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Can anyone read Arabic and translate what is under the girl on the right?

Is it about herself, how she opposes a group that don't hate a third group she hates, how she uses symbols to show her fondness of authority, and how she is insecure about her own presentation?

I've found a bigger and clearer copy of the picture, http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/07/image1.jpg , but a couple of on-line OCRs followed by translation hasn't been too good:

Newocr.com and Google:

Azhar student threw a sleeping brain inside it for an armored police Hai «Perhaps 1thaatem

Resistance to a »k j e, e Qq1a wide odd-water and whispers of her Hakka Did Ahhhamo uncle Hahqlesabh Ierelaala

Not in Eaa «Amos has not Ahzi 0.2 Ehalh my monarch Ebahlal 5aa

Laa him Qqahad7he «, Akjqgahla, Jqaaa» H5h feet herself
Tnamha7ha «e Guetha6gah, Hta

i2ocr.com and Google:

Qqqlehglkqltna.qqllqa to s
0ilhalk Qqqqlltaleg0laalez

BrowserWarVet (talk) 14:14, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Stupid[edit]

I think this comparison is idiotic. One's an idiot the other is a terrorist. Christopher (talk) 16:53, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

of course it idiotic - its a meme. they all idiotic. AMassiveGay (talk) 17:09, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
The problem is American Taliban has the caption "two sides of the same coin" under this image. Christopher (talk) 17:22, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
one is meant to be the actual Taliban, the other is is the american Taliban. the point being made, bereft of nuance and in a ham fisted simplistic way that only meme can be, is they both want a theocracy. its a lazy rhetorical device not requiring much thought or consideration. much like the way asinine quotes are often used AMassiveGay (talk) 18:06, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
They both want a theocracy and they take a book full of archaic bullshit relatively literally. That's where the similarities end. One takes their book a lot more literally than the other takes theirs. Christopher (talk) 18:12, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
"bereft of nuance and in a ham fisted simplistic way" is a key point AMassiveGay is trying to make here. --It's-a me, Lgm sigpic.png LeftyGreenMario! 20:22, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
Maybe I should have put it on Talk:American Taliban but what I meant is rationalwiki shouldn't be comparing some random gun nut to a terrorist. As it does in the article. It is simplistic and I think it's too simplistic. If no one objects I'll change the caption of the image. (I'm not denying there are some Christian fundamentalists comparable to the Taliban but they're not all are that bad.) Christopher (talk) 20:33, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
Yeah, I think this image is intended to scare people and it's not very rational for a RATIONALWiki thoughtful and clever argument, especially if you accompany it with that kind of caption. I know, it's the point of a meme, but I also get your point that it's taking things a bit far (like how people like to compare things to Hitler all the time). Still, kind of hard to get images of Christian terrorists posing in a similar way so I guess we have to settle for the next best (or worst?) thing. --It's-a me, Lgm sigpic.png LeftyGreenMario! 20:41, 12 March 2017 (UTC)