Posted on 09/13/2012 8:31:20 AM PDT by PghBaldy
The Muslim Brotherhood's official English-language Twitter account @Ikwanweb reposted a message from the group's deputy head, Khairat El-Shater, saying he was "relieved none of @USembassycairo staff was hurt" in three days of sometimes violent protests, and expressing his hope that US-Egypt relations could weather the events.
This reconciliatory tweet, however, was posted while the Brotherhood's Arabic-language Twitter account and its official website were both praising the protests -- staged against a US-made film judged defamatory towards Islam -- and calling for a million man march on Friday.
One Arabic language article on the Brotherhood's site sported the headline 'Egyptians rise to defend the Prophet'.
Noting the contradiction, the US Embassy in Cairo tweeted a tart response from its own account: "Thanks. By the way, have you checked out your own Arabic feeds? I hope you know we read those too."
Seemingly stung, the Brotherhood replied some 20 minutes later, saying "we understand you're under a lot of stress, but it will be more helpful if you point out exactly the Arabic feed of concern."
According to Wikipedia there are only 28 letters plus a few marks for their vowels. It gets complicated because each letter has multiple forms based on where it is in the word and what it connects to, but I guess those doesn't have to be on the keyboard.
Chinese, on the other hand, is a keyboard nightmare.
OMG, that’s for real. Mohammad’s chicken scratch. What do they do for SHORTHAND?
Good God. Can we please ban Foreign Embassy staff from using Twitter?
Muslims are so easily manipulated we may see the next war started via Twitter.
And isn’t Arabic written, or at least read, backwards to English, as well as American English?
Yes, like Hebrew. Oddly, Arabic numbers higher than 9 are read left-to-right, so that if you recognize the different shape of individual numerals, it’s not such a mental twist to read large Arabic numbers. (My personal theory is, that is because “Arabic” numbers and mathematics are actually Hindic (? as distinct from Hindu, the religion) in origin.
Thanks PghBaldy.
Jimmy Carter does the same thing to this day.
He will say one thing in english and then under the guise of saying it again in spanish, actually say somethin totally unrelated and america bashing in spanish.
Thank you for the info. I did not know this.
His teleprompter is multilingual- that's all he needs.
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