The Pledge of Allegiance in 10 Languages

[DinahMoeHum]

The reciters are all from Orange County, NY, which includes the town of Pine Bush. The high school in Pine Bush made the news this week after some pseudo patriots raised a hissy fit when a student recited the pledge in Arabic:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026389521

More here from the producer of the video:
http://wamc.org/post/orange-county-resident-responds-arabic-pledge-controversy-video

[guillaumeb]

1. I am outraged

pourquoi pas en francais?
Le francais est pas legitime?
c'est un outrage

[zebonaut]

2. Warning: multiple different languages are far too complex for the simple conservative mind

Proceed with Caution




il faut etre prudent....

[Fritz Walter]

3. Nicht auf Deutsch?

Ikke på Dansk?

[BaldHippie]

4. I cannot wait till Fox Picks this up

Great the election has not even started and we are already on our way to loosing it. My grand parents had to learn English or is America to become a Yugoslavia?

By the way how is the Mayan language doing in Mexico these days? Remember when we used to call ourselves "liberals"? That term has now been so associated with masochistic self hate of America that we now call ourselves "Progressives". God I can just see FoxNews.

[DinahMoeHum]

6. Yeah, let's hope they choke when they see this.

[Douglas Carpenter]

5. Now EXACTLY what was the problem here? An American-Arab expressed loyalty to the United States of

America - and that is bad?

[Octoberfurst]

7. In their minds it is.

They pledged their allegiance in Arabic which we all know is the language of terrorists. They needed to speak it in Murican! Ya know--inglash or else it doesn't count. Damn heathens.