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To: one_less who wrote (12504)	5/8/2002 4:29:48 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 21057

<A couple of months ago I made a stink about refering to anyone as an Islamic Cleric since there is really no such role in Islam or even one that is similar to the Christian Ministry. I remember that. I'm glad to see that the term is becoming acceptable since there really isn't a good alternative. There are lots of words that don't really make sense. I suppose that when the term, anti-Semite, was coined, there weren't any other Semitic peoples in the picture. I think that thinking too much about the origin or words, like homophobe, make you a little nuts. Words mean what they mean. How they got there may have been a tortuous path. Look at flammable and inflammable. They mean the same thing. Doesn't get and stranger than that.