Latest reich wing faux outrage: Arabic version of pledge read in high school announcements.

[47of74]

Cause 'murica

PINE BUSH - An effort to celebrate national Foreign Language Week by reading the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic Wednesday has polarized Pine Bush High School into angry factions.

The morning's regularly scheduled announcements included the Arabic reading of the pledge. According to students, the announcement was greeted by catcalls and angry denunciations in classrooms throughout the school by students who felt the reading was inappropriate.

The reading became the subject of angry talk throughout the school and a cascade of tweets both from students who criticized the reading and those who supported it.

God, this country is so G-D embarrassing some times.

[immoderate]

1. Dunno. I protest the pledge when it's in English.

--imm

[47of74]

2. It's that the stupid is coming out of the woodwork

Some of the loudest whiners about the pledge being said in Arabic are probably descendants of immigrant groups - Italian, German, etc - that faced discrimination and harassment for using their native languages.

These tea clowns would probably be dancing in the streets if the Republican of the week even tried bringing back the Babel Proclimation.

[dawg]

3. "One nation, under God ..."

Since the Arabic word for God is "Allah", I'm guessing that word was included in the Arabic version of the pledge.

[srican69]

4. you are giving them too much credit.. like

They going to actually listen to the pledge in Arabic before they get outraged over it.

Come ON !!

[Major Nikon]

5. I guess they prefer the English version written by an avowed socialist