See Kristor here on how trying to placate moslems (I notice my spell-checker doesn’t recognize “moslem”) forms a kind of mental jizya tax. Political Correctness in general is like that as well. Such as using “B.C.E.” instead of “B.C.” and making the Bible and hymns gender-neutral.
Stop paying your taxes.
That was a good post, thanks for pointing it out Scott.
While I’m used to saying “Islam” and “muslim”, there is no real good reason why we stopped calling them “moslem”, it really was just PC stupidity. Today, at least in some places, you get sneers for using those old terms. For the love of God, I’ve even seen history teachers correct old manuscripts and their authors for using them! How silly is that?!
As for the B.C.E/C.E. vs B.C/A.D., no contest it’s B.C./A.D., that is the western heritage and how we tell time. That BCE/CE thing is a mixed bag. It was never meant to be a way to secularize time itself. BCE/CE is old dating back to the “dark ages” I believe, but what it meant was “Before Christian Era” “Christian Era”, not “Before Common Era” “Common Era”. Later Christians would some times use CE as “Common Era”, but again it was a reference to the “Christian Era”. It was only in the 20th century, that BCE/CE started to get favored over BC/AD, and it was a BCE/CE used as “Common Era” purposely as a means of secularization, i.e. it’s bogus. In truth, either way refers to Christ and the Christian era, but thanks to the PC police we have it used as a weapon against us. Gotta love those scumbags.
What I wonder is where was the fight in old Christendom when the secularists came chanting their mantras and waving their flags? All the damage they’ve done, *sigh*. I can’t imagine the medievals just sitting on their thumbs while all this insanity was going on; there’d be war, and holy war at that! It just seems to me that modern Christians were born with little fight in them. A shame, a real shame.
Making the Bible and hymns gender-neutral…I won’t even go there.
I posted a little rant at FB about how annoyed I was at the AP, in the wake of the murder of our ambassador no less, for a sentence that included the phrase “A film insulting Prophet Mohammed.” As I pointed out, the absence of “the” before “Prophet” was particularly galling, as it amounted to a deliberate attempt to imitate the _precise_ way that Muslims refer to Mohammad. Only PBUH was missing. Nonetheless I got two suave mainstream conservative friends asking me why in the world all of this isn’t just like history books that refer to “Jesus Christ,” since “Christ” does mean “the Messiah.” I had to point a lot of things out, including the fact that the word “prophet” is an ordinary English word whereas it takes specialized knowledge to realize that “Christ” was ever taken to be an endorsement of a man’s religious mission and status. Should one have to say these things?
And am I the only one to think there has been a distinct up-tick of late years in news stories using “Prophet Mohammad” (though usually preceded by “the”) rather than just “Mohammad”?