OK. POETRY STILL SUCKS. BUT RAP SUCKS WORSE.
Dirty Kuffar-S-1
Samina Malik: frequently asked "Why the long face?", avid reader of the Mujahideen's Poison Handbook, lyrical grenade thrower and poseur (i.e. "living") martyr.
HOW TO BEHEAD
It's not as messy or as hard as some may think
To push another spoken word artist to the brink
It's all about the flow of the wrist
and getting all y'all homeys on the guest list
Sharpen the knife to its maximum
Drop that shit like its platinum
And before you begin to cut the flesh
Jump or slide or do some dorky move to your left
Saw the knife back and forth
Maybe listen to some Cannibal Corpse
No doubt that the punk will twitch and scream
Just make sure you keep your Jordans clean
Oh, yeah, ignore the donkey's ass
Slice up his neck with some culinary math
You'll feel the knife hit the wind and food pipe
Tear up that shit like Wesley Snipes
Continue with all your might
About now you should feel the knife vibrate
Cuz the players play and the haters hate
You can feel the warm heat being given off
And the redundancy "warm heat" speaks of
But this is due to the friction being caused
Of my motherfucking shotgun cuz its sawed-off
YEaaaaaahhhh boyyyyyeee!!!!
I think almost everything that is wrong with music and Los Angeles is in this picture. Obnoxious fashion statements, intentionally silly raps and ubiquitous digital camera (blogger)s.
Voiceover: "The self-styled lyrical terrorist burst into tears in the dock as the guilty verdict was read out. She claimed her poetry and ramblings about beheadings and martyrdom were just a way of making her feel cool, but the jury thought them much more sinister."
Jonathan Sharp, prosecuting, told the court the defendant liked to be known as the "lyrical terrorist" or "a stranger awaiting martyrdom".
"She is a committed Islamic extremist, who supports terrorism and terrorists.
"She had a library of material that she had collected for terrorist purposes.
"That collection would be extremely useful for someone planning terrorist activity."
The court heard how police raided her home in Southall, West London, after an email from her was found on the computer of a terror suspect in October last year.
She had a profile on the social networking website Hi-5, where she called for the execution of "depraved" Westerners .
The British-born Muslim listed her interests as helping the Mujahideen "in any way I can".
She also wrote of how she enjoyed video messages from Osama Bin Laden and "videos that showed massacres of the kuffars", or non-Muslims.
posted by westolowski at 8:27 PM
12 Comments:
the reid drama only adds to the Fan Value Experience... where we do slaughter you btw.
hehe, good point, finn.
I see your fan value experience and I raise you 5 Super Bowl rings.
And just wait two years for the new Dallas stadium....
That rapper lady is just crazy. Who cares really. I think its ashame that a UK court convicted her of a crime - in the US the prosecution would have a tougher time overcoming the protections of the first amendment.
America rocks because we give people the freedom even to voice their hate of America. We keep the punishment for disloyal speech supra-legal (enforced by cultural norms) rather than legal. This is the best way I think...
I have a new macbook which likes to overzealously automatically fill in my full name when ever I start typing the first few letters of it.
I think my comments shall just remain anonymous from now on.. being that I'm now a paranoid lawyer and all.. lol
Anonymous, thanks for posting with reckless abandon and I wholeheartedly agree with you that America Rocks. It may have more to do with who my friends are than it has to do with women in general, but I'll say it is refreshing to hear pro-Americanism from the opposite gender.
Also, if it appears as though I suggested that the "lyrical terrorist" should be in jail, I apologize. I agree, I don't think she committed a single crime. Putting people like her in jail would be a scary development.
Then again, I am concerned about young people like her. Much moreso than gangsta rappers (which is such a painful term to type).
She displays many of the traits of those who have murdered indiscriminately in the name of Islam. Maybe house arrest is taking things too far, but some kind of surveillance (and eventual intervention--deportation perhaps?) is needed.
Nah. If she rapped that crap in the US, people would shun her and her tracks would sell worse than 50 cents stuff. Thats punishment 'nuff in the rap world...
See in U.S. minorities aren't are marginalized as they are in Europe (at least not on the east coast). I think this is why arabs here would dis on her raps because most arab-americans are actually pretty damn thrilled to live in the US - the "American" dream and class mobility isn't an illusory promise.. even today admist the unfair tax laws favoring legacy wealth and punishing the working wealthy...
As long as we apply the constitution equally to all people, we uphold the rule of law and maintain its authority in the land - authority that will be recognized by everyone because ideally, it will be truely fair - the quid pro quo social contract...
I'm not disagreeing with you, but why do you think minorites are more marginalized in Europe?
Do you think women or blacks or Latinos or Asians have fewer rights or less upward mobility in Europe? And if so, why? I guess I may be fishing for reasons why the American system is superior to the European...specifically with regards to naturalization/assimilation.
I would agree that most Arab-Americans are happy to live in the U.S., even if I don't think any of them would verbalize that they are "thrilled."
The problem, I think, is that the minority of Arab immigrants in Europe and America who aren't happy, show their distaste for Western culture violently, as opposed to all other immigrant groups.
And thanks for not being cynical about the American Dream.
On Clattery MacHinery on Poetry, there is a call for poetic license, for freedom:
World Samina Malik Day December 6th
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Thanks for the link, Rus. And I want to apologize again for the apparent insinuation that Malik belongs in jail.
On the other hand, she absolutely doesn't deserve a holiday in her name. Its a ridiculous idea....and it would be unthinkable in the Middle East. Malik may have wept at her trial, but she certainly would be crying for days if she were deported and forced to live under sha'ria law.
The problem, of course, is moral equivalence. We cannot equate Malik's writing with the "Parable of the Old Men and Young" or "Butter and Eggs." Malik's violent culture-war fantasies are not the same as a poem including the description of a man killing his son or some innocuous cooking instructions.
The most glaring fallacy in Clattery MacHinery's post is the following:
Samina Malik was affected by the videos of beheading that were on the web, and decided to try her hand at the horror genre.
Please. This is simply not true. Even Malik admitted herself that she was simply trying to be cool. She wanted to look tough and to impress "male users." And I believe her. She had no artistic or poetic ambition.
Well, Malik is going to need to find a way to "be cool" without advocating beheadings and attempting to donate money to terrorist groups all while working at Heathrow.
Offensive speech needs to be protected. Absolutely. But I don't agree that Malik's writing is merely offensive when coupled with her other activities and interests.
The reality is that Muslim extremism is destroying lives globally. And what can we do about rescuing children from falling into extremism? Do we wait until they blow up trains or drive cars into airports? In what major way does Malik differentiate herself from other Muslim extremists in the U.K. who were "cool" enough to actually commit violent acts?
The sad part about academics and bloggers and journalists who want to put a blind 1st amendment stamp on everything is that they lose their ability to see the true, noble heroes of free speech. Such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali. As she bounces from country to country in fear of her life because she simply criticized Islam (i.e. has not advocated violence, only become an apostate) I hear no one on the left suggesting a holiday in her name.
High-minded liberals in the West will "protect" free speech at the cost of their very lives. And its silly. All the energies spent on bringing attention to Malik's prosecution would be better spent on condemning Muslim extremism and eradicating any foothold of sha'ria law.
Hi W.
Thanks for reading the post, and adding such a response into your thread. This is one of my favorites that I linked to, because of the point of view.
In my weekly column, I bring to the fore articles from around the world, and seek out those of poets who are imprisoned in their countries--such as U Win Tin in Burma, Taslima Nasreen in Pakistan, Abbas Lesani in Israel, and this past week, along with Malik, Shmuel Yerushalmi in Israel. Each week, usually multiple times, I read such sites as Radio Free Asia and Reporters Without Borders.
But what is it all about, if it isn't about allowing us regular people the freedom that these Aung San Suu Kyi's of the world represent, struggle and suffer for. They represent us who aren't so talented. What are the wars for, the peaceful demonstrations all for, but for someone like Samina Malik to be able to write bad poetry, to sing even if out of tune, because even still we're singers here?
She tried her hand at the horror genre. Sure, she may have been trying to pick up guys too, and live her genre vis a vis Kerouac--multiple motives as we all have with anything we undertake. What was she thinking when she was crafting her poems--that her poetry was to find some shock value in its reading, that it would be appreciated by its audience, that it would somehow make a contribution to its niche, and be freshly creative? By the way, I mention that she is an advanced beginner, and one reason is that her voice, even if not developed, is consistent. It now needs to mature.
Some Muslim sites that I looked into, do not like how she represents Jihad. And if I were her father, I would wonder what on earth I could do to bring her to focus her energies elsewhere. It seems she cannot please anyone. Speaking of the father, we can read the Owen poem "Parable of the Old Men and the Young", as if the father is the establishment, and Old England is killing its young--against better judgment.
I am calling for a holiday for all of us, even those crazy liberals you speak of, that we be able to write what we want, follow the creative stars of the moment and the times, that in our homes, we are able to download what is there to click onto, that each of us have this freedom all over the world. This is, after all, what the great freedom fighters have been fighting for. Now that it is near our grasp, let's take it: December 6th. And trhen let's hold on tight for as long as we can.
Thanks for the forum.
Yours,
Rus
Rus, thanks for reading.
And thanks for bringing attention to U Win Tin, Taslima Nasreen, Abbas Lesani, Shmuel Yerushalmi and Aung San Suu Kyi.
I just can't put Malik in the same category as them. I can't imagine those individuals (at least those still alive) writing or saying or advocating anything close to "How To Behead." ...Even if the poem were about Muslim fundamentalists.
Whereas they may agree Malik should not be jailed, I'm sure they would demure at the idea of a holiday in her name.
And, I'm sorry, but we'll have to agree to disagree that Malik was venturing into the "horror genre." Was that your idea, Rus, or did the defense team make a similar suggestion?
Hi W.,
I have a hunch she was not defended strongly enough, either that or the lynch mob against her was just to powerful for any team to overcome.
I am not at all comparing Samina to incarcerated freedom fighters. This seems to be a train of thought that others come up with as they try to work an idea through. In New England, we should have a day for Tom Brady at the end of the season, but this would not mean that he is a freedom fighter out to change the world for good.
What we will be doing, is being the freedom fighters oursleves. It's our turn. We take the hat, not Samina. That she is not glorified is the point. She is only us. She goes online, downloads, and writes. Should we do this on your sentencing day, not to glorify you, but to free you?
What are you doing December 6th?
Yours,
Rus
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