Why Do People Say Muslim Now Instead of Moslem?

History News Network - George Mason University ^ | 1-21-02 | Yii-Ann Christine Chen

[paterfamilias]

"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."

That does it for me. I vote for "Moslem"

[ScottinVA]

I didn’t know that... “Moslem” it’ll be!

[Daveinyork]

either will be a tranliteration of the Arabic letters into the latin. Is it Hannukah or Channukah?

[NY Cajun]

Maybe Moslem sounds too much like Mazel Tov?

[DesertRhino]

Because it’s not anything any normal American has ever had more than a passing interest it, and nobody really cared what the most “correct” word was.

[Genoa]

Or maybe Mohammedan, Mohammedans, and Mohammedanism? That’s the old way!

[RachelFaith]

That does it for me. I vote for "Moslem"

Hear Hear.

I shall henceforth, call it Moslem.

[Responsibility2nd]

Before Muslim.... Before Moslem.....

It was Mohammedanism.

[Joe 6-pack]

"But the seemingly arbitrary choice of spellings is a sensitive subject for many followers of Islam."

Um....what isn't?

[hinckley buzzard]

Been using "Moslem" all along. That's the word I learned fifty-odd years ago and it's the word I use. My own personal repudiation of PC propitiatory prostitution of the language.

[P.O.E.]

Chi-lee is now Chee-lay.
Porto is now Pwerto.
Pack-ih-stan is now Pah-kee-stahn.
Peking is now Bay-zhing
Bombay is now Mumbai

Pseudo-intellectual posturing.

[Zman516]

Yes. Whatever will offend the sonzabitches the most.

[Lurker]

I simply refer to them as “murderous back stabbing stone age baby raping savages” and everyone knows to whom I’m referring.

[DesertRhino]

If i said what i usually called em,,, id be banned.

[brytlea]

I figured for the same reason they now all say Cheelay and Pahkestahn. I have noticed people from foreign countries never try to pronounce our words the way we do tho.

[Joe 6-pack]

A lot of Bitish Colonial literature from the sub-continent refers to it as “Mahometanism”.

[Redleg Duke]

Towelhead works for me.

[bicyclerepair]

Pedophile-worshippers is the most accurate I think. But knowing the definitions, it’ll be mozlim.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Well, “muslim” is an anagram for “Uh, Slim”

And Obama is slim and says “uh” all the time.

[scory]

I have also seen the terms “musselman” and “mohammedan” used though not much today. I have also seen Mohammed named “Mahound”.