Nubian fury at 'monkey' lyric of Arab pop star Haifa Wehbe
Once again we hear that Arabs don't think much of blacks:
"One of the Arab world's biggest pop stars has provoked a torrent of outrage after releasing a song which refers to black Egyptians as monkeys.
Haifa Wehbe, an award-winning Lebanese diva who has been voted one of the world's most beautiful people, is now facing a lawsuit from Egyptian Nubians claiming the song has fuelled discrimination against them and made some Nubian children too afraid to attend school.
The row has cast fresh light on the position within Egyptian society of Nubians, who are descended from one of Africa's most ancient black civilisations and yet often face marginalisation in modern Egypt.
The latest accusations of racism came after the release of her new song, Where is Daddy?, in which a child sings to Wehbe, "Where is my teddy bear and the Nubian monkey?".
Wehbe has since apologised profusely for the offending lyrics, insisting they were penned by an Egyptian songwriter who told her that "Nubian monkey" was an innocent term for a popular children's game. That hasn't stopped a group of Nubian lawyers submitting an official complaint to Egypt's public prosecutor and calling for the song to be banned.
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6 comments:
Nubian monkey. Isn't that what Chairman Obama is? You didn't really think he's an American, did you?
"If you want to solve the worlds problems, you must first start by killing all the lawyers.".... Shakespeare
Re: Anon 301
Nah, he's Kenyan isn't he, and not Sudanese? Besides the economy would be in better shape if he was a monkey, and throwing poop at reporters rather than spending us into 3rd world status.
John Jay Ray,
Anon301 is attempting - deliberately? or just stupidly? - to discredit your site. You will undoubtedly hear calls for you to remove his message, and/or that you yourself must agree w/him.
Please leave his comment up, however, as well as this one by me, specifically as an example of how little effect such false-troll commentary really has, and how easily your readers see thru it.
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Re: Anon 4:05 AM
Problem is he IS throwing poop and the reporters are eating it.
You have the right to be stupid, but I wouldn,
Anon 3:01 is even more ridiculous than many may realize. First, his "quote" from Shakespeare is not from Shakespeare at all.
The actual quote is "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". - (Act IV, Scene II).
Furthermore, in context, it is clear that Shakespeare is not advocating killing lawyers to solve problems, but making the statement that if you want anarchy, rebellion, assault on liberties and no freedom, you should go ahead and kill all the lawyers as lawyers are key to the process of protecting liberty, law, and order.
Not only is his quote incorrect, but his intended meaning is wrong.
Your mother first!
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