Sentence examples for takfiri from inspiring English sources
noun
A radical Muslim who excommunicates other Muslims, or accuses them of apostasy.
Issandr el Amrani, an independent analyst, calls them "incipiently takfiri".
Ultra-puritan Sunnis, known as takfiris, denounce the Shias as apostates from Islam, and claim that it is therefore legal to kill them (incidentally, it is takfiri mosques that the Shias now claim they are targeting in revenge).
The ministry statement, published on the official SPA news agency, said the 47 had been convicted of adopting the radical "takfiri" ideology, joining "terrorist organisations" and implementing various "criminal plots".
"If this battle with these takfiri terrorists requires that I and all of Hezbollah go to Syria, we will go to Syria," he shouted.
"The Saudi government supports terrorists and takfiri [radical Sunni] extremists, while executing and suppressing critics inside the country," he told the Iranian state news agency.
Following the rising Iranian death toll in Syria, Iranian officials have become vocal in vowing to crush "takfiri terrorists".
The Revolutionary Guards said Allahdadi had been dispatched to Syria to operate as an adviser to help its government and people in their fight against "Takfiri-Salafi terrorists" – Iranian terminology for Sunni jihadi extremists.
The intelligence ministry issued a statement on Wednesday about what it described as a Takfiri-Salafist group named Monotheism and Jihad whose members it said had been arrested and some sentenced to death.
Among them was Shahram Ahmadi, a 28-year-old Kurdish prisoner, who was convicted for "enmity against God" because of his alleged membership of so-called Takfiri-Salafist groups, an Iranian term for Sunni jihadi extremists.
That is especially true of fundamentalist Salafis, who adhere to traditions laid down in 7th-century Arabia, or of the small minority who hold to the jihadi-takfiri world view espoused by Isis and al-Qaida.
Mr Laham's letter accuses Saudi Arabia, which funds Mr Assad's enemies, of sponsoring schools which are "teaching the ideology of hate, 'takfiri' [a Muslim accusing a fellow Muslim of apostasy] and jihad as holy duty".
