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Suggestion: `islamist` #90

Closed namagic closed 8 years ago

namagic commented 8 years ago

Islamist is casually thrown around now, and even if not used in a derogatory sense, as a Muslim, I do feel like their is generally negative connotation surrounding the word. I think the news has helped push the word to it's current nonchalantness.

Their is a relatively recent effort by CAIR to scrub the word from the media: http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/cair-makes-new-push-get-media-scrub-word-islamist

Even if the word isn't considered profane, I think providing a quick bio to it's potential offensiveness would be great!

wooorm commented 8 years ago

Great suggestion! 🎉

1) What do you suggest instead? 2) You can add a pattern yourself through a PR in wooorm/retext-equality.

yoshuawuyts commented 8 years ago

perhaps muslim / muslim person / person of the islamic faith would work? idk, just dumping suggestions

wooorm commented 8 years ago

@yoshuawuyts đź‘Ť

Regarding muslim person, I believe “person” there is redundant (think ATM Machine) as muslim already refers to a person (wikipedia definition: “Muslim [...] relates to a person who follows the religion of Islam”).

muslim and person of Islamic faith are great!

yoshuawuyts commented 8 years ago

hah yeah, the reason why I emphasized the "person" in there is because I feel the word "muslim" has been twisted by media to depict these devilish creatures which are only capable of bad things. Emphasizing they're people might act as a gentle reminder that 1.6 billion muslims are just as human as the 5.4 billion non-muslims. But you're right hah