Bumper Sticker War

[jazzarama]

Originally Posted by FrankMiller

I wonder how FOX NEWS would report the story if the sheriff had a bumper sticker reading "Allahu Akbar" or "Operating Thetan Level Five" or "My other patrol car is a TIE fighter".

'Allahu Akbar' isn't yet the official motto of the U'S., so the comparison is goofy.

'In God We Trust' is good enough for the National Motto and currency and withstood constitutional challenges.

[FrankMiller]

Originally Posted by jazzarama

'Allahu Akbar' isn't yet the official motto of the U'S., so the comparison is goofy.

'In God We Trust' is good enough for the National Motto and currency and withstood constitutional challenges.

I suggested "My other patrol car is a TIE fighter" and you singled out "Allahu Akbar" as the goofy comparison?

But seriously, "Allahu Akbar" is basically synonymous with "In God We Trust" (lit. "God is greatest"), so I don't know why one phrase would be acceptable and not the other. Unless of course "In God We Trust" is intended specifically as Christian symbolism, rather than a literal reference to a generic higher power.