Allahuakbar.' And I'll joke, 'Thank you — now stop talking to my kids.'" The Arabic phrase, which means simply "God is great," has, it sometimes seems, become intertwined with Allahuakbar is a phrase said by Muslims in prayers and greetings, but has also been yelled by terrorists. Scott Simon speaks with playwright Wajahat Ali about his op-ed, "I Want 'Allahu InSemitic linguistics, the elative (اِسْمُ تَفْضِيلٍ‎) - noun of preference - is a stage of gradation in Arabic that can be used both for a comparative or superlative in Arabic. Thus, it denotes greater or greatest. Why is the translation ambiguous? bdNGGB.

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