Muslims - "infidels that worship the One True God": a contradiction in terms?

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How can Muslims simultaneously be infidels yet worship the True God? Doesn’t infidel mean someone without faith?
 
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JSmitty2005:
How can Muslims simultaneously be infidels yet worship the True God? Doesn’t infidel mean someone without faith?
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I believe its the Muslims who call us infidels and not the other way round!
 
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I believe its the Muslims who call us infidels and not the other way round!
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No, it’s my understanding that we certainly consider them to be infidels.
 
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I found the answer to my own question. An infidel is any non-baptized person. From NewAdvent:

As in ecclesiastical language those who by baptism have received faith in Jesus Christ and have pledged Him their fidelity and called the faithful, so the name infidel is given to those who have not been baptized. The **term applies ** not only to all who are ignorant of the true God, such as pagans of various kinds, but also to those who adore Him but do not recognize Jesus Christ, as Jews, Mohammedans; strictly speaking it may be used of catechumens also, though in early ages they were called Christians; for it is only through baptism that one can enter into the ranks of the faithful. Those however who have been baptized but do not belong to the Catholic Church, heretics and schismatics of divers confessions are not called infidels but non-Catholics.
 
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