Saudi Columnist Urges Saudis To Speak Arabic, Not English, For Fear Of ‘Subjugation’
by Deborah Danan4 Mar 201732
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TEL AVIV – Writing in an English-language Saudi daily, columnist Ibrahim Badawood called on his compatriots to curb the growing trend of communicating with each other in English rather than their native Arabic, warning that failing to do so would lead to a loss of Saudi identity and “subjugation” by “our enemies.”
In the article “Talk to Me in Arabic,” published in the Saudi Gazette and cited by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Badawood notes that many young Saudis today either study abroad or work for multinational corporations and as such have become accustomed to speaking to each other in English. Describing the trend as “very weird,” he argues that English “has slowly become the language of communication in our society.”
He lambasts upper class Saudis for committing the “grave sin” of sending their children to international schools just to perfect their English. He claims that in some such families, siblings are unable to communicate with each other because “not all of them can speak good Arabic.”
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/03/04/saudi-columnist-urges-saudis-to-speak-arabic-not-english-for-fear-of-subjugation/
