"As soon as people see Arabic, they immediately make an association with terrorism." The best way to combat that is not to write "I'm a little teapot." It is to have Arabic-speaking people stop committing acts of terrorism.
Absolutely terrific piece by Julia Gorin in FrontPage: "To Serve Man."
In a recent piece by Rabbi Avi Shafran, the rabbi asks, “You suddenly begin noticing signs bearing Arabic script in buses. What do you do?”Well, what bus riders in Richmond, Virginia did was call the local Transit Authority to find out what it might know about the signs, which had been turning up on buses and the walls of local universities.The Associated Press and other media outlets subtly scoffed at the concerned citizens, explaining that the Arabic phrases were in fact innocuous — translating as things like “paper or plastic?” or “paper, scissors, rock” or “I’m a little teapot.” Those translations in fact appeared at the bottom of the signs, along with admonishments like “Misunderstanding can make anything scary” or “What did you think it said?”
The provocative ads were the work of the Virginia Interfaith Center, which placed them in public venues as part of an effort to change the fact that, as the center’s executive director put it, “as soon as people see Arabic, they immediately make an association with terrorism.”
Imagine German writing turning up on public buses and university walls in 1942, and the citizenry being expected to not bat an eyelash, with the Germans and the media, who do the enemy’s bidding, admonishing us, “What did you think it said?”
But Islam and our media want us to hit the snooze button again. When we see ominous Arabic writing (and for now, all Arabic writing is ominous -- sorry), we’re supposed to think “Oh, it just says ‘I’m a little teapot.’” In fact, intelligence shouldn’t even be intercepting Arabic conversations, because the talkers are merely discussing recycling programs or calling themselves teapots.
Read it all.
Funny little joke from the interfaithers. Ha ha.
Will things still be peachy when those Arabic phrases start saying "Crucify Christians" and "Kill Jews"? These things will be inevitable when some non interfaithers start scrawling such crap all over the place like grafitti.
Another attempt to make the average citizen feel guilty. It might work on the simple-minded, but it will take a lot more than an ad blitz from Goebels and Co. to make chicken salad out of chicken $h-t. I live near BWI Airport, and every time I see a plane I think....
“as soon as people see Arabic, they immediately make an association with terrorism.”
Oh really? I wonder why?!!
This is a sinister development, and it is good that it has been made the subject of such scrutiny. A systematic attempt to make us all feel guilty for worrying about -- silly us -- Islam by the obvious trick of making us appear, to ourselves, absurd for finding the very script in which so much of what menaces us is written, when of course it is also the language of daily life. But the brains of those who grow up in societies suffused with Islam, and if, furthermore, are Arabs so have no other identity to play off against Islam (as do the Berbers or Kurds), but rather an identity that reinforces the idea of Islam, then it is not silly for us, the Infidels whose legal, political, and social institutions, whose freedom of thought and expression are all threatened, whose physical survival is or could be put into question were Islam to be triumphant, say, in Western Europe, would be fools not to shudder now at the sight of a mosque, or a turbanned mullah, or a fiery Saudi sheikh delivering himself of a khutba -- or for that matter, even the sight of Arabic script on that newspaper that that man sitting next to you on the London Underground, or on the plane that has just taken off from Kennedy or Reagan, has opened and is now studying intently, and the fasten-your-seatbelt sign is still on, and you wish, you wish you had not taken this particular plane, and will continue to wish it until the plane has landed, and you are safely off, and far away from that man with his newspaper. And your fear may be unfounded, but it makes perfect sense, and is justified by all that has happened over the past few years -- justified perhaps most by your glimmer of understanding that too many, such as those described by Julia Gorin so acutely, are in cahoots to deliberately make you feel apologetic, make you feel guilty, for being rightly suspicious, rightly nervous.
And the more you know about Islam and the history of Islamic conquest and subjugation of non-Muslims, and the more you know about the behavior of Muslims around the world today (which behavior is best reported not at the so-called newspapers of record, but at this website and others akin or semi-akin to it), the more suspicious, ratonally, legitimately, suspicious you become.
This is like the currently popular T-shirt (available to oder online), which says in Arabic: "I am not a terrorist." Oh, how clever, making assumptions about people's ignorant prejudices and then throwing them back in their faces, even before they've said a word. How very hip and ironic. Personally I find the T-shirt offensive, both to the beautiful Arabic written language (why not just use it to say something beautiful, something that has nothing to do with terrorism?) and to the average citizen who does not, contrary to popular belief, immediately and mindlessly associate Arabic writing with evil doings. If someone really wants to make a point about terrorism in this way, why don't they wear a T-shirt saying (in any language) "Killing innocent people is wrong?" Just asking. I am personally sick to death of those Muslims who immediately go on the defensive every time some disgusting act of carnage is committed by their co-religionists. Instead of directing their anger at the terrorists themselves, as they should, they direct their anger at the so-called "prejudices" of non-Muslims, like the idiots who, days after 9/11, waved placards at Ground Zero screaming that "Islam is not the problem," rather than mourning and honouring the dead with respect and showing solidarity with their fellow citizens. Methinks they do protest too much.
Why not show the bastards we're wise to this game?
It shouldn't be hard to come up with Arabic translations of: "Say 'No' to Shariah", "Infidel and proud of it" or "I've run out of toilet paper. May I borrow your left hand."
angloirishslav-
Arabic does not sound like a beautiful language. There's no more classic Arabic poetry. Looks like they were all destroyed, unlike the Persian poetry like from Rumi. I've heard people say Persian (or Farsi as it is called) is a more beautiful language than Arabic. And I also know another language that has some Arabic roots that spawned a great poetry and great literature. Urdu. I would rather learn that language than Arabic. Such a shame that I haven't found any Urdu classes offered anywhere.
"And I also know another language that has some Arabic roots that spawned a great poetry and great literature"
Whoops that should read "...that spawned great poetry and great literature". I'm not a F.O.B.
I wear I will not submit T-shirts.
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No Hugh. That's a joke in the Indian community. To us Indians, it means Fresh Off the Boat. FOB Indians don't have such a good command of the English language. And I screwed up in my last post.
Carolyn2-
I heard an Iraqi was not allowed to wear the 'I will not submit' shirt on an airplane. So that may not be a good idea to wear that shirt.
Julia Gorin is a black perl in antijihadist crown. I have read several of her articles on various issues, including the recent one where she explains a true nature of croatian nazi past, which in turn provoked severely rage among the croats (to be seen on her webpage). She also wonderfully hit the point with depicting a true face of jihad from Israel, through balkans to far east. Writter who realy knows how to hit a nerv of those who deserve that.With little bit of humor.
If the Virginia "Interfaith" Center really wanted to state the truth, here is the sign that they should have posted: "I am an native-born Arabic speaker and a non-Muslim; Because of Islam, I am disappearing as fast as the ink on this sign." (Ink on sign starts out in dark blue and fades to pale blue) No, probably not..the Interfaith Center has too much invested in Muslim green ink and a generous check from some wealthy Saudis in nearby Washington DC.
I'm firmly convinced that if we had today's media and leftist PC agendas working in the forties we would all either be speaking German or dead. If the people of this country don't wake up they're going to be buried in their sleep.
"And the more you know about Islam and the history of Islamic conquest and subjugation of non-Muslims, and the more you know about the behavior of Muslims around the world today (which behavior is best reported not at the so-called newspapers of record, but at this website and others akin or semi-akin to it), the more suspicious, ratonally, legitimately, suspicious you become."
....Knowledge is power and the Muslims want to hide it from you.....
I had no problem reading this correctly:
"I'm a little teapot"
Sure you are. Steaming, screaming, and about to boil over.
Nice article by Gorin.