{"id":427,"date":"2015-11-20T15:09:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2015-11-20T15:09:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:09:42","slug":"moslem-or-muslim-or-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/11\/moslem-or-muslim-or-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Moslem or Muslim or what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from the Concise Oxford English Dictionary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #7da1c6;\">Mussulman &#8211; plural Mussulmans or Mussulmen &#8211; archaic term for Muslim. From Persian musulm\u0101n, from muslim.<\/span> [So it is valid, just old.]<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #7da1c6;\">Moslem &#8211; variant spelling of Muslim.<\/span> [So that is also valid.]<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #7da1c6;\">Muslim &#8211; a follower of Islam. From Arabic, active participle of <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #7da1c6;\">&#8216;aslama<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #7da1c6;\">.<\/span> [So if in doubt, use this.]<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #7da1c6;\">Muhammadan or Mohammedan &#8211; not favoured by Muslims and should be avoided.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #7da1c6;\">Islam &#8211; from Arabic <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #7da1c6;\">&#8216;isl\u0101m<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #7da1c6;\"> meaning submission, from <\/span><i><span style=\"color: #7da1c6;\">&#8216;aslama<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #7da1c6;\"> meaning &#8216;submit (to God)&#8217;.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #7da1c6;\">Islamism &#8211; Islamic militancy or fundamentalism.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #7da1c6;\">Islamist (or Islamicist) &#8211; derivative term from Islamism, so militant Islamism or Islamic fundamentalist.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, IS \/ ISIS \/ ISIL could be called &#8216;the Islamist terrorists&#8217;, although there are other groups so it would not differentiate them from the others. &#8216;Islamist State&#8217;, perhaps?\u00a0 It would be accurate, and annoy them by not quite being what they call themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The call for &#8220;Why won&#8217;t Moslems protest against Moslem terrorism&#8221; could be responded to with this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<i>We say they are not Moslems, they are Islamists, and we believe what they do is against Islam, not for it<\/i>&#8221; and possibly add &#8220;<i>and that is why we say they are not Moslems.<\/i>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Does that help?\u00a0 It has helped me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from the Concise Oxford English Dictionary: Mussulman &#8211; plural Mussulmans or Mussulmen &#8211; archaic term for Muslim. From Persian musulm\u0101n, from muslim. [So it is valid, just old.] Moslem &#8211; variant spelling of Muslim. [So that is also valid.] &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/11\/moslem-or-muslim-or-what\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,163],"tags":[166,165],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-propaganda","category-sticks-and-stones","tag-propaganda","tag-sticks-and-stones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}