My latest in PJ Media:
Were they drunk? I began my last article that way, but that one involved Captain Morgan rum. That is, however, rapidly becoming an all-purpose question regarding the American Left today. In the latest absurdity from the daily more ridiculous Left, as Jim Treacher noted at PJ Media Thursday, the Anti-Defamation League has classified the OK sign as a racist hate symbol. They did not, however, classify the Islamic State (ISIS) one-finger salute as a hate symbol.
This is achingly, howlingly, hair-pullingly, wrist-slittingly ludicrous on both counts. Only one of these hand signals has ever been associated with hatred, and it isn’t the one the ADL put on its list. At the same time, millions of people have made both signs — millions of people, who are not racist or hateful, or members of ISIS. There are millions of people who have made the OK sign, including many whom the ADL would never dare call racist, including Nancy Pelosi and, as Jim Treacher noted, Barack Obama.
How stupid, totalitarian, vicious, and absurd is the ADL’s classification of the OK sign as a hate symbol? We can answer that by considering its failure to add the ISIS salute to its list. Consider this: in the photo accompanying this article, Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir, the principal of Maspeth High School in New York, is receiving a plaque; his school was named a 2018 National Blue Ribbon School. As he gets the plaque, he is clearly making the sign of allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS), the upraised index finger, isn’t he?
Needless to say, if I or anyone else were actually to claim that, the condemnations would rush in as quickly as Democrats to impeachment hearings. “Spencer, you racist, bigoted Islamophobe,” I’d be told. “Millions of people make that sign every day. It means ‘We’re Number One.’ That’s all Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir means. Just because he is a Muslim and raises one index finger doesn’t mean he is ISIS, you benighted, evil rabble-rouser.”
Of course. But if the ADL were consistent, it would classify the one-finger salute as a hate symbol, based on the use of it by the Islamic State. This signal has been known to be a sign of allegiance to the Islamic State for almost as long as there has been an Islamic State. It has been described as the group’s “ubiquitous hand signal.” If it were consistent, the ADL would expect Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir to know this and to care, and would brush aside his likely explanation that he was just saying his school was “number one.” It would excoriate him as energetically as it would a high school principal who made the Nazi stiff-arm salute and then claimed he was only making an ancient Roman salute.
If Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir were a non-Muslim, conservative, Trump-supporting school principal who made the OK sign as his school received the National Blue Ribbon School designation (which it probably wouldn’t get anyway, if he were known as a supporter of the president), would the ADL cut him any slack or would it smear him as a white supremacist? What do you think?
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gravenimage says
ADL Says OK Sign Is Nazi, Mum About ISIS One-Finger Salute
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Yeah–ISIS is fine, but the OK sign is Fascist…
What fools these dhimmis be!
Herb L says
Back in the 60’s, the Little Rascles was a kids movie and in several scenes they put up the OK symbol with their hands and said Okay, were they little Nazis? Gow up and suck yo mama’s tit, ya’ll aint weaned off yet. God I hate college. Nothing but Liberal Socialists in colleges and High schools indoctrinating kids that never even was taught real History, I was and I know first hand that the OK sign was not and never was a Nazi sign. And these ANTIFASCISTS, don’t have a clue that they are the Fascists and the Liberal Democrats have deceived them and made them look like a bunch of babies. They better not do this crap in my domain, I will show then who the real beat downs are. All these so-called College kids are so stupid that they let morons
convince them they are protesting, and doing good for People when they stop older people with walkers from crossing the street. If I was there, I can guarantee that several would be laying in that street with broken legs and arms, and see how far they can’t walk for a few months while their mommy wipes their asses.
mortimer says
The Islamic supremacist’s ONE-FINGER SALUTE is an ISLAMO-FASCIST SALUTE.
(Note Leftards think, ‘It isn’t fascism when MUSLIMS do it.’)
John G Adderley says
id dont get that headline? Mum about ISIS one finger salute?? Am i missing something, doews Mum stand for something. Makes NO sense.
Florian 75 says
Mum means ‘silent’.
fixeddisdain says
Silent about the fact that the Khurshid-Abdul-Mutakabbir fellow is making bunny ears behind the head of that US government department. “This is our territory”
gravenimage says
Exactly, Florian.
FYI says
islamic sign language:
One finger=the tawhid or the Oneness of allah
Two fingers:for allah’s TWO RIGHT HANDS?
Three fingers?That’s out of the question..
“Say not “three”.Cease! It is better for you” koran 4:171
OK..nazi?
So is “Gunfight at the OK corral” now “Gunfight at the nazi corral”?
What about OKlahoma..?
mortimer says
FYI, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt uses a FOUR-FINGER SALUTE (look it up). Is the MB’s salute NOT FASCIST as well?
FYI says
i use a High Five myself{the FIVE-FINGER SALUTE}..the sign for us nfidels.
Perhaps Christians should flash 1 finger quickly followed by 3 fingers:that would mess with the islamic mind as muslims {wrongly} think Christians are polytheists but of course the Trinity is not a 3 separate god polytheism but monotheistic.
High Five!
Harold says
The only sign I’ll have for them is my middle finger ?!! And plenty of .223’s just waiting for the point of no return which is quickly coming. When Muslim scum are spitting out 10 babies to our 1, it doesn’t take a PhD that in less than a few more years, they will be enough here to begin our war of God for GOOD!!
Angemon says
Death to the purveyors of hateful symbolism!
https://www.instagram.com/p/inE7khShXs/
ntesdorf says
One finger good …… two fingers bad.
Giacomo Latta says
I always thought the muslim one-finger salute was a prep for a trip up the proboscis.
gravenimage says
Doesn’t Satan live in Muslims’ nostrils? So they say…
Ed Lee says
I know a man who worked in the U.S. merchant marine for 15 years, mostly in the Pacific. Early in his tenure he was in a Philippine port unloading cargo, and from on board his ship, gave the OK sign to a Filipino dock worker, who immediately ran on board the ship, ready to fight. In the ensuing conversation, the Filipino made it clear that the hand signal Americans know as “OK”, means “you’re an asshole” in the Philippines. Many people around the world, including members of the ADL certainly know this. Why is the ADL pretending they are not aware of the fact that this particular hand signal already means different things in various countries around the world?
gravenimage says
Even the “one finger” salute means different things. Until recently it was mostly used by Christians; now it is mostly used to denote support of ISIS.
Ed Lee says
Correct. Take a look at Leonardo da Vinci’s painting “Saint John the Baptist” painted in 1513.
gravenimage says
Yes, thank you, Ed. I wrote a paper on that painting when I was at university. Here is the work:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_Saint_John_the_Baptist_C2RMF_retouched.jpg/791px-Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_Saint_John_the_Baptist_C2RMF_retouched.jpg
Jap says
So, following the logic of ADL does that mean that “gang signs” are connected to peaceful groups as well?
As has already been pointed out, the use of hand gestures varies from culture to culture. What can be a friendly greeting in one part of the world can be a crass insult about your mother in another country.
I do believe that ADL is simply trying to give more ammunition to the leftist of the world so they can have something new to be offended by.
Somehow I don’t think they were drunk but there is a good possibility that they were smoking some awesome weed.
Lydia Church says
Well guess what?
I have a marvelous ‘one finger salute’ for both them and ISIS,
only it’s probably not the finger they were hoping for…
; D
If they get really bored they can combine it with the OK symbol…
And a large toast to the fact that we are NOT muslim…
cheers!
KWJ says
So, are they going to try to get Apple to ban the OK ? emoji sign? It’s really pitiful that they engage in a narrow perspective. They are like those who try to enforce euphemisms such as “undocumented worker” rather than illegal alien, illegal immigrant or we could say illegal border crosser, illegal foreigner…
I don’t agree with the ADL.
Dapto says
This is because like Jeremy Corbyn the ADL have never meet a Terrorist they did’nt like.
Battle says
Lydia Church hits nail on head. Good. Very humorous. I am still laughing. Good.
Battle says
KWJ: Thanks. I like illegal immigrant felon.
mortimer says
‘Four-Finger Salute’ Shows Solidarity With Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood … WOULD THAT SALUTE BE FASCIST TOO?
https://www.rferl.org/a/egypt-four-finger-salute/25085068.html
A “four-finger salute,” which may have originated in Turkey, has quickly become the new symbol of those supporting deposed Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.
— a black hand, with four fingers raised and the thumb drawn across the palm — is being called “R4bia.” It’s a reference to the Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque, the Cairo site of a pro-Brotherhood sit-in that was violently broken up by Egyptian security forces last week, resulting in the deaths of scores of Morsi supporters.
In Arabic, “rabaa” means four, or fourth. Activists have encouraged social-media users to update their Twitter and Facebook photos with the symbol and the Turkish-based R4bia.com website calls it “the birth of a new movement for freedom and justice.”
Note: The sign is named after the Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in Nasr City, Cairo Governorate, which surrounds the Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque, where a sit-in was held by the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters. It basically means support for the supremacist, fascist-jihadist Muslim Brotherhood.
Lotus says
We live in funny times.
https://babylonbee.com/news/adl-recommends-cutting-your-hands-off-to-prove-you-are-not-a-racist
Mark says
??
FYI says
HIGH FIVE!
{The FIVE FINGER SALUTE}
The muslims have 1,sometimes 2* and apparently the MB in Egypt have 4 finger salutes
{not and never 3 -as allah has a problem with 3}
But we have 5 and in fact we can use both hands which gives us Ten.
Ya see?We are always far more advanced than the muslims.
Double High Five:That should be the standard greeting of all infidels and JW readers OK…?
*There is a photo of imran khan with two fingers pointing upwards..perhaps it is the TWO RIGHT HANDS of allah{Sahih muslim 1827}
PaulaP says
It seems to me that the female in the middle is displaying the “one finger salute”, which is appropriate for all radicals.
Ginger Snap says
The Deep State is causing chaos with all this nonsense to accomplish their agenda for their kind of control. This is like catching wild pigs. Put out food. Then build one side of the fence. Keep putting out food. Then fence side two, and keep putting out food. Same for side three and four except side four has a door on it. The wild pigs keep coming for the food as long as they feel things are the same and safe. Last put the door of the fence in while they are eating. Done. Deep Stare just changes us one step at a time until we get used to it, then slap a new control on us until one day we wake up and realize nothing is the same. We will be their subjects to mistreat.
Dano says
Just because a certain group says something doesn’t make it true. Some people think the Earth is flat too. Democrats say President Trump is racist even though he has won awards for fighting racism. The world is full of idiots.
tgusa says
The ADL cannot see me but right now I am giving them the OK sign along with an eye roll in response to their lunacy.
For those who haven’t yet been notified, the OK sign accompanied with an eye roll is double plus ungood nazi.