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demuslimize en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English muslim Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English demuslimize From de- + muslim + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To decrease the resemblance of a Muslim.
   • It would have gradually demuslimized Muslim children by subjecting them to the philosophy that Hinduism and Islam were not too different and then exposing them to Hindu social influence and political domination. 1970, Pakistan Historical Society, A History of the Freedom Movement: Being the Story of Muslim Struggle for the Freedom of Hind-Pakistan, 1707-1947, Volume 4, p 15
   • ... that the educated Egyptian was a demuslimized Muslim and that Great Britain's primary duty in Egypt was to establish a system which would enable the mass of the population ... 1969, Afaf Lutfi Sayyid-Marsot, Egypt and Cromer: a study in Anglo-Egyptian relations, p 63
   • 2001, Anonymous, Re: Lifting up Afghan women's burquas and fucking them Group: soc.culture.african.american Now that we have seen the veils get lifted a little have any of you had fantasys of lifting up those muslim veils and demuslimizing some of those hotties?
   • By one stroke our next generation grew up speaking a few words of English, but it had essentially been demuslimized, and deculturalized. 1990, The Foundation, Vision: A Publication of Iqbal Shariati Foundation, p 4

Forms

Synonyms

Muslimize