The world’s first Wahhabist music video
posted at 9:26 am on August 13, 2007 by Allahpundit
The plot, such as it is, is exactly what you’d expect it to be: five times a day, sucka, or you’ll lose your girl and just maybe end up semi-conscious on the asphalt after Allah takes revenge. The combo of establishment mores and an anti-establishment medium reminds me of the Simpsons’ take on Canadian graffiti: “Obey the rules.”
The scene where our hero is caught macking on a Riyadh hottie appears to take place in a mall. Er, is that legal?
Update: Bill Ardolino e-mails: “That video isn’t wahhabist. It looks like a reaction specifically tailored to the army of rich arab trust fund babies that drink, smoke and drag race souped up automobiles from stop light to stop light while acting like part of Paris Hilton’s entourage.”
Update: Here’s something else that’s running on Saudi TV right now. Click the image to watch.











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So, it is pretty much like the Muslim version of “My Name Is Earl”?
nailinmyeye on August 13, 2007 at 9:32 AM
Didn’t realize that Islam was for the castration of men. Move over Michael Jackson
400lb Gorilla on August 13, 2007 at 9:36 AM
Is non-religious music even legal in Saudi Arabia?
Number 2 on August 13, 2007 at 9:38 AM
A shame the ultra-strict Muslim clerics who tried to have television banned from Saudi Arabia failed.
Over-ruled by the blaspheming heretics who now run the place.
A pity they didn’t ban contact with any infidel technology.
From soccer balls to malls.
profitsbeard on August 13, 2007 at 9:42 AM
Sounds like a cat dying.
TheSitRep on August 13, 2007 at 9:44 AM
Only terrorists use Macbooks.
MadisonConservative on August 13, 2007 at 9:44 AM
Count on the Saudis to put a sheet on a monkey and call it a cleric.
thejackal on August 13, 2007 at 9:54 AM
Oh dude. Why the fightin’ words?
nailinmyeye on August 13, 2007 at 9:54 AM
Over 70 rules for urination and defecation?
nailinmyeye on August 13, 2007 at 9:58 AM
So today’s lesson is, use an Apple and ride a motorcycle and you’ll start wearing colored underwear, urinating in your pants and your nasty wife will leave you.
This guy’s problems really started when his wife hung up on him and he didn’t go home and stone her with his biker pals. He forgot “The Law”.
Hening on August 13, 2007 at 10:01 AM
I like the fact he wears a shirt with “PROGRESSIVE” emblazoned across the front of it… that’s right, stray from the path and live your life all f00ked up, and you’re “Progressive”. I like it.
Othger than that, the video sucks. But that’s to be expected. Everything Islamic does.
SilverStar830 on August 13, 2007 at 10:02 AM
I laughed at the part where his ‘wife’ throws down her ring, yea, like she’d,
1) be out by herself.
2) have the ability to decide anything involving her husband.
4shoes on August 13, 2007 at 10:05 AM
My boss is an IPerson. The battles may end, but the war goes on.
MadisonConservative on August 13, 2007 at 10:05 AM
“Progressive”?
Can he get me a good price on insurance?
Or does that thwart the will of Allah?
profitsbeard on August 13, 2007 at 10:22 AM
That video isn’t wahhabist. It looks like a conservative religious reaction/appeal very specifically tailored to the army of rich arab trust fund babies that drink, smoke and drag race suped-up automobiles from stop light to stop light while wearing euro-shades and acting like part of Paris Hilton’s entourage. They are the “eurotrash” or “chavs” of the Arab world; it’s really common in the rich, peaceful countries.
One filipino worker – part of the servant class – in Kuwait told me “this generation of kids is gonna be messed up, man.”
BillINDC on August 13, 2007 at 10:32 AM
And I wouldn’t even call it too “conservative,” given the style it’s shot in, and given how “conservative” can be expressed in the Arab world.
But it’s definitely a sort of “be respectful and halal, young man,” message.
It’s interesting to watch these culture and generational conflicts involving and expressed through Western influences. I wonder if we’ll see a take-off on Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” in response.
BillINDC on August 13, 2007 at 10:38 AM
Religion of Progressive
moonsbreath on August 13, 2007 at 11:03 AM
Talk about anal retentive! Me thinks their whities are too tighties.
dm60462 on August 13, 2007 at 12:43 PM
Ah, yes, because if I don’t pray 5 times a day, Allah will crash my computer…
Miss_Anthrope on August 13, 2007 at 1:02 PM
Oh Brother! Listening to that, cleric(?)
He’s obviously on a homo erotic scat fill dreamland anti aids circumcised hanging out in the mens room looking for colored underwear rant. Hasn’t he ever seen a Michael Jordan Hanes underwear commercial? You can have any color underwear you want, as long as it’s white?!? Jesse Jackson’s rainbow coalition would have fun with that bozo, let alone some of the more ghey groups that frequent his daytime dreams or on his iPod. I wonder if he knows we use white toilet paper, as appose to using his middle left hand finger. Or a buday and not just a garden hose connected next to the toilet. But wahabi do I know?
Kini on August 13, 2007 at 1:02 PM
Funny, I don’t seem to have any problem regarding ‘filth in my shorts’…
I must be a highly-functioning beast.
Miss_Anthrope on August 13, 2007 at 1:03 PM
I’d like to see a wahabist music video about a suicide bomber partying with hoes in heaven.
Sir-Mix-Alot can produce.
Zach on August 13, 2007 at 1:16 PM
According to the second clip, there is no happiness in the world without Islam…funny, but I am pretty happy living in a prosperous America, where I am free to choose my own religion without fear of death. Also, I am pretty happy that I am not being oppressed and beaten by my husband/other men in society. Funny how much freedom there is in the world without Islam, and how much imprisonment there is under it.
Trtle2001 on August 13, 2007 at 3:46 PM
Funny how that seems to be Hillary’s campaign message also.
Kini on August 13, 2007 at 4:33 PM
Last happiest day on Earth.
The day before Mohammad was whelped.
Next happiest day on Earth.
The day the last person stops believing his paranoid jive.
profitsbeard on August 13, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Hmmmm… interesting. This is from a guy who comes from that part of the world that does not use toilet paper and he is commenting about how the West goes to the bathroom? As for covering our private parts, with the exceptions of perverted “flashers” perhaps it is because we are not ashamed of our bodies.
As for the color of our underwear, or for what we wear and do not wear, I wonder how he would regard me since I am a naturist (nudist).
The False Dervish on August 13, 2007 at 8:36 PM
He could have elaborated on some of the 70 rules. Such as
Or try this
infidelpride on August 14, 2007 at 1:20 AM