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Arabic Words for 'Gay' Need to Be Better than 'Pervert' or 'Deviant'
The Atlantic ^ | Steve Clemons

Posted on 11/14/2021 7:33:36 PM PST by Trump20162020

I don't speak Arabic -- though I recently ordered the beginner module from Rosetta Stone which still sits in its wrapper on my desk shelf. (I am in the Arab world a lot however and learning more each trip) Perhaps after the conventions.

But a friend, Foued Mokrani, speaks Arabic just fine -- and reported on his Facebook page the following after watching a film during a flight to Paris:

I watched the movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and noticed they translate the word ''gay" to ''pervert" in the Arabic subtitles!! Very dumb.

Mokrani responded:

Somehow there is no decent word to say homosexual in Arabic. . .They started recently using a word for it but still very unfamiliar one.

In Arabic, there is no exact word to say "homosexual." People use bad words like faggot, pervert, or just use the sentence "liking people from same sex." Recently, a few people started using the word "mithli" modifying the word for "sex" -- meaning "same as me".

What they used in the movie is "pervert" to translate the word gay -- or "cheth" in Arabic.

Other commenters on the Mokrani thread wrote that Arabic also tends to describe gays as deviants -- using words like "munharif" and "shadh."

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: arabic; cheth; faggots; gay; homofascism; homosexualagenda; lgbt; pinkmafia; steveclemons; steveisaretard; theatlantic; thefaglantic
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To: Trump20162020

pervert and deviant work just fine.


41 posted on 11/15/2021 3:53:00 AM PST by ronniesgal (if more folks would mind their own business the world would be a better place.)
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To: jocon307

LOL, after watching “The Rise of Jordan Petersen” I got the feeling he was angry and gratuitously slapped them across the face with that statement just to get a rise out of them, and he sure did...I can admire someone who takes the time to slap an enemy across the face with a dead fish to rile them up for no other purpose than they needed slapping!


42 posted on 11/15/2021 4:07:31 AM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
"...The mohammedans are perfectly ok with men having sex with men, women, children, animals and rocks as long as the male mohammedan is having all the fun and no one else is..."

Funny you would say that...when I wrote the original post, I wrote a final short paragraph at the end that was addressing exactly that point, but...I was under a time crunch and couldn't formulate it, so I deleted it from that post.

What you said above was almost exactly what I was trying to elucidate. Good job.

43 posted on 11/15/2021 4:10:33 AM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

“They would maintain their status is no different than someone with red hair . . .uncommon, but not abnormal”


The Brits seem to think that ‘gingers’ are abnormal!


44 posted on 11/15/2021 4:35:43 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: rlmorel

First they paint a circle on their butts, then they execute them afraid of what they might tell.


45 posted on 11/15/2021 5:34:09 AM PST by Jumper
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To: Trump20162020

How about Islamanomaly!


46 posted on 11/15/2021 6:28:42 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Trump20162020

Good luck getting the Muslims to take the perverts’ feelings into account.


47 posted on 11/15/2021 7:45:08 AM PST by RKRider
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To: Trump20162020

SO?

Accurate.


48 posted on 11/15/2021 10:34:52 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: rlmorel
Thanks.

I have been trying to get across to Americans who think mohammedans are "social conservatives" and should be on "our side" that they are no such thing.

It is really a perverted and twisted society both sexually and morally.

49 posted on 11/15/2021 6:49:54 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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