Apprendre la langue anglais!

...is a French way of saying 'Learn the English language'! (I hope I got it right, but I'm not too sure why I suddenly use a French phrase for my title.)

There was a comment posted in Tun Dr Mahathir's blog on the topic of "Science and Islam" which I'm actually keen to share with you. I find it rather 'interesting'. Here is that comment, by arik:

The Hidden Secret...
I do not know ...the way you thinking.....but sometimes you look ...have unknowing about your write.....
Everytime you write....you just set your mind is what you believe and what you see.....hello friend...is not good to you....okey.
is also not to good to everybody......God know what is doing....and god also know...why his sent illiterate mesengger..
and as a muslim ...i just wanna to advice you....sometimes we need learn and lesson to someone....for goodness...and for ourself
perhaps...you can learn from prof_ridcully or waja ..or anybody you want it.......but don't made were muslims confuse..in here......its just look your muslim..as dumb and dumber...friend.....

('The Hidden Secret' is the nickname of another commenter who believes that prophet Muhammad did NOT die as an illiterate [ie did NOT know how to read or write] man.) I was tempted to highlight and bold parts of the comment, but then I thought my alteration would only spoil the essence of the comment. I'd like to think that arik is actually a poet.

So what have we all learned so far (from this post)?

1. We better hope our education system improves by much more than what was promised by our Deputy Prime Minister in teaching the English language, or else we'd have more revealing comments on the topic of illiteracy.

2. Whether we believe that Muhammad was illiterate (like arik and chedet), or literate (like 'The Hidden Secret'), the message for us is clear [2:164] - to study the Universe. So far, English is still the first language of Science and Technology. Thus, it does make sense if we strive to improve our command of this language. It would certainly be a great help for us to understand Science (the signs of the Creator).

Now the burning question is - who's the 'dumb and dumber....friend...' ?

Parlez-vous anglais ?