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.

[knighthawk]

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”.

Islam-list

If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

[Prince Charles]

The Saudi Ambassador to the UN has just finished giving a speech, and walks out into the lobby where he meets President Bush. They shake hands and as they walk the Saudi says, "You know, I have just one question about what I have seen in America." President Bush says, "Well, your Excellency, anything I can do to help you, I will do." The Saudi whispers "My young son watches (and loves) this show Star Trek and in it there are Russians, and Blacks, and Asians, but never any Arabs. He is very upset. He doesn't understand why there are never any Arabs in Star Trek."

President Bush sorta chuckled and leaning toward the Saudi, whispers back, "It's because it takes place in the future...."

[Callahan]

Maybe the Dems will sway along with this ditty at their convention. It states their agenda a little more explicitly than Fleetwood Mac.

[Andy from Beaverton]

Do you think MTV dare show it with all the hot water they are in?

[texasflower]

I believe the lyrics are only metaphorical

There is nothing metaphorical about it. I have seen it.

[pgobrien]

http://www.ipnews.planetgac.com/ for the video

[xJones]

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

Metaphorical? How would he like a rap video with Mecca being metaphorically nuked?

[dennisw]

What else can one expect from Muhammed's death kult?

[ditto h]

The U.S.A. did something very, very wrong, and that was introducing rap to the world?

[jempet]

This video is sick. The author should be arrested for inciting violence.

[reagan_fanatic]

A video that includes the glorification of the deaths of 3000 innocent civilians?

Please, God, put me in a room alone with this guy for three minutes. Just three minutes. No more.

[pepsionice]

Its time we call Eminem to our cause...and let him loose on Islam. He will rap them into their graves.

[Madame Dufarge]

Thanks for the ping, knighthawk.

Nice guy, this Mohammed al-Massari

He's a Saudi dissident who once lived in Denver and who has been linked by some to Osama bin Laden.

[Madame Dufarge]

Have you watched the video?

They made sure they worked Ronald Reagan into it.

[per loin]

"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.

Is this where we insert the party line about "not all Muslims are our enemies"?

[monkeywrench]

I thought that UK had hate laws.

[Abcdefg]

It looks like he is accessable.

[3catsanadog]

I smell Grammy award!!!!!