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"To Serve Man" (Julia Gorin)
Frontpage Magazine ^
| January 24, 2007
| Julia Gorin
Posted on 01/24/2007 12:08:26 PM PST by Bokababe
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 Im 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? ............
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Virginia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: islam; richardkiel; toserveman; wot
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Welcome to Amerarabia!
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posted on
01/24/2007 12:08:27 PM PST
by
Bokababe
To: Bokababe
"To Serve Lemur"
(you have to have seen that animated film 'Madagascar' to appreciate this... ;)
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posted on
01/24/2007 12:09:45 PM PST
by
mkjessup
To: joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; ma bell; ...
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posted on
01/24/2007 12:09:45 PM PST
by
Bokababe
( http://www.savekosovo.org)
To: Bokababe
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posted on
01/24/2007 12:10:09 PM PST
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does.)
To: presidio9
It's A COOKBOOK!
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posted on
01/24/2007 12:12:23 PM PST
by
sono
(There are only two exit strategies - One is victory, the other defeat - Joe Lieberman)
To: presidio9
That was what I immediately remembered...
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posted on
01/24/2007 12:12:46 PM PST
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: xcamel; sono
In that case, did you know that Soylent Green is people?
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posted on
01/24/2007 12:14:04 PM PST
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does.)
To: mkjessup
"I like to move it, move it" - GREAT movie!
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posted on
01/24/2007 12:14:37 PM PST
by
jagusafr
(The proof that we are rightly related to God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not")
To: mkjessup
`How to cook for forty humans'
--The Simpson's did it!
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posted on
01/24/2007 12:16:09 PM PST
by
Unassuaged
(I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
To: sono
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posted on
01/24/2007 12:18:41 PM PST
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does.)
To: Bokababe
What if we put up signs in English that said things like "Islam can kiss a pig's ass"? Would that be misconstrued?
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posted on
01/24/2007 12:19:21 PM PST
by
Rick.Donaldson
(http://realitycheck.blogsome.com)
To: Bokababe
"One order of man; side of dog!"
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posted on
01/24/2007 12:22:40 PM PST
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: Bokababe
They speak and write in arabic and WE'RE TO BLAME for not understanding them?
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posted on
01/24/2007 12:32:56 PM PST
by
DManA
To: DManA
They speak and write in arabic and WE'RE TO BLAME for not understanding them?By George, I think you've got it! Infidels are always to blame. If Infidels would just quit inciting violence, there wouldn't be a problem. And don't bring up the Sunni/Shiite violence. That would be incitement, as well.
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posted on
01/24/2007 12:47:27 PM PST
by
magslinger
(LOST-My tagline. It's short, and incredibly funny. If you find it please FReepmail Magslinger.)
To: Bokababe
This is the United States. Nothing should be posted to the public that is not in English. Period.
To: magslinger
Dfh ejewdc pdqwqxc ksdklc yhesdd?
And you better give me the right answer or I'll come down on you like a load of bricks.
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posted on
01/24/2007 12:53:13 PM PST
by
DManA
To: Bokababe
So what would a bumper sticker with a picture of a Koran and the phrase, "It's a cookbook!" get me? Maybe killed?
(I need an image of a Koran. Anybody have one?)
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posted on
01/24/2007 1:23:17 PM PST
by
Excellence
(Vote Dhimmocrat; Submit for Peace! (Bacon bits make great confetti.))
To: Bokababe
Can anyone show me the Arabic script for "Mohammed was a pedophile, murderer, betrayer, and rapist" ?
I will make up a few bumper stickers of my own...
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posted on
01/24/2007 1:45:14 PM PST
by
ikka
To: presidio9
Never get on a spaceship with a guy known as "Jaws."
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posted on
01/24/2007 1:57:31 PM PST
by
NicknamedBob
(Sign says, "No dogs allowed -- except seeing-eye dogs" Why don't they put that sign down lower?)
To: Excellence
No, but Presidio supplied a shot from the original Twilight Zone episiode on another page:
Maybe you can alter it to look like a Koran!
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posted on
01/24/2007 2:02:45 PM PST
by
Bokababe
( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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