9/11 rap wows British Muslims

Al Jazeera.net ^ | 08 February 2004, | Staff

[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.

[risk]

Wow, these moderates are everywhere!

[Fenris6]

Stop it! You KNOW that Islam is a religion of peace.

[HELLRAISER II]

Al-Massari why don't come to south Georgia and try to sing your P.O.S. song you scumbag, I'd take quite a bit of pleasure in teaching you about a little thing we call "Opening up a can of Whip @ss" you little punk!

[risk]

When it's in moderation, right?

[veronica]

FYI.

[mict42]

Round them up and ship them to the sand dunes.

[Guillermo]

The only difference between a Moderate Muslim and an Extremist Muslim is the length of their beards, and that Moderates use a remote detonator.

[Kenton]

"It is selling everywhere. Everyone I meet at the mosque is asking for it."

Well, that makes our job much easier now, doesn't it?

Kill them all, let God sort 'em out.

[Alouette]

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[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

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.

Ironic (and asinine), considering it was Arabs who first started the African slave trade.

[Flightdeck]

I think the Shaikh Terra guy is the one who made the song. But I am with you completely, except he'd have to come to central Texas for me to whoop his @ss.

[BraveMan]

Hey, at least it doesn't have footage of Kid Rock 'desecrating' an American flag. Sheesh . . .

[Dixiekraut]

Don't these idiots know that there is no place for music in Islam?

[OXENinFLA]

[HELLRAISER II]

I'd imagine there are those of us who would equally show this little prick the art of "Opening a can of Whip @ss." However I imagine that those of us in Georgia an Texas are definately good ol'boy's who know how to do it properly.

[Cicero]

Well, we have Al Jazeera to thank for alerting us to this. Evidently the British press is ignoring the problem. There are fewer Muslims in England than in France, but they seem to be even more radical.

Unfortunately, England has a long history of giving shelter to terrorists, going back to the bomb-throwing anarchists of the nineteenth century. They had better straighten this out pretty quick, or England will go the way of France. And they're not likely to, because the Labour Party believes in multicultural tolerance and the Conservative Party has self-destructed.

[Flightdeck]

That video was sickening. Pure hatred and evil being glorified for kids. I was also disturbed how close it could be compared to some hip-hop videos also aimed at kids, which aren't much better. One glorifies muslim-on-American violence, the other American-on-American violence.

[jtminton]

I watched the video and I have one question: What did The Count from Sesame Street ever do to these people to deserve a cameo spot?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Brits allow more of these people in at their peril.