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The term kafir, in Turkish gavur, in the central lands of Islam, has been used since early times for all non-Muslims, whether monotheists or idolaters.
Tolerance Among Muslims, Christians, & Jews: An Exchange Ahmad, Imad-ad-Dean 1992
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After the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, it was made a punishable offense to call a Christian or a Jew gavur ” but this was part of the new, not the old ideology.
Tolerance Among Muslims, Christians, & Jews: An Exchange Ahmad, Imad-ad-Dean 1992
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