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- adjective Not
Islamic ; not befitting or suitingIslam .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Taking a cue from the Taliban, the Lashkar terrorists operating in Banihal heights have imposed a ban on watching TV - terming it an 'unislamic' activity.
India News Digest: Anil-Mukesh Ambani Row: Ad Campaign Raises a Stink 2009
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The Senior Superintendent of Police, Srinagar, Syed Ahfadul Mujtaba, had recently termed stone pelting as "unislamic" and threatened stringent action against the stone throwers.
unknown title 2009
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Tell me what non-violence was there when Bacha Khan encouraged Fakir of Ipi to rise up against Pakistan for being "unislamic".
Pak Tea House 2009
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Also, due to it being an islamic mortgage, the state cannot offer certain help that non-islamic mortgage holders would be entitled to as state help is deemed "unislamic" or something like that.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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(Playing chess is considered 'unislamic' / haram by devout Muslims!) * A very interesting account on how China keeps her 'restive' Muslims in check.
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Why should I as a Muslim constantly have to prove my innocence from terrorism when I have nothing; not nationality, language, ethnicity, denomination or life experiences, in common with these unislamic violent extremists?
Frank Fredericks: Portland Bomber: How Must Muslim Americans Respond? Frank Fredericks 2010
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But however capable our security services, the government's indulging in tortuous linguistic exercises like 'unislamic activity' and 'violent extremism' to avoid the obvious problem of Islamism - and the blind eye turned to the DIRTs in N Ireland - does little to dissuade the would-be self-detonaters in their bedsits in Luton of the moral seriousness or commitment of the British state.
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Why should I as a Muslim constantly have to prove my innocence from terrorism when I have nothing; not nationality, language, ethnicity, denomination or life experiences, in common with these unislamic violent extremists?
Frank Fredericks: Portland Bomber: How Must Muslim Americans Respond? Frank Fredericks 2010
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“That is totally unislamic and unacceptable,” TTP spokesman Muslim Khan said.
Good News, Bad News in Swat valley.... GayandRight 2009
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After emphatically denouncing the events of 9-11 as being unislamic, you heard explanations as to why anti-Americanism was on the rise in the Middle East and growing.
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