Nuclear Beef

Ripped From The Headlines Time Warp Reggae Audio Beef Today. Macka B tells Salman Rushdie to run from the Ayatollah.

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'Run Rushdie Run'

by Macka B, previously unreleased track (recorded circa 1989) from his 1999 compilation Roots And Culture

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In honor of the recent controversy and death threats in Denmark surrounding a newspaper publishing cartoons depicting Mohammed, today's Audio Beef is a flashback to those halcyon days of 1989. Back then, Jihadi terrorism didn't exist. Well, actually Jihadi Terrorism existed, but it only killed Israelis and Filipinos and Persians and so what, right? No Americans... oh, except for those American Soldiers in Lebanon. (* cough *)

Christopher Hitchens dates his awakening about 'Theocratic Fascism' to the 1989 Fatwa calling for his execution issued by Ayatollah Khomeini.

Apparently Hitchens was not the only one to be struck by the controversy and ensuing mayhem, which included the murder of more than a few of Rushdie's associates. British reggae innovator Macka B took the opportunity to write this ridiculous little song, 'Run Rushdie Run.' Regarding the substance of his advice to Rushdie, I'll let the man speak for himself.

Salman Rushdie, I wouldn't like to be in your shoes
You write a book, but to the Muslim you is a crook!
So here's some advice now!

(Chorus)
Run, Rushdie, run!
The Muslim them a come!
Run, Rushdie, run!
The Muslim them a come!
Ayatollah gone but the Muslim still a come!
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Him write one book about the Muslim-lim
A make fun of fi dem prophet and thing
The whole of the Muslim vexed with him-him
Them a said he a blasphemin
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Now Iran is a country where you find the Ayatollah
And the Muslim faith a what most a dem a follow
Ayatollah get the book, Ayatollah start to holla
Anybody kill Rushdie get three million dollar!
This is an insult to the prophet and to Allah
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It seem like Salman Rushdie forget
If you live in a this world you have fi have respect
Him write nuff book, nuff money him make
The man is supposed to be an intellect!

He used to be a Muslim, so what him expect
Him know that the Muslims would a get upset
So why him want decide fi risk him own neck
Cause Salman a think about a big fat check

Needless to say, Nuclear Beef does not endorse the views expoused by Macka B in this song. Just wanted to post this little history nugget to remind people that the Jihad didn't start on September 11th, 2001. Murdered over a book, or a cartoon? Sheesh, lighten the hell up, guys! Maybe Rhiannon Rose will let you hit her pot.

(Shouts out to case, who confirmed my translation of the caption to the cartoon, above. It says (paraphrased) ' Mohammed was actually pretty damn practical.' I should point out, though, that the cartoon probably doesn't actually depict Mohammed, as I don't think Mohammed lived in the age of indoor plumbing. Also shouts out to hawk, who likes Macka B.)