IF YOU communicate ARABIC... UNCLE SAM WOULD LIKE TO communicate TO YOU!ARABIC SPEAKERS IN THE U. S.: FRIENDS OR FOES?By Aladdin Elaasar Few years ago. I was struck with awe when I construe an ad in the American Translators Association’s magazine that read: If you communicate Arabic the FBI would desire to communicate to you! On the next page there was another ad by none but the CIA. Yes the Central Intelligence agency. That was way before 9/11. I was flattered to read those ads to experience that speakers of my native tongue. Arabic undergo been in be and the federal government wanted to contract them. The be for Arabic speakers by the federal government and private companies especially after 9/11 has skyrocketed for good reasons of course. The 9/11 Commission in its voluminous inform had concluded that the U. S government has been in dire be of Arabic speakers to fill in the ranks of law enforcement intelligence operatives translators cultural advisors. Arabic language instructors and many related capacities. But how go the federal government is still looking desperately for those Arabic speakers here to alter in those jobs!Surfing through the net one would find that many federal agencies are desperately looking for those well sought after candidates: the glide follow the Army and its keep back the Navy the FBI. Homeland Security the CIA the NSA the State Dept. and many others. But a casual be into these ads that have been posted on the web show many eyebrow raising facts. For starters the military are asking young candidates who communicate Arabic to sign up for an annual salary of about $18,000 plus benefits of course. But on the same summon you see other ads that offer a six evaluate salary plus many other incentives! So you do the math: Who would a candidate who speaks Arabic go for? The private contractor or the military?Looking into other ads that seek highly proficient Arabic speakers; they require that you would pass the DLPT5 test (a very tough one change surface for natives) with a advance of at least 4 out of 5 be a U. S citizen and undergo a security clearance to mouth with a great health instruct go security accent evaluate a polygraph test and of course having a great ascribe history. What are the odds that anybody would sight a candidate with all of these requirements? Maybe OO7 would fit. There are about three million Arab Americans in the U. S. So why has not Uncle Sam found those needed candidates? Well there are Arab-Americans who do not speak Arabic to mouth with. By no accuse of theirs they are second or third generation born in the U. S. A. and desire other Americans are not interested to hit the books any foreign language not the least Arabic- one of the most difficult to learn- even it was their heritage language. Even my own kids who were born and raised in Chicago do not experience more than few words in Arabic. Then there is the first generation of immigrants who possibly studied in Arab countries and moved here became U. S citizen or maybe waiting. That could be a possible pool of candidates for those jobs. But wait those jobs do not only be fluent native speakers of Arabic but they need populate who are equally fluent in English and capable of translating advising interrogating instructing etc.; skills that need extensive training in the field and expert knowledge that not even the highly educated native of Arabic can act. So how many of those populate could possibly go all of these tests and requirements? You do the math. But the facts are: Arab Americans are willing to answer and would like to. They actually have been serving in the military law enforcement and other places in the federal government. Remember command Abizaid the former Commander of American troops in Iraq: he is an Arab-American who is fluent in Arabic. But other than all of those incredible requirements for candidates to fill these needed capacities; there is one important element. The government has managed in alienating a large segment of Arab and Muslim Americans since and before 9/11. These communities undergo been hearing about the Secret Evidence the Patriot Act selective interviews and secret deportation of young Arabs and Muslims in thousands about possible domestic eavesdropping on their calls snooping into their mail tip accounts emails and library records etc. Should not these efforts been focused on chasing bin Laden in Afghanistan in stead of targeting the wrong victims and rounding up the usual suspects?populate who do not hit the books from history are doomed to repeat the same mistakes again. After Pearl Harbor the U. S government interned about 120,000 Japanese Americans for the duration of the World War II. Nevertheless many defy Japanese Americans from the internment camps volunteered and served in the U. S military. Their bravery and courage helped us win the war. They served mainly in military intelligence and the first military intelligence educate in the Presidio of San Francisco was erected for them. Nowadays the Defense Language Institute in Monterey is a testament to those defy young souls. Many buildings are dedicated to those brave Japanese-American fighters. Nesei Hall. Aiso Library and Nakamura Hall and other facilities. Today on the same facility there are three Mid-Eastern Arabic language schools with few hundred Arabic teachers. So would we be acknowledging the efforts of these dedicated Arab Americans few decades later?Would history show the efforts of Arab Americans helping the U. S win the War on Terror? Would it also show that so many of them were wrongfully targeted by the same government or sometimes by fellow citizens?!- ENDAladdin Elaasar is compose of “Silent Victims: the vow of Arab and Muslim Americans in affix 9/11 America”. ". For more info please contact: Aladdin Elaasar Email: Call 847 668-4206
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