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Bag On Berlin Metro: ‘This Text Has No Other Purpose Than To Terrify Those Who’re Afraid Of The Arabic Language’
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Bag On Berlin Metro: ‘This Text Has No Other Purpose Than To Terrify Those Who’re Afraid Of The Arabic Language’

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Just recently, journalist Nader Al-Sarras was riding the metro in Berlin, when he spotted this bag designed by Rock Paper Scissors. It reads: “This text has no other purpose than to terrify those who are afraid of the Arabic language”. Genius, huh? Nader thought so too, so he took a picture and posted it to Facebook. It has gone viral since, with over 35k likes and 15k shares.

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Simone Fjellø Mortensen
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Consindering what gernany has been though recently, I find this inappropriated. But thats just me.

fossakitty
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Considering what Germany did in the past, I find German inappropriate anywhere - but that's just me being facetious because what you said is incredibly ignorant.

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Maciek Ravs
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why they would need to learn foreign language in their own country.. I think it should work rather in opposite direction.

Daria B
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it should be reciprocate. Anyway, I was not suggesting to change cultures and adapt entirely to the refugees. Neither was I suggesting an "Arabification" of Germaany. I was simply suggesting using education as means of fighting back and knowing whom to fight amd whom you're fighting. Just this.

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Vanessa
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some guy using the fear of terrorist/islamist to sell bags... yes but no.

Notchimine Mette
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The whole point of the bag is that being afraid of language is just dumb. Being afraid of people because of their religion is even dumber. Rather be afraid of the crazy people - they are the terrorists and and their language and/or belief is actually of no consequence, just something they hide behind to validate their own pathetic view of what they think the world should be like.

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Miklós Nagy
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"My hobby is scaring the s**t out from people who accepted me."

Amber Ridgdill
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If they've accepted them... why would they be afraid of their language? Can't be both.

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Arty
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why would people need to be afraid about a arabic text? Are you afraid of chinese characters tatoo?...This is called irony, if you don't catch the joke I believe all hopes are lost...

Imagine That
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

so...... how exactly does this help the current situation? it it no way educates or improves. For those that don't read Arabic (which are most people)~ it's USELESS. Wouldn't it be better/ more entertaining if there was a "transalation" after the Arabic text?

Notchimine Mette
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Scan with an app and translate... The point is to "be afraid", until you find out what it means and then hopefully you will realise how stupid your fear was in the first place...

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riti
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haha I find this sarcastic and hilarious. English-speaking people make massmurders too you know but nobody is afraid of english writing.. So you should stop being afraid of arabic because that doesn't equal terrorist. And the bag is a great reminder about it.

Cervantes01
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

no it's not it's just being provocative in order to sell bags to SJW's. The left is being exploited by capitalists that want to make a quick buck out of their principles, remember all of those Che Guevara T-shirts?

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Layla Al Saady
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you have a few Christian criminals, are you gonna say that all Christians are criminals? No, ofcourse not. Islamofobia NEEDS to stop.

Tibi
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How is it islamophobia when you fear the actual terrorism? Islamophobia needs to stop? How about terrorism needs to stop? If in your neighborhood 90% of crimes (assault, rape, murder, etc) is done by dudes that wear hoodies, isn't it obvious that people will pretty much fear and avoid dudes with hoods? Another example. If a town of 100k people with no religion (or other than christian to take your example) had only small non-violent crimes in the last 10+ years accepts 1000 people that are christian (accepts them without any fear and out of compassion) and then the crime rate exceeds any records (with brutal stabbings, murder, explosions and rape against the locals) don't you think it's kinda normal to start fearing and avoiding them? That right there is not islamophobia, it's simply fear of dying and spirit of conservation.

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Notchimine Mette
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well said - but most people can't be bothered to use Google Translate, so it's just me and you... :) BTW - I am not Arab... xx

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Nathalie Hidalgo
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's the point? To continue to keep everyone separate? But I don't see how this bag's text would make anyone fearful anyway.

David Gross
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He should make a bag with Arabic on one side and Hebrew on the other.

Arlene Halibian
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think this is absolute genius and i snagged me not just one bag but 2!

Zal Slowix
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

fear of credible threat isn't irrational. A substantial number of arabic speakers are violence-inclined against the west.

Layla Al Saady
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you say they are terrorists, that means that you associate Christians with the KKK, say black people are criminals, and germans hate Jews

Alexander Schikora
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So running around calling Allahu Akbar is pretty funny too huh? I mean just those afraid of the arabic language might get a scare, will they... -.-

Layla Al Saady
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Arabic is just as irrelevant with terrorism as clothes are. If a criminal would be wearing a forever 21 hoodie, will you blame forever 21 ?

Adrienne LaCava
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Um, beg pardon, but I am NOT afraid of the Arabic language, however I am afraid of radicals and their baggage. This ploy is designed to stir up more hatred IMO, point fingers because Arabs aren't trusted in the civilized west (and they wonder why). Shame on the perpetrator.

jevais
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I meant ,pretty good on wiping out the buffaloes.

jevais
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

By the way the English were pretty go on wiping out the buffaloes, so that American Indians would have no more food. The nice white people also handed out blankets infected with all sorts of diseases to the natives. Parked them in camps, with very poor soil, little water and stole all their land. By the way the American natives still live on reserves since their land has been stolen. White humans are the ultimate in wiping out populations when they want the land, petrol, or what ever. Iraq, Viet Nam, Afghanistan, well just can't name all what we have done to others. Sad long list of hate and war done on to others.

jevais
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stupid, just stupid. Afraid of a language, no, of people's acts, yes.

Samuel Jay Brown
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wouldn't trying to make people scared makes things worse for you kind of perpetuating stereotypes?

First Spear
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the 60s Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) wrote, "I'm gonna get me a gun, and scare the s**t out of everyone." Who knew he only needed a bag. Of course, the bag wouldn't be scary if the murderous scum didn't do what they do. No one's scared of a bag that says Tesco or Aldi - yet. Not funny at all, not ironic or positively sarcastic either, and proves only that the designer has not experienced or witnessed, or gives a s**t about, the horrific, bloody, mutilating experience of a bomb. Idiot. Oh, and while I'm at it: the Allies were not at war with Germany, they were at war with Nazism. And, the Danish sailed to the shores of Great Britain and slaughtered men, women, and children. Grow up.

Yvonne Bernal
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You intentionally try to stir up public reaction... then wonder why people are distraught after you get the reaction you WERENT looking for. It's called "stirring the pot".

Wayne Beesley
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Usual Islamic disrespect for the people that have invited them into their home .... Beyond sick of them

Amy Force
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

got news for ya ... it's not the "language" they are AFRAID OF!!

Hans
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a bit childish...and it will not change stereotypes or even xenophobia for good.

Hans
Community Member
8 years ago

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For those who downvote me: wittyness needs but be comprehensible for those that you think behave wrongly.

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Georgia Stergiadis
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, I do believe that the company who made these bags were in the wrong in producing them. It instills fear into the minds of people, who believe that Muslims are all Terrorists, which is most certainly not true at all.

Arty
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

so if it's not true, why fear them? (by the way, speaking arabic and been muslim is two different things, but let's not make things even more difficult for close minded people...). Yes that may be bad taste but at least it highlight the problem (included in my first question)

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Victoria Swift
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8 years ago

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I'm sure the ten children's families who died in Nice over the summer thinks this is just hilarious!......oh wait.....

Anna Salerno
Community Member
8 years ago

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Genius? This is one of the most pathetic idiotic pranks a person, who is not mentally unstable, could pull. Ask a family of someone who has been kidnapped, raped, set on fire alive, beheaded or killed by a muslim pig!! Of course the GERMANS, who still think they are the superior race, have a sick sense of right, wrong or inappropriate ask any Jew!

Notchimine Mette
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So you will hate all Arabic speaking people because a few crazy people are Arabic?

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Daria B
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8 years ago

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Well we tend to be afraid of what we don't know, so.... Maybe a massive learning of Arabic can contribute to society's self defence against terrorism.

Simone Fjellø Mortensen
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Consindering what gernany has been though recently, I find this inappropriated. But thats just me.

fossakitty
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Considering what Germany did in the past, I find German inappropriate anywhere - but that's just me being facetious because what you said is incredibly ignorant.

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Maciek Ravs
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why they would need to learn foreign language in their own country.. I think it should work rather in opposite direction.

Daria B
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it should be reciprocate. Anyway, I was not suggesting to change cultures and adapt entirely to the refugees. Neither was I suggesting an "Arabification" of Germaany. I was simply suggesting using education as means of fighting back and knowing whom to fight amd whom you're fighting. Just this.

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Vanessa
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some guy using the fear of terrorist/islamist to sell bags... yes but no.

Notchimine Mette
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The whole point of the bag is that being afraid of language is just dumb. Being afraid of people because of their religion is even dumber. Rather be afraid of the crazy people - they are the terrorists and and their language and/or belief is actually of no consequence, just something they hide behind to validate their own pathetic view of what they think the world should be like.

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Miklós Nagy
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"My hobby is scaring the s**t out from people who accepted me."

Amber Ridgdill
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If they've accepted them... why would they be afraid of their language? Can't be both.

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Arty
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why would people need to be afraid about a arabic text? Are you afraid of chinese characters tatoo?...This is called irony, if you don't catch the joke I believe all hopes are lost...

Imagine That
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

so...... how exactly does this help the current situation? it it no way educates or improves. For those that don't read Arabic (which are most people)~ it's USELESS. Wouldn't it be better/ more entertaining if there was a "transalation" after the Arabic text?

Notchimine Mette
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Scan with an app and translate... The point is to "be afraid", until you find out what it means and then hopefully you will realise how stupid your fear was in the first place...

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riti
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haha I find this sarcastic and hilarious. English-speaking people make massmurders too you know but nobody is afraid of english writing.. So you should stop being afraid of arabic because that doesn't equal terrorist. And the bag is a great reminder about it.

Cervantes01
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

no it's not it's just being provocative in order to sell bags to SJW's. The left is being exploited by capitalists that want to make a quick buck out of their principles, remember all of those Che Guevara T-shirts?

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Layla Al Saady
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you have a few Christian criminals, are you gonna say that all Christians are criminals? No, ofcourse not. Islamofobia NEEDS to stop.

Tibi
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How is it islamophobia when you fear the actual terrorism? Islamophobia needs to stop? How about terrorism needs to stop? If in your neighborhood 90% of crimes (assault, rape, murder, etc) is done by dudes that wear hoodies, isn't it obvious that people will pretty much fear and avoid dudes with hoods? Another example. If a town of 100k people with no religion (or other than christian to take your example) had only small non-violent crimes in the last 10+ years accepts 1000 people that are christian (accepts them without any fear and out of compassion) and then the crime rate exceeds any records (with brutal stabbings, murder, explosions and rape against the locals) don't you think it's kinda normal to start fearing and avoiding them? That right there is not islamophobia, it's simply fear of dying and spirit of conservation.

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Notchimine Mette
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well said - but most people can't be bothered to use Google Translate, so it's just me and you... :) BTW - I am not Arab... xx

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Nathalie Hidalgo
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's the point? To continue to keep everyone separate? But I don't see how this bag's text would make anyone fearful anyway.

David Gross
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He should make a bag with Arabic on one side and Hebrew on the other.

Arlene Halibian
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think this is absolute genius and i snagged me not just one bag but 2!

Zal Slowix
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

fear of credible threat isn't irrational. A substantial number of arabic speakers are violence-inclined against the west.

Layla Al Saady
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you say they are terrorists, that means that you associate Christians with the KKK, say black people are criminals, and germans hate Jews

Alexander Schikora
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So running around calling Allahu Akbar is pretty funny too huh? I mean just those afraid of the arabic language might get a scare, will they... -.-

Layla Al Saady
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Arabic is just as irrelevant with terrorism as clothes are. If a criminal would be wearing a forever 21 hoodie, will you blame forever 21 ?

Adrienne LaCava
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Um, beg pardon, but I am NOT afraid of the Arabic language, however I am afraid of radicals and their baggage. This ploy is designed to stir up more hatred IMO, point fingers because Arabs aren't trusted in the civilized west (and they wonder why). Shame on the perpetrator.

jevais
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I meant ,pretty good on wiping out the buffaloes.

jevais
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

By the way the English were pretty go on wiping out the buffaloes, so that American Indians would have no more food. The nice white people also handed out blankets infected with all sorts of diseases to the natives. Parked them in camps, with very poor soil, little water and stole all their land. By the way the American natives still live on reserves since their land has been stolen. White humans are the ultimate in wiping out populations when they want the land, petrol, or what ever. Iraq, Viet Nam, Afghanistan, well just can't name all what we have done to others. Sad long list of hate and war done on to others.

jevais
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stupid, just stupid. Afraid of a language, no, of people's acts, yes.

Samuel Jay Brown
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wouldn't trying to make people scared makes things worse for you kind of perpetuating stereotypes?

First Spear
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the 60s Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) wrote, "I'm gonna get me a gun, and scare the s**t out of everyone." Who knew he only needed a bag. Of course, the bag wouldn't be scary if the murderous scum didn't do what they do. No one's scared of a bag that says Tesco or Aldi - yet. Not funny at all, not ironic or positively sarcastic either, and proves only that the designer has not experienced or witnessed, or gives a s**t about, the horrific, bloody, mutilating experience of a bomb. Idiot. Oh, and while I'm at it: the Allies were not at war with Germany, they were at war with Nazism. And, the Danish sailed to the shores of Great Britain and slaughtered men, women, and children. Grow up.

Yvonne Bernal
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You intentionally try to stir up public reaction... then wonder why people are distraught after you get the reaction you WERENT looking for. It's called "stirring the pot".

Wayne Beesley
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Usual Islamic disrespect for the people that have invited them into their home .... Beyond sick of them

Amy Force
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

got news for ya ... it's not the "language" they are AFRAID OF!!

Hans
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a bit childish...and it will not change stereotypes or even xenophobia for good.

Hans
Community Member
8 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

For those who downvote me: wittyness needs but be comprehensible for those that you think behave wrongly.

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Georgia Stergiadis
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, I do believe that the company who made these bags were in the wrong in producing them. It instills fear into the minds of people, who believe that Muslims are all Terrorists, which is most certainly not true at all.

Arty
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

so if it's not true, why fear them? (by the way, speaking arabic and been muslim is two different things, but let's not make things even more difficult for close minded people...). Yes that may be bad taste but at least it highlight the problem (included in my first question)

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Victoria Swift
Community Member
8 years ago

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I'm sure the ten children's families who died in Nice over the summer thinks this is just hilarious!......oh wait.....

Anna Salerno
Community Member
8 years ago

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Genius? This is one of the most pathetic idiotic pranks a person, who is not mentally unstable, could pull. Ask a family of someone who has been kidnapped, raped, set on fire alive, beheaded or killed by a muslim pig!! Of course the GERMANS, who still think they are the superior race, have a sick sense of right, wrong or inappropriate ask any Jew!

Notchimine Mette
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So you will hate all Arabic speaking people because a few crazy people are Arabic?

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Daria B
Community Member
8 years ago

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Well we tend to be afraid of what we don't know, so.... Maybe a massive learning of Arabic can contribute to society's self defence against terrorism.

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