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Iraq preachers demand release of Bush shoe attacker
Reuters
Friday, December 19, 2008
Muslim preachers from both sides of Iraq’s once-bloody Sunni-Shi’ite divide appealed to the government on Friday to release the journalist who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush.
The family of TV reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi, meanwhile, protested at an entrance to the heavily-fortified Green Zone in Baghdad where they believe he is being held in a hospital after being badly injured during his arrest.
At Baghdad’s main Shi’ite mosque, al-Kadhum, preacher Mohammed al-Shami leading Friday prayers demanded that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki free Zaidi.
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“We hold them responsible for his safety,” the preacher said. “They are responsible for his life, his health and psychological condition.”
At Baghdad’s main Sunni Arab mosque, preacher Abu-Hanifa asked Maliki for an explanation.
“From this place we call on the prime minister and ask him, ‘Tell us why you have detained a person who made such a heroic and fair act? A stand that all of us should have taken a long time ago’,” Uthman Raheem said in his sermon. “Why do you detain a man who stood up in the face of injustice?”
Fighting between minority Sunni Arabs who dominated Iraq under Saddam Hussein and the majority Shi’ite Arabs now in ascendancy killed thousands of people during the bloodshed unleashed by the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
The violence has finally begun to die down even though suicide and car bomb blasts, many attributed to Sunni Islamist al Qaeda, remain routine.
The cause of the journalist who also called Bush a “dog” at the news conference in Baghdad where he threw his shoes, narrowly missing the president, has bridged Iraq’s divides.
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December 19th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
THIS MAN IS MY NEW HERO.
LUV THE PIX OF THE KID WITH A SHOE ALSO, YOU COULDN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP !
December 19th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Why do i have a vision in my head of this ending up like the bit in life of brian when there’s loads of people, each holding a shoe in the air, running round trying to find their new messiah.
Well, maybe not, but he sure seems to have managed to unite the people of iraq in a manner not seen since long before saddam hussein came to power, and he may have missed with the shoes, but despite that i reckon he could still deal bush & co a very painful blow.
December 19th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
US Constitution Is Not Inspired By Divinity
It’s striking that so few truly understand the basis of our Constitution. Arguments that the Constitution is somehow a divinely-inspired document show either a lack of education as to the ideas and principles behind the tenets of the document, or a deliberate attempt to pervert the true intent of the philosophies behind the Constitution. In no way are the Constitution or the Bill of Rights Christian documents. The philosophical underpinnings of each of these documents stem from Locke and Cooke, primarily Locke.
Read the rest – http://beholdtheforce.blogspot.com/
December 19th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Alex, Lets start a Shoe Bomb!! (pun intended)
We can collect the shoes and have our patriot friends in Washington DC throw them over the White House fence. Or we could have MANY protesters throw them at Bush wherever he speaks.
Remember people, a riot is what a tyrannt calls a revolution!!!
December 19th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Announcing the shoes for liberty campaign. Mail or ship you unwanted shoes to the president. Don’t limit it to bush. If BHO (pronounced B-HO) proves to be an enemy of liberty, give him the shoe.
December 19th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
The Iraqis have their response and this is the U.S. Clergy response to national Police State
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....A&NR=1
news story
Preachers agree to cooperate with government and use Bible verses to calm the people (in to submission?)
December 19th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
And so, it begins.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
I agree,let him go,
This guy has managed to bring 2 tribes together in agreement for the first time in a thousands years war that these people forgot was about,if they agree on this,maybe there’s hope after all…besides,everybody knows Bush deserved it.So how about starting a petition anyone?
What’s the e-mail to the Iraqi head department,I’ll get to the bottom of this..
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December 19th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
2008 time magazine man of the year: Muntazer al-Zaidi
for display of amazing courage and heroic action in a time of grief and dispear for the iraqi people suffering under american government tyranny.
December 20th, 2008 at 5:08 am
Practice makes perfect:
http://play.sockandawe.com
December 20th, 2008 at 6:41 am
We need to teach these people some new ways to insult each other. The shoe thing is pretty lame. How about you camel fuckers or pig fuckers.
December 20th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Let me get this straight….Man A throws his shoes at Man B’s head. Man B was directly responsible for the deaths of Millions in Man A’s country. The murderer, Man A, walks the earth free and dim. Man B goes to jail. How could the problem be more obvious? There is no Rule Of Law anymore. Whoa to these motherfuckers in high places…..I would not want to be in their shoes when they stand before the ultimate judge. That day draws closer. When it arrives, they will be offered No Quarter.
December 20th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Well Eric, had you payed attention you’d have noticed that he threw “both” shoes at Hitler, I mean Bush. So I guess now he’s shoeless.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Man, he fired a couple nice fastballs. Too bad he missed. Im sure he could secure a spot on some MLB team with that arm. Just wish he would have nailed him right in the face. Id still be bustin a gut. Hope they let him go, he was just showing the frustration of the entire Iraqi nation.