Dictionary

kafirize en · VERB

Etymology

From kafir + -ize.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, rare) To make or become kafir.
2. (rare, transitive) To accuse another person of being a heretic against Islam.
   • 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.”
   • 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 2004, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Ray Takeyh, The Receding Shadow of the Prophet, Westport, Connecticut; London: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page 162:
   • No intention to kafirize 'non-believers'. 1993 August 20, Uma Ramamurthy, “India-D Digest”, in bit.listserv.india-d (Usenet):

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takfir