takfir

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: From 9/11 To 8/22: My Arab-American Muslim Father Was A Victim Of American Terrorism Maytha Alhassen 2011

In other words, what they call takfir (ph), the ability for them to call another Muslim an apostate.

CNN Transcript Nov 13, 2005 2005

And Muslim leaders condemned the practice of 'takfir' - whereby Muslims who reject the extremist path may be declared apostate, and therefore killed freely.

Speech to the Indonesia Crime Prevention Foundation (ICPF) Seminar on International Cooperation Against Terrorism, Focus on Suicide Bombing as a Symptom of Terrorism 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.

Ali Eteraz: The Myth of Muslim Condemnation of Terror 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.

Hurricanes, Terrorism and Drugs Charges: A day in the life of Australians overseas. 2005

The process by which one is declared to be an apostate is called takfir, naming and denouncing a Kaffir, an unbeliever.

Islamic Revolution 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.

The Daily Star > News Feed 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

EurasiaNet.org 2010

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.

Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood Bret Stephens 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.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011