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John Neverbend6/01/2009 9:56:32 am PDT

re: #1189 Cato the Elder

No it doesn’t. “Islam” means submission. “Salaam” means peace.

The three Arabic words for peace are salaam, sulh and hudna (it can be argued that the last one doesn’t mean peace at all). The first could be described as “peace through submission”. The root for the word submission also appears in “Islam”. Suhl means peace as in reconciliation. Hudna is akin to cease-fire.