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To: tekboy who wrote (8350)10/31/2001 12:45:24 AM
From: HG  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
You're right ! LOL!

Heck, you ARE right......see my last line on that post to Faultline....

<hanging head in shame>

;-)

Edit : I'm so sorry to have kicked off this silly arguement...LOLOL....but they never ever told me about ibn while i was there....my apologies...

Finally, Kathy Park wants to know why “Moslem” is considered an offensive spelling. The problem with spelling the Arabic word meaning “one who surrenders to God” as “Moslem” and not “Muslim” is that people end up pronouncing it mawslem, which is a different word that means “oppressor.”



To: tekboy who wrote (8350)10/31/2001 8:44:17 AM
From: JohnM  Respond to of 281500
 
Ibn Khaldun is universally recognized as the founder and father of Sociology and Sciences of History.

Well, depends a bit on whose history gets privileged. Tek, trigger finger on google.

John