In Allah We Trust

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Apparently, while we were busy getting distracted by the pandemic, Texas went ahead and made a law to put "In God We Trust" in all public schools. More shenanigans--somehow to avoid legal problems, the law requires that signs being added to the schools come from private funds/donations of the signs, but the law also requires the signs.

An interesting article discusses an activist who examined the law and determined the signs need not be in English. So, he's donating them in Arabic, like so:

"If I send out 500 signs, I expect 98% of them not to go up. And that's a win for me," Stevens said. "Maybe two out of a hundred go up on a wall. And I wanted the two. ... It proves the point."

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Update...

A Texas school board rejects 'In God We Trust' signs in Arabic​

The signs had the right message, as required by law. One stated "In God We Trust" over a rainbow background. Another was in Arabic. But the Carroll school district in North Texas rejected the signs, saying it already has enough for its buildings.

Don't these people know the American god is a straight white male Christian of Northern European descent? You can't surround his national motto with Arabic and rainbows!

 

[thebeave]

Yeah, when people say they want God back in schools, they don't mean the non-Christian God. I remember my church nutter uncle saying he wanted prayers in school, and when I asked him what he would think when a Muslim kid whipped out his prayer rug in home room to pray toward Mecca. His eyes kind bugged out, then he sorta mumbled, and hemmed and hawed and left the room.

 

[Derec]

Why is the Left so infatuated with Islam?

 

[TLK Valentine]

Why is the Left so infatuated with Islam?

Arabic is a language, not a religion.

 

[Derec]

Arabic is a language, not a religion.

Of course. But the activist who made those signs chose Arabic specifically because of its connection with Islam.

 

[Politesse]

Arabic is a language, not a religion.

Of course. But the activist who made those signs chose Arabic specifically because of its connection with Islam.

Pretty sure he chose it to call out hypocrisy.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Why is the Left so infatuated with Islam?

It's all part of our Gay Muslim Trans Feminazi Sharia Law Agenda. It's coming to a neighborhood near you. I recommend hiding under a bed from "The Left," instead of paying attention to--or addressing all these new laws that Republicans are passing. We "The Left" don't look under beds. So you will be safe.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Why is the Left so infatuated with Islam?

The Arabic signs weren't about Islam. They were about showing a problem with the law.

 

[Elixir]

Why is the Left so infatuated with Islam?

Arabic is a language, not a religion.

But ignerinse is a Murkin Value!
To answer Derec’s revealing question though, the left is probably amazed by the fear and loathing of the unknown (Islam) that it makes them a target of mockery, sarcasm and of course facetiousness that lies beyond the mental grasp of conservotards.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Arabic is a language, not a religion.

Of course. But the activist who made those signs chose Arabic specifically because of its connection with Islam.

Pretty sure he chose it to call out hypocrisy.

Mission accomplished, I'd say.

 

[Derec]

To answer Derec’s revealing question though, the left is probably amazed by the fear and loathing of the unknown (Islam) that it makes them a target of mockery, sarcasm and of course facetiousness that lies beyond the mental grasp of conservotards.

It's the known, not the unknown about Islam that is enough of a problem. Islam is well deserving of all the mockery and attacks we critics of Islam target at it. It is you fauxgressive islamophiles who are ignant and much in need of improving your mental grasp.

 

[Derec]

It's all part of our Gay Muslim Trans Feminazi Sharia Law Agenda.

Is this like those "Queers for Palestine" idiots who are either unaware or do not care what actually happens to queers in so-called "Palestine"?

 

[Derec]

The Arabic signs weren't about Islam. They were about showing a problem with the law.

I do not agree with the law. However to say that the choice of Arabic as the language to make those signs in has nothing to do with Islam is not credible in the least.

 

[bilby]

The Arabic signs weren't about Islam. They were about showing a problem with the law.

I do not agree with the law. However to say that the choice of Arabic as the language to make those signs in has nothing to do with Islam is not credible in the least.

Yeah, like those activist math teachers who insist on teaching kids to use arabic numerals. They say it's got nothing to do with Islam, but we know better.

Let them get away with it, and before you know it they'll be telling kids all about how 'wonderful and exciting' they should find Al-Gebra.

It's pure indoctrination.

 

[Derec]

Yeah, like those activist math teachers who insist on teaching kids to use arabic numerals. They say it's got nothing to do with Islam, but we know better.

Arabic numerals are a bit of a misnomer anyway. The numerals originated in India and came to Europe by way of Arabs, but they evolved and changed along the way. The numerals used in Arabic can be very different than those adopted by Europeans and that have now become used worldwide. We should maybe call them "standard numerals" instead.

The obverse (top) is in Arabic and has the actual Arabic numeral for 5. It looks like a lumpy zero. And zero itself is also very different, just a mark really. The reverse (bottom) has the same in English, with European/standard 50.

And even if all this wasn't true, and we literally used Arabic numerals, that is very different than having a religious phrase in Arabic language which is obviously meant to invoke the specter of Islam. To play dumb on that point is beneath you.

Let them get away with it, and before you know it they'll be telling kids all about how 'wonderful and exciting' they should find Al-Gebra.

Not to mention al-Kohol.

 

[Arctish]

I don't think the folks who were marching in Charlottesville with tiki torches would be any happier if the signs were in Hebrew.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

I do not agree with the law.

I know this is difficult for you, but you should focus more on expanding this and talking about it, rather than micro-outrage about Queers for Palestine, i.e. not the topic.

To review -- a message in Arabic may evoke some feelings about Islam or make _some_ people think about Islam, it may also make some other people think about Arabic, and still others who are completely ignorant of what Arabic orthography entails, may just get suspicious of what is different, but moreover, Arabic writing wasn't the only sign going on...there was also one with a rainbow background that was denied.

The thing in common is that the purpose of the new sign law in Texas is advocacy and promotion of the conservative tribe and its morality--to include its flavor of religion, morality, ethnicity. What might happen next is that this kind of thing might go to the courts, conservatives might scramble to hurry up and fill every school with the "right" fonts and language to continue to blocking things, or they could eventually amend the law to try to crush opportunities for flavors of the message that are inconsistent with their own tribe. Most likely nothing at all will break or change positively since the Christian tribe already controls the courts, the legislature, and the executive branch.

 

[blastula]

Why is the Left so infatuated with Islam?

What's that got to do with the OP?

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The Arabic signs weren't about Islam. They were about showing a problem with the law.

I do not agree with the law. However to say that the choice of Arabic as the language to make those signs in has nothing to do with Islam is not credible in the least.

The point was to show the bias, that it was about a specific god.