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Originally Posted by Brianna
How many Muslims do you know on a personal level? None? One? Two?
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Remember the crash of the Egypt Airliner? The co-pilot transcript as he was crashing the plane into the sea? My Arab friends kept saying the translation was completely inaccurate. That those exact same words would be said for a completely different meaning. You do remember that the US government finally admitted to some translation error - how long ago?
They also tell me the Koran is not properly represented in English. Another from Tunisia was just recently complained how an English translation had completely distorted the Arab intent. She said she did not even recognize the English version.
Now I don't understand this distortion in translation. I take their word for what they tell me because so many Arab friends (who don't even know one another) have told me the same thing. The actual meaning of the Koran is often distorted when not in Arabic. This from someone whose Arab is limited to words such as Shocrum. This is from someone who has no Arab friends?
BTW, I sometimes read some advanced math books. Who most often asks questions about all that messy math? Rarely the traditional Americans. Often those Arab friends get curious because they also took that math in Egypt or Morroco. Makes we wonder who in America really has enough technical knowledge to innovate.
But then I don't have Arab friends?
Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood was not described as an invented enemy. Curiously, the Muslim Brotherhood is also a topic that my Arab friends seem to avoid discussing. Found it curious why they tend to avoid the topic.