Posted on 01/31/2013 7:22:54 AM PST by Perseverando
Madness. Your taxpayer dollars at work to advance Islamic culture: a culture, by its very nature, designed to destroy all others. They are at war with us. Would school students in 1944 have recited the Pledge in German?
Mark Steyn discussed this very thing when we were fighting an Arabic public school in Brooklyn here in New York City, in my interview with him.
"It shows how we mischaracterized, we willfully misunderstand Islam. Yes, on the face of it, yes, Arabic is a language. In a sense there would be no difference between opening a foreign language school -- a Spanish language school or a french language school -- but in fact Arabic is more than a language. It is explicated the language of Islam, so in that sense it is part of the Islamic religious imperial project. Radical Islam advances through the Arabic language. And you go all kinds of places that aren't in the Arab world now, like Pakistan, Indonesia, Central Asia, the Balkans, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Canada and the United States, and you will here those Imams preaching in Arabic. Arabic is not just another language like French or Italian, it is the spearhead of an ideological project that is deeply opposed to the United States.
"Fort Collins students read Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic" 9News.com Janauary 30, 2014 (thanks to Van)
FORT COLLINS - A Fort Collins principal stands by his decision to allow students from a multicultural group to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic on the school's intercom.
"We do say the Pledge of Allegiance on Mondays at Rocky Mountain High School," principal Tom Lopez said.
Students have always said it in English. This year, a group with about 30 students approached Lopez
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Bingo. I have an unedited version of the Koran that I got in Saudi. It is the one they don’t translate to the unsuspecting public.
My version has Arabic in the body and the English translation is on the margin.
Conservative parents where are you? Have you not taught your children well?
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