# Moslem vs. Muslim Usage **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 12, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moslem-vs-muslim-usage/704471 "2014-11-12T19:33:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 63
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moslem-vs-muslim-usage/704471/63 "2014-11-15T19:27:22Z")
> [@Hector\_St\_Clare](#): > > St John of Damascus, one of the earliest Christian polemicists against Islam (and his stuff is great, BTW) referred to them as “Ishmaelites”. > [@Tamerlane](#): > > … I doubt your’re going to see it used seriously in any modern English-language academic work in this day and age ( excluding folks with an anti-Muslim agenda ). Yes it would be the case, for various prejudices. > [@New harddrive, how to copy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-harddrive-how-to-copy/91581/5): > > Personally, as a life-long atheist, I think the sooner people stop believing in imaginary super-beings the better for all of us. I think the sooner that persons stop attacking others beliefs for no particular motivation, and dropping irrelevant comments in every conversation about a religion or a non-religion and show simple respect, whether it is for the belief or the non-belief, that life would be better. As it escapes me to know what your athiesm belief has anything to do with the word moslem or the word muslim. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moslem-vs-muslim-usage/704471)._