Posted on 01/21/2007 6:39:59 PM PST by TexKat
It was the worst insult a Sunni Iraqi could give to a Shiite countryman.
"You Persian shoe!" politician Mishan al-Jabouri shouted at journalist Sadeq al-Musawi during a panel discussion earlier this month on al-Jazeera television. "I will do things to you that you cannot even imagine."
Musawi gave it back in kind. "You are a thief. . . . Your father killed Kurds. We will settle accounts with all of you," he warned before stomping off the set past the pleading al-Jazeera moderator.
The exchange between two middle-aged men in suits was an up close and personal look at the religious and ethnic divides -- Sunni Muslim vs. Shiite Muslim, Arab vs. Persian -- that President Bush now cites as the main impediments to peace in Iraq. Widely circulated on the Internet in recent weeks, the video clip has fueled sectarian jeers and cheers in chat rooms throughout the Middle East.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Peace in Iraq lol.
Al-Jazeera will quickly discover that these sorts of exchanges bring high ratings.
I can't believe he called him a Persian Shoe. Wow! That was horrible. No wonder there is a war.
I've always liked the insult I remember reading in a novel when I was a boy, I think one of A. Merritt's fantasies.
"Toenail of a rotting flea!"
LOL, that sounds well ah, I can't seem to find the words to describe it.
Over here too. This is a lighthearted ping!
Religion of peace alert...
yeah, these people can be civilized (sarcasm off) How much longer till we leave that pit and let them fulfill their wishes of murder and destruction on each other?
Did they recently hire Jerry Springer as a consultant and neglect to tell anyone?Sounds like his style of programming.
A severe lack in kindness, one to another
When I get mad at my husband thats what I am going to call him now...A Persian Shoe!!! He won't know what hit him.
Seriously though it is considered an insult. lmao
The crowd pelted the statue with shoes and slippers — a gross insult in the Arab world — while a column of U.S. armor sat in the square, a large roundabout ringed with columns in front of the blue-domed Shahid Mosque.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83682,00.html
And the Jerry Springer Show comes to the Arab World .......
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