File under disgusting. Hassan Fattah, writing in the NYT, tells us that Saddam’s bravery on the gallows has turned him into a martyr for “many” in the “Arab world”:
In the week since Saddam Hussein was hanged in an execution steeped in sectarian overtones, his public image in the Arab world, formerly that of a convicted dictator, has undergone a resurgence of admiration and awe.
A labor federation in Tunis paid homage to Saddam Hussein.
On the streets, in newspapers and over the Internet, Mr. Hussein has emerged as a Sunni Arab hero who stood calm and composed as his Shiite executioners tormented and abused him.“No one will ever forget the way in which Saddam was executed,†President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt remarked in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot published Friday and distributed by the official Egyptian news agency. “They turned him into a martyr.â€Â
Whereas this Muslim cleric is, y’know, a tool.
It was botched, but where else can you find something steeped in overtones?
In other words, Fuck Many. Many apparently choose to believe a lot of repulsive and stupid things.
UPDATE: I swear to God, someday I’m going to get a link, if it kills me. You can’t ignore me forever, you bastards!
UPDATE x2: PIE. Have at it, guys.
Dan, I “tell” many people about your fine posts if that is any consolation. I can’t link you per se, because I have no blog of my own, but goddamnit, I “tell” people about your remarkable work here on PW all the time.
BTW, fuck Hussein, isn’t he dead?
Dan, I’m with the Polish guy mostly. I would totally link you if I had a blog.
Unfortunately, I mostly know people who would come across as trolls if they commented here. Trolls with good grammar and writing skills, and they don’t name call, but still…
On the up-side, I have this New Year’s resolution to address this. No progress yet, but I’m hopeful!
Somebody said pie?
Man, I had the best pie last nite. She prepared the custard and crust ahead of time, but she did the meringue and coconut shavings while we were there.
I had never seen anybody smash and prepare their own coconut, and dear god it was awesome!
Has anyone ever seen Dan Collins and Judd Nelson together? Me neither.
Pfft. Hussein isn’t a martyr, he’s just a guy (a dead guy, mind you), who, at a particular moment in time, and for the only time in his life, gave a better account of himself than did those around him.
He “died well”, whatever the hell that means, but it wasn’t enough to extinguish his sins. “Many” are full of shit.
Saddam Hussein, like the jihadis, LOVES! IT! when you kill him. It’s actually good for him!
Martyrdom = dead guy on a poster on an already very crowded wall in a Tunisian labor union office. Arab martyrdom operates on about the same level of sociopolitical import as the spam that tells you to boycott gas stations.
Saddam a martyr? Boy, who woulda seen thatcoming??
Hell, I’ve already got the order in to silkscreen the first run of T-shirts. The guy at the shop tells me we can even use Che’s beret for the picture to save on the artwork.
Saddam, a martyr? But how many times has he been pwn3d in a weblog comment thread? Now that’s martyrdom, baby!
What patriotism am impressed with the Arab population. They cant understand Demoracy having lived under tyranny.. … Must call Allah on the hotline and express my condemnation abt you.. Hang in there lets see what Allah wud have to say abt you and the bald Gulag missing Saint here has to say…. So here’s that call to Allah Improvised and recalled
Tring Tring Tring
Hullo is this El Paradiso??
Yeah who is asking?
Me an Indian from the south
after reading this blog by a Firangipani from USA
Protein Wisdom or some such thing
You want talk to God or his messenger
Yeah Yeah, the messenger
That’s whom we shoot usually..
Okay connecting you
Salam Alle Kum
Ale Kum Salam
Yo Prophet Mo, is it you man
Yeah who is asking
Sorry PBUH and all that.
Man this is me radical chic
From Planet Earth.. South India
Yo man Prophet Mo
No Fatwa today Bro its Friday
And besides its Blues for Allah Day..
Okay Okay get to the Point
Don’t brow beat fella,
If my followers knew that I spoke to a Hindu Kafir
That wud be yr end,
You know my lot intolerable impatient
Mad mullahs, militant rabble rousers.
So without wasting time am busy
I have Hamas on line 2
Taliban on Line 3 , SIMI on line 4
Hezbollah on line 5, IUML on line6
Guess what, I have two matyred nuts here
Asking for 72 Virgins and hangover free wine
Can u believe that nonsense some folks do
To get laid and all that..
All other troubled spots will call on me soon
Even folks from India’s Kashmir
Okay you made yr Point Pro Mo..PBUH
What abt Saddam Hussein and his rhetoric’s at his Hanging
Take this down, My man.. and put it on record
Yes I wud.
Thank you click..
This is what Pro Mo the messenger of Allah said
Saddam is a tyrant and he got what he deserved. Period nothing more nothing less. Hosni that fat turkey from Egypt is a tyrant himself and is looking for a way out to please his ill tempered Arab populace. They all need matyrs otherwise why do you think they blow themselves up. I swear as Prophet Mohd I have never told them to do that..
Sorry, Allah lost his cool and says he wont forgive yr lines not now or forever.. Saddam desrved it. He has impeached alll you moderate peaches, now what you gonna sing boy??.
Wow – Hosni really has gotten to be a big boy… His tyrant-to-be son was a good-looking guy until the hair started to go. What a shame … a truly handsome tyrant could easily cut the media’s work in half.