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September 07, 2007
Bin-Laden Versus Bin-Laden, same day
Osama bin-Laden on Sept. 7 2007* -- "19 young men were able, by the grace of [God], the Most High, to change the direction of [America's] compass."
Osama bin-Laden on, um, Sept 7, 2007 -- "burning living beings is forbidden by our religion, even if they be small like the ant, so what of men?"
In addition to terrorist, criminal, fanatic, and other filth-and-foul words, we can now add "what a fatuous dick".
* Does MSNBC pay people for the otherwise embarrasingly crappy translation done there -- and it appears faxed, perhaps to avoid stealing from it(?), are there no Arabic speakers on earth fluent in both languages with a PC or a mac? Maybe we need that Arabic school in Brooklyn after all; doubtful as I personally know a dozen people who could do English better.
Examples: "with flagrant disregard for the intellects of human beings" . . . "with the knowledge that the statistic speaks of the death and displacement of the millions of human beings because of that". . . ."that the magnificent Quran and the Evangel{sic} are both from Allah{sic}".
Unless that is the "official" translation from the tape suppliers, in which case I understand, at least for an hour or so until they can put out a better one.
Posted by Matthew Hogan at September 7, 2007 08:11 PM
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Sincerely, I think the networks are too lazy to get anything better than they got there, and they think they have to keep some reasonable amount of contempt for the guy, so they won't spend money for a proper translation, let alone a file with a proper resolution.
Another solution explains why it appears faxed: they outsourced the translation to Morocco ;]
The praise for Noam Chomsky, right there, is exactly what the professor needs to calm his neocon opponents...
Now you've pointed out how he doesn't make much sense on some matters; the next question is, does he make any less sense than Dubya?
Posted by: Frandroid Atreides at September 8, 2007 01:03 AM
since I'm too lazy to write something different, and since the same comments apply, from the Lounsbury-initiated discussion of the bin Laden message, noting that mr ObL wore a black beard:
interestingly, henna was a Sunnah practise for dying one's beard, and the Prophet disallowed dying one's beard black (as it deceived others about one's age) unless it was for the purposes of making war and persuading ones' enemies of their youthfulness...
either way, f*** him and the horse he rode in on, I hold Osama majorly accountable for the American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq - even if they had planned them before hand, as substantive evidence indicates, he gave the Pentagon the 'gilded opportunity' - and so he needs to have a bullet placed in his head by some Pashto orphan who lost his family in the American bombing, or better yet lost his mother to a al-Qaeda-inspired suicide bomber - but Allah knows best.
I lost a good friend on 9/11, who worked as a database manager for Marsh&McLennan - and was muslim incidentally - and have zero support for people who think it's logical to proclaim that to murder other innocent civilians is reasonable so long as they do it to you - sympathy for those dying and who want revenge is one thing, supporting literally suicidal policies that will just increase the number of murdered, and to zero alleviation of the injustices and oppressive policies they're meant to protest is another thing, and moronic
Posted by: dawud at September 9, 2007 05:52 PM
