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The account @Polymarket posted this claim that mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would "require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals."

MAGAs in the comments melted down.

We have "Didn't Trump just make English the official language of the USA? This is asinine."

Another person said, "No! American numerals only! Not terrorist numerals."

And a bunch of people saying something to the extent of: "The Islamification of New York begins."

This was enjoyable!
More links:
https://www.10news.com/news/fact-or-fiction/fact-or-fiction-mamdani-to-introduce-rules-requiring-schools-to-teach-arabic-numerals
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-mamdani-arabic-numerals-new-york-schools-11079540
Lochloosa
(16,634 posts)lame54
(38,986 posts)lapfog_1
(31,456 posts)the middle schoolers to learn Arabic equations! It even has a terrorist name al-gebra!!!
VMA131Marine
(5,127 posts)Many of the brightest stars have names based on Arabic words
Aldebaran
Rigel
Vega
Achernar
Betelgeuse
Etc.
electric_blue68
(25,076 posts)Rigpa108
(60 posts)They are also used in mathematical equations.
OAITW r.2.0
(31,098 posts)lastlib
(27,202 posts)And wait'll those kids get exposed to that radical Greek terror group, Trigonom-etri! Their cells are called "triangles", and to solve them, their sines and cosines have to be known. And they ARE allied with some of those Arabic numerals and al-Gebra terrorists. OMG! They'll be going off on some crazy tangents when the kids have to get into that!
OAITW r.2.0
(31,098 posts)that level of intelligence is being imparted to future US voters.
rubbersole
(10,914 posts)Requiring litter boxes in the classrooms!
I_UndergroundPanther
(13,322 posts)That made me laugh
Jack Valentino
(4,080 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(31,098 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,728 posts)Cartoon Characters
Man 1: Allah be praised! I've invented the zero!
Man 2: What?
Man 1: Nothing, Nothing...