Defining Kafir, Mushrik And A Non-Muslim
Mushrik is someone who knowingly adopts polytheism as a religion, knowing that he/she is doing shirk. The rest of the understanding is correct, based on my understanding.
1) If prejudice is one of the biggest reason, then we can say that Muslims are on the safe side?. Everyone has more or less prejudice, and I agree that this is the test in this world for everyone to find truth and not be biased, but according to Islam there is no forgiveness for kafir and mushrik. So, i) If someome from the traditional Islam becomes biased and ignores the counter arguments of non-traditional scholars, then he is still in the safe zone. ii) Ghamidi sahab has said that one can can choose the opinion of any scholar according to his ease. So for a person following their culture or family tradition can be more easy and therefore it can also take the form of Bias. So in this case muslims will be safe because no matter which opinion a muslim believes in, or forms any kind of bias, or ignores any argument, he is technically on the safer side than those born in Non muslim families. “Safer side” in the sense that even a muslim forms any kind of bias, can never become a kafir or mushrik. 3) In literal sense we can call him kafir, but, can we call him kafir in actual sense??. Because If so, then a muslim state can punish him too .