[FrdmLvr]

I’ve heard him state in speeches that “Barack” is African or swalhi for “peace”, but it’s actually MUSLIM for “peace”.

[bk1000]

“but it’s actually MUSLIM for “peace”

Muslim is a language?

[Mrs. Don-o]

This would be more convicing if the author used words more accurately.

"Arab" is a racial and language subgroup. Not all Muslims are Arabs, and not all Arabs are Muslims. The number of ethnic-Arab and Arabic-speaking Christians worldwide is approximately 20 million.

"Muslim" is a religious designation, not a language and not a racial or national identity. There are hundreds of millions of non-Arab Muslims, including the vast majority of the populations on Iran (Persians) and Indonesia (Javanese, Sundanese, etc.) plus many millions of Asian, European, and African Muslims.

Barack Obama is absolutely, positively non Arab by ethnicity or language. Whatever affinity he has with Islam remain to be seen.

[expatpat]

1. There is no language called “Muslim”.
2. The Arab word for Peace is Salaam.
3. Barrack, I believe, was the name of the horse that Mohamed rode to Jerusalem on.

[forkinsocket]

Barack is Swahili too. They have a lot of loan words from Arabic & this is one of them. Even the word Swahili is derived from an Arabic word.