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To: philman_36
From your link:
1.Islam and Muslim are both words used to describe the religion revealed to the Prophet Mohammed.

2.Islam and Muslim both have the same origin in the Arabic verb s-l-m.

3.Islam is the act of submitting to the will of God whereas a Muslim is person who participates in the act of submission.

4.To be correctly used, Islam or Islamic should describe the religion and its subsequent cultural concepts whereas Muslim should only describe the followers of the religion of Islam.

In other words, according to your source, while there are differences in usage of the two words, it is quite fair to say that "all Muslims are Islamic", as a shorthand for "all Muslims follow the Islamic religion".

If you're just arguing syntax, that's fine, and I agree with you. A person is a Muslim, the religion is Islam. But semantically, any Muslim is a practitioner of Islam, by the definition of the words involved.

82 posted on 07/01/2010 12:02:25 PM PDT by kevkrom (De-fund Obamacare in 2011, repeal in 2013!)
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To: kevkrom

Just surrender and be done with it.


83 posted on 07/01/2010 12:04:15 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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