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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NO!
It's GREAT that this was posted .. especially HERE.
Look, we need to face this threat, hiding out at Free Republic and receiving warm and fuzzies all the time about how truly great we are is fine, but we gotta take it to 'em.
I've been around here long enough to remember when this website was a clearing house for folks who wanted to get ACTIVE and go out PROTESTING. See: FReeping.
Thank PPaul for posting this, we need to attack the great evil that is infiltrating us!
Good question.
Here's a message to send them, and we start by arming the airline pilots and move on from there. Armed people can interdict right when it happens ... heck, as flight 93 showed, even unarmed citizens can. That's the spirit, the spirit of 93:
Oh, puke.
They sure are.
And, we keep letting 'em in!
Part of my book series addresses where it leads if we don't stop, and how hard it will be to cork the bottle once it's gone too far. If you haven;t seen it already ...
I'll BUMP the latest FR thread to you.
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