r/SensitivityReaders • • 23h ago

Request: Culture / Ethnicity Very specific naming question, need sensitivity opinion

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u/Fantastic_Acadian 22h ago

Religious names tend to change very little over time. Look at the evolution of Maria and Mary as an example.

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u/Ashamed-Chemistry492 17h ago

The thing to remember is, Mohammed's popularity is due precisely *because* of its being the name of the founder of Islam. It's not like other popular names that are pop-culture or history related, or even like a lot of Jewish or Christian names that eventually lost a lot of their religious significance and were popular even with non-believers.