Stewart apologized for the difficult working conditions, and he strategically deployed Arabic curse words he had learned.
He then switched back into Arabic to curse Mr. Assad's mother and the mothers of his supporters.
They cheer for the Sakhnin players in Arabic and curse the Beitar players and the referees in Hebrew, so they'll understand the slurs.
What came out of his mouth, was violently anti-Arabic, full of curses and threats against the Arabs.
The Evil Eye or al-ayn (simply "the eye" in Arabic) is a curse that is said to cause harm in varying degrees, from miniscule annoyances, to making one's fortune dissolve, to igniting a string of bad luck whatever that entails.
Because of his broken Arabic, he also accidentally cursed God's mother.
The use of offensive, obscene or taboo language is a linguistic feature in most human cultures, from the English "f**k off" to the French merde (sh**), and from the Indian sala (brother-in-law) to the Arabic yil'an abu ommak (curse your grandfather).
"They put a black cloth bag on my head, and were shouting: 'We're going to beat you, you're going to tell us who was with you throwing stones,'" 11-year-old Rashid from Silwan neighborhood in East Jerusalem told HRW. "Then they were pushing me around, and cursing me, in Arabic.
She cursed at him in Arabic.
Throughout the sect's history, the Wahhabis have fiercely opposed anything they viewed as bida, an Arabic word, usually muttered as a curse, for any change or modernization that deviates from the fundamental teachings of the Koran.
