English

Verb

demuslimize ‎(third-person singular simple present demuslimizes, present participle demuslimizing, simple past and past participle demuslimized)

1. (transitive) To make nonmuslim
   • 1969, Afaf Lutfi Sayyid-Marsot, Egypt and Cromer: a study in Anglo-Egyptian relations, p 63

     ... that the educated Egyptian was a demuslimized Muslim and that Great Britain's primary duty in Egypt was to establish a system which would enable the mass of the population ...

   • 1970, Pakistan Historical Society, A History of the Freedom Movement: Being the Story of Muslim Struggle for the Freedom of Hind-Pakistan, 1707-1947, Volume 4, p 15

     It would have gradually demuslimized Muslim children by subjecting them to the philosophy that Hinduism and Islam were not too different and then exposing them to Hindu social influence and political domination.

   • 1990, The Foundation, Vision: A Publication of Iqbal Shariati Foundation, p 4

     By one stroke our next generation grew up speaking a few words of English, but it had essentially been demuslimized, and deculturalized.

   • 2001, Anonymous, Re: Lifting up Afghan women's burquas and **** them Group: soc.culture.african.american

     Now that we have seen the veils get lifted a little have any of you had fantasys of lifting up those muslim veils and demuslimizing some of those hotties?

Synonyms

• Muslimize