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I can't think of other reasons to learn Arabic except (1) you want to become a Muslim and bomb some stuff, or (2) you want to become a counterterrorism agent to try to find out in advance when Muslims are planning on bombing places.
When I look up other language concentrations, I see stuff like "The concentration in Chinese prepares students for research and professional work in government and private enterprise, teaching careers at the secondary school level, and graduate study in Chinese" and "The major in Korean prepares students to perform professional work in the field of translation, international relations, local and federal government, transnational enterprise, cultural industry and teaching careers in Korea or at local public schools and to pursue graduate studies in Korean or Korean studies" and "With more than 400 million people speaking Spanish worldwide - nearly 40 million in the US - and the growing influence of Hispanic cultures around the globe, knowledge of Spanish and the Spanish-speaking world has never been more important."
The don't even bother to say anything like that about Arabic. If you're studying Arabic, it's probably for one of those two purposes I mentioned above. https://catalog.gmu.edu/colleges-schools/humanities-social-sciences/modern-classical-languages/foreign-languages-ba/#requirementstext
When I look up other language concentrations, I see stuff like "The concentration in Chinese prepares students for research and professional work in government and private enterprise, teaching careers at the secondary school level, and graduate study in Chinese" and "The major in Korean prepares students to perform professional work in the field of translation, international relations, local and federal government, transnational enterprise, cultural industry and teaching careers in Korea or at local public schools and to pursue graduate studies in Korean or Korean studies" and "With more than 400 million people speaking Spanish worldwide - nearly 40 million in the US - and the growing influence of Hispanic cultures around the globe, knowledge of Spanish and the Spanish-speaking world has never been more important."
The don't even bother to say anything like that about Arabic. If you're studying Arabic, it's probably for one of those two purposes I mentioned above. https://catalog.gmu.edu/colleges-schools/humanities-social-sciences/modern-classical-languages/foreign-languages-ba/#requirementstext