Video Killed The Infidel Radio Star
| In honor of St. Patrick's Day I will refer to a couple stories from our friends over at Little Green Footballs. The first story is about a conservative student newspaper in Berkeley, California called The California Patriot. Having more guts than your average bigtime American newspaper or magazine, they have chosen to risk their necks and re-publish the infamous Muhammad cartoons "to show our solidarity with the Danish people and our support for free speech." In a sorta related story, The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) TV Monitor Project has a video clip of Egyptian performer Sha'ban Abd Al-Rahim that includes his hit music video about the cartoons.  I'd rate the song a FIVE. It's got a good beat and you can dance to it. But I just don't understand the words. The English subtitles help a little, but I was distracted by all the images and the artsy Arabic writing floating around in the background. Now I don't claim to read Arabic, but somehow this video still shot I managed to capture looks a bit like a subliminal anti-semetic message to me.  |
