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English
Etymology
From kafir + -ize.
Verb
kafirize (third-person singular simple present kafirizes, present participle kafirizing, simple past and past participle kafirized)
- (transitive, intransitive, rare) To make or become kafir.
- (transitive, rare) To accuse another person of being a heretic against Islam.
2004, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Ray Takeyh, The Receding Shadow of the Prophet, Westport, Connecticut, London: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page 162:The practice of Islamists to kafirize their opponents (that is, to declare them unbelievers or pagans) further widens the gap between the radicals and the mainstream
- 1999, Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding Georgetown University John L. Esposito Professor of Religion and International Affairs, The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?: Myth or Reality?
- In particular, many are challenged to avoid, in their zeal to Islamize state and society, a tendency to “kafirize.”
1993 August 20, Uma Ramamurthy, “India-D Digest”, in bit.listserv.india-d (Usenet):No intention to kafirize 'non-believers'.
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