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  • noun Plural form of Moslem.

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Examples

  • By this term Moslems denote Jews and Christians who have a recognized revelation, while their ignorance refuses it to Guebres, Hindus, and Confucians.

    The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi 2003

  • Apparently, Islamic tourism among devout Moslems is the fastest growing segment of Turkish tourism: "The surfers were fun, but these people had real money," he said.

    Strict, Devout Islamic Beaches--Party Central, You Infidel Dogs 2008

  • The Apostle of Al-Islam seems to have been unable to make up his mind upon the subject: and modern opinion amongst Moslems is apparently borrowed from the

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Supposed to have been revealed when certain Moslems purposed to practise Christian asceticism, fasting, watching, abstaining from women and sleeping on hard beds.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • He will soon conscript the Army of Righteosness to sweep the Satanic Moslems from the face of the earth and set up the Messiahs promised kingdom.

    Think Progress » Brzezinski: Air Strike on Iran Could ‘Merit the Impeachment of the President’ 2006

  • We spent that night conversing about our journey and when day broke, we saw figured upon the wall a human form and as we drew nigh it, behold, it moved and said, ‘O Moslems, is there amongst you one who is minded to woo the favour of the Lord of the three Worlds?’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Disraeli implies that the zealotry of Jabaster, who would massacre Moslems, is both inhumane and misguided, if for no other reason than that the wheel of fortune has a way of turning.

    Schwarz 1 - Criticism - Critical Contexts 1979

  • At last the women – who had long been peering at us through the door-way – came in, unveiled as are all the mountain Moslems – and laid the sofra.

    High Albania Mary Edith 1909

  • So perhaps those Moslems in Luton who demonstrated against British troops are unaware that their Moslems brothers in Darfur are being massacred by Arab Moslems, which is why they don't demonstrate outside the Sudanese embassy.

    UN -REAL IN SUDAN 2009

  • Before they could reach the Ghul, the enemy had slain his steed and taken him prisoner; but they ceased not to charge the Infidels, till the day grew dark for dust and eyes were blinded, and the sharp sword clanged while firm stood the valiant cavalier and destruction overtook the faint-heart in his fear; till the Moslems were amongst the Paynims like a white patch on a black bull. —

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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