Lesser gods?
The Shahada (Arabic: ٱلشَّهَادَةُ, “the testimony”) also transliterated as Shahadah, is an Islamic oath, one of the Five Pillars of Islam and part of the Adhan. It reads: “I bear witness that there is no god but God, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of God.”
OK, but like how would Arabic refer to a god outside of Islam? As in, if an Arabic speaker were discussing the gods of Hinduism or what have you?
Nevermind.
I believe in Arabic the gods of Hinduism would be referred to as “ilah”, a generalized term for any deity.
However Arab Christians refer to God as Allah.
REALLY??? Ignorance fought, by cracky.
I’d have thought Arabic-speaking Christians would have used an Arabic transliteration of Yahweh/Jehovah. Now I know.
Your version and the version in the poster are equivalent (as far as I can tell), so maybe they chose the longer phrase for aesthetic reasons.
So we’ll have to game the system some other way.
So they “must” display any that we send. It must be displayed in a “conspicuous place”, so no locked filing cabinets in disused lavatories with signs on the door saying, “Beware of the leopard”. And they have to do this with every poster that is donated, or bought for the school using private funds.
So, how many tons of posters do you think we can deliver to every school every week? Anyone know how much they cost?
You can interpret “a durable poster or framed copy” to mean one poster. So it’s easy enough to say “Sorry, we already have a poster.”
So then we have the headline, “Anti-Christian schools refuse to display “In God We Trust” posters in defiance of State Law!”
It’s time to fight fire with fire spin with spin.
I trust in the Lord, and this law pisses me off greatly!
The statute also says that a poster must be displayed, “in each building” of the school or university, which seems to assume more than one poster. Universities in particular could have dozens of buildings, each required to display a properly formatted poster.
The shame of it, though, is that it’s the school districts and universities that are going to get sued by whichever side is pissed off by how they implement the requirement. They didn’t ask for this law, yet they’re going to be the ones incurring the expense of having to defend it.
I still hold that printing the motto and flags in small letters at the bottom of a Pride flag will annoy them more than Arabic.
A common misconception is that Allah is a name, but it literally means THE God (Al-lah). So it’s fine for Christians too.
and Arabic-speaking Jews. I might say HaShem or Adonai when praying. But if I’m speaking English, I’m going to use God. A French Jew would say Dieu. A Hispanic Jew woud say Dios. A Jew speaking Arabic would say Allah.
I didn’t know that. Thanks.
“Allah” is not the name of a particular God in Arabic, it is “God”.
Jews and Christians who pray in Arabic refer to God as “Allah” because that’s the Arabic word for God.
I was a little irritated, now I’m really pissed. Separation of church and state my white shinny ass.
Separation of church and state, you been Trumped.
I think it’s mentioned above that the law specifies that the poster(s) in question must only have the motto, the US and Texas flags, and nothing else. It’s possible that even having a background that consists of the Pride flag’s colors might run afoul of that.
That said, the idea of “small letters” seems to make sense considering the law (AFAIK) does not specify any requirements for size and proportion. So maybe an AIDS-Memorial-Quilt sized poster that is plain white, except for a tiny “in god we trust” and two teeny tiny flags.
Alternatively, donate business-card sized “posters” that can be placed conspicuously at the top of the clock tower.
Umm, are folks really still confused by the fact that Jews, Christians (even the Mormons), and Muslims worship . . . the same god?