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Subject:	Re: Danish cartoons outrage some Moslem groups and nations
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Thu, 2 Feb 2006 17:44:34 GMT
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Wow, what the heck was up with my spelling? In my defense, I’ve just been surfing around the blogosphere looking for articles on this and maybe I saw this variant spelling and it stuck in my head. According to wikipedia, the spelling “moslem” fell out of use around 1980 in favor of the more common “muslim”. Hmm, I suppose this is kind of a Peking/Beijing Mao Tse-Tung/Mao Zedong thing. And don’t get me started on the various ways I’ve seen Khadafy spelled.

Bruce

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		Danish cartoons outrage some Moslem groups and nations
Hey all, Have you guys seen (URL) this story>? A Danish newspaper printed several cartoons of Mohammed last September and this has led to complaints to the UN, death threats, and boycotts of Danish goods in some Arab nations (which is how I first (...) (18 years ago, 2-Feb-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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