>>Are infidel's considered to be 'civilians'?
"People of the Book" certainly are.
BTW, if you consider the root of the word "infidel" it's not difficult to figure who came up with it first. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
