Do Muslims believe that non Muslims are infidels?

Answer 1

No,

Muslims respect all faiths and religions. They are required just to explain their Islam belief and then respect the choice of others and respect their beliefs. They required to be peaceful and kind to all people irrelevant to their beliefs. refer to question below for more information.

ANSWER 2: Yes, the Qu'ran teaches that all must submit to Islam and those that don't are infidels. Those who refuse to submit are subject to death or subjugation with a tax for the privealge to continue to live in a Islamic country. The over all goal is one world wide Caliphate subject to Sharia Law.

Answer 2

No. Not at all. A Muslim is not permitted to tell a lie to anybody, or deceive anybody. He has been ordained by Almighty Allah to speak truth even if it goes against his ownself, his friends or anybody else. The early Muslims impressed the non-believers by their honesty, truthfulness and justice. The non-believers are also the off-spring of Hazrat Adam AS. A non-believer may embrace Islam and become more dear to Almighty Allah than any Muslims. Please never think of it.

Answer 3

This is a common trope online and the in the media that Muslims are consistently or maliciously lying to Nonbelievers about their beliefs and doctrines. For the most part, this is incorrect. The majority of Muslims are quite honest in their dealings and sincere about their beliefs, even and especially when they go against the common position in the societies that they live.

However, the claims of those who argue that the Qur'an permits lying to Nonbelievers are not entirely without merit. Most of the sentiment in this regard derives from Qur'an 3:28, which is cited at the bottom of this answer. The argument in this verse is that Muslims should be hesitant to accept the governance or protection from Nonbelievers and may be permitted to lie about the nature of their beliefs if they believe that they are under threats of violence from the Nonbeliever society. This practice of dissimulation to protect the Muslim from danger is commonly called "taqiya" after the word "taqwa" in this verse.

Historically, taqiya as actually practiced was usually done by Shiite Muslims and members of Post-Islamic Religions as a way of avoiding persecution by Sunni Muslims. The most prominent example of this is the way that Alawites, a Post-Islamic Religion in Syria, have used taqiya as regards their beliefs about Ali ibn AbuTalib in order to avoid offending the Sunni Muslims in their vicinity.

What is also common in the modern day is that leaders in the Islamic World, both politicians and imams, will change their message to one that is more conciliatory and less vile when they speak in Western languages from when they speak in Arabic, Farsi, or Urdu. Sites like MEMRI shine a light on this doublespeak. I would argue, however, that this is not taqiya per se, but rather a modern propagandistic movement in much the same vein as Communist propagandizing during the Cold War. It is only prominent among Muslim leadership because of the tangible benefits in terms of promulgating their message and receiving support that this method has provided, not because it is a religious mandate. This same sort of doublespeak did not exist prior to the 1960s and 1970s, which is when Muslim leaders discovered that aligning with in the Socialist Left and recasting their attempts to reinstate Authoritarian Traditionalism over Modern Secularism as a struggle of disadvantaged Non-Whites against Western Imperialism could achieve tangible benefits for them.

Qur'an 3:28: (Translation Muhsin Khan):

Let not the believers take the disbelievers as Auliya (supporters, helpers, etc.) instead of the believers, and whoever does that will never be helped by Allah in any way, except if you indeed fear a danger from them. And Allah warns you against Himself (His Punishment), and to Allah is the final return.

Answer 4

According to Islam, there are three general words used in Arabic to refer to non-believers in an Islamic context. There is Kaafer (often spelled Kafir) which means "denier" or "negator" since they are denying or negating the truth of God. A Kaafer is someone who rejects God in an Islamic context. There is also Mushrik which refers to a polytheist or pagan, i.e. someone who believes in more than one God. Finally, there is Ahl al-Kitaab or Ahl adh-Dhimma which refer to the "People of the Book" or "Protected Peoples", non-Muslim monotheists like Jews and Christians.

The term "infidel" in English is usually used as an analog for Kaafer, not for the other groups, so a person who is not a Muslim is not necessarily an infidel either, he could be a Mushrik or a member of Ahl al-Kitaab. However, the treatment of Mushriks is not terribly different than the treatment of Kaafers and the treatment of the members of Ahl al-Kitaab depends strongly on the particular ruler in place at a given time.