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2024-12-06 Britain

'Muhammad' Now Most Popular Baby Name in England

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Posted by Besoeker 2024-12-06 01:29|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top
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Please explain the respect/honor in naming a male child after a person's religious faith savior?

To me, that's like an Anglo-Saxon Christian family naming their son Jesus or GOD.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-12-06 04:20|| 2024-12-06 04:20|| Front Page Top

#2 not like naming then Haysoos?

Posted by Mercutio 2024-12-06 08:33|| 2024-12-06 08:33|| Front Page Top

#3 England should be used to it; a thousand years ago, "William" suddenly became a popular name.

Posted by Mercutio 2024-12-06 08:38|| 2024-12-06 08:38|| Front Page Top

#4 England has fallen

Posted by DarthVader 2024-12-06 09:34|| 2024-12-06 09:34|| Front Page Top

#5 To me, that's like an Anglo-Saxon Christian family naming their son Jesus or GOD.

The original Hebrew is a variant on Joshua, as I recall, a very popular name here in America for the past two decades. Jesus is a common Spanish name, so there’s another precedent. And while the Jews don’t name their offspring God, Moses/Mo/Moshe has been on the list for boy babies for millennia — Maimonides is one of them. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2024-12-06 10:53|| 2024-12-06 10:53|| Front Page Top

#6 It is almost beyond hope, even as Farage emerges as a Trumpian force ...

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-12-06 15:16|| 2024-12-06 15:16|| Front Page Top

#7 More Aslan, less Liam Neeson.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-12-06 17:17|| 2024-12-06 17:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Pronounced Moohamhead.

Posted by Woodrow 2024-12-06 18:44|| 2024-12-06 18:44|| Front Page Top

#9 tw, somewhere I read that Mexicans used the name Jesus as an affront to the Catholic Church during the 1920s.(That was a time when the Mexican government actively persecuted the Church - killing priests and nuns and others, seizing Church property, etc. Look up the story of Blessed Miguel Pro for an example.)
Any way, I was taught in first grade to bow my head whenever I said or heard the name Jesus. This caused me problems when I taught a class where one of the students was named Jesus. I got around the head bow by pronouncing his name Hey-sus.

Posted by Rambler 2024-12-06 18:58|| 2024-12-06 18:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Re: #8. No, no, Woodrow. It's pronounced "More Ham Head".

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2024-12-06 19:23|| 2024-12-06 19:23|| Front Page Top

#11 somewhere I read that Mexicans used the name Jesus as an affront to the Catholic Church during the 1920s.

Interesting. I no idea — and that does wipe out my position. Thank youfor my learning for today, Rambler.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-12-06 23:12|| 2024-12-06 23:12|| Front Page Top

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