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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/ThrowRAHistoryStudy on 2023-09-21 17:52:28.
I 20F am a history major in university and I am taking a class on early Common Era Western Asia. I’m not part of the Islamic faith but we had been talking about the Prophet Muhammad and his influence over the area. We had discussions today and I referred to him just as I did in the last sentence, as the Prophet Muhammad for all of the discussions. After class, a classmate came to me, 19M, who practices Islam and told me how disrespectful I was for not adding the religious honorific after his name. (being peace be upon him). I both didn’t know that was how he was referred to as within the Islamic faith and didn’t feel comfortable using the honorific because I don’t belong to the faith. I told him as such and he told me I was disrespectful, rude, and Islamaphobic for not doing so.
I am a pagan and would never ask my classmate to refer to my deities as Lord or Lady if we were in a classics class. But I feel horrible for both not knowing and my discomfort. AITA and am I Islamaphobic for not using the honorific?