Word: infidels
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...balance of Islam, this constitution is infidel and therefore everyone who participates in this election will be considered infidels...
...Iraq holds free elections in January, whom will Iraqis vote for? Will it be a warlord who pledges to kill every infidel American on Iraqi soil? Does the Administration expect us to believe that the Iraqi people are going to vote for moderates interested in normalized relations with the West? If Bush is re-elected in November, at least those voting against him will be able to take solace in knowing that he has run out of people to blame for this debacle. Joel Yanovich Los Angeles...
...interim government. On one tape, a man named Sheik Abu Anas al-Shami, one of al-Zarqawi's key commanders and a member of the organization's religious committee, preaches that any nation built on secular principles is "in the light of Islamic law a tyrannical infidel and blasphemous state." Anyone associated with it, he continues--especially soldiers and police, whether or not they are good Muslims--may be murdered, as "they do not represent themselves; they are means in the hands of the tyrants." Even Muslims "who pray" may be slaughtered to punish the Iraqi government or U.S. forces...
...Mahdi fighters on the street tumbled into an open storefront to escape the barrage. The militiamen stood between us and the door to shield us from the unrelenting fire. They were young, polite and dedicated to their cause. As they saw it, they were protecting their holiest site from infidel Americans. But the Mahdi fighters were perfectly willing to safeguard...
...that he wasn't defeated militarily. Reports from the frontline leave no doubt that U.S. and Iraqi forces were closing in on the shrine, while many Sadrist fighters had already fled. But their "defense" of the most revered of Shiite shrines under fire from a widely loathed "infidel" army has further enhanced Moqtada Sadr's already considerable political standing among Iraqi Shiites - a fact that has led the interim government to stress that even after three weeks of violent defiance, it wants to draw Sadr into the political process, for the simple reason that he's too dangerous to them...