SHOCK HORROR: The Folklore of Disaster
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The Taliban’s repressive attitude to women appears to make the feminist folklore wheels turn at an unprecedented rate. The fundamentalist Muslim Taliban forbids the education of women, requires them to be completely subservient and to hide their faces from everyone except their husband. It is understandable that jokes would follow:
Message to the Taliban from the American people.
Surrender Osama bin Laden or we will take all your women and send them to college.
History teaches us that we should never underestimate the power of a song. Several songs have come out of the War on Terrorism. These need to be placed in perspective in regard to how we use songs in this day and age. The parody of a well-known popular tune is still the most favoured vehicle. This makes sense since so many people immediately recognise the song which, in turn, enables the song to gain wider circulation.
| This is the top 10 songs played on 95.8 Kabul FM on Sunday.... 1. Losing my religion - REM (Raving Edict Mullah mix) 2. Unchained Mullahdy - The Self Righteous Brothers 3. Aid Drops Keep Falling on my Head - Johnny Farnham 4. Living on a Prayer mat - TaliBon Jovi 5. Tented love - Soft (Terrorist) Cell 6. Do you really want to shoot me? - Boy George Bush & Capture Club 7. Rockin Allah-ver the World - Status Quaeda 8. I'm too extremist for my turban - Right Said Mullah Mohammed Omar 9. The Ayatollah Skank - Fatwa Boy Slim 10. (Come up and find me) Mecca me smile - Steve Harley & Northern Rebel Alliance |
John Warner's contribution to the tune of the Banana Boat Song
The Osama Bin Laden SongCome Mr Taliban, give us that Osama, Our Marines are a nasty bunch, Proof, we don't need any proof, So come Mr Taliban, hang on to Osama, Whoops! Mr Taliban |
And the following sung to the tune of Tom Leher’s classic ‘Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh’ (Camp Granada) of the 1960s.
Hello Mullah, Hello Fatah, I went bombing All the Sunnis Camp looks nothing Take me home, Take me home, I hear airplanes, Sixty maidens, |
And in the spirit of Dr. Seuss . . .
The Binch Every U down in Uville liked U.S. a lot, But I think that the most likely reason of all They're leading the world, and their empire is thriving, And then they'd do something he liked least of all, "I must stop that singing," Binch said with a smirk, The Binch cocked his ear as they woke from their sleeping, He stared down at U-ville, not trusting his eyes, He HADN'T stopped U-Ville from singing! It sung! ,P.With a hand in each hand of the tall and the small, And we mourn for our losses while knowing we'll cope, For we still have inside that U-Pride and U-Hope. For America means a bit more than tall towers, |
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