Adam Saleh, known best for his hoaxes on YouTube, claims he was kicked off a Delta airline for speaking Arabic (to his mother on the phone) and to a traveling companion. Here’s the New York Times story on it. Here’s an idea. Why don’t we all learn a little Arabic? Salaam for “peace.” Shukran for …
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Check out the subversive “Homeland” graffiti:
“Homeland,” hired Arabic-speaking artists to write realistic graffiti for an episode, and these are some of the things they wrote: “Homeland is racist” and “Black lives matter.” And no one noticed, except other people who read Arabic. The show has long been problematic for people who like a little more diversity among the portrayals of Muslims in …
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