re: #3 Charles Johnson

You’re missing the centerpiece of their whining. Overall, it’s an intolerance of the Arabic language, but their major complaint is that “God” was replaced by “Allah” in the pledge, which is equally, if not more stupid since that is the Arabic word for god. It’s like how they get all worked up about evil “madrasas”, when that’s just the word for school.

Many of them do not seem to know that Arabic doesn’t mean Muslim. My former Arabic teacher was a Christian woman from Syria, and in her native language, she would have used “Allah” to talk about Jesus business.