applepansy Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 A facebook friend shared the following. I tracked it back to the original poster.What do you think?These are starting to show up around our country! After dinner she took a $1 dollar bill out of her purse and displayed it on the table. Underneath the words "In God We Trust" someone had stamped the dollar bill in red ink---NO GOD BUT ALLAH. We asked her where she had gotten this dollar bill. She said it was part of her change in Alamosa , CO .. We took a picture of her dollar bill. If anyone tries to give you one of these dollar bills as change, please refuse it and ask them to give you a dollar bill that has not been defaced.Send this on to everyone you know, please.God bless our USA! — Ron Lange with Pam Strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleWyvern Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 Hm... this looks like something you'd see on snopes. Has anybody actually seen one of these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
applepansy Posted October 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 (edited) Hm... this looks like something you'd see on snopes. Has anybody actually seen one of these?I haven't. The person who took the picture is the person who posted it on his Facebook page.Edit: I just searched snopes and didn't find anything about it. I don't usually pay much attention to snopes and political things. They are very biased. Edited October 23, 2011 by applepansy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annewandering Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 Its a dollar bill. If it has 666 on it who cares? When it hts the banks it will be taken out of circulation anyway as being defaced. Snopes.com will tell you if something is a lie and why, no matter what political view is being questioned. If I was convinced that something was true and they said not then I would have to look at it a lot harder. They do give the reasons which is helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dravin Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 Meh, it's still legal tender. I suspect:1) Some college students trying to be 'funny'/'shocking'.2) Atheists doing the same (I realize this isn't exclusive from group 1)My question is this, do they refuse bills like this:It's defaced too. Personally that someone took a stamp to a bill doesn't make me scared to touch it. Maybe if the stamp was pornographic or outright crude (various words) I could understand, but the phrase in question, to repeat myself, meh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeuroTypical Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 At it's most scholarly, Allah is merely their word for the God of Abraham, which is our God too last time I checked.Anyway, defacing US currency to make a point or spread some news is hardly new. Same thing as someone going to a stop sign and spraypainting "eating animals" under STOP. Or going to a shopping mall sign saying "Open on Christmas", and taping a sign above it that says "In honor of our Savior's birth, we will be".Not worth getting worked up over, in my opinion.One fun thing is to stamp Where's George? ® 2.4 on the bill - people who get the bill log on and give their location and a brief comment. Take a look at the top ten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 Facebook and their stories. 'Nuff said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippy740 Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 You can always turn in defaced or mutilated currency to the US Treasury and they'll send you a check for it. I used to do this at a bank I used to work at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sister_in_faith Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 My bet would be, whoever stamped the bill wanted the exact response that they got here. They want to get under our skin and make us feel uneasy. I think that allah is just another word for God, and so there is no God but God... I don't have a problem with that. I do understand why someone would feel concerned about it, because they ARE trying to do something to upset us, so the best answer is a non answer. Just don't let them get to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahone Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 (edited) Dollar Bills Stamped With 'NO GOD BUT ALLAH'However, in the case of the "NO GOD BUT ALLAH" note, there is so far no evidence to suggest that it represents a widespread or organized campaign by Muslim activists. While the protest message has been posted to a great many different websites, all include the very same photograph of the offending note. All also include the same story about the origin of the note; that it was handed as change to an unnamed woman in Monte Vista, Colorado. If the practice of defacing currency with the Allah slogan was common or widespread, it seems clear that many other photographs of the offending notes along with further reports about them would also be circulating. Moreover, if the defacing was a common occurrence, the mainstream media would also have reported on the issue. Edited October 23, 2011 by Mahone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie123 Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 At it's most scholarly, Allah is merely their word for the God of Abraham, which is our God too last time I checked.Quite right. There is nothing specifically Muslim about the name of Allah. Christians whose first language is Arabic refer to God as "Allah". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pam Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 My initial thought. Meh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just_A_Guy Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 Hey - turnabout is fair play! (hasn't anyone seen the "tax cheat" stamps on dollar bills under the signature of a certain delinquent Secretary of the Treasury in an administration which shall remain nameless?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleWyvern Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 Dollar Bills Stamped With 'NO GOD BUT ALLAH'Ah, so facebook posts are the new chain email? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annewandering Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 Ah, so facebook posts are the new chain email? Actually there is a very active bunch of stupid chain posts on facebook. They are very annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahone Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 Actually there is a very active bunch of stupid chain posts on facebook. They are very annoying.Facebook are going to charge, didn't ya hear?This is why I prefer twitter. Although it's changing somewhat, twitter seems to have a higher percentage of members with common sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dravin Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 Facebook are going to charge, didn't ya hear?This is why I prefer twitter. Although it's changing somewhat, twitter seems to have a higher percentage of members with common sense.It's harder to do glurge in 140 characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
applepansy Posted October 23, 2011 Author Share Posted October 23, 2011 · Hidden Hidden Facebook and their stories. 'Nuff said.the same can be said for lds.net or any other social network. Link to comment
annewandering Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 I dont like twitter. It seems kind of disembodied. Same with google. Still there is lots to not like about facebook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahone Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 I dont like twitter. It seems kind of disembodied. Same with google. Still there is lots to not like about facebook.With twitter, people just get to the point - they are forced to really with the character limit. Like google, it's basic and devoid of pretty window dressing that looks nice but has no real value/usefulness. It does what you need and little else is there to get in the way. It depends on what you want, but I know that suits me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snow Posted October 24, 2011 Report Share Posted October 24, 2011 This troubles me... and why are you troubled? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pam Posted October 24, 2011 Report Share Posted October 24, 2011 Facebook are going to charge, didn't ya hear?This is why I prefer twitter. Although it's changing somewhat, twitter seems to have a higher percentage of members with common sense. Hey wait a gosh darn minute. I'm one of your friends on facebook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
applepansy Posted October 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2011 ... and why are you troubled?Its things like this that are divisive. I guess I shouldn't be...but I'm amazed at the amount of anger and fear things like this cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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