File spoon-archives/postanarchism.archive/postanarchism_2004/postanarchism.0407, message 29


From: JessEcoh-AT-cs.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:15:17 EDT
Subject: Re: [postanarchism] Adam: "Anarchist Orientalism and the Muslim Community in ...


thanks pj -- wasn't familiar with any but the south african version (which i 
thought was also in use in the UK).

by the way -- spencer: sorry, didn't mean to put words in your mouth!


       --jesse.

In a message dated 7/18/04 9:32:17 PM Central Daylight Time, 
pj-AT-cutlerco.com.au writes: 
> >i take exception to the use of the word "kaffir" (which is fairly racially
> >offensive in a british context, is it not?
> 
> The sense you are taking exception to is one among many: a South 
> African term for any Black African.  In ethnology the word refers to 
> a member of the Xhosa speaking people of South Africa.  The British 
> word Kafir refers to a native of the Hindu Kush. A quick check of the 
> dictionary reveals another meaning which in this context is entirely 
> appropriate. In Islamic cultures  kaffir  means an infidel. The word 
> is originally arabic in origin.
> 
> pj
> 
> 


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