Islamic Perspective on Taboo Words and Euphemism

http://www.ezsoftech.com/stories/mis57.asp

Taboo words are considered taboos for a reason. They are dangerous to the society and culture too. Similarly, religion does not view these words too highly. Islam particularly, prohibits talking in vain and swearing for once. The link above provides extensive elaboration on this matter. This blog takes no credit whatsoever from their explanations.

For a reason, Islam prohibits it's followers to hurt other people's feelings because it can break the "ukhuwah" between the community. Not only among the Muslims but also to the people of different beliefs. In addition, as a Muslim, we must show good example to other people with other beliefs in order to show that Muslims are polite and it will probably reduce negative impression on Muslims given by Westerners since they label Arab Muslims as terrorist. Definitely, we cannot argue and defend ourselves(Muslims) by using harsh words because religion is always a sensitive issue to debate in order to defend Islam because other people from various beliefs have their own opinions. As we can see in the news such as BBC,CNN and Al-Jazeera, there are many video-clips of Islamic leaders in the Middle-East that use harsh words to their followers by saying words such as "Satans","kafir", and "damned in hell". Be rational here, do you enjoy being called by such words? of course not, definitely it will trigger our anger. So, to defend ourselves, we must use the precise and polite words to counter those who have negative impression on Muslims and Islam itself. So, one of the main reason we are doing a project on taboo and euphemism is to give our humble opinion on the use of taboo words and euphemism.