The one that department officials appeared to flaunt around victoriously, "takfirism," deriving from the Arabic word "takfir," which refers to apostasy in Islam, continued to affirmatively support what the U.S. media and public and even government officials had already suggested: an understanding of "terrorism" in Arab or Muslim terms. ❋ Maytha Alhassen (2011)
In other words, what they call takfir (ph), the ability for them to call another Muslim an apostate. ❋ Unknown (2005)
And Muslim leaders condemned the practice of 'takfir' - whereby Muslims who reject the extremist path may be declared apostate, and therefore killed freely. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In 2005 there was a massive consensus reached at the international level that forbade Muslims from engaging in something called takfir - which attacks the jihadist ability to recruit. ❋ Unknown (2008)
… and Muslim leaders condemned the practice known as 'takfir' - calling others apostates - which has been used by extremists to justify violence against other Muslims. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The process by which one is declared to be an apostate is called takfir, naming and denouncing a Kaffir, an unbeliever. ❋ Lewis, Bernard (1988)
The implications of this doctrinal difference are significant, as the Salafist division of society into categories of belief and disbelief is implicitly reintroducing into Egyptian Islamist circles the idea of takfir - that is, identifying Muslims who do not meet their standards as apostates, therefore making them fair game for violence. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Drawing on Al-Qaeda's employment of "takfir," which justifies the killing of Muslims accused of apostasy, local extremists in areas straddling Afghanistan and Pakistan have killed hundreds of ❋ Unknown (2010)
Sharif, generally known as “Dr. Fadl,” is the author of the 1993 tract The Basic Principles in Making Preparations for Jihad and an architect of the doctrine of takfir, arguing that Muslims who did not support armed jihad or who participated in elections were kuffar, unbelievers. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)
The Brotherhood has also been careful to distinguish itself from the Salafist followers of Sayyid Qutb, himself a Muslim Brother who developed the concept of takfir , which allows one Muslim to denounce another Muslim as an apostate and treat him accordingly. ❋ Bret Stephens (2011)
That process of declaring other Muslims to be apostates, takfir, would become a key al-Qaeda doctrine. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)
To a large extent it is because al-Qaeda and affiliated groups had increasingly adopted the doctrine of takfir, by which they claimed the right to decide who was a “true” Muslim, something that in mainstream Islamic theology is something only Allah can truly know. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)
There, he says, Zawahiri, a prickly intellectual, increasingly adopted the doctrine of takfir declaring other Muslims to be apostates. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)
Of all the player in the AoT to date, I think that Kohlhammer could pull this one off (or possibly die trying) and create a radical departure from the original timeline but also one that might address the takfir jihadist war that plagued his 21C. ❋ Unknown (2010)
