I thought the word "amok" came from the crusade wars. I read once that occasionally a muslim warrior would charge the christian armies alone and just beserk out trying to kill everyone he could before he was inevitably killed. "Running amok". Maybe I read an innacurate history of the term.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:20 PM, azamin zainol abidin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:azamin7@streamyx.com">azamin7@streamyx.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">BTW.. do you know that the word 'Amok" came from a Malay Language word... means go berserk.. when British was in Malaya (now Malaysia) many hundreds of years ago.. they came across the incident where people run amok killing people around them in the public place and included the word into their vocab... <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amok" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amok</a>
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