Posted on 09/13/2010 1:34:04 PM PDT by paterfamilias
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.
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” Don’t forget: New Amsterdam is now New York.
:^)
Perhaps this is more accurate: “ Don’t forget: New Amsterdam is now The Big Sh*tty.”
:^)
Pronouncing and typing the word are two different issues.
Still consider the latter applies to them all until proven otherwise.
Funnel clouds in Corpus I hear ??
That’s what they said on the news, I was in Victoria all day. Got about three inches of rain in about an hour.
San Antonio river was up about 10’ from this morning to this evening.
We have them at home today.
LOL!
Isn’t the ultimate correct pronunciation “moose limb” now?
When did Qatar become Cutter?
This may be interesting for you
At least the name is out of the whole cloth, at least for people who don’t spell that well. /rimshot
Just before it became Gutter. :-)
Thanks Cronos.
My two cents:
I don’t care what they call themselves or what the various spellings or names mean to them.
Any version, any spelling, any tag associated with islam and/or arabs all means the same thing to me.
Degenerate, murderous, insane savages.
Nothing more.
Ok, from now on I'll try to remember to use the accurate term 'Moslems' when talking about Muzzies.
Yes. Let's respect the Death Cultist properly. It's not as though they are actually "evil and unjust". /taqiyya
Moslem. Got it.
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