@jamellebouie.net this is a great song on the game but Shalah’s theme is a close rival and the fact that Wiz Khalifa used Shalah’s Theme for his song “Never Been” makes it that much more legendary:

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How should Pete expect to command the respect of the Muslim servicemen and women under his charge? How should these individuals feel about putting their lives on the line for Pete when he has declared by the actions of a tattoo, that he hates them?

As a Veteran myself, I can’t express how important this is. This is a matter of “qualification.”

What makes this statement of Pete problematic is his position as Secretary of Defense. When you become the leader of an organization or of people in general, it’s important that you are able to respect, represent, support, uplift, and honor all those within your charge.

Fortunately for Pete, we are free to have a difference of opinions and beliefs in America even if they’re offensive to others. That freedom also applies to Muslims in America.

Again not that Kafir means what those words mean, but this is the level of offensiveness Pete is trying to convey to Muslims in order to declare outright, “I am your enemy,” or more simply put, “I hate you.” In short, it’s the ultimate “fuck you” to Muslims.

To put this into cultural context to understand how extreme this is conceptually and visually for Muslims, for Black Americans, this would be like him getting a tattoo of the word nigger. For Jews, Hitler. For Christians, a tattoo that reads “Antichrist.”

We don’t need those allegations however to deduce that he got the tattoo in an effort to make the most extreme declaration possible that he “hates Muslims and Islam.”

There’s an article floating around you can find for yourself that talks about eye witnesses at a bar Pete was drinking at once endured him getting wasted and belligerently screaming “Kill all Muslims.”

So, unknowingly to Pete here, he has branded himself a disbeliever from an Abrahamic context which includes Christianity.

Aside from that, what is the significance of getting this type of tattoo?

Also even though Muslims are supposed to marry other Muslims, it’s permitted in Islam to marry Jews and Christians because of their adherence to the core beliefs (Abrahamic traditions).

To that end, Muslims are obligated to believe in the five books which along side the Quran include the Bible and the Torah.

Religiously speaking, Muslims believe that both Christians and Jews are people “of the book.” Meaning, they may not be Muslim from the cultural or literal sense, but they still believe in the same God.

As for the tat, in Arabic, “Kafir” is defined losely as a disbeliever. The word has the same meaning in Aramaic, the language of Jesus.