Posted on 03/29/2009 11:05:11 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
In February, the British government announced it would begin contacts with the non-military wing of Hizballah. Now this strategy has been further clarified. The specific target—perhaps not the best choice of words since it is Hizballah that really targets people—are Hizballah legislators.
The goal is to talk to Hizballah members of the Lebanese parliament to get them to encourage their organization to abandon violence and play a constructive political role in Lebanon.
This approach is based on the assumption, of course, that parliamentarians are parliamentarians, friendly, outgoing chaps who know how to kiss babies and slap backs in the local constituency. This, however, misreads what Hizballah is about.
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It’s Arabic for “house of war.”
My Middle East history textbook mis-translated it (probably deliberately) as “house of dissent” to make it sound less violent....PC crap is everywhere
(In fact, the word for dissent comes from a totally different and unrelated root than that of their word for war)
(In fact, the word for dissent comes from a totally different and unrelated root than that of their word for war)
Sounds like something interesting to send to Larry Schweikart (Freeper name LS) to include in his info on lies in textbooks. Maybe you could even get it on Dr. Schweikart's Wednesday morning segment on Fox & Friends on Fox News channel.
Thanks for the info. There are actually many more lies in this book, but I don’t want to crash FR by listing them all ;)
Dar ul-islam = the islamic part of things (as in the world)
Dar ul-harb = everything else (world of war)
Yeah...I’ve seen Dar al-Islam translated (incorrectly) as “house of peace”....which is both grammatically and conceptually wrong.
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