>>5691664Example of when not to use Arabic for roleplaying game names:
>more onomastics, etymologyI remember this article published by Robin Cook, Fri 8 Jul 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jul/08/july7.developmenta member of parliament who once served in the UK Cabinet as Foreign Secretary.
In this article, Robin Cook explained that the origin of the name Al-Qaeda literally "the Base" came from a database of names of terrorists used by the CIA. Robin Cook died 6 Aug 2005.
>Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians. Inexplicably, and with disastrous consequences, it never appears to have occurred to Washington that once Russia was out of the way, Bin Laden's organisation would turn its attention to the west. 