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**The original concentration camps were places where civilians were concentrated to keep them from supporting Boer Partisans. They were more then brutal enough especially as they often did not have the most competent of bureaucrats. But it was the word British invented, for a rather nasty practice but a common enough one in guerilla warfare and not the thing we now remember as concentration camps. The Nazi camps were for exterminating or working to death (rather then confining) people who had not even considered resisting before they found themselves on cattle cars, and were not by any stretch of the imagination a military or political threat. It was one of those words that becomes [[Darker and Edgier]] with time like "stormtrooper" (originally "assault infantry"), or holocaust (originally "burnt offering") because the Nazis managed to give it more ominous associations.

* When Muslims slaughter a sheep they say, "In the name of Allah, the merciful and compassionate" which sounds both paradoxical and bloodthirsty, However what they really mean is, "Thank you for this food."

 

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