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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (28908)	9/22/2001 2:43:27 AM
From: Michael M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Give me a figgin' break. Moslem, Muslim, whatever. People all over the world pronounce things this way and that. Get over it.

To: Solon who wrote (28908)	9/22/2001 2:46:44 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 82486

Also, another web site refers to "AL-Zulm"--not to oppress someone--apparently as an arabic (or perhaps Kurdish) word. Thosw within a language would be sensitive to pronounciations which seemed intended to offend, even if no such intent were present. Having relied upon the efficacy of Occam's Razor for many years, I will consider that, at least in some cases, the "variant" pronounciation was used intentionally as a means of ridicule. The alternative is to consider that the opposition was always and only composed of the ignorant or the witless...