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What (who) is Kaffirs - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Kaffirs; Kuffaar; Kuffr; Kaffir language; Kaphir; Kafir (disambiguation); Kaffir (disambiguation); Kaafir(Drama); Kaafir (Drama); Kafir (drama); Kaafir (drama); Kaafir (TV series); Kafir!
Kaffir
·noun ·Alt. of Kafir.
Kaffir
['kaf?]
¦ noun offensive, chiefly S. African an insulting and contemptuous term for a black African.
Origin
from Arab. kafir 'infidel', from kafara 'not believe'.
Usage
The word Kaffir was originally simply a descriptive term for a particular ethnic group. Now it is a racially abusive and offensive term, and in South Africa its use is actionable.
Kaffir Boy
BOOK BY MARK MATHABANE
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa is Mark Mathabane's 1986 autobiography about life under the South African apartheid regime. It focuses on the brutality of the apartheid system and how he escaped from it, and from the township Alexandra, to become a well-known tennis player.
Examples of use of Kaffirs
1. Then they said that the entire Shia community were Kaffirs.
2. Izzadeen tells his followers: "Whoever allies himself with the kaffirs [non–believers] against the believers, he is one of them.
3. El–Faisal writes in Natural Instincts: "The kaffirs (non–believers) are the henchmen of the Shaitaan (devil)... the only language the kaffirs respect is jihad." Bethnal Green library, Whitechapel Ideas Store and Chrisp St Ideas Store (the new names for libraries) were among the eight libraries stocking the books, according to the report by the Centre for Social Cohesion think–tank.
4. "This is wrong." Al–Qaida marked down not only those who cooperated with the American occupation, but everyone who worked with the Iraqi government, police or army, as Kaffirs.
5. Kolenda told me, before quoting at length from Kaffirs of the Hindu Kush (Sir George Scott Robertson, 1'00) and explaining in detail the anthropology and tribal politics of this region, including some new research he had commissioned from the U.S. government‘s elite squad of battlefield anthropologists, better known as Human Terrain Specialists.