[sanjuro]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/us/22haboob.html

Use of the term “haboob,” which is what such storms have long been called in the Middle East, has rubbed some Arizona residents the wrong way.

“I am insulted that local TV news crews are now calling this kind of storm a haboob,” Don Yonts, a resident of Gilbert, Ariz., wrote to The Arizona Republic after a particularly fierce, mile-high dust storm swept through the state on July 5. “How do they think our soldiers feel coming back to Arizona and hearing some Middle Eastern term?”

Hey, dumbasses: List of Arabic loanwords in English

 

[gonefirefightin]

I take offense to this

 

[Silver]

Who cares what the soldiers think? We don't live in a military dictatorship.

 

[Westy]

We should also give up that pesky Arabic numeral system.

 

[MMike]

We should also give up that pesky Arabic numeral system.

It's no coincidence that the number "1" is shaped like a stick of dynamite!!

 

[KavuRider]

Really? I mean, really?
I didn't hear anyone, even some of the extreme right wing people I know, complaining about this...lame.

Both for people complaining and this being considered newsworthy.

 

[MikeD]

NSFW

 

[nyhc00]

Az always comes through with the crazies