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9/11 rap wows British Muslims
Al Jazeera.net ^
| 08 February 2004,
| Staff
Posted on 02/09/2004 6:42:16 AM PST by veronica
A music video glorifying Usama bin Ladin and containing images of the 11 September attacks in New York has become a big hit with young Muslims in Britain.
According to the UK's Observer newspaper this Sunday, rap artist Shaikh Terra calls for British PM Tony Blair and US President George Bush to be "thrown on the fire" in his song Dirty Kuffar (unbelievers).
An exiled Saudi dissident, Muhammad al-Massari, told the newspaper that he did not know a single young Muslim who has not either seen or got the video.
"It is selling everywhere. Everyone I meet at the mosque is asking for it."
Al-Massari's Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Rights in Saudi Arabia - a group which came to Britain in 1994 to publicise injustices in the desert kingdom - 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.
It finishes with images of the hijacked planes flying into the World Trade Centre 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 machine gun.
Another image shows photographs of US Secretary of State Colin Powell and national security adviser Condoleezza 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," al-Massari added.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: dhimmi; music; rapper; ukmuslims
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To: veronica
Allah wears a dirty diaper.
I could smell it while I watched that video.
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posted on
02/09/2004 7:15:50 AM PST
by
freedomson
(Baruch Habba B'Shem Adonai)
To: freedomson
Allah wears a dirty diaper.
Yes, and its contents should have been flushed instead of paraded around britain.
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posted on
02/09/2004 7:25:10 AM PST
by
Iron Matron
(Give me time, I'll think of something)
To: veronica
I thought England had tough hate speech laws...yet they allow this garbage. Unbelievable.
To: HELLRAISER II
After you good ol' boys get done with them you can send them out here to California for some prison love, "American Me" style.
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posted on
02/09/2004 8:06:06 AM PST
by
Ajnin
To: somedaysoon
>I thought England had tough hate speech laws...yet they >allow this garbage. Unbelievable.
You didn't realize that hate speech only applies to non-muslims?
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posted on
02/09/2004 8:24:10 AM PST
by
sandbar
To: veronica
"I believe the lyrics are only metaphorical." Similar to metaphors in American pop music? LOL
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posted on
02/09/2004 8:35:16 AM PST
by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'--- Kahlil Gibran)
To: somedaysoon
I thought England had tough hate speech laws...yet they allow this garbage. Unbelievable. The laws are tough if the "hate" speech in question is directed at Muslims (or one of the other "protected" groups), not committed by Muslims.
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posted on
02/09/2004 8:47:06 AM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Mr. Mojo; sandbar
You're absolutely correct.
Unfortunately, being an older person, I tend to view things the way they were in the past....when everyone played by the same rules.
To: veronica
I hope the ragheads appreciate the irony of radical Islamists co-opting an American cultural idiom to promote their death cult.
But probably not...
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posted on
02/09/2004 10:04:59 AM PST
by
telebob
To: Alouette
Thanks for posting those links. That is a 'must see'.
Not bloody likely we'll get the BBC to show that on prime time telly.
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