On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:28:11 -0400, Jeff wrote:

* Wilbur Hubbard wrote, On 3/23/2007 4:48 PM:

"Jeff" wrote in message
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* Wilbur Hubbard wrote, On 3/23/2007 2:10 PM:

And, there in a nutshell is Dave's self-centered myopia. He has an
ingrained, liberal inability to see that societal prejudice exists
and how kids with weird names or misspelled names are the victims of
disrespect, taunting, bullying etc. Any responsible parent names his
child with a good, solid, respectable conventionally spelled name. If
any Christian or Islamic name is used it should be spelled as it is
in the Bible or Koran. I pity a kid with the name Mahommed should the
radical Islamic Fascists take over. Such kids will be among the very
first to have their heads severed from their bodies for blaspheming
the Prophet Mohammad. Then they'll come after the parent(s) who
visited the abomination upon the world (and might I add, rightly so).

How then do you know the English spelling of Mohamed, as there is no
English version of the Qur'an?

Google it, silly boy!


Actually, that confirms my claim that there is no definitive spelling
in English. The preferred English is now Muhammad, but there are many
others and it is polite to follow whatever convention is used for a
personal name. However, according to the Guardian style guide some
Muslims find the traditional spelling "Mohammed" and varients to be
archaic and disrepectful.

Well, that may be so but there are a great deal of Moslems I have met
with my spelling of my name in Turkey, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Oman and
in Indonesia and Malaysia. This is the first I have heard of any
spelling of the name to be disrespectful

Peter H