Talk:Kafirs

Suggestion

This article is unsatisfactory:

• It describes in detail two totally unrelated groups of people on the same page
• All the content regarding black African people is repeated or presented in a more accurate form on other pages (e.g. Xhosa, Zulu). Much of the content is untrue or not NPOV (e.g. "In the past, Kafirs were essentially warriors")
• The content is apparently based on a Victorian writer's work. Not only might this be a copyvio, but it is inaccurate and seriously misleading. So far as southern Africa is concerned, the word has not been used in this sense for a century. For someone to use the word Kafirs to describe modern black South African people would cause serious offence.

I propose turning this page into a disambiguation page : directing readers to the different southern African articles (e.g. Xhosa, Zulu) and to Kafirs of Hindukush and Kafirstan. Only 7 articles link here, so there is unlikely to be much traffic.

Comments? Humansdorpie 12:57, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

I'd actually go as far as suggesting a complete removal of this article and all references to this page. Why should it exist? --Janto 00:22, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

OK, I've removed all references to Kafirs. All of them where confusions with the plural for kafir. Which is actually "kuffar" apparently. I'm going to simply replace the page with a redirect to kafir. --Janto 00:50, 4 December 2005 (UTC)