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  • noun Islam members of a reactionary Islamic sect in the 7th and 8th centuries

Etymologies

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Arabic those who split off, or depart

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Examples

  • On the 19th of Ramadan, while Ali was praying in the mosque of Kufa, a Abd-al-Rahman ibn Muljam, a Kharijite, assassinated him with a stroke of his poison-coated sword.

    Archive 2009-09-01 photographerno1 2009

  • And they were joined in this corruption by those misguided ones from the Takfir and Hijrah group who emulate the Kharijite renegades.

    The Jawa Report 2009

  • And these Kharijite renegades have been concurred with by the Takfir and Hijrah Group who deem the Muslims - in whole and in part - to be unbelievers.

    The Jawa Report 2009

  • We should keep them alive to prevent them from becoming heroes to their other sick neo-Kharijite followers and aspirants.

    altmuslim 2009

  • If they don't its tantamount to treason .. duh. article > > neo-Kharijite < <

    altmuslim 2009

  • Kharijite warlord Hamza bin Abdullāh Shārī, although scholars agree that this is probably only a reference to the Islamic conquest of the city

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  • We should keep them alive to prevent them from becoming heroes to their other sick neo-Kharijite followers and aspirants. "

    altmuslim 2009

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