What's in a name?

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I'm sure many of you have been following the Middle East news reports these past few weeks. Crazy, isn't it? Or is it crazy to us just because we don't understand?

As a case in point, I've noticed 3 different ways the news have spelled Libya's leader's last name. And, it was not due to what news station I was watching. Each of them - CNN, Fox, or MSNBC, at one time or another spelled it either "Gadafi" or "Kadaffi" or "Qaddafi."

So, what's the difficulty in translating his name? Well, I'll tell you. He is a Muslim and has a Muslim name. His name, like all of the Muslim culture, can not be translated to English because it just doesn't follow the norm of our western society, and is incomprehensible to us. A "u" must follow a "q" and a "dh" combination doesn't exist in our English library.

We no more understand how to spell his name than we understand the Muslim way of life. And, quite frankly, I don't want to. Islam breeds hatred for all infidels (non-Muslims), which we can not understand. And such is the entire way of the Islamic life.

And to them, loving others, freedom, democracy, fairness, and all the other ways of our culture, makes no more sense to them as their ways make to us. And that is not likely to change - ever.

For so it has been - so it will always be. We'll never get a true democracy to any country with an Islamic way of life. So, let's cut our losses, get out of Iraq and Iran, quit encouraging revolutions across Africa and the Middle East, and focus our lives at those that have morals and such!
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So, what's your name now?
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