If You Convert You Die

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | Monday, August 03, 2009 | Nonie Darwish

[G8 Diplomat]

this is a perfect project for home school families, since it can combine language learning with cross-cultural communication. If you show a sincere interest in another person's language, you have a superhighway to their hearts.

I was a conversation partner for an Egyptian student learning English last year. I'm studying Arabic as well and after I was done tutoring him in English, he did the same for me in Arabic. I really love the Arabic language, I think that was what really got him interested in spending time with a foreign student.

If you go to the Middle East, at least in Saudi Arabia (no I have not been there, this is what I've read), you'll find that people assume foreigners don't know Arabic. So tell them ahead of time if you do--they'll really like it.

[G8 Diplomat]

Totally right. Classical Arabic is different from modern Arabic, and further still from the dialects. And of course most Muslims don’t even speak Arabic (only 20% are Arabs). I read on FrontPage Mag a few years ago a story about a Bangladeshi guy who didn’t understand Arabic but was forced by his family to memorize the Qur’an. He finally bought a copy in Bengali and was shocked to find out what it really said—and caused him to leave Islam.

[Eye of Unk]

DOH!

I meant North Korea, stupid me.

[garjog]

Yes, need to take it all as mere interpretation. But, there are some uncanny details that seem like the perfect set up for a literal Armageddon.

The return of Israel is an historic fact that seems like a literal fulfillment of prophecy. So, you've got to wonder.

While the Hal Lindsay crowd had it wrong about communism being the anti-Christ, the alliance between Russia and Iran seem to fit the senior just fine.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7045713.stm