Are Islamic messages embedded in Google maps?

The Post & Email ^ | May 6, 2010 | Jim Campbell

[gunsequalfreedom]

Thanks. I’ll go have a look.

[KarlInOhio]

See post #18. I was able to duplicate it finally.

[Natural Born 54]

Well, if he’s right (and I don’t have the language knowledge to know), then this is a tempest in a tea pot so to speak. I will say that I don’t like them wanting to know any area of the U.S. well enough to give it an Arabic translated name, though it’s a far cry from a secret message. Thanks for noticing that.

[Hot Tabasco]

I am not an expert user of Google Earth

If you page back real fast, you'll get an Arabic message that says "Paul is dead"...............

[Natural Born 54]

...but he’s alive!

[SpinnerWebb]

Those are safe house locations for terrorist border-crossers.

[dmz]

No arabic lettering to be found on mine. And I zoomed in on the spot shown in the pix.

Weird.

[Natural Born 54]

Can you think of any legitimate reason for it to happen that way?

[SatinDoll]

This was covered a couple of weeks ago in Free Republic.

Yes, Arab words appear on Google maps when zooming in/out. The FBI has been aware of this for quite some time.

I don’t have any further information to relate.

[livius]

That’s interesting. I live in a semi-rural area of Florida (well, I live on the coast, but you go 20 minutes inland and it’s extremely rural) and there are little mosques all over the place out there, even though there are no Muslims. They have bought up unused rural churches and put up signs turning them into “mosques.”

Also, Jacksonville has a huge mosque built right next to the highway. I wonder if these Arabic words indicate the location of mosques?

They’re taking us over and we’re just sleeping through it.

[swarthyguy]

>>we’re just sleeping

When the muezzin’s call to prayer at dawn blares through loudspeakers, we’ll wake up, maybe, lol!

[scottfactor]

Zoom out....you’ll see it. If you zoom in, it disappears.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

"It's a bug. When the primary place name isn't available, for whatever reason, an alternate name (irrelevant favorite example of an alternate name) is displayed instead. Arabic is usually the first alternate language, alphabetically, so that's the name that appears." Source

[livius]

Probably. It’s going to be a little late, I’m afraid. So I guess we should start planning for our Reconquista now. It took the Spanish 800 years, but they got the Muslims out. Hopefully, we’ll be faster!

[Deaf Smith]

I just tried it with Anchorage TX. It is there on the first screen image.

[Bob]

No arabic lettering to be found on mine. And I zoomed in on the spot shown in the pix.

Weird.

Using the link in post #20, I could see it very clearly using Firefox. Perhaps this effect is browser-dependent.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the information.

[SatinDoll]

You’re welcome.

[Natural Born 54]

Looks like mystery solved. Thanks. It is still weird that it happens at one zoom level consistently and Google hasn’t fixed it by now.

[bravo whiskey]

bUt google map has columbine high school in JEFFERSON COUNTY colorado not littleton Colorado identified on their map as COLUMBINE MASACRE.