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November 30, 2007
Is It Muslim or Moslem?
MOSLEM!
Why Do People Say Muslim Now Instead of Moslem?
By Yii-Ann Christine Chen
History News Network
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.
Wild Thing's comment........
I wish I could remember to spell it this way. Moslem! Especially since the word itself is much more descriptive of what they truly are.
Posted by Wild Thing at November 30, 2007 12:40 AM
Comments
Just don't say "Moo Slime!" And why, for Allah's sake, is 'HAM' in Muhammad? Inquiring infidels want to know?
Posted by: drstrangeloveb52isok at November 30, 2007 04:30 AM
"Mad" is in muhammad also. I use moslem most of the time because I know it ticks them off.
Posted by: TomR at November 30, 2007 07:04 AM
Mohammedan or moslem pisses them off, anything but muslim, the pedophile cult of death followers deserve the same respect they proffer to we mere infidels. I'm smiling TomR.:)
Pass the pork.
Posted by: Jack at November 30, 2007 01:25 PM
Well that really clarifies it. Moslem or muzlim, Samey-same dinky-dau, they're all F'n nuts.
Posted by: Mark at November 30, 2007 04:35 PM
I actually knew this before. That's why I always say moslem.
Posted by: Trish at November 30, 2007 08:10 PM
... and these sick rag heads are suggesting to kill an English teacher in the Sudan for referring to a stuffed teddy bear as Muhammad?
Where's the OUTRAGE? Where's NOW and the ACLU and the United Nations? ... F'N NO WHERE IN SIGHT! MOO HAM MAD 2007!
Posted by: drstrangeloveb52isok at December 1, 2007 12:03 AM
drstrangeloveb52isok.....LOL
"And why, for Allah's sake, is 'HAM' in Muhammad? Inquiring infidels want to know?"....
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 1, 2007 01:17 AM
Tom, yes mad too.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 1, 2007 01:19 AM
Jack, passing the pork to you. heh heh
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 1, 2007 01:29 AM
Mark hahaha they are and I love having more ammo to drive them more nuts.
LOL
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 1, 2007 01:35 AM
Trish that is great.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 1, 2007 01:36 AM
drstrangeloveb52isok, I haven't seen anything either from those groups about the teacher.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 1, 2007 01:38 AM
To respond to those comments before me about "ticking up" muslim by calling them moslem or Mad...this is such a childish act, its soo low that it makes you look really stupid...im not saying you are stupid...but the way you act is.
Muslims don't really give damn what other people think or say, as long as you don't drive us from our homes or try to stop us from worshiping God...you can live peace...we don't care what you say...
Allah(God) says in the quran.
"Allah forbids you not, with regard to those who fight you not for (your) Faith nor drive you out of your homes, from dealing kindly and justly with them: for Allah loveth those who are just. "{quran 60:08)
Posted by: dran at December 2, 2007 07:20 AM
dran.....you said this......
"Muslims don't really give damn what other people think or say, as long as you don't drive us from our homes or try to stop us from worshiping God...you can live peace...we don't care what you say"......
This is a total LIE. If that was true then you people would not riot, jihad or threaten lives when the Cartoons were done, and this teddy bear was named Mohammad, and the Piglet outrage and all the other countless times lives have been threatened all by the followers of Islam.
Bottom line is you are full of shit, allah is a moon god ( fact! ) and I won't fall for your lies. Tell them to someone that gives a crap about what you think.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 2, 2007 12:25 PM
