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Anonymous ID: 6c64ba Feb. 14, 2019, 4:16 p.m. No.5177388   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7419 >>7792

>>5177294

Oh, sure, shill. Here you go.

 

By substituting the word “God” for Allah, the translators are assuming that Allah is on an equivalent footing with other gods. But radicals who shout “Allahu Akbar” are referring specifically to Allah as the supreme being, not to be equated with Jesus or Jehovah or Krishna or anybody else’s god. As Islam scholar Abbas Nadari says “So even though it means God, it means that particular God and not any God.” Thus, a translation of Allahu Akbar to God is Great strips the phrase of its unique applicability to Allah and Allah alone.

 

A more accurate interpretation than God is Great would be Allah is great, retaining the name of the god the jihadist is, in fact, referring to. But this still would not be exactly right, because akbar means greater or greatest, not merely great. To get even closer to a correct translation of Allahu Akbar, the journalist would need to say Allah is greater, meaning greater than your god, your government, or anything else in the world.

 

Yigal Carmon, citing a report written in 2016 by The Middle East Research Institute (MEMRI), says “It is worth noting that Allahu kbar is uttered by both Sunni jihadis and the Shi’ite leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran in every major sermon delivered by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the crowd, comprising thousands and sometimes tens of thousands, chants “Allahu akbar” together with “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” The MEMRI analysis goes on to point out that the term Allahu akbar embodies the fight for the supremacy of Islam, Allah and the true believers. “It is the battle cry and the anthem of this fight for supremacy.”

 

https://medium.com/@bknicholson/why-the-media-translation-of-allahu-akbar-is-misleading-1030df74619f