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At one point he sought to market his Green Book, in which he spells out his philosophy, as an alternative to the Koran, a presumption that earned him the title "kafer" or non-believer, from the Saudi Council for Grand Scholars, Saudi Arabia's highest fatwa authority, 30 years ago.

NYT > Home Page By EMAD MEKAY 2011

At one point he sought to market his Green Book, in which he spells out his philosophy, as an alternative to the Koran, a presumption that earned him the title "kafer" or non-believer, from the Saudi Council for Grand Scholars, Saudi Arabia's highest fatwa authority, 30 years ago.

NYT > Global Home By EMAD MEKAY 2011

A child of less than three years old came running out of a by-street (apparently no person being near it), and called after me, _Kafer, kafer_, "Infidel, infidel"! and spat at me in the bargain like a little toad.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

This makes him very savage, and sometimes he calls me a kafer.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

The dog knows I'm a _kafer_, and said to my camel-driver, the day of my arrival, "Why did you bring the Christian to our holy city?" chiding him.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

The Shereef boldly continued, "In this world [104] God has given all the infidels plenty of good things, (this being a sly allusion to the Christians and their possession of great wealth); but, in the next world, the believers only will enjoy good, and the kafer will be miserable."

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

Asking my negro master what _I_ was, he replied, "_Kerdee_," which means _kafer_ ( "infidel") in Bornou, the negro mistaking my individual self for the pronoun _I_, which is

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

Kafer to be a friendly one, notwithstanding the Moors and Arabs persist ungenerously in teaching these poor things to call me kafer, or infidel, and to look upon me with a species of horror.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

Touaricks, both here and at Ghadames, teach the slaves to call Christians kafer, "infidel."

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

I’d picked them up in Switzerland: gluck kafer, lucky bugs.

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