[Cronos]

In India they mostly do not follow the PC term "BCE" -- that is used mostly by secularists in the West as part of their lame attempt to remove Christianity from the public forum

This is lame because what the heck is the "common era"? What happened in 0 BCE if not Christ's birth?

The problem with using the term, muawiyah, is the same as using the term "Happy Holidays" (which I loathe -- I'd rather wish "Merry Christmas" or "Eid Mubarak" or "Happy Holi" or "Diwali Shubh shubh") -- words do matter and you know that. By changing the term from "homosexual" to "gay", it lightens the tone and makes the act seem almost acceptable.

[MarineBrat]

In India they mostly do not follow the PC term "BCE" -- that is used mostly by secularists in the West as part of their lame attempt to remove Christianity from the public forum

Exactly. And there are those of us here in America who are old enough to be aware of this via life experience, who will not back down for any reason. If I'm presented with the acronym BCE, then I will not trust or cooperate with the source.