most people who've been around me for a while have never seen me angry.  that's something i'm kinda proud of.   i was reminded tonight why... dad was annoyed with something from work, and when something small went wrong while getting stuff out of the fridge his angry overreaction created a broken glass and two minorly cut fingers.  I've never seen much accomplished by getting angry, and I'm glad I didn't inherit my dad's temperament towards annoyances.

The following short quiz consists of 4 questions and tells whether you are qualified to be "professional". 
Scroll down for each answer.  The questions are not that difficult.

1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?


The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe and close the door.
This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.


2.How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?


Wrong Answer:   Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant and close the refrigerator.

Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door.
This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your actions.


3.The Lion King is hosting an animal conference.  All the animals attend except one. Which animal does not attend?

Correct Answer: The Elephant. The Elephant is in the refrigerator.
This tests your memory.

OK,even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one more chance to show your abilities.


4.There is a river you must cross.  But it is inhabited by crocodiles. How do you manage it?

Correct Answer: You swim across. All the Crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting. 
This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.  

According to Andersen Consulting Worldwide, around 90% of the professionals they tested got all questions wrong.  But many preschoolers got several correct answers.  Anderson Consulting says this conclusively disproves the theory that most professionals have the brains a four year old.

I'm completely chilled.  Stunned is more like it.  I was looking for funny videos and pictures on http://www.manzonderkop.be/ but was stunned when I ran accross this post:

http://www.manzonderkop.be/Post/?P_ID=2818

It's a music rap video promoting violence against America called 'Dirty Kuffar' by Soul Salah Crew.

The explanation under the video is:

Al-Qaeda (whatever that really is) now has a new weapon in its jihad against America: rap music; more precisely, a militant Islamic rap group from Britain calling themselves the Soul Salah Crew, and whose song "Dirty Kuffar", is a hit throughout the Islamosphere:

The song starts with images of US marines in Iraq cheering as one of them shoots a wounded Iraqi lying on the floor. At the end of the video, it features shots of the hijacked planes flying into the Twin Towers with sounds of the rappers laughing. There is then a list of 56 countries they claim have been the victims of American aggression since 1945.

Excerpt from Dirty Kuffar:
Peace to Hamas and the Hizbollah
OBL [bin-Laden] pulled me like a shiny star
Like the way we destroyed them two towers ha-ha
The minister Tony Blair, there my dirty Kuffar
The one Mr Bush, there my dirty Kuffar...
Throw them on the fire

Mohammed al-Massari, the Islamic extremist leader and former Saudi dissident whose website is promoting the song, denies that it is an encitement to terrorist attacks against the West, claiming that the lyrics are only metaphorical. Meanwhile, the authorities are investigating the video.

Here's a link to the video directly: http://www.geenstijl.nl/mirrors/DIRTY-KUFFAR_Hi.wmv

I hate this.  It makes me feel so cold.  I'd like to see AIESEC address it, or to make some headway on it.  I'm wondering if it should be used in the coming YES conferences as an example of what we're fighting?  I'm not calling for censorship, or anything drastic.  I just don't support calls to violence, how could that resolve the cultural differences here?

If anybody has any more information, hit the comment button and let me know.

** addition**

I've been doing a bit of searching: 

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satel lite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1076325292230&p=1008596981749

A music video glorifying al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and containing images of the September 11 attacks in the United States has become a big hit amongst Britains' young Muslims, AFP news agency reported.

The song "Dirty Kuffar" (non-believer) by a young British rapper who calls himself Sheikh Terra rails against Prime Minister Tony Blair and the US President George W. Bush, calling on believers to "throw them to the fire."

"I do not know of any young Muslims who have not either seen or got this video," Muhammed al-Massari, an exiled Saudi dissident, told the Observer British weekly on Sunday.

"It is selling everywhere; Everyone I meet at the mosque is asking for it," he added.

The video starts with images of US troops in Iraq cheering as they wound an Iraqi lying on the floor. It also shows the execution of a Russian soldier in Chechnya, where Islamic separatists are fighting the Russian army.

The video finishes with images of the collapse of New York's World Trade Center, with laughing in the background

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From The Investigative Project

http://www.ipnews.planetgac.com/

The video you are about to watch is a rap video designed to inspire people to take up jihad against the West.  Posted on a radical Islamic website based out of the United Kingdom, the video  is undeniably entertaining, as professionally produced as any video you might see on MTV. Consider the irony: radical fundamentalism, sworn to destroy Western culture and beliefs, uses that culture to market its hate. Paralleling the same deception, the Islamic organization that produced and marketed this video claims to be an Islamic "human rights" group but in reality is a group sworn to support the killing of Jews, Christians and moderate Muslims. 

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From Virtually Islamic

http://virtuallyislamic.blogspot.com/

Monday, February 09, 2004

There has been substantial online coverage of a jihadi rap track/video, produced in the UK, entitled 'Dirty Kuffar' by Sheikh Terra. This includes a report from Al-Sharq al-Awsat.


More on this can also be found at
Jihad Watch: Jihad rap from Britain This is Jihad Watch's article on 'Dirty Kuffar', which pre-dates the Observer/Guardian piece below. Jihad Watch have also placed a range of readers' comments on the video into their pages . There's more at Internet Haganah too.

 

Islamic rappers' message of terror

Antony Barnett
Sunday February 8, 2004
The Observer

It's rap, jihad-style. A music video with blood-curdling images, fronted by a young British Muslim rapper brandishing a gun and a Koran is the latest hit in radical Islamic circles.

The rap song is called 'Dirty Kuffar' - Arabic for dirty non-believer - and it praises Osama bin Laden and the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York.

The video has recently been posted on the British website run by the Islamic extremist Mohammed al-Massari, the UK-based Saudi Arabian dissident who has lived in Britain since 1994. Al-Massari claims that the video has been selling in large quantities at mosques to the younger generation and is in heavy demand overseas.

The rapper fronting the video calls himself Sheikh Terra and the Soul Salah Crew - a take on the rap group So Solid Crew. 'Salah' is Arabic for faith.

The video might at first be mistaken for an Ali G spoof, but the violent images quickly reveal it is no joke.

The song starts with images of US marines in Iraq cheering as one of them shoots a wounded Iraqi lying on the floor. At the end of the video, it features shots of the hijacked planes flying into the Twin Towers with sounds of the rappers laughing. There is then a list of 56 countries they claim have been the 'victims of American aggression' since 1945.

The four-minute rap is essentially a repeated diatribe against the 'dirty non-believers' Tony Blair and George Bush, urging listeners to 'throw them on the fire'.

One of the most brutal images shows a jihadist fighter in Chechnya riddling a captured Russian soldier with a Kalashnikov. Another image labels Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf a traitor and shows photographs of Colin Powell and Condeleezza Rice with the words 'still slaves' superimposed across their bodies.

Labour MP Andrew Dismore said he was 'disgusted' by the video and is to refer it to the Home Office and ask the police to investigate if any offence has been committed.

Dismore said: 'These extremist are using music and video to prey on young and impressionable Muslim boys in order to attract them to their brand of lunacy and entice them to commit acts of terror. It is inexcusable.'

The website on which the video was originally posted is run by the Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Rights in Saudi Arabia, a group run by al-Massari who came to Britain in 1994 after being imprisoned by the Saudi regime.

He said: 'A boy came to me and showed me the video and I thought the content was good, although I am no expert on rap. I thought it was an excellent attempt to use modern methods to get a message across.'

Al-Massari did not see a problem in using Western music and MTV-like images to sell a message of jihad. He said that it was an effective way of attracting young Muslims who had been put off by other Islamic sects such as the Taliban, which banned music and dancing. 'I do not know of any young Muslim who has not either seen or got this video. It is selling everywhere. Everyone I meet at the mosque is asking for it.'

Al-Massari denied that the messages in the video incited Muslims to take part in terrorist attacks against the West.

He said: 'I believe the lyrics are only metaphorical. It is not like this is a fatwa.'

In November 2002, al-Massari circulated a 4,000-word message allegedly from Osama bin Laden. In 2001, al-Massari was granted permanent residence in Britain, five years after Michael Howard, then Conservative Home Secretary, tried to deport him.

Excerpt from 'Dirty Kuffar'
Peace to Hamas and the Hizbollah
OBL [bin-Laden] pulled me like a shiny star
Like the way we destroyed them two towers ha-ha
The minister Tony Blair, there my dirty Kuffar
The one Mr Bush, there my dirty Kuffar...
Throw them on the fire

Happy day for Shar & Izzy! Engaged!

[20:32] shar: so guess what
[20:32] BG: izzy flipped out and moved in with you?
[20:32] shar: no better....he flipped out and proposed
[20:33] BG: *S*
[20:33] BG: hell yeah!
[20:33] BG: when?
[20:33] shar: we're deciding but it'll be 2005
[20:33] BG: very cool!
[20:35] shar: so i'm excited
[20:35] BG: *S*
[20:35] shar: we'll send out a pic
[20:35] BG: hell yeah
[20:35] shar: he did it at the taj
[20:36] BG: yeah, fill in some details here babe
[20:36] shar: so we went to india to visit my grandpa
[20:37] shar: and we stopped up at new delhi and agra
[20:37] shar: so the day we went to the taj we had a photographer following
us
[20:37] shar: and he was giving us all these directions look here do this do
that
[20:38] shar: so we're on our 20th pic and izzy starts talking in my ear
[20:38] shar: and i really wasn't paying attention to him
[20:38] shar: and then all of a sudden he says will you marry me
[20:38] shar: i was like what?
[20:38] shar: and looked down at the ring and was in shock
[20:38] BG: hehhhehehh
[20:39] shar: so yea that's the story morning glory
[20:39] BG: awesome
Posted by BG on 2/3/04; 8:59:07 PM

I've seen two of my friends do this in the last couple hours... so why not.

http://devel.okcupid.com/personality?type=RGLM&g=1&o=1&h=182

It's kind of funny really.  Nobody suspects me.  Muahahahahahahahhahahahah!

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