infidel

“Word battles were wild and furious; and Liberal soon became known, not only as an infidel or atheist town, but as a very strange town,” author J.P.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 8, 2017

Its slickest publication had been Dabiq, a magazine named for a Syrian town where, in the seventh century, Armageddon was prophesied to play out in an apocalyptic battle with infidel forces from the Roman Empire.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016

He proudly calls himself an infidel and a deplorable.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2016

There was an assumption that they would be greeted as liberators, rather than infidel invaders - as shown by the removal of hard hats for soft berets in the early stages of occupation.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2016

In London some years before, she had been the pupil of a learned minister, who had become an infidel, and also unscrupulous.

From The Homesteader A Novel by Oscar Micheaux

During the civil war, the Druze were largely unwilling to ally with Assad but were wary of the opposition, which was dominated by hard-line Sunni Islamist groups, some of whom viewed Druze as infidels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025

A religious minority living in Iraq for nearly 6,000 years, the Yazidis were considered infidels by the IS fighters.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2023

The word “kuffar” is Arabic for nonbelievers or infidels.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2023

“The cease-fire allowed the Taliban to see that the Afghan people are not infidels, and it allowed the people to see that the Taliban are not abnormal,” Mojda said.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2018

The sultan gave him one of his female relatives in marriage, and the recreant knight appeared before Jerusalem at the head of an army of the infidels.

From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley