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
“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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Sounds good. Destitute and forgotten in a crack house in Chicago.
I like Mohammedan now. I never say “Muslim”. these people want to kill us. They deserve no respect.
I always say Mislem. Glad to know it means they are evil, cause many are.
If they get Hillary in they will see the end of mankind.
“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!
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.
I’m with you.
What's after MOOSELIMB? Who knows.
1953 Webster’s collegiate has moslem and muslim/muslem as alt spellings of moslem
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.
They inhabit the White Mosque at 1600 PA Avenue...
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.
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.
Mohammedans. That’s what the old time Nuns called them.
I use several words, usually not capitalized.
moslem
muzzie
mohammedan
When did it become the “Religion of Peace”?
How could anyone ever think up such an inane idead?
Mussulmans.
I had forgotten about that one. I’ll add it to my list of names to call them.
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