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Why Do People Say Muslim Now Instead of Moslem?
http://historynewsnetwork.org/ ^ | 7-8-02 | Yii-Ann Christine Chen

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


TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: asshat; flashback; moochelle; moslem; muslim
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To: disndat

“When Baby Boomers were children it was Moslem. “


I swear some Baby Boomers really think that mankind actually started with them.

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61 posted on 08/05/2016 9:02:43 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Arthur McGowan

Sounds good. Destitute and forgotten in a crack house in Chicago.


62 posted on 08/05/2016 9:03:18 PM PDT by disndat
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To: yarddog

I like Mohammedan now. I never say “Muslim”. these people want to kill us. They deserve no respect.


63 posted on 08/05/2016 9:04:58 PM PDT by WENDLE (Hillary supplied ISIS WITH WEAPONS!!)
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To: disndat

I always say Mislem. Glad to know it means they are evil, cause many are.


64 posted on 08/05/2016 9:05:15 PM PDT by citizen (Sanctuary cities: Illegals move in for free stuff, residents move out b/c they can't pay the taxes.)
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To: Mears

If they get Hillary in they will see the end of mankind.


65 posted on 08/05/2016 9:05:21 PM PDT by disndat
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To: Williams

“Mozlem seems more appropriate by definition.”

Looking for the correct descriptor?

You can never go wrong with goatf**ker, or sheepf**ker or Raghead or sand jockey. Impress your friends with any of these and the conversation will continue to be lively!


66 posted on 08/05/2016 9:07:29 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: disndat

As one of the few posters who NEVER uses “muslim” I now
give myself another pat on the back.

I saw years ago that cair did not like moslem and therefore made
a special point to use it.


67 posted on 08/05/2016 9:18:27 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: TexasTransplant

I’m with you.


68 posted on 08/05/2016 9:29:20 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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To: disndat
I've always said that when whitey figures out how to say MOSLEM, they change it to MUZZLIM. Then when Whitey figures out how to say MUZZLIM, they change it to MOOSELIMB.

What's after MOOSELIMB? Who knows.

69 posted on 08/05/2016 9:46:12 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (It appears that we no longer wish to keep our Republic, Mr. Franklin...)
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To: All

1953 Webster’s collegiate has moslem and muslim/muslem as alt spellings of moslem


70 posted on 08/05/2016 9:46:28 PM PDT by Pollard (TRUMP 2016)
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To: disndat
In parochial school lessons, satanic evil seemed to resemble the antagonists of make believe fairy tales. Too bad such details were whitewashed or reinvented for PC/MC even in the '60's - to the point where we could no longer recognize the eternal dangers posed by Islam, be they identified as Arabs, Moors, Muhammedans, Saracens, Turks, Ishmaelites, Musselmen, Moslems, Muslims, shia, Sunni, Barbary pirates, Moro guerillas, Seljuks, Almohads, Almoravids, Chechen rebels, Hamas, Hezb’allah, Janjaweed , al qaeda or whatever other veiled identity they dared come up with.

Typically, I prefer to use the identity "savage muhammedan" as it upsets them because it implies they worship the invented mortal being, Muhammed as well as their blood-thirsty, satanic deity, allah - rendering them polytheists.

71 posted on 08/05/2016 9:49:56 PM PDT by wtd
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To: rickmichaels
Mooslime.

They inhabit the White Mosque at 1600 PA Avenue...

72 posted on 08/05/2016 9:51:35 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: disndat

Because we don’t care. Spelling means nothing to us. We just don’t want to keep importing people who want to kill us. If there are followers of Mohammed or however you spell it, who do not want to kill us, who want to live in liberty and to allow others to live in liberty as well, they are welcome. If spelling were the way to tell the difference between the two, then we might care. . .but most of them are functionally illiterate, so that does not work.


73 posted on 08/05/2016 10:01:51 PM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: disndat

Fourteen years old? Yes, that’s very recent. We should be very upset at the sudden change. ;-)

The history of this is interesting. It also illustrates that we haven’t gotten in our present situation with the Muslim/Moslem world by accident.


74 posted on 08/05/2016 10:14:40 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: disndat

Mohammedans. That’s what the old time Nuns called them.


75 posted on 08/05/2016 10:20:48 PM PDT by Bridesheadfan
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To: Fred Nerks

I use several words, usually not capitalized.

moslem
muzzie
mohammedan


76 posted on 08/05/2016 10:21:14 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: disndat; dead
Dude, dead won the Internet for a week with this one:


77 posted on 08/05/2016 10:22:33 PM PDT by kiryandil (Hillary Clinton is not sophisticated enough to understand the Bill of Rights, either.)
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To: disndat

When did it become the “Religion of Peace”?

How could anyone ever think up such an inane idead?


78 posted on 08/05/2016 10:23:37 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: rfp1234

Mussulmans.


I had forgotten about that one. I’ll add it to my list of names to call them.


79 posted on 08/05/2016 10:23:49 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: disndat
What?! We're supposed to say Muslim or Moslem? No wonder people give me funny looks when we discuss jihad --- I've been calling them paynim! Guess that's why people don't understand why I refer to my AR as "Durendal" ... 😜
80 posted on 08/05/2016 10:33:31 PM PDT by Vesparado (The American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard --- HL Mencken)
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