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Islamicide

Islamicide noun: the killing of Muslims.

Noun

Islamicide (uncountable)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) The killing of Muslims.
    • What we need to straighten this mess out is both tyrannicide and homocide. I am sure you would want to add Islamicide too, or something like it.2006 March 31, Bob, “Re: Weirder election than Battlestar Galactica's”, in alt.battlestar-galactica (Usenet)
    • Both of these social acts (evils) are or have overtones of being religious-genocides—Judaocide and Islamicide.2009, Kenneth Vaux, America in God's World, page 82

Origin of Islamicide

From Islam + -icide.

Questions about Islamicide

What does Islamicide mean?
Islamicide means the killing of Muslims.
What part of speech is Islamicide?
Islamicide is a noun.

Words near Islamicide in the dictionary

  1. Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
  2. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  3. Islamically
  4. Islamicate
  5. Islamication
  6. Islamicide
  7. Islamicism
  8. Islamicisms
  9. Islamicist
  10. Islamicists
  11. Islamicization

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