Islam and Arabic

[Ronald Kephart]

On 8/30/07 2:05 PM, "Robert Lawless" <robert.lawless at wichita.edu> wrote:

> The conflating of Islam with Arabic should be on interest to linguists.
> According to an article today in Counterpunch by Anthony DiMaggio:
> 
> Daniel Pipes [...] argues that "learning Arabic in-and-of-itself promotes an
> Islamic outlook," as "Arabic-language instruction is inevitably laden with
> pan-Arabist and Islamist baggage."
> 
Hmmm. I wonder what the Palestinian (and Arabic-speaking) Christians, among
others, might have to say about this. And then, we have all those
Malay-Indonesian speaking Muslims.

Ron


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