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Title: Very Jake News: Tapper Melts Down over Criticism of Inaccurate ‘Allahu Akbar’ Comments
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-journa ... icism-inaccurate-allahu-akbar/
Published: Nov 2, 2017
Author: John Nolte
Post Date: 2017-11-02 14:54:21 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 3542
Comments: 26
In the immediate aftermath of Tuesday’s terror attack, the worst in New York City since September 11, 2001, for some bizarre reason, Tapper felt the self-righteous need to say this: “The Arabic chant, Allahu Akbar, God is great, sometimes said under the most beautiful of circumstances, and too often we hear it being said in moments like this.” Let us begin with the misleading part. “Allahu Akbar” does not mean “God is great.” It means, “Allah is greater.” The left-wing CNN also misinterpreted this in a chyron. And the difference is all the difference. As Breitbart News has reported, “Allahu Akbar” is the “aggressive declaration that Allah and Islam are dominant over every other form of government, religion, law or ethic, which is why Islamic jihadists in the midst of killing infidels so often shout it.” In other words, “Allahu Akbar” is not some benign chant declaring “God is great.” Rather, it is a belligerent cry of religious and cultural supremacism. But on top of misleading his viewers, there is the jaw-dropping inappropriateness of Tapper’s imperious reminder that “Allahu Akbar” is “sometimes said under the most beautiful of circumstances.” As Cheryl K. Chumley of the Washington Times accurately points out, “so was Heil Hitler” said at weddings, funerals, family reunions, and children’s birthday parties. But who thinks offering that kind of context is anything but unseemly? So not only were Tapper’s comments tasteless and inaccurate, to deflect from the deserved criticism, he decided to portray himself as the victim of the eeeeevil right-wing media. Using one of his transparent semantic arguments, Tapper publicly freaked out and launched a hysterical Twitter crusade declaring his critics a liar, including those who quoted him directly, like Sean Hannity, who did nothing more than broadcast video of the segment in question: Another lie, this time from the Washington Times' @ckchumley, claiming i said something i never said. Just a blatant lie. https://t.co/9hHDkLaWnv — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 2, 2017 There was a time when one could tell the difference between Fox and the nutjobs at Infowars. It’s getting tougher and tougher. Lies are lies https://t.co/stYjntoJUq — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 2, 2017 Here's where the lie started, with @NGivasDC at @DailyCaller who isn't familiar with how an adjective modifies a noun. https://t.co/I3nA89wj4N — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 2, 2017 .@NGivasDC — the adjective "beautiful" modified the noun "circumstances." Not the Arabic prayer. Not sure if you're dim or purposely lying — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 2, 2017 Hannity lying now. The @FoxNews tweet I was referring to has been deleted because it was false. https://t.co/WPQtgzNGuU — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 2, 2017 And, no surprise, @SebGorka lies as well, claiming i said Allahu Akbar was a "beautiful phrase." Never said it, Sebastian. Blatant lie. https://t.co/Q183XgwXOC — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 2, 2017 Things only got more entertaining from there as the meltdown spread like an STD through those mindless minions forever begging for crumbs from #JakeSoWoke, and they formed a Borg Army of the Dishonest: This is an insane Fox News hit piece on @jaketapper that plays at people's ignorance pic.twitter.com/qVqcCNsNe2 — andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) November 1, 2017 Fox News should unequivocally apologize to @jaketapper for this bullshit https://t.co/yIWzYSCvPK — Sam Stein (@samstein) November 2, 2017 Straighten up, @FoxNews. https://t.co/6xAy7LVDLL — Kevin D. Williamson (@KevinNR) November 2, 2017 I stand with Jake. He is exactly right. In my random sample of people in TX: 98% trust Jake, 1% trust Fox News, 1% said go astros! — Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) November 2, 2017 This is an unacceptable & baseless mischaracterization of my colleague @jaketapper’s factual comment. #FactsFirst https://t.co/6fyNdxa3FP — Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) November 1, 2017 The King of Fake News did not achieve that moniker by accident. As has been detailed here, Tapper’s outrageously dishonest semantic arguments (e.g. I did not say Allahu Akbar is “beautiful”; I said it is said during the “most beautiful of circumstances”) are the failing, left-wing anchor’s stock-in-trade when it comes to spreading fake news. Among other things, Tapper has hid behind the slippery shield of semantics to continue to spread the debunked lie that President Trump mocked a reporter’s disability, to pretend Trump did not disavow David Duke, and to mislead his viewers into believing Trump failed to express condolences after a terrible attack on a mosque in Canada. But this is not the first time Tapper has publicly lost his poise. This video from election night 2016, pretty much says it all: 
CNN’s Jake Tapper, who is already dealing with humiliating ratings and a reputation implosion, decided to put on a public spectacle Wednesday over the criticism of his blatantly inappropriate and misleading comments surrounding the Islamic cry of “Allahu Akbar.”
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#2. To: cranky (#0)
Tapper’s a tool, but “Allahu Akbar!” In Arabic does mead “God is great.”
I don't speak or read Arabic but according to the Brit rags the 'akbar' in 'Allahu Akbar' is a comparative adjective that translates to 'greater' while 'Allah' translates to 'Allah' (which is not a synonym for a deity or a generic 'god') and is commonly uttered when slaughtering infidels as way of explanation for the assault. Apparently, it's very nuanced and some people just don't get it.
Alllah is the Arabic version of the collection of words in Hebrew that are simply translated as "god" in Englisn (El, Eloah, Elohiym, Elohey). Arabs were Christian for hundreds of years before Islam, and Arab Christians have always called God "Allah". The Aramaic word for God is Alah, so when Jesus was speaking Aramaic, he was calling God 'Alah".
That's not what I have been taught. To a muslim, Allah is not a generic noun for a 'god'. It is a the word for the only god. You believe what you want. I believe what Dr Richard Christian taught his students.
Wikipedia: "The Peshitta is the standard version of the Bible for churches in the Syriac tradition. The consensus within biblical scholarship, though not universal, is that the Old Testament of the Peshitta was translated into Syriac from Hebrew, probably in the 2nd century AD, and that the New Testament of the Peshitta was translated from the Greek." These are the first two lines of the Peshitta Aramaic Gospel of John which predates Islam by 600 years: 1. Brsyt aytwhy hwa mlta whw mlta aytwhy hwa lwt ALAH w ALAH aytwhy hwa hw mtla 2. hna aytwhy hwa bysrt lwt ALAH In English, these words are 1."In the beginning was the Miltha (the Word), and that Word was with ALAH (God), and ALAH (God) was that Word." 2. "This was in the beginning with ALAH (God)." So, Aramaic speaking Christians (and pre-Christians) were using the word "Alah" to mean "god", generically, a half-millennia before Mohammed thought up Islam. Now, it is true that Muslims would like to appropriate that word as their own and make it mean precisely what THEY say it means. There is no reason to let them. If you go into an Arabic-speaking Christian Church, you will be calling God Allah, just like all of the rest of the Christians there do, and have been doing for 2000 years. No reason to let Muslims take over the language.
What's your opinion on their belief that everyone should 'submit (to Allah) or die'?
Let me put it a little differently. I don't believe in killing people. I don't think that anybody belief system about anything - religion, government, politics, anything at all, justifies them picking up a weapon and killing other people who do not agree, to force them to submit. I think that when anybody threatens my life because of what he believes - and I do not care what the belief is - I think my life is more important than ANYBODY's belief system about ANYTHING, and there are no exceptions in my mind to that. I have firm beliefs, and I do not seek to kill people who disagree. Live and let live, that is what I say. And I say that everybody has to play in the sandbox of this big old world the same way. But I also say that once somebody crosses the line - I do not care what their motivation is - that I want them killed. I want them dead. I want to kill them. Rabid dogs get put down, and people who are willing to kill me over their cause are all rabid dogs (whatever the cause) and I want to kill every one of them. Now, the even greater truth is: I DON'T actually want to kill them. What I want to do is to surprise them with my superior force, to turn the tables on them, to put them on THEIR knees, as they dreamed of putting me on mine, and putting the gun in THEIR mouth, and making THEM make the same decision they intended to make ME have to make. So, I must submit to your God or die? Well, now you will denounce your God and blaspheme him in the most vulgar terms, or I will kill you. Like that? There is a parallelism in my view of things. Once you start killing other people to assert your power and improve your standing, you have given me the right to kill you, in my mind, to pull you back down. You don't have the right to kill me, you don't have the right to kill my neighbor either, and I, not you, get to decide who my neighbor is. In other words, LEAVE ME ALONE or I believe that I have the right to kill you. The Muslims have declared war on my God, on my culture, and on me. On more than one occasion they have tried to kill me. I was in the Middle East on two tours of military duty - but that was business. I worked at Ground Zero. Muslims nearly killed me that day, and they DID kill my associates. They killed a classmate in the Pentagon. They declared war in the name of their ridiculous God. My reaction was to want to declare war in response, and that the war be total - including the use of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons to EITHER force them to renounce their religion the way we forced the Japanese Emperor to publicly broadcast that he was not a God, or if, they want to die for their religion rather than renounced that, to oblige them by killing them all. I have the same view of those who practice slavery, for the same reason. You have no right to enslave my neighbor. Since you have, I want you dead. And I have the right to hunt you down, take all you have, chain you like a slave, and whip you to death. Simple, sane, just - in my mind. Of course the way to not provoke the Viking berserker and Gaulish screamer in me, to curb my bloodlust, and my desire to see enemies DEAD, is to not become an enemy. Don't break the peace by physically attacking me OR my neighbor, and I'll play in the sandbox with you all day long even if I disagree with you, dislike you, think you're wrong, think your religion or politics or laws are ridiculous. Pull out a gun, though, and I want you dead. You broke the peace. You die.
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#5. To: Vicomte13 (#2)
but “Allahu Akbar!” In Arabic does mead “God is great.”
#17. To: cranky (#5)
#18. To: Vicomte13 (#17)
Alllah is the Arabic version of the collection of words in Hebrew that are simply translated as "god" in Englisn (El, Eloah, Elohiym, Elohey).
#22. To: cranky (#18)
#23. To: Vicomte13 (#22)
No reason to let Muslims take over the language.
#26. To: tpaine (#23)
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