{"id":9089,"date":"2010-11-14T10:53:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T10:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/11\/14\/muslim-vs-moslem\/"},"modified":"2010-11-14T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T10:53:41","slug":"muslim-vs-moslem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/14\/muslim-vs-moslem\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim vs. Moslem"},"content":{"rendered":"

The question recently came up as to whether the term “Moslem” (as opposed to “Muslim”) is considered insulting or somehow anti-Moslem*. More specifically, I made the claim (though I did not put it this way exactly at the time) that “Moslem” was a dogwhistle signifying teabagging anti-Obama racist scumpuppies.<\/p>\n

I have since been told by various teabagging anti-Obama racist scumpuppies that I was wrong, but I was told this in such a way as to convince me that I must be right, even though I was going on gut feeling at the time.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, I decided to do some research.
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\nI separately entered the terms “Muslim” and “Moslem” into Google, searching for “blogs.” I eliminated aggregation sites, and sites where English is not the primary language, in order to avoid transnational variation in spelling that may not have political meanings. I kept opening, inspecting, and sometimes eliminating sites until I got ten on each search term. This was NOT done with double-blind procedures, so I may or may not have eliminated some sites because of bias. I think I didn’t. You are welcome to redo the work and see.<\/p>\n

For the term “Muslim” I found these sites:<\/p>\n

Explicitly Anti Muslim <\/em><\/p>\n