In article <seektruth-D142D4.13584717052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
seektruth <seektruth@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Who is Phi Shlama Islama Obama anyway?
>
>
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-mccain17-2008may17,0,4987662.s
> tory
>
> From an article in the LA Times -
>
> Obama said he disagreed with the NRA. "Their basic position is that any
> law related to gun owner****p is a potential camel's nose under the tent
> and that if we allow even the smallest concession that somehow guns will
> be taken away from everybody.
>
> "If you subscribe to that view then you are not going to agree with me.
> On the other hand, if you are a gun owner here in South Dakota who uses
> your gun to hunt or to protect your family and does so in a lawful way,
> then you have nothing to worry about from me."
>
> A "potential camel's nose under the tent?" This is definitely not an
> American or European expression. Where would this phrase be one found
> as an idiom or colloquialism of local origin? Mainly Africa & the
> Middle East - where camels are found in great number and where Islam is
> the dominant religion.
Obama lived in Indonesia between the ages of about six and ten.
Indonesia is majority Muslim, but isn't actually part of the Middle
East, isn't Arab, and doesn't have camels.
For three of the four years Obama was in Indonesia, he attended a
Catholic school. The fourth year his family moved, and he attended a
local government-run public school. There's no reason to believe Obama
ever learned Arabic, as his cl***** would have been in Bahasa, the
official (and most widely spoken) language in Indonesia.
A bit of research shows this phrase you're discussing entered the
English language in the 19th century. A Google search shows it being
fairly widely used, by people with no connection to the Middle East or
Africa. There are even a couple of instances of Republican lawmakers
using it.
You people should be ashamed of yourselves.
--
"More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War
coming
out any other way."
--George W. Bush in Martinsburg, W. Va., July 4,
2007
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