Re: FW: RUN-DMC?

[George Robinson <GRComm...>]

robert wiener wrote:

> I used the heading because reading the anti-Semitism thread I realized
> that I never tracked down a selection that someone (maybe Wolf)
> referred to several months ago by The Clash -- a video/song
> (Salim/Kalif ?? ) Don't Like It" which had Arab/ sterotype Khasidim.
> Help anyone?
>
> Bob
>

You are referring to "Rock the Casbah."  The video features not only a
sheikh-type figure but also a guy dressed up as a Hasid. Oddly enough, the
song's lyrics are basically nothing more than an anti-fundamentalist
variation on the old trope that authority figures don't understand/like
rock and roll, but that rock and roll is here to stay (it will never die).
I don't remember the  video that clearly but my recollection is that it is
basically a live-action cartoon, silly but not particularly offensive; if
memory serves, it ends with the sheik and the Hasid dancing together to
the Clash. But I could be wrong.

--George Robinson
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