Moslem is the spelling you'll find in older books. I'm not sure when or why Muslim replaced it. Obviously neither's fully accurate because you're transliterating an Arabic word into the Latin alphabet. No idea why a modern author would choose that spelling, but I suspect the answer has to do with Islamophobic reasons.
...in any case, the idea that history all transpires the same way, on a planet with its own landmasses, native flora and fauna etc., is hilarious. How would, say, Columbus settling America work? Was there a Black Death? How? And how could history play out the same way if there wasn't? And why would a spacefaring people decide to just abandon all their knowledge and start history over again, anyway? And why would things only diverge when 9/11 happened? And...and how did Caesar, Napoleon etc. still get born? And if they weren't, how did history turn out the same?
Moslem is the spelling you'll find in older books. I'm not sure when or why Muslim replaced it. Obviously neither's fully accurate because you're transliterating an Arabic word into the Latin alphabet. No idea why a modern author would choose that spelling, but I suspect the answer has to do with Islamophobic reasons.
...in any case, the idea that history all transpires the same way, on a planet with its own landmasses, native flora and fauna etc., is hilarious. How would, say, Columbus settling America work? Was there a Black Death? How? And how could history play out the same way if there wasn't? And why would a spacefaring people decide to just abandon all their knowledge and start history over again, anyway? And why would things only diverge when 9/11 happened? And...and how did Caesar, Napoleon etc. still get born? And if they weren't, how did history turn out the same?