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If it had been the other way around -- if the Palestinians had brutally beaten the football players while screaming, "Dirty Christ-lovers," "War criminals," "Idolaters" -- it still would be a hate crime.
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"Idolaters" (Polo I. 219) through the publication of travel narratives recording specific encounters, of summative histories of eastern religions that, for the first time, clearly distinguished Buddhism from
Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism 2007
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Earth, Their Ethics were derived from the Old Testament; and they looked upon the "Idolaters" very much as the Israelites were told by the prophets to look upon the Philistines, or Amalek, or Ammon.
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The invaders had two notable advantages: they were fanatically united against the despised "Idolaters," and they drew many converts from the native population.
The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916
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Christians, however bitter, had been as nothing compared with their loathing and contempt for "Idolaters" like the Brahmanist Hindus or the
The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916
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"Idolaters," and wicked people, not having that spirit, can do no good works.
John Knox and the Reformation Andrew Lang 1878
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They charged the Idolaters, shouting, Allaho Akbar!
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But when the Idolaters beheld the standards Mohammedan and there on the profession of Faith Islamitan, proclaiming the Unity, they shrieked “Woe!” and “Ruin!” and besought succour of the Patriarchs of the Monasteries.
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Idolaters, it had never entered into his ideas or belief that any body of men could exist who practised no mode of worship whatever.
Quentin Durward 2008
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Whether the Persians, the Sabæans, the Egyptians, the Tartars, or the Turks, have been Idolaters, and the Extent of the Antiquity of the Images Called Idols — History of Their Worship.
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