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There is a school district (Mansfield ISD) in Texas that will be mandating that some of its students learn the Arabic language and culture. This is a product of having accepted federal grant money. The Arabic language and culture are so tightly intertwined with the Islamic religion that I don't see how this passes the "smell test" for keeping religion out of public schools. This is a slippery slope...
There is a school district (Mansfield ISD) in Texas that will be mandating that some of its students learn the Arabic language and culture. This is a product of having accepted federal grant money. The Arabic language and culture are so tightly intertwined with the Islamic religion that I don't see how this passes the "smell test" for keeping religion out of public schools. This is a slippery slope...
I heard this on the radio this morning. I have mixed feelings on it. First, I'm glad the money for the grant didn't come from Saudi Arabia or else we know what hte agenda would be. Second, I think the curriculum will have to monitored very carfully to ensure the students aren't being indoctronated in anti-American Islamicic propaganda.
With those precautions it place, I think this could be a veyr good thing. Remember Arabic != Muslim. There are Christian Arabs, Jewish Arabs, and atheist Arabs. I think it would be very good if mroe Americans spoke and understood Arabic because what our Middle Eastern "Allies" say to us in English is very often quite different from what they say to their own people in Arabic. Also, if mroe Americans were aware what the Qur'an and Hadiths said in its original Arabic there would be no room for Muslim apoligists to dismiss passages as not meaning what they really mean and saying that hte translations isn't accurate.
I'm not afriad of having Americans learn Arabic but it should be approached the same way a CIA agent approaches learning the language of the coutry he is going to be operating out of. It should not be used as a glorification of another culture but as a tool to better equip Americans for dealing with a competing culture.
It might be a good idea to learn the language of our enemies, but it's silly to think a language spoken by people who are centuries behind the civilized world is going to be the language of the future.
I heard this on the radio this morning. I have mixed feelings on it. First, I'm glad the money for the grant didn't come from Saudi Arabia or else we know what hte agenda would be. Second, I think the curriculum will have to monitored very carfully to ensure the students aren't being indoctronated in anti-American Islamicic propaganda.
With those precautions it place, I think this could be a veyr good thing. Remember Arabic != Muslim. There are Christian Arabs, Jewish Arabs, and atheist Arabs. I think it would be very good if mroe Americans spoke and understood Arabic because what our Middle Eastern "Allies" say to us in English is very often quite different from what they say to their own people in Arabic. Also, if mroe Americans were aware what the Qur'an and Hadiths said in its original Arabic there would be no room for Muslim apoligists to dismiss passages as not meaning what they really mean and saying that hte translations isn't accurate.
I'm not afriad of having Americans learn Arabic but it should be approached the same way a CIA agent approaches learning the language of the coutry he is going to be operating out of. It should not be used as a glorification of another culture but as a tool to better equip Americans for dealing with a competing culture.
What kind of alternate universe do you live in to think it would need to be monitored to guard against "anti-American Islamic propaganda" in Texas? ....LOL
This paranoia must be hard wired into right wingers genetics....They can't think straight...It's a life spent in fear...LOL
It might be a good idea to learn the language of our enemies, but it's silly to think a language spoken by people who are centuries behind the civilized world is going to be the language of the future.
There is a school district (Mansfield ISD) in Texas that will be mandating that some of its students learn the Arabic language and culture.
1- Arabic food is pretty good. I don't think getting to taste something Arabic every once in a while will be a bad thing. Certainly a lot better than associating anything Arabic with terrorists, right?
2- How do you mandate something on "some"?
3- As a student and now as a professional, I come across words that have Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Latin, Sanskrit, Greek (etc) roots. One of my favorite constellations in the sky is the Orion, and Betelgeuse is pretty impressive. Damn... did someone just "mandate" Arabic on me, considering that Betelgeuse is Arabic (as are the names of three stars in Orion's Belt)? I loved Algebra... well, there we go, we're being forced to an "Arabic" world.
Stop panicking and start learning. You just might appreciate the world a little more every day.
Because these simpletons don't have the mental intelligence to think for themselves. They get their "enemies list" fed to them by right wing radio and FOX "news".
What better way to get low IQ voters to vote against their own self interest, and for corporate interests, than by preying on their fears and bigotry?
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