[Foundation-l] Quran in Sitenotice

Thu Jul 13 19:56:55 UTC 2006

On 7/13/06, Heema Khan <heema_khan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Urdu Wikipedia, article on Israel is very short:
>
> http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%84
>
> I can translate it:
>
> "Israel, a palce where jews live.

Perhaps they meant to define Ghetto.

> In addition to Pakistan there are many other
> countries that do not recognize this place of Jews as a country.

Puts the complaints about americanocentricism into context doesn't it?

> Majority of the Urdu speaking public believes that there
> is no country by the name of Israel exists. But there is
> a country named Palestine, whose some part is captured
> by Jews and they call it Israel. And the English speaking
> world says that in a country called Israel some
> Palestenians want to create a country called Palestine."
>

Well at least an attempt a NPOV (en.wikipedia just goes ahead and
accepts it as a country). The sides could be better defined and it
doesn't quite get the position of the "English speaking world" right
but a start.

-- 
geni