[NewHampshireDuo]

Actually, more people learning the language of a threatening culture can (or should be) good as it's then easier to understand the true meaning of statements coming from that region. The risk is that malleable minds come to accept a backwards and repressive culture as good.

An earlier article on an Arabic language class in CT is here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631603/posts

[Wristpin]

It's going to be a long conflict. We need spooks who can speak arabic.

[rickmichaels]

“You will have trouble if you write it that way,” Eddefaa said with a smile...

Indeed. No doubt writing it that way somehow blasphemes Islam.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Nice to see some students not afraid of a major challenge!

[SHOOT THE MOON bat]

Let me tell you something. I know of this because my son is involved in it. Middle Eastern studies and Arabic language classes in universities are bursting at the seams in this country. The kids in theses classes were the ones in high school during 9/11. The intelligence agencies just came out with some lame report about how Iraq has created more jihadis. Well the jihadis have no idea what they created with 9/11. There is a huge wave rolling their wave in the person of young American men and women schooled in their language and their culture bound and determined that they get away with their crap no longer.

[Living Free in NH]

The only thing I can say in Arabic is "Take Cover", which is pronounced "Allah Akbar."

[pabianice]

If they don't also offer Hebrew, I am sure the ACLU will be on their ass. /sarcasm

[RightWhale]

Do they teach German? Some schools in NH stopped teachng German during WW I because they were really annoyed with Germany, and a lot of ethnic Germans in NH were foremost among the annoyed.