Re: How much power in a SINGLE WORD?
Originally Posted by
TessA
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I get it now, re-read your op.
It was the Jewish newspaper that said the immigrants were Muslim, in fact they could be any religion.
Is that what you meant?
Yes. It may be that the
majority of those immigrants were Moslem but by rewriting the original headline from "immigrants" to "Moslems" ..... well, you see what I mean.
Now if someone would have rewritten it from "immigrant" to "semites" then it is a foregone conclusion that somewhere in the Jewish/Israeli camp there would have been a major uproar because, as you know, that one word does not
exclude Jews ..... never mind that the term "Moslem" certain does
exclude Jew, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, and everyone else.
Originally Posted by
TessA
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Sorry cross-posted
No worries.