As Axios reports, “A Florida activist is fundraising to donate Arabic ‘In God We Trust’ signs to Texas schools after a state law was enacted to require signs with the U.S. motto in public schools. … Critics have called the statute, which mandates that schools display the signs in a ‘conspicuous place’ if they are donated, an attempt to reinforce Christian nationalist values across the state. … The signs must ‘contain a representation of the United States flag centered under the national motto and a representation of the state flag.’ No other words, images or information are allowed. … He says he plans to flood Texas schools with ‘hundreds’ of donations of Arabic-language ‘In God We Trust’ posters.” I hate all religions, but I love this idea!
Look, f***tards! This is how you beat RepubliKKKlans at their own game. Unmistakably, when Texas wrote and implemented this white Christian Nationalist rendition of Sharia law, they only intended to have English versions of “In God We Trust” displayed, but they could not very well explicitly write that into the law because it would be discriminatory. Yet, the implication and the wink-and-nod understanding was manifest. Now, it looks like someone is calling them out on it. So, what is Texas to do? Naturally, there is not a snowball’s chance in hell that any Arabic sign proclaiming “In God We Trust” will be posted in the great state of Texas because you know: Arab’s God of Abraham is different from Christian’s God of Abraham. If Chaz Stevens, who is organizing the GoFundMe campaign, is serious about his advocacy, then he should be willing to sue to get his signs posted. Only through a lawsuit will we become fully aware of the state’s intentions, which is to promote white Christian Nationalism. I would love to see such a lawsuit come to fruition and, ultimately, come before SCOTUS, whose collective right-wing cabal’s head would explode trying to justify discriminating against Arabs and, by implication, Islam. But fear not, for SCOTUS has it covered with their newly created “traditions and history” test, which obviously does not protect Islam or Arabs. Welcome to stupid America. Eventually, the nation will show its true colors: Pure white!