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When Baby Boomers were children it was Moslem

The American Heritage Dictionary (1992) noted,

"Moslem is the form predominantly preferred in journalism and popular usage

Muslim is preferred by scholars and by English-speaking adherents of Islam"

No more

Now, almost everybody uses Muslim

According to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies,"Moslem and Muslim are basically two different spellings for the same word"

But the seemingly arbitrary choice of spellings is a sensitive subject for many followers of Islam

Whereas for most English speakers, the two words are synonymous in meaning, the Arabic roots of the two words are very different

A Muslim in Arabic means"one who gives himself to God," and is by definition, someone who adheres to Islam

By contrast, a Moslem in Arabic means"one who is evil and unjust" when the word is pronounced, as it is in English, Mozlem with a z