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To: AlmaKing

Alma, if the school’s name contains “Khan” I think you would have more to worry about than Liberals. Something like compulsory kneeling toward Mecca between classes, if you catch my drift.


21 posted on 07/27/2013 12:05:52 PM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: katana

I think that’s a commonly used name in Indian culture meaning ‘King’. Not sure that it’s always associated with Islam.


23 posted on 07/27/2013 12:08:12 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: katana
Origin of the surname Khan from wikipedia"
"The surname Khan, originated in Mongolia in Central Asia, used as a reverential title by a sovereign or military ruler, who ruled over a Khanate, representing an area of land and the tribes living therein. It was used by several Mongolian emperors who were mainly Shamanist and Buddhist in their beliefs including Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan. It can have one of several connotations, all related in some capacity to the title of Khan which originated from the Mongol Empire and its subjects and was thereafter historically granted to Muslim rulers. Infiltration of the name from Central Asia into South Asia happened with the coming of the various Muslim Turks, Afghans, and Mughals into South Asia who used this name as a title as well as a suffix to indicate their ethnic identity."

33 posted on 07/27/2013 1:04:15 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
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