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July 25, 2003

"Arabs Shocked by Images" (Sheila)

That's the headline on Yahoo News:

"Arabs Shocked by TV Images of Saddam's Sons"

The lead paragraph:

Arabs said "it was un-Islamic to exhibit corpses, however much the brothers were loathed."

(Sigh. It's always something, ain't it?)

Pardon me, but I am now going to rant.

A civil servant from SAUDI ARABIA, (and we all know that Saudi Arabia is a bastion of civility), said: "Although Uday and Qusay are criminals, displaying their corpses like this is disgusting and repulsive. America claims it is civilized but is behaving like a thug."

Oh, for God's sake. Wah wah wah, does baby need a bottle? "America: you SAID I could stay up until 8 pm and NOW you tell me it's time to go to BED! You're UNFAIR!" Little Muslim temper tantrum at the foot of the stairs, while the grown-ups try to have a nice dinner party. "Unfair, unfair, unfair!"

Well, I find it highly unfair that there is a massive hole in lower Manhattan that used to be a thriving business center. I find it highly unfair that 3,000 innocent people were slaughtered that day.

SAUDI freakin' ARABIA telling us that WE act like a THUG? 19 of your Saudi sons were on those damn planes. Don't you DARE lecture us about civility, about behaving like thugs. How DARE you?

So: what you're saying, Mr. Saad Brikan, Mr. Saudi civil servant, is that the worst accusation you can throw against us is the accusation of hypocrisy? Forgive me if I don't lose any sleep.

Another civil servant (interesting how the media can never get quotes from "Saudi small business owner" - They're all civil servants in that great Bedouin welfare state) said: "America always spoils its own image by doing something like this. What is the advantage of showing these bodies? Didn't they think about the humanitarian aspect? About their mother and the rest of their family when they see these images."

This is shameless.

Shameless.

"Humanitarian aspect." Uh ... hey there, Saudi-Man, I seem to recall that your country locked up girls in a burning building because they didn't have veils on, causing them all to expire. Don't you DARE lecture to us. Don't you DARE.

One last infuriating quote, and then I'm outta here:

"Mohammad Emara, an Egyptian Islamist scholar, told Al Jazeera television that displaying the bodies publicly was against Islamic Sharia law. 'Under Islamic law this is rejected.'"

Uh, okay, Mohammad, let me talk slowly: From what I understand, suicide is also "rejected" under your beloved Islamic law. And yet, Muslim people are blowing themselves up left and right across the desert boulevards.

You're just latching onto one teeny thing to complain about, you want to CATCH the big great America in some teeny hypocrisy, you want to leap out from behind the bushes and scream: A-HA, and watch the giant US crumple in a defeated ball of self-revelatory shame.

Wouldn't that make life so easy for you? Then you wouldn't have to look at yourself, you wouldn't have to examine your own society, you wouldn't have to actually LISTEN.

Every country is guilty of hypocrisy, of not living up to its own principles. I realize that. Nobody's soul is completely pure. Everybody fails, to some degree, to live up to expectations.

I just am sick and tired of being lectured to by these freaks who want the rest of us to join them in the 7th century.

Rant over.

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The Arabs should be happy we didn't wrap them in bacon. Mmm . . . bacon.

Posted by Matthew on July 25, 2003 at 7:10 PM


This is a society that gathers to watch beheadings, yes? Or is that just our good friends the Saudis?

Posted by James Joyner on July 25, 2003 at 7:13 PM


I wonder if these idiots realise that every time they open their mouths we lose a bit more respect for them?

Toss people in the chipper shredder and they'll still have relations with you....show the corpse of a criminal, and they're all fainting like Victorian-era ladies....geesh!

Posted by Mark Noonan on July 25, 2003 at 7:25 PM


Wait, aren't these the same Arabs who rush to the scene of an Israeli missile attack in order to grab up pieces of the terrorist who was just blown away? The same Arabs who cover their hands with the blood of slain Israelis and hold them up for all the world to see? Just search around LGF a little, I'm sure you can come up with the pictures.

And we're bad for showing pictures in order to prove to these 10th Century wannabes that two mass-murdering pigs are dead?

Posted by Bill McCabe on July 25, 2003 at 7:25 PM


Wow.

Posted by CJ on July 25, 2003 at 8:16 PM


Nice rant. Fifteen Saudis, tho.

Posted by Chad on July 25, 2003 at 9:18 PM


Chad's right I think. The other four were from elsewhere.

By the way, in parts of the Arab world, it's not unusual to behead a vanquished enemy, put his head in a sack, and play polo with it.

(Ah, I'm enjoying watching her drive, aren't you gang?)

Posted by Dean Esmay on July 25, 2003 at 11:21 PM


Did the civil servant you're quoting fly a plane into the WTC, or put girls into burning buildings, or blow himself up left and right across desert boulevards?

Posted by dowingba on July 26, 2003 at 12:25 AM


I'm with you Dean! How DARE they lecture us...about anything. And excuse me, would these not be the same people who show the bodies of OUR military fatalities all over the media after THEY shoot or blow them up?

Posted by Candy on July 26, 2003 at 1:00 AM


Please see also this.

Posted by Francis W. Porretto on July 26, 2003 at 10:10 AM


Ah yes. Of course. It was only 15 Saudis. I knew it was a majority of the maniacs. I should have checked on the actual figure before ranting away like a mad-woman.

Posted by red on July 26, 2003 at 12:23 PM


Why don't we say that, because they were both adulterers, we were trying to drop a wall on them?

Posted by Frank DiSalle on July 26, 2003 at 12:44 PM


15 saudis, 4 egyptians

Posted by Steve on July 26, 2003 at 7:15 PM


The most shocking thing was the "undertaker's art" done on both of them, which proved to many Muslims that the Americans could make any dead body look like Uday and Ouday. Amnday!

Posted by howard e. morseburg on July 28, 2003 at 3:33 AM


Yeah, all Arabs are bloodthirsty and have no sense of decency. Yup. Sure.

Is it just as accurate to say that all Southerners are barefoot, inbred, goat-fucking illiterate cross-burners?

You might want to examine your terms and clarify them a bit, because some of you are coming off like racist morons.

Posted by John Kusch on July 30, 2003 at 12:41 AM


Yup. Saudis are the same as Iraqis, which are the same as Iranians, which are the same as Palestinians. Just ask them -- they'll tell you so.

Posted by John Kusch on July 30, 2003 at 12:43 AM


I'm not certain "Arab" counts as a race, per se. More of a location.

Posted by Jonathan on July 31, 2003 at 2:02 PM


Ignorance is evil. We can disagree on some principles but still agree on the bigger issue. Two wrongs don't make a right. I condem terrorism when it happens by either fanatics or a terrorist government like that of Israel. Please wake up and smell the coffee. Dig deep in the issue and you will know whow is the underdog.

Posted by HH on August 12, 2003 at 4:53 PM


YOu Fucking Arabs are the GARBAGE of this earth, especially the abysmally stupid Palestinian scrotes. FUCK OFF, die and get Cancer you worthless SCUM.

Posted by Arab Hater on August 21, 2003 at 7:47 AM


Arab Hater...
U r fucking crazy and have no clue what u r talking about. Should i stereotype wherever the fuck u are from. I have lived in saudi arabia for 10 years, and am not even saudi... but i am totally in angst at your guys' bloody single mindedness...u think all arabs are bad?? u think israel is right?? get ur bloody facts straight, ur heads out of ur asses, get involved in international relations, and learn about the history...ur bullshit remarks and stereotypes is what causes problems in this world...

Posted by mellowvibez on October 07, 2003 at 1:25 AM


Fuck all arabs.. if there were less of them in the world.. there would be less problems. Let the palestinians, saudis, iranians, iraqis, and any other arabs from whereever the fuck they came from all burn in hell. And fuck all of you pussies who think that trying to understand them better will help. Understand this: arabs only understand one thing.. that is the way of the sword. So show it to all of them.. and let them taste death until not one arab coachroach exists on this earth who doesnt realize that peace is the ONLY way to prosper.. not murder and useless ideology of the 2 fucking century.
GIVE THEM DEATH I SAY>>> ALL OF THEM!!!

Posted by Don Juan on November 16, 2003 at 7:26 PM


Fucking arab peasants are the problem with the world. They need to be exterminated like roaches,, not understood. Along with the liberal pussies who want to defend them all. I say, death to all of them. Fuck Palestine, fuck saudi arabia, fuck iran, fuck iraq, and fuck you if you dont agree with me!!

Posted by Arabs are scum on November 16, 2003 at 7:29 PM


Yeah, I love Arabs. I read in the news today about a Palestinian mother who murdered her own daughter because the girl's brothers had raped her. The girl wouldn't kill herself to preserve "family honor" so the mother took it upon herself. Guess how much time the cunt gets in jail? 5 years. I don't need to say anything to make Arabs look bad, because they do it themselves just by existing. What kind of culture says it's okay for a woman to murder her own children? Although, if the ragheads keep killing their own children, eventually they'll all die out. And I'm sure we'll all be shedding bitter tears about that.

Posted by Arab Lover on November 22, 2003 at 11:28 AM


Islam is a gutter religion. Muslim women are whores who become slaves to men because they're too stupid to be anything else. Muslim men are ugly, hairy and evil. Have you ever been in a cab with one driving? OD'ing on cheap cologne doesn't cover up the fact that they haven't bathed in three weeks. Muslims are living proof that Darwin's theory is right...some humans really are descended from monkeys, and Mohammed was the original monkey. I have it on good authority that Mohammed liked to fuck goats in the ass and then eat whatever came out when he pulled his dick out. He had a harem of little boys to lick his balls clean after he finished. The Palestinians are the direct descendents of those boys.

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