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HONOUR DEFENDED
Meant to link to this earlier:
As an Indymedia commenter says: “There is much laughter at the location and title of the event.” Which is obviously a prank; neither organiser “Melvin Kassam” nor the “Rachel Corrie Memorial Committee” turn up in Google searches. Still, who needs gags when this is available:
Sheik Muhsen Al-’Awaji: Before Islam, the Arabs fought for 40 years to defend the honor of a female camel. This was in the Busous War. A female camel was humiliated, and a 40-year war ensued to defend its honor. So what about the honor of the Prophet?
Interviewer: Are you proud of this?!
Besides stunned silence, that’s about the only response an interviewer might reasonably have been expected to come up with.
“Remember, Gentlemen, we are fighting for the honor of this camel—which is more than she ever did.”—Al Groucho ibn Marx.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 03 07 at 09:22 AM • permalinkA 40 year war because some scuzball screwed a camel? Good Lord! And now they want to go nuclear. Great. Atomic powered, camel screwing, frothing-at-the-mouth cartoon burning, decapitating, burqa wearing, AK-47 toting, manical defenders if the prophet. It’s either the dawn of WWIII or the makings of a Monty Python parody.
Maybe the Sheik should go out for some pancakes, eh?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 03 07 at 10:29 AM • permalinkAgamemnon fought a war because Paris was humping his luscious wife. The Arabs fight a war because somebody humpes some guys camel. Go figure.
Paris was actually humping Helen the luscious wife of Agamemnon’s brother Menelaus. Agamemnon’s own wife Clytemnestra (half-sister of Helen) was humped by Aegisthus while Agamemnon was away fighting the war.
i think he was born out a camels arse, that’s why he has inherited the shitty ideas he has. And is allowed to teach people his religion? Just a load of bollocks, let him be with his camel bride.
Posted by artful-dodger on 2006 03 07 at 10:38 AM • permalink#19: That ain’t what Sheik Moose-in-the-Wash said. If the dishonored camel was male, “Joe” sure wasn’t responsible; he may play the corral when it comes to lady camels, but he’s as straight as an arrow otherwise.
In fact, I’m beginning to wonder whether the truth didn’t get garbeled somehow in translation.
I’m trying to work “bi-cameral” and “two-humps” into a joke here folks, but it just isn’t happening.
Guess I picked the wrong day to stop snorting myrrh.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 03 07 at 12:53 PM • permalinkRachel Corrie Pancake Breakfast
You’ve GOT to be kidding…
TV (Harry)
Posted by Inspector Callahan on 2006 03 07 at 02:14 PM • permalinkAs they say in the arab world:
Women for breeding
Camels for fun
Posted by David Crawford on 2006 03 07 at 03:58 PM • permalinkMoney quote:
The Palestinians are a people with far less claim to historical legitimacy than the Klingons. Idiots like Rachel Corrie are like geeks who go to summer camp to learn to speak Klingon, but wind up playing with live phaser guns. Note the Klingons were created by TV scriptwriters 1966-67 as the alien nemesis to the Starship Enterprise, a full TV season before scriptwriters at the Kremlin invented the equally fictitious “Palestinians” right after the 1967 Israeli victory.
Just wondering—will Corrie’s memorial stone cairn be lifted into place by a Catepillar? At least the stone won’t know it’s supposed to get out of the way of a slow-moving bulldozer, and won’t be used to plug a hole full of terrorist weapons smuggled in by Corrie’s fellow Nazis and other comrade scum.
One of the most interesting links on that page is the one that suggests Rachel Corrie was deliberately led to death by the ISM/Palestinians for propaganda purposes.
An intriguing theory.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2006 03 07 at 05:03 PM • permalinkPoor girl. Raving nutcase, I know, but geez it’s a shame when a young girl with her life ahead of her throws it away like that. God forbid that any of my kids grow up to be activists. :-(
Posted by Mr Snuffalupagus on 2006 03 07 at 05:50 PM • permalinkMmmmm, battered and crushed. <drool>.
Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2006 03 07 at 06:55 PM • permalinkHaven’t seen anything about Bulldozer Girl for a long time. Tough to make a hero out of somebody dumb enough to get in front of a humongo moving machine.
Posted by Peter Boston on 2006 03 07 at 07:22 PM • permalinkWell as the ad stated
I’d walk a mile for a Camel....NOW we know why.The Busous War otherwise known as the Al-Basoos War
One [war]that continued 40 years is known in Arab history as the Al-Basoos War. Al-Basoos was the name of a famous she-camel known for its speed in camel racing, which Arabs did in those days. The tribe organizing the race ambushed Al-Basoos so the tribe that owned it would lose. The plot was discovered and war erupted between the two tribes, continuing for 40 years. Many people from the two tribes and their allies died in the war.I commented that she must have been a very, very pretty camel but further reading would suggest she was very, very fast….maybe that’s the same thing to an Arab.
The Arabs have a proverb…As jinxed as Al Basoos and I don’t wonder why
Posted by KevGillett on 2006 03 07 at 09:56 PM • permalinkHere is the translation of a french camel joke:
Pierre was lost in the desert and found a watering place with a camel. After a long, long time Pierre was very, very hornie as they say, and the camel appeared more and more beautiful as time went on. Finally, he could not restrain himself, as they say. He tried to dishonour the camel, but it would move itself out of the way. For many days he tried, without success. Then, some days later he saw in the distance a beautiful girl, most sensual and sexy and a lion was about to attack her. He raced to her defense, but not before the lion had torn the girls clothes terribly revealing her in all her beauty. He fought the lion valiantly and killed it. “Oh, monsieur, you have saved my life” she said, “I am yours, ask of me anything, anything, and I will do it!” He said, “Tenez le chameau!”.Pierre started at a new fort and at revily discovered that the fort’s camels outnumbered the men ten to one.
The commandant dismissed the men for a day’s leave at which point they all sprinted madly for the camels. Pierre asked a legionaire “What are we running for, there’s lots of camels?”. Came the reply, “Well, you don’t want to get an ugly one”.
Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2006 03 07 at 10:34 PM • permalinkThere used to be the coolest Joe Camel sign on Times Square. Blew smoke rings and everything.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 03 07 at 10:42 PM • permalinkPierre started at another new fort. Upon arrival he asked his sergeant what the men did when their romantic urges became too much. The sergeant led him outside to a courtyard and pointed to a raggedy old camel, saying “We just use the camel”. Horrified (despite being involved in many camel jokes), Pierre refused all thought of such a thing.
However, weeks later his urges were overwhelming and he was struggling with the temptation. Finally, he couldn’t hold back and ran naked into the courtyard and started banging the somewhat surprised camel.
His sergeant walked past and exploded with anger “What the hell do you think you’re doing?”. Pierre replied, “But you said to just use the camel if we had the urge!”. Came the reply, “Yeah - to ride to the brothel in town, you idiot!”.
Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2006 03 07 at 11:09 PM • permalinkThe agayl, the double black rope thing Saudi “men” wear around their heads, are actually camel hobbles. They’re indispensable, really: you try humping a camel that’s free to move—she’ll drag you all the way to Mecca. Yasser Arafat’s mother was a camel: you had only to look at him to see that.
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2006 03 08 at 05:38 AM • permalink#48 Do you have a problem with publicly discussing in appropriate terms the bigot Sheik Muhsen Al-’Awaji? Do you suggest that we have a serious intellectual and pedantic exchange of academic papers concerning this rediculous man and his views? If so, I offer this professorial deconstruction of his statement quoted above. “If you think we were stupid to fight a war for forty years over a female camel, think of how much more stupid we are to burn, slash, maim and kill over a cartoon.”
Practically all excuses for war and killing are lunacy.
I will not even go into the list of excuses/wars started by freedom loving democracies to protect and defend the people they subsequently “collateralised as damage”
If you read the presented truncated transcript, it is clear what the man is trying to point out.
It is an odd but an effective way to do it, if you can look past your own knee jerk racism and xenophobiaLarrikin 35
they’re still fighting over the goat
Laugh while-a you can, monkey boy!
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 03 08 at 05:47 PM • permalinkDreyfuze, you said:
...defend the people they subsequently “collateralised as damage”...
If by “collateralised”, you meant “collateralized”, how do you secure a loan with damaged people? Or do you mean for damage people? ;-P
Perhaps you meant “collateral damage”?
Not that I want to be pendatic or anything like that, but if you are going to use big words, you should know what they mean. Adults refer to this as “maintaining your credibility”.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 03 08 at 06:43 PM • permalinkThat’s the left for you. Nothing left but agitprop. The left wasn’t always so anti-racist. It’s just a favorite wedge issue for them. A leftist runs out, screams “racist!,” then sometimes, like a drunken binge-drinker, adds a senseless tables-turned remark, stands there glaring with mindless hatred (he or she being all heart), and hopes that some random passerby or two among the crowd will believe it.
Remark: “Stalin embraced Lysenkoism in the project to make the Soviet Union the breeding ground of a new, higher racial species, ‘the New Soviet Man.’”
Commie response: “You’re a racist and an oppressor of women!!”
Remark: “Marx hated the Jews and often disparaged individuals as Jews.”
Commie response: “How could Marx hate the Jews, he was a Jew, you twit! You’re a nazi! Nazi! Nazi!”
Remark: “Scholarly researchers, themselves leftists, have established that Communist governments killed somewhere between 85 million and 100 million of their own citizens during the 20th Century.”
Commie response: “All that proves is that you’re a racist and a fascist and capitalism has killed a billion people!”
Clue for Dreyfuze: Camel jokes are not “racist.” They are “speciesist.”
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 03 09 at 06:06 PM • permalink
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How do you humiliate a camel?
You hump it.