Vexillological deconstructionism dept.:

from arabo-american coincidences,

Cf. pan-arab colors


src: pan-arab colors, uae.

and the flag of the independent republic of rio grande (1840).


src: Image:Flag_of_the_Republic_of_Rio_Grande, public domain.

This flag also adds to the collection of the American/panamerican motif of stripes and its use throughout the offshoots of the Spanish empire; and particularly stripes with cantons or other divisions as shown in this flag. this collection is still unfinished.

This is not to imply the coincidence lies much deeper. For unlike their arab counterparts, the present-day occupants of the Rio Grande are far more likely to shoot in situations of misunderstanding "do not dial 911" first.

This kind of antagonism or misantrhopy perhaps borne of centuries of lawlessness and abuse (?) exists in arab society only , and not very informatively (as in not surprisingly,) in those arab (and other) areas occupied largely by Rio Grandian motivation.

The other antiparallelism b/w the two is that while this kind of pathology occurs in the occupied arab cases out of dispossession, it flourishes in the rio grandian ethos, even though they are the dispossessors (be they spanish with all sorts of habsbourg monarchs or anglosaxon)

Although the collection of American colonial striped flags is still in a process of selection and compilation, these arms of Charles I Habsburg of Spain (1516 - 1556; Charles V, HRE 1519) should provide enough appetizer as to the evolution of the striped motif in modern american colonies: