UK: 'Rap video glorifying Laden a hit'

The Times of India ^ | Februari 08 2004 | AFP

[knighthawk]

LONDON : A music video glorifying Osama bin Laden and containing images of the September 11 attacks in New York has become a big hit with young Muslims, the Observer newspaper

said on Sunday.

The song Dirty Kuffar (non-believer) by a young British rapper who calls himself Sheikh Terra rails against Prime Minister Tony Blair and the US President George W Bush, calling on believers to “throw them on the fire”.

“I do not know of any young Muslim who has not either seen or got this video. It is selling everywhere. Everyone I meet at the mosque is asking for it,” Mohammed al-Massari, an exiled Saudi dissident, told the Observer.

The Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Rights in Saudi Arabia, a group run by Massari who came to Britain in 1994 after being imprisoned by the Saudi regime, also distributes the four-minute video on its website.

The song starts with images of US marines in Iraq cheering as one of them shoots a wounded Iraqi lying on the floor and finishes with images of the hijacked planes flying into the World Trade Center towers in New York with sounds of the rappers laughing.

One of the video’s most brutal images shows an Islamic fighter in Chechnya executing a captured Russian soldier with a Kalashnikov. Another image shows photographs of US Secretary of State Colin Powell and national security adviser Condeleezza Rice with the words “still slaves” superimposed across their bodies.

“I believe the lyrics are only metaphorical. It is not like this is a fatwa,” said Massari.

[facedown]

Maybe this will finally be a wakeup call for those who think it's not about Wahabism.

[Truthsayer20]

"They made sure they worked Ronald Reagan into it."

The video was a mixture of Islamism and DNC talking points. Scary.

[jordan8]

Don't blame these Muslims, blame the leftists who brought them there, whose highest goal in life is to commit genocide against their own people and nation. Blame the American media traitors who spread this suicidal philosophy throughout the West, and blame the feckless, decadent population of the nation who would rather walk into a gas chamber than be called a racist by their oppressors and executioners.

[Madame Dufarge]

The video was a mixture of Islamism and DNC talking points. Scary.

Funny how the similarities seem to stand out in stark relief.

[armymarinemom]

Yep peaceful very peaceful. I'm sure if we pull out of the ME they will leave us alone. Wake up America.

[dakine]

Interesting video...you see this crap in U.S....harmless attention seekers...

[Dark Wing]

fyi

[sheik yerbouty]

Nyuk. nyuk, nyuk!

[Selous]

Thanks for the ping, knighthawk and apologies for the tardy response.

The "sheik" and his buddies do represent a burgeoning movement of hate-fuelled Islamism amongst young Muslims here in UK.

(They love to refer to themselves as al Muhajiroum)

Thankfully, they are not as bright as they would have you believe. Since many of them consider themselves to be computer-savvy, they tend to forget that other "special interest" groups have the skills to keep a close eye on them. And we do.