560 | ||
| read what I wrote truthfully [182 words] | Abdul Rahman Reijerink | Jul 22, 2006 18:26 | 48560 | ||
| For 'Abd al-Rahman: "covering up the truth?" And Muslim logic!! [594 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 23, 2006 18:46 | 48560 | ||
| For Abd al-Rahman [225 words] | Moayidd | Oct 9, 2007 09:01 | 48560 | ||
| Our dear Moayidd and gem time [283 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 10, 2007 07:56 | 48560 | ||
| More gems from our dear Moayidd and big time falsafa [325 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 10, 2007 18:56 | 48560 | ||
| Slight correction [24 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 10, 2007 20:13 | 48560 | ||
| Our dear Mo'ayyid and his examination in Syriac and Egyptian and Arabic and Judeo-Arabic [173 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 12, 2007 18:37 | 48560 | ||
| Clarification [168 words] | Moayidd | Sep 7, 2009 00:36 | 48560 | ||
| Our dear Mo'ayyid and the word Kufr [1071 words] | dhimmi no more | Sep 12, 2009 08:51 | 48560 | ||
| Oh I'm waiting for your naswer our dear Mo'ayyid [211 words] | dhimmi no more | Sep 26, 2009 20:28 | 48560 | ||
| From Pakistan [26 words] | Khan | May 11, 2010 18:24 | 48560 | ||
| Our dear khan and the Qur'an [88 words] | dhimmi no more | May 12, 2010 19:52 | 48560 | ||
| Wrong [68 words] | Khan | May 13, 2010 20:49 | 48560 | ||
| sayed in iran [38 words] | cyrus | Jun 30, 2006 10:05 | 48542 | ||
| Myth of moderate Malaysia [103 words] | Vijay | Jun 30, 2006 05:36 | 48512 |
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