Comments on: Ray Comfort Caves to Islamic Terrorists (but the joke’s on him) https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/15/ray-comfort-caves-to-islamic-t/ Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:11:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: jordan https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/15/ray-comfort-caves-to-islamic-t/#comment-526253 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:11:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/11/15/ray-comfort-caves-to-islamic-t/#comment-526253 Actually, Moslem is the historic English term. That or Mohammedan. The use of the term Muslim goes back (as far as I can tell) only about ~150-200 years.

What caused that change, I don’t know, but as Arabic is a Semitic language, the transliteration may have changed with the way English has changed pronunciation.

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I wonder if they film it. The beheading. And what will they do with his head?

I wonder what Ray Comfort will do without his head – I mean, will it even make any noticeable difference in his specific case?

]]> By: Susannah https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/15/ray-comfort-caves-to-islamic-t/#comment-526251 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:17:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/11/15/ray-comfort-caves-to-islamic-t/#comment-526251 I’ve always said, “Muslim”. But now I’m wondering; how is it actually pronounced in Arabic?

]]> By: a https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/11/15/ray-comfort-caves-to-islamic-t/#comment-526250 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:52:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/11/15/ray-comfort-caves-to-islamic-t/#comment-526250 The difference in meaning is not between Muslim and Moslem but between Mslm and mzlm. In Arabic, each word has four letters, but neither them has a U or an O. It’s M-S-L-M vs M-Z-L-M

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