Now We Can Read Arabic

Just as I predicted, Arabic script is now presented to us without the English translation.

Here is a photo of a halal sign I took on the window of a kabab shop on the busy Yonge street. This is no "ethnic" restaurant. This is your regular fast food pita-with-fillings shop. I suspect the writing is exclusive to Muslims, but I just think it is part of the gradual indoctrination for non-Muslims and non-Arabs to recognize Arabic words and script.

What are they preparing us for? To read the Koran? I said it here first!

Arabic Text on Newsweek

Arabic text on Newsweek, with fine print in English.
Also, notice the Islamic green as a background

Creeping Sharia has a post on how mainstream print magazines such as TIME and Newsweek, as well as newspapers such as the New York Times introduced Islam-friendly stories almost at the same time this month. He calls these simultaneous publications an orchestration, but I would say they were more of a coincidence. Still, the more Muslim-friendly publications there are, the more these coincidences will occur, perhaps turning innocent simultaneity into the planned orchestration CS talks about.

What was unique about CS's post was how these publications also used images to support their stories. One of my points in this blog is that images are subtly being changed or added to create a Muslim-friendly world. People don't have time (or often the desire) to read long articles about Jihad, Islam, the Koran or Mohamed. They are far more likely to respond quickly and viscerally to images. That is after all one of the ways propaganda (and advertisements) work.

As I've shown throughout this blog, Muslims are becoming quite adept at changing the imagery in our landscape - from TV shows to magazines, and even in clever ways to accepting Arabic script (as in the Arabic script for halal which we can - or will - slowly recognize without reading Arabic.)

Now Newsweek has on its front page the Islamic green as the background to Arabic text (with a finer print, supposedly its translation in English.) Like the halal script, we are cleverly being introduced to Arabic, and eventually, we will surely begin to visually recognize (without actually reading them) prominent words like Jihad, Allah, Islam and Mohamed.

I wonder when "green" will no longer mean Irish, but Islam instead?

Start small, and get bigger

By now, most of us would have become used to the "halal" signs which periodically spring up in shops we would not normally enter. After all, shop owners have the right to sell what they want, as long as it is legal. Although talking about legality, it was in one of those kinds of shops where Somalis were (are?) illegally selling their drug, khat, in various Toronto locations.

And as always with Muslims' presence, it gets bigger and more aggressive. They flex their muscles to see how far they can really go, withdraw slightly until they can spring back again.

Halal signs from small, privately owned ethnic stores, to signs of halal "certification", to billboards for fast food chains on highways. Then, take over the whole world, of course.

How ever did we get here?

So audacious have halal-proponents in fast food restaurants become that in two McDonald's restaurants in Australia, there were non-Muslim customers who were unaware that they were eating halal food.

Here's a quote from the story:

A Catholic Church spokesman said non-Muslims deserved to know if the food was halal before buying. But he said there was no biblical reason for Christians to avoid halal food.

Just how the Muslims like it. Plenty of koranic reasons not to eat non-halal meat, but we Catholics et al. will be happy to oblige our dear Muslim folk.



And we wouldn't even see anything unusual about huge billboards like this in Dearborn, Michigan. Another KFC? Well, let's just have some, the meat is even blessed. But first, start with the less conspicuous halal Subway sign on a wall in a food court (this time in Sidney, Australia), then you can supersize.

And by the way, the Arabic script in the Subway sign? That spells out "halal". That, and other words, will soon be part of our "vocabulary".

More wings, and authenticated halal fast food--including pizza--available in 150 restaurants in downtown Toronto.

Halal Italian Restaurant

Menu for Kara Mia Halal script in Arabic at top right hand corner of menu

The Toronto Star describes Kara Mia as a “Modern Italian Eatery [that] observes Muslim diet laws.”

While Kara Mia publicly announces its entry into modern Italian cuisine, what it is surreptitiously doing is introducing yet another Islamic element into the ordinary Toronto landscape.

Nowhere in their website is anything Muslim explicitly discussed. Except on the menu. A clear Arabic script for Halal is present on the top right hand corner of the menu. Nothing in English, as by now we have been visually trained to recognize this script.

I wonder who their clientele is? I am sure, though, with the mult-culti spirit of Torontonians, many will enter this restaurant as a matter of course.

One other thing. There are also no alcoholic beverages, of course. So, what is an Italian meal without a Chianti?