Re: racist vs racialist?

Florian Rivoal wrote:

>To me, i understand "islam" as the name of a religion, and "islamic" as the
>coresponding adjective. The name of believers is "muslim". (i am unsure of
>the spelling)
>I have a diferent understanding for "islamist" and "islamism". I understand
>"islamist" as "extremist islamic", or "extremist muslim", While "islmamism"
>is not a religion, but an extremist movement WITHIN the islamic religion.
>
Ah, thanks. I dunno if I've heard the word before or not (it rings a
bell), but with no context I couldn't work it out.

(As to the name of the believers, 'Muslim' is certainly a correct
spelling, and I think it's the preferred one, at least in Australia.
It's certainly the most common one, and the one reflected by the
pronunciation /mUzl@m/. Another spelling is <Moslem>. I think the reason
here is because Arabic only phonemically has /i/ and /u/, but
phonetically has [e] and [o] as conditional realisations of them. I'm
not sure. Someone who knows more about Arabic than me can probably give
a better explanation.)

Tristan

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