I am afraid I am not convinced, because I am reading different versions of this word from
@Areesh and
@Indos and yours is the third version. So when I call a Muslim kaafir in return, I need to know what he is considering me to be. If it is the most commonly believed version, i.e. a kaafir is someone who is not a Muslim, then I cannot use this word against that student. He will laugh at me and call me an idiot. I don't have a comeback in that case. I choose another word - 'adharmi', which is nowhere as poetic as kaafir. I have been called this by my grampa for refusing to be part of a long boring fire ritual in peak summer.
The root word from which kaafir is derived is "kufr", which means "to deny".
@Areesh @Sayfullah , please correct me if I am wrong about the above.
Is the islamic context, it means someone who denies Allah or Islam. But, the arabic language has been around for much longer so we don't have to restrict ourselves to that. You think kaafir means non muslim because the word is exclusively used by muslims, so they use it in their context.
So, a muslim denier/rejects the hindu belief. So, you can call him a kaafir (or whatever's the sanskrit word for it) in return if that helps takes the sting out.
I am going to these great lengths not to troll because I truly don't see why this word is considered offensive by non-muslims. I am sure there are other slurs that are hurtful, but I am not too sure about this one.
Also, did you notice the report said bullying was done predominantly by white pupils but the headline makes it look like muslim students are the main culprits and are bullying hindu kids into accepting islam.
I am sure bigotry exists but these are just kids.
I'll share a personal anecdote. When I was in 5th grade, there was a classmate who told me and a friend that he was a hindu. He was just pranking us but we were kids and kids are often chutiyas
So, me and my friend Mohsin, decided to do ourselves and this guy a huge favor by trying to convince him to accept Islam. We asked him what his real name was since "Mustafa" is not a hindu name, he told us it was very hard to pronounce so we could call him "Krishna". He told us he was from the mountains "up north". He was very white compared to the rest of us too (whitest I'd ever seen). So, that may have played a role in us falling for it all
We would tell him about Islamic stuff (I got into reading islamic history in 3rd grade so I was kinda good at it) and all.
In the end, we ended up convincing and then
converting him. Told him how to recite the Kalima and Durood Sharif. Mofo would stutter intentionally and it took quite a while to get him to recite the two things it takes 1 mins to recite.
Boy, did he take the piss out of us. I believe the term Indians use is "chutiya kaatna"
We did realize after some time ke wo hamara chutiya kaat rha tha
Also, it turned out, he was a Butt/Kashmiri so that's why he was whiter than the rest of us.
I changed schools two years later but we got into the same college. He got the shit kicked out of him by some classfellows.
I am kinda glad he got it. A*shole.
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