British rapper Shaikh Terra has a hit about "Dirty Kuffar" (Unbelievers). The music video is posted on the website of a Saudi exile in the U.K., Muhammad al-Massari, and selling like hotcakes. In the video, Terra says he wants to see Bush and Blair "thrown on the fire."

Osama bin Laden is praised, 9/11 celebrated, and Rice and Powell referred to as "still slaves." al-Massari, who runs the Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Rights in Saudi Arabia, says not to worry, though. "I believe the lyrics are only metaphorical. It is not like this is a fatwa."

Aljazeera reports the video "finishes with images of the hijacked planes flying into the World Trade Centre towers in New York with sounds of the rappers laughing." Sounds pretty metaphorical, all right.

Via Burton Terrace.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at February 13, 2004 10:11 AM

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