Posted on 02/03/2006 3:21:51 PM PST by rvoitier
So many pictures begging comment, so little time
They should've rounded up the "protestors" (aka, future murderers) and at the very least deported them. Demonstrations that advocate murder should not be protected by free speech.
Please direct me to the Mark Steyn article of " a month ago" that you are referencing. thanks.
One cannot but ponder the question: what if the Arabs had been Christians?
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Patton was an incredibly superb military genius but his facts are wrong. There are many thousands of Arabs who remain Christian even after so many years of persecution and extermination policies by Muslims many of who are not even Arab - Turks etc. In fact most Arabs were all once Christian or Jew. Some were pagans (mostly in the saudi interior). How to bring them back to sanity is the question.
The rest of Gen. Patton's words are spot on.
I mean the 'al ilah', elided to 'allah' means 'the god' in Arabic, and is used by Arabic speakers of all religions as an equivalent of the English 'God' (with the capital).
It may well be that adherents of a pre-Islamic Meccan lunar deity regarded their false god as preminent among the gods, and used 'the god' to refer to him. But this practice is irrelevant to the usage of the word in Arabic.
What is peculiar about Mohammedan usage (linguistically, leaving aside their host of false doctrines) is that they assume Allah is the proper name of the unique deity, and will not translate the word when when speaking other languages. Christians will say 'Allah' in Arabic to refer to the Holy Trinity, but will say 'God' when speaking English, "ho theos" when speaking Greek, "Le Dieu" when speaking French, etc.
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