Posted on 04/25/2002 9:26:20 AM PDT by ppaul
On the Kirby Wilber Show on KVI 570AM this morning, they played a song parody composed by Kirby's producer, David Bose, in response to an op-ed piece in the Seattle Post Intelligencer by an Arabic terrorist who is now a "citizen" of the United States, complaining about our country and saying he's ashamed of America. Below are some of the lyrics, and the letter from Osama Shabeneh, an America-hating Palestinian who moved to the U.S. from Hebron on the West Bank and was recently granted US citizenship.
I'm Ashamed to be an American
(Sung to the tune of to "I'm Proud to be an American" by Lee Greenwood)If I went back to Hebron,
where I lived for all my life,
And I had to start all over,
with just my children, and my wives,
I'd curse the stars & stripes,
of where I live today,
'Cause the flag stands for oppression,
and it just gets in our way!Chorus
I'm ashamed to be an American,
where I make all my money,
And I dream of raising jihad
against Western countries!
And I'll gladly blow-up next to you
And kill your kids today,
'Cause there is no doubt I hate your land!
Godd*mn the USA!
(with recorded shouts from last weekend's pro-terrorist march in Washington DC: "Globalize the Intifad! Globalize the Intifada!")From the desrets of the Sahara,
to the camps of refugees,
Across the plains of Iraq,
From Iran toi the Dead Sea,
From Yemen, up to Baghdad,
From West Bank to Saudi,
There is hate in radical Islam's heart,
Where we extremists still all say.....Yes we hate all you Americans,
where religious choice is free,
but we won't forget the bombs you have,
to make your point on me,
And I'll gladly move-in next to you,
And infiltrate today,
'Cause until I can convert this land,
Godd*mn the USA!I'm ashamed to be an American,
where I make all my money.
And I drean of waging jihad
Against Western countries!
And I'll gladly blow-up next to you
And kill your kids today,
'Cause there is no doubt I hate this land!
Godd*mn the USA!Here's the letter by Osama Shebaneh from Redmond, Washington:
Ashamed to be an American
Two years ago, I became an American citizen. Prior to that, I wasn't a citizen of any country, at least on paper. "Where are you from?" was a question I found hard to answer. It still is.
I come from the town of Hebron on the West Bank. I lived most of my life under the Israeli military occupation until I moved to America a few years ago. Hebron is part of the historical Palestine, a country that once existed but currently is not on the list of nations.
Leaving my family behind was the most difficult experience of my life. Here I was, in the "land of the free," and there they were, still under occupation. I never expected that I would regret leaving my occupied homeland to live in freedom. Now, with passion, I do regret it.
For the past 18 months, millions of Palestinians have been living in a state of suffocating siege by the Israeli military. In the name of security for its citizens, Israel has been brutalizing a whole nation. To that end, American-made weaponry has been used against the Palestinian population. Billions of dollars in American tax money is directly supporting the continued aggression and the dismantling of the infrastructure of the Palestinian society.
Whenever I call my family in Hebron, I'm full of shame. The F-16s, the Apaches, the bullets, the gunships and the tanks that surround them are either manufactured in the United States or are paid for by the American taxayer, myself included. I feel directly responsible for the killing of my own people.
To add insult to injury, the White House has been giving tacit approval to the Israeli government in its latest bloody incursion into the Palestinian-controlled areas. The tough talk that President Bush has directed at Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is petty at best and is, by all account, meaningless. The Israelis have already done a good job obliterating the Jenin refugee camp and massacring hundreds of Palestinians inside. Death is also rampant all over the West Bank and Gaza, where the Israeli military is wantonly destroying Palestinian lives and livelihoods.
I become very fascinated when Bush and his Cabinet members, or members of the U.S. Senate or House, repeatedly brand the Palestinian struggle as terrorism, and allude to the Israeli actions as self-defense. Only one day after Israel took over the Jenin refugee camp and killed hundreds of Palestinians inside and expelled or arrested the rest, the White House called Ariel Sharon a "man of peace."
Palestinian deaths are considered collateral damage by the Israelis and receive no condemnation from the White House, except in passing, even when the victims are children or defenseless civilians. Israeli deaths, on the other hand, bring about a wave of Israeli retribution against a whole population and draw swift denunciation from the White House as an example of Palestinian terrorism and superfluous violence.
I don't expect ordinary Americans who were born and raised in this country to understand my viewpoint. They have no memories of a childhood marred by oppression and scenes of occupation. Their families live in relative peace and tranquility. If they call other family members, the conversation probably doesn't revolve around who was shot today, or arrested today, or maimed today, or displaced today. The media footage Americans receive from the Middle East hardly portrays the Israeli brutality, but does accentuate the suicide bombings committed by Palestinians against Israeli civilians.
Israel cannot buy its security with Palestinian blood. Subsequent American administrations have either failed to realize that fact, or have been pressured to ignore it. The United States has the moral responsibility to put an end to the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, not because the United States is the only remaining superpower, but because this occupation is being funded and aided by American money.
Israelis have the right to lead peaceful and secure lives without fear of suicide bombings in their buses and open markets. Palestinians also have the right to draw their own destiny free from an oppressive occupation that has devastated their existence for 35 years. We have to realize that neither of these objectives can be achieved without the other.
Unfortunately, the White House seems flagrantly indifferent to the plight of the Palestinians. As we watch yet another massacre unfolding in yet another Palestinian refugee camp, we hear no condemnation and no criticism, but statements of guarded understanding from the Bush administration toward the Israeli actions.
I am ashamed to be an American, and I can't help it.
Osama Shabaneh of Redmond is a software program manager.
Link to Osama's letter HERE.
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Not to worry... if you can manage to get them both to agree (provided they renounce their citzenship as they depart) I will pay for the tickets even if I have to sell my car!
Very scary.
Like an aggressive cancer spreading through the body -
we have been infiltrated!
Guys like this make our case better than we can.
Did you really have to ping me to this?
I 'was' in such a good mood today. LOL
Thanks, paul.
Then get out. We don't want you here!.....
Gee, I could say that the Palestinian suicide HOMICIDE bombers aren't people but are more like wild animals,
but that would be a high insult to animals everywhere...........
Just as revealing was the reaction from the European media. In the American press, you read things like: "An observer to the bomb-blast scene described a dead young girl, perhaps 10 or 12, lying on the ground with her eyes open, looking as if she was surprised." For Europe, on the other hand, the main significance of this development was that it was "unhelpful" to the "peace process". Before I'm accused of being more upset about dead Jewish than dead Muslim kids, let me say that I take people at their own estimation: in the Palestinian Authority schools, they teach their children about the glories of martyrdom; indeed, the careers guidance counsellor appears to have little information on alternative employment prospects; at social events, the moppets are dressed up as junior jihadi, with toy detonators and play bombs. It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do. So does Saddam Hussein, whose government (the subject of an admiring article in this week's Spectator) gives $25,000 to the family of each Palestinian suicide bomber. So does the Arab League, which at last year's summit passed a resolution hailing the "spirit of sacrifice" of the Palestinian "martyrs" and thus licensed Wednesday's massacre. As for the "peace process", those Europeans who, just a few months ago, were urging the Americans to cease operations for Ramadan evidently feel no compunction to demand from Chairman Arafat and his dark subsidiaries any similar "bombing pause" for Passover.
In the days after September 11, we were told that Muslims had great respect for their fellow "people of the book" - ie, Jews and Christians. This ought to be so: after all, the dramatis personae of the Koran include Abraham, Moses, David, John the Baptist, Jesus and the Virgin Mary. It's one thing to believe that the Israelis are occupiers and oppressors and that the Zionist state should not exist. But no Muslim with any understanding of his shared heritage could in good conscience blow up a Passover Seder. It marks a new low in the Palestinians' descent into nihilism - though, as usual, the silence of the imams is deafening. As for the nonchalance of the Europeans, that too should not surprise us: in my experience, the Continent's Christians, practising and nominal, find the ceremonies of Jewish life faintly creepy, notwithstanding that these were also the rituals by which their own Saviour lived.
But this year, when the Christians' solar calendar and the Jews' lunar calendar have coincided and Easter and Passover fall together, it's a safe bet that George W Bush will make the connection. The first time I ever heard him speak, he spoke openly about his faith and about Christ in a way that would be unimaginable for a British politician. He will know all the details - "the baby tried to crawl away, but it died, too".......................
Before I'm accused of being more upset about dead Jewish than dead Muslim kids, let me say that I take people at their own estimation: in the Palestinian Authority schools, they teach their children about the glories of martyrdom; indeed, the careers guidance counsellor appears to have little information on alternative employment prospects; at social events, the moppets are dressed up as junior jihadi, with toy detonators and play bombs.
I am ashamed to be an American, and I can't help it.
If it's so shameful, renounce your citizenship and leave - we aren't holding anyone here. I really don't like these people!
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