Kafir

Young boys wearing white robes and caps stand behind green flag with Arabic script.

The world’s largest Islamic group wants Muslims to stop saying ‘infidel’

Religion

The timing of this anti-kafir push is hardly accidental. Indonesia’s conservative Muslim clerics are gaining influence through social media with hard-line messages. Nahdlatul Ulama, or NU, with more than 90 million followers, wants to disseminate the “message of Islam as a source of universal love.”