War of Words

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), May 25, 2007 at 20:40

It used to be to that come to America was to be looking forward to a life of opportunity afforded by the freedoms in this land. As more and more people are coming here, not all of them are looking for such opportunities, but are looking for the ways and means to not only breach the American way from abroad, but to look for the way to breach the freedoms from within and eliminate the last vestige of liberties formerly guaranteed by the Christian-based form of government.

There has been varying efforts over the years to make the official language of America English. This has been challenged, successfully by the way, by those who play upon the demographically diverse nature of this country, to the detriment of one of her most important assets, the common cause of liberty.

If one were to look more closely at the true issues presented by the controversy of establishing the Brooklyn Arabic school, it is clearly seen as one of those challenges as mentioned above. One might go so far as to say, it is politically expedient in the realm of being politically correct. The endorsement of some of the sponsors seems to ratify this presumption.

The more sinister aspect of this can be traced however to an underlying attitude of a growing number of people, including some claiming to be Americans, that to be an American under the auspices of the once intact Constitution is no longer desirable, (and that is the basis of the schism that cracked wide open during the last two presidential elections). Thus, the attacks on the Constitution continue. Language becomes a weapon.

In the recent elections, one of the elected individuals chose to spurn an American traditional oath of office and won the right to be sworn in on the Quran (there being no difference whose document it was). The point of this being it was not an American document. In doing so, a spirit of discord masking itself in a cloak of diversity was allowed to reinforce an enemy argument that the Quran is more important than the Holy Bible. It calls into question allegiances.

To teach Arabic to those who have a need or desire to do so is one thing. To teach it as the language of the Quran which is supposed by the followers of the Quran to be a better document upon which a means to govern a people is another.

Therein lies the true intent. Make no mistake; just as the Europeans were forced to capitulate to the voices raised in honor of the Quran, Americans are faced with the same. It is what the Quran dictates, in the original Arabic.

Teaching Arabic of the Quran is the obvious reason the school is being called into question for religious purposes.

But how does that reconcile with the contradiction of not teaching the language of the Holy Bible in public schools? It doesn't.

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