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Revision as of 17:03, 19 April 2006 by Irishpunktom (talk | contribs) (read the Source you provided, it is not OR!!)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) For the Infocom text adventure, see Infidel (computer game).An infidel (literally, "one without faith") is an unbeliever concerning central tenets of a religion, often used in a pejorative sense to describe those who explicitly deny them (especially regarding asserted aspects of a religion's deities). More generally, an infidel is one who doubts or rejects a particular doctrine, system, or principle.
- In Christianity, "infidel" is an archaism now supplanted usually by "non-Christian".
- The word kafir (كافر) of Arabic origin dating from pre-Islam is used by Muslims to describe non-believers. It as well as its Turkish equivalent giaour, are terms usually translated into English as "infidel" or a synonym for "infidel", "unbeliever". When the word is used to describe the inhabitants of the territories along the southeast coast of Africa that were colonized by the Portuguese and British it is a pejorative term.