Shabula's Danish Release Draws Fire
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Shabula's Danish Release Draws Fire
By Wesam Al-Dowaik, IOL Correspondent
IN ARABIC
http://www.islamonline.net/Arabic/news/2006-03/19/article04.shtml
CAIRO, March 22, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) - A famous Egyptian pop singer,
seeking to defend Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) against
the lampooning Danish cartoons, has made a new release, drawing rebukes over
insults he included against Danes in the new release.
"Shaaban Abdul Rahim's new song showed nothing of the values of Islam or
morals of Prophet Muhammad," Raqiah Galal, an Egyptian psychologist, told
IslamOnline.net.
Shaaban, nicknamed by his fans as Shabula, made his new release "We've Run
Out of Patience" in the wake of the row caused by the Danish publication of
the Prophet cartoons.
"We're fed up but there is no solution ahead," says the Egyptian singer.
"Now insults are directed against our religion and Prophet."
But the song lyrics went on to insult the Danish people for the cartoon
publication.
"Mohamed is the Messenger of Allah
"They want to blemish his image, those inferior and dunderhead.
"What is Denmark.It is a homeland of cows."
"Our response to the Danish insults must go in line with the values we are
seeking to defend," media expert Dr. Safwat Al-Alem said.
"We have to project our values but without insulting others."
Last September, Denmark's mass circulation daily Jyllands-Posten ran 12
cartoons lampooning Prophet Muhammad.
Reprinted by many European countries, one of the cartoons showed the Prophet
wearing a bomb-shaped turban and another showed him as a knife-wielding
nomad flanked by shrouded women.
The drawings, considered blasphemous under Islam, have triggered massive and
sometimes violent demonstrations across the Muslim world.
Negative
Galal said the song was nothing but a bid to release the Muslim anger over
the insulting cartoons.
"It only meant to release people's anger over the publication but in a way
of making the other look like inferior."
The song's author defended the release though.
"We preferred to express our anger in words instead of staging protests in
which properties of ours and the others are harmed," Islam Khalil said.
"We replied to the Danish mishandling of art (cartoons) by another kind of
art to help ease people's anger."
The song has been drawing high turnout among the Egyptian people.
"I bought Shaaban's new release to listen to the song," Samir, 49, told IOL.
"I bought it as way to express my anger over the insulting Danish cartoons."
He admitted that the new release included insults against the Danish people.
"But it reflected the scale of anger among the Muslim people."
Insulting Words
Mas'oud Sabry of IOL's Sharia`ah section said the new song has positive and
negative sides.
"What was positive in the song was that it rejected insults.
"It also showed that insults against the Prophet is rejected by all peoples
and that differences among peoples don't permit insults."
But Sabry hit out at the song's insults against the Danes.
"It included insulting words that every Muslim should avoid even during
times of differences with others."
Shaaban Abdul Rahim has jumped to the forefront of megastars among Egypt's
populace in recent years.
He ran a series of songs dealing with political issues such as "I hate
Israel" and "Hey Arab Leaders".
http://islamonline.net/English/News/2006-03/22/article02.shtml
Also read:
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http://islamonline.net/English/News/2006-02/19/article06.shtml
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