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dzheremi
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Whether or not you take me seriously is entirely up to you as an exercise of your free will, so there’s no need to apologize. I am making the statements that I have made and asking the questions that I have asked because I honestly do not understand the Muslim mentality regarding this issue, and language is a bit of a passion of mine as it is what I have chosen to dedicate my life to. If you can’t or don’t want to provide your perspective, fine. I will still wonder publically here, because this seems an appropriate thread to do it in, and because this board is blessed with several native speakers whose positions regarding this issue might illuminate things for me. I don’t have a problem with Muslims of all races keeping Arabic as a liturgical language and language of in-group identification, but when it spills over into fetishization on an English-speaking messageboard like this one or out among non-Muslims in a non-Arabic speaking country, then I don’t understand it and find it weird. 