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Synonyms for kaffir

important for human and animal food

an offensive and insulting term for any Black African

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On 5 February 1904, protesting a decision by the Johannesburg municipal council to allow Africans to live alongside Indians, Gandhi wrote: "Linder my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location.
Her dinner companion, thought to be another jihadi bride, tweeted "uh (nu "uh wanna behead some kaffirs (non Muslims) now" under the um-ayoub12 tag this year.
They know that they will be seen by Muslims not as the murdering psychos they are but defenders of Islam besieged by the wicked Western kaffirs.
Imagine this, I went to Swakopmund a few months back for the NAMAs and while I was site seeing and doing a little shopping with my friends, a white family walked past us and the Dad (typical big, huge Africaans dude) said, "Jesus hoekom is daar so baie kaffirs vandaag" and the whole family laughed, including the kid that was about six or seven years old.
The jury watched a video of el-Faisal after the September 11 attacks in New York telling up to 150 young Muslims that the Koran justified attacking 'kaffirs', or unbelievers.
In the video, pictured here for the first time, the Muslim preacher - jailed for seven years over race and terror charges last week - tells followers to kill "kaffirs" (non-Muslims).
We knew what Boers and what Kaffirs appeared nightly at the Rustenburg office to give treasonable information about us; we knew what columns were converging on us and their appointed places in the mechanical arrangement of Lord Kitchener, and we knew the exact moment when it would be necessary for our little band to scatter and to avoid the meshes of the net which was being so laboriously and so uselessly drawn in our sight.
They said two black officials were confronted by two customers, who said: "Kaffirs, get out of the club."
Physio Julius Matatho and assistant coach David Dobela were called "kaffirs" by two Scots at the Dome Bar in Edinburgh after the match.
Indeed, Atkins somewhat short-circuits the question by imputing to the revisionist school of South African historians, a variant of the belief in "lazy Kaffirs" (p.