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Old 09-04-2014, 06:46 PM   #393
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Originally Posted by bubbsy View Post
if it's sweeping change we're after, i'd like to put in a vote to remove the "jihad" metaphor that is used in relation to asking for people to vote in a poll on CP. I'm not even muslim or anything, but find the way it is used on CP in this way pretty questionable!
Is it? There isn't any implied derogatory meaning, jihad just means struggle.

Though I guess some people think of jihad as Islam fighting against non-Islamics, I never really thought of it that way when it's used in threads.

But even if you put in a military connotation, is it negative against Islam, or just an appropriation of the word?
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