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An app called Krishna, for example, has already advised killing unbelievers and supporting India's ruling party.—
Scott Shapiro,
WIRED,
8 Jan. 2024 -
To have reservations about something that is treated as sacrosanct is to be an unbeliever, or worse, a heretic, and thus someone to be cast out.—
Ian Buruma,
Harper's Magazine,
2 June 2023
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Some, steeped in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, even viewed Israel as an infidel transgressor.—
Suzanne Maloney,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Dec. 2024
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Some of their treasured possessions—bicycles, snowboards, trophies—would identify them as infidels and put their lives in danger.—
Cheri Lucas Rowlands,
Longreads,
5 Nov. 2024
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Entertainment Weekly's free daily newsletter Robertson would make several more controversial comments over the years, slamming atheists and doubling down on his homophobic views.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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Trump was right, therefore, to highlight the issue in his Christmas greeting to China's atheists.—
Kevin Lynn,
Newsweek,
6 Jan. 2025
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Church officials decided to recognize Dec. 25 as his birthday, probably to coincide with the date of pagan festivals in an attempt to get pagans to accept Christianity as the official religion.—
Atlanta Life,
ajc,
10 Nov. 2017
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While plague stalks the land, paranoid peasants swap cautionary folk tales about evil spirits, pagans, Jews and other outsiders.—
Stephen Dalton,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Oct. 2017
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There are only two kinds of people in the world: the believer and the nonbeliever.—
Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
23 Dec. 2024
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But in reality, those arrested were deemed kafirs, or nonbelievers.—
Vera Mironova,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Feb. 2017
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“Giaour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giaour. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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