Whitey Ford
04-29-2019, 03:23 AM
But, diversity is your strength, Europe.
Kholardi, a popular Norwegian rapper of Iranian descent, wished his fellow Muslims “Eid Mubarak,” a greeting in Arabic for the Eid al-Fitr holiday that marked the end of Ramadan.
He asked whether there were any Christians present, smiling upon hearing cheers. Then he asked if there were any Jews.
“F***ing Jews,” he said after a short silence, adding “Just kidding.”
It was a tenuous interpretation considering how Kholardi never mentioned the Jewish state on stage and five days earlier had tweeted “F***ing Jews are so corrupt.”
This corresponds to how “rap’s base in the United States is black, and in Europe it’s Muslims from poor suburbs, where anti-Semitism is rife,” he said.
In Belgium, up-and-comer Bissy Owa inveighed against “Zionists” during a performance last year on a state-funded radio station. He also performed his hit single “Money till the Death.” Its official video shows Owa, who is Muslim, dancing while wearing a black hat and fake side-locks and singing about Jewish greed.
“I can’t hang with a Jew,” he rapped.
Another Dutch rapper, Ismo, whose real name is Ismael Houllich, launched his musical career in 2014 with a single featuring the lyrics “I hate those f***ing Jews more than the Nazis,” “don’t shake hands with f***ots” and “don’t believe in anything but the Quran.”
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/western-europe-s-rap-scene-suffers-from-a-growing-anti-semitism-problem-1.7170458
Kholardi, a popular Norwegian rapper of Iranian descent, wished his fellow Muslims “Eid Mubarak,” a greeting in Arabic for the Eid al-Fitr holiday that marked the end of Ramadan.
He asked whether there were any Christians present, smiling upon hearing cheers. Then he asked if there were any Jews.
“F***ing Jews,” he said after a short silence, adding “Just kidding.”
It was a tenuous interpretation considering how Kholardi never mentioned the Jewish state on stage and five days earlier had tweeted “F***ing Jews are so corrupt.”
This corresponds to how “rap’s base in the United States is black, and in Europe it’s Muslims from poor suburbs, where anti-Semitism is rife,” he said.
In Belgium, up-and-comer Bissy Owa inveighed against “Zionists” during a performance last year on a state-funded radio station. He also performed his hit single “Money till the Death.” Its official video shows Owa, who is Muslim, dancing while wearing a black hat and fake side-locks and singing about Jewish greed.
“I can’t hang with a Jew,” he rapped.
Another Dutch rapper, Ismo, whose real name is Ismael Houllich, launched his musical career in 2014 with a single featuring the lyrics “I hate those f***ing Jews more than the Nazis,” “don’t shake hands with f***ots” and “don’t believe in anything but the Quran.”
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/western-europe-s-rap-scene-suffers-from-a-growing-anti-semitism-problem-1.7170458