Posted on 08/05/2016 8:05:39 PM PDT by disndat
Is it Muslim or Moslem?
When Baby Boomers were children it was Moslem. The American Heritage Dictionary (1992) noted,"Moslem is the form predominantly preferred in journalism and popular usage. Muslim is preferred by scholars and by English-speaking adherents of Islam." No more. Now, almost everybody uses Muslim.
According to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies,"Moslem and Muslim are basically two different spellings for the same word." But the seemingly arbitrary choice of spellings is a sensitive subject for many followers of Islam. Whereas for most English speakers, the two words are synonymous in meaning, the Arabic roots of the two words are very different. A Muslim in Arabic means"one who gives himself to God," and is by definition, someone who adheres to Islam. By contrast, a Moslem in Arabic means"one who is evil and unjust" when the word is pronounced, as it is in English, Mozlem with a z.
For others, this spelling differentiation is merely a linguistic matter, with the two spellings a result of variation in transliteration methods. Both Moslem and Muslim are used as nouns. But some writers use Moslem when the word is employed as an adjective.
Journalists switched to Muslim from Moslem in recent years under pressure from Islamic groups. But the use of the word Moslem has not entirely ceased. Established institutions which used the older form of the name have been reluctant to change. The American Moslem Foundation is still the American Moslem Foundation (much as the NAACP is still the NAACP--the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). The journal The Moslem World--published by the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut--is still The Moslem World.
Sources
Center for Nonproliferation Studies Religious Studies Program, University of Wyoming - See more at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/524#sthash.BFbbwDCa.dpuf
One of those is absolutely hilarious. The other just looks funny. I remember that skit from the Carol Burnett show.
I am going to stick with mozlem. It is easier for me to pronounce than mohammadan. Plus I’m lazy so I don’t want to put that much effort into it.
Thank you.
Carry-on and I think I left it in the bathroom.
If it was in the cockpit, I might have been worried.
I understand that, but when it comes to "Muzzie" and "allah" I prefer to go the extras stem to purposely "dis" those who exist and the false god the worship and murder for.
Thanks - just got explaining the same concept to Drew before I noticed your proper explanation.
Using the older term “musulman” will probably get the politically correct sensitivity police even more agitated than “moslem.”
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