Courtesy Eslam Jawaad
Posted on 07/04/2011 5:54:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The shaky snippet of video looks like it was inadvertently filmed, as if the amateur cameraman -- in his haste to escape the intense gunfire crackling in the background -- forgot to press pause and wound up recording his sandal-clad feet as he ran along the sidewalk. It's meant to look like one of the countless amateur videos streaming out of Syria from an antigovernment protest, capturing the state's violent crackdown. Except it is not.
Instead, this is the opening sequence in a music video by Syrian-Lebanese rapper Eslam Jawaad. The song, called "Dudd al-Nizam," or "Against the System," is also not what its title may at first imply. The system Jawaad, 34, rails against isn't the Baathist regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, which has struggled to quell street protests since mid-March. It's the forces aligned against it. "You are Syrian/ Keep your head high," the deeply voiced lyrics declare. "The true men of the [anti-Israeli] resistance remain in the lion's den," they continue -- a play on the fact that Assad means lion in Arabic...
"I surely don't condone the handling of the situation by the government in any capacity," Jawaad told TIME in an e-mail interview from Dubai, where he recently relocated from London. "But I also see the bigger picture here."
That picture is one the Syrian government is keen to portray: that protesters who have taken to the streets week in and week out for the past three months, despite a death toll approaching 1,400, have either been duped or are active participants in a foreign conspiracy aimed at punishing Syria for its politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Courtesy Eslam Jawaad
IOW, he shills for Iran, Hizbollah, Shia Islam, and the Assad regime.
raging against the machine...kinda, sorta...NOT
Had he been anything but a shill for Assad, he’d have had no career (and probably would have been found dead by now).
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