Yet Another Bizarre Brawl Breaks Out on Live Arab Television: I‘m a ’Worn Out Shoe? I’ll Show You a Worn Out Shoe!’
- Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:11am by
Tiffany Gabbay
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In the pantheon of heated political debates, the following clip could go down in the record books for: most guttural screaming, most bizarre insults, and the strangest threat-turned physical altercation between two politicians ever.
There seems to be a trend happening in Arab political news programs.
Not but two weeks ago, The Blaze brought you a clip of two Lebanese political rivals nearly brawling during a televised debate over Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.
Now, the ante has been upped, as two Jordanian politicians literally went for the jugular in a beyond-contentious exchange on Jordan’s JoSat TV November 29.
The debate, which focused on the crisis in Syria, featured Muhammad As’ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi, a Palestinian-Jordanian politician of the Umma movement, and Mahmoud Al-Bastanjani, a member of the Jordanian Ba’th Party, hurling insults and eventually leaping out of their chairs to physically attack one another.
Among the more piquant, not to mention odd declarations, were:
“First of all, let me apologize to my viewers for stooping so low as to accept the invitation to this show…”
“He seems to be yet another victim of Al-Jazeera TV and Al-Arabiya TV.”
“I challenge brother Al-Tamimi to check out his underwear. It has ‘made in Syria’ written on it.”
“The sectarian Alawite regime that is destroying Syria fought the Crusaders?! This regime fought the Tatars and the Mongols?! This is the regime that surrendered the Golan Heights in 1967. This is the regime that perpetrated the Hama massacre, and is massacring the Syrian people…”
“Man, have you lost your mind? You’ve lost your mind.”
“It is beneath me to sit next to someone like you…”
“You belong in a garbage bin, man. You are a piece of scum, man.”
“Listening to such scum makes me nauseated… ”
In reference to Al-Tamimi’s father, “the imam of the mujahideen,” Al-Bastanjani said, “He was born a lowlife, raised as a lowlife, lived as a lowlife, and will die as a lowlife. His birth was despicable, his upbringing was despicable, his life is despicable, and his death will be despicable.”
To which Al-Tamimi replied, “Man, you are a lowlife piece of scum… You are a worn-out shoe…”
“A worn-out shoe?!” Al-Bastanjani asked defiantly. “I’ll show you a worn-out shoe!”
Needless to say, that’s when things turned physical.
MEMRI provides the translation and brings us yet another outrageous video from the Arab world. Transcript and screenshots follow below the clip:
START TRANSCRIPT:
Najib ‘Attiya (a caller on the line): Sir, you are screaming so much that we can’t understand a thing you say. I ask brother Al-Tamimi to calm down a little. He seems to be yet another victim of Al-Jazeera TV and Al-Arabiya TV. Nobody can deny the pan-Arab role played by Syria.
[...]
I challenge brother Al-Tamimi to check out his underwear. It has “made in Syria” written on it. The Qatari foreign minister should check out the band holding his kefiyah. It has “made in Syria” written on it. Syria is our country. Syria is the Levant. From Syria, we fought the Crusaders and the Mongols…
Al-Tamimi: The sectarian Alawite regime that is destroying Syria fought the Crusaders?! This regime fought the Tatars and the Mongols?! This is the regime that surrendered the Golan Heights in 1967. This is the regime that perpetrated the Hama massacre, and is massacring the Syrian people…
Interviewer: Brother Najib, thank you…
Al-Tamimi: Man, have you lost your mind? You’ve lost your mind.
Interviewer: Brother Najib, thank you for your call. You’ve made your point clear.
Al-Tamimi: People have lost their mind…
Interviewer: I will let you respond… Brother Mahmoud, go ahead.
Al-Bastanjani: First of all, let me apologize to my viewers for stooping so low as to accept the invitation to this show, the level of which…
Interviewer: C’mon, that’s enough…
[...]
Al-Bastanjani: A few years ago, a certain religious cleric died in Amman, or in Jordan [alluding to Al-Tamimi's father, Sheik As'ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi]. He passed away in a village in occupied Palestine. He died on Saturday…
Al-Tamimi: Man, you are such scum… Listening to such scum makes me nauseated… He is the kind of scum that has destroyed this nation. You belong in a garbage bin, man. You are a piece of scum, man.
Interviewer: I beg you, brother Muhammad…
Al-Tamimi: You are such a lowlife scum. You idiot!
Interviewer: Brother Muhammad, this is unacceptable…
Al-Tamimi: You are a collaborator with the regimes, a collaborator with the sectarianists… He is defending the people who are slaughtering children…
Al-Bastanjani: It is beneath me to sit next to someone like you…
Al-Tamimi: Man, you are a piece of scum…
Al-Bastanjani: When that sheik died, the Israeli enemy opened the border on the Sabbath, and received his followers… I challenge anyone, official or otherwise, to deny what I’m saying here. They opened the bridge on the Sabbath, so that his followers could enter Palestine without permits to pay their condolences.
Al-Tamimi: Who was that man? You spy, who was that man?
Interviewer: Brothers, I beg you…
Al-Tamimi: I want this lowlife to say the name of that man.
Interviewer: By Allah, stop cursing.
Al-Tamimi: Man, say who it was. My father died in Amman, and millions attended his funeral. My father was not allowed in Jerusalem since 1967. My father was Sheik As’ad Bayoudh, the imam of the mujahideen. Man, you are a lowlife. The largest number of people in Jordanian history acme to pay their respects to my father in Amman. All the honorable people in the Arab world paid their condolences.
Interviewer: Brother Muhammad, please…
Al-Tamimi: He was buried in Sahhab… You are a lowlife…
Al-Bastanjani: He was born a lowlife, raised as a lowlife, lived as a lowlife, and will die as a lowlife. His birth was despicable, his upbringing was despicable, his life is despicable, and his death will be despicable.
Interviewer: Just one minute… By God…
Al-Tamimi: This is a spy…
Interviewer: Never mind, never mind. Just one moment…
Al-Tamimi: Man, you are a lowlife piece of scum… You are a worn-out shoe…
Al-Bastanjani: A worn-out shoe?! I’ll show you a worn-out shoe!
The two then leapt from their chairs and started fighting. The TV crew soon entered to break up the scuffle.
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Comments (79)
ChiefGeorge
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 2:52amIts them against each other and them against each of us. They are liken to a wild man whos hand is against everyman and everymans hand is against him. Some say the world would be a better place without Christians or religion of anykind. But if you truly open your eyes you can most suredly see that their are religions or this one in particular that breeds violence to keep its ranks full. They make warfare against the world and the world makes warfare against them in response. Everyone suffers because of it. But instead of really going after the problem, they’ll (NWO) will start with the path of least resistance and that being the good Christian peoples who have no conquest or power to do anything.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 7:56am.
Report Post »They should have had a Jello Wrestling Death Match to settle their little spat………
dbmmcquattie
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 9:17amodd the bible says Ishmael would be a wild man
Report Post »and every hand would be against him….. funny how the old testament isnt done…. HINT HINT!!
Harry Assenback
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 9:21amSpank……….LOL!
Report Post »Jefferson
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 10:39am@CHIEFGEORGE
Report Post »Actually, if you “open your eyes,” you will see that a certain group (who I won’t mention here), is pitting the Muslim religion against the Christian religion. They will come in at the end to try and establish their NWO “new age” religion.
It’s an elaborate game called “let’s you and him fight.” It was kicked off on 9/11/01 exactly 10 years after GHWB announced the coming success of the “New World Order” on 9/11/91.
They announced their “annuit sceptis” of their “Novus Ordo Seclorum” on the back of the one dollar bill in 1933.
What you are seeing unfold today, has been been planned for a very long time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXS3vW47mOE
Infidel49
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:12pmYou don’t know what you are talking about. Put a lid on it lapper.
Report Post »symphonic
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 2:40amAny reason we need to see another hate video by insignificant people on an insignificant nothing talk show?
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 6:28amBecause it was funny.
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 2:34amI bet Geraldo Riveria says to the interviewer, ‘watch out for the chair or your nose will be swollen so big you won’t be able to smell those grimy Syrian made underware.”
Yeah Obama and Hillary, we can come to a peaceful resolution with these loons…when do we start…before or after they settle their own differences?
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 2:15am“Get you gone, you dwarf;
You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made;
You bead, you acorn!”
—A Midsummer Nights Dream
Kind of reminded me of Shakespearean insults :)
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 2:10amThat really added to my intelligence. Thanks Blaze ya done it again. Ya just fillin places an spaces and things?
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 1:57amA worn out shoe? So calling them camel jockeys etc is probably a complement to them. So here is how it goes….“you are a scuffed up cowboy boot”, oh yaa “and you brother are a bunny rabbit bedroom slipper”…….Agaah……..I’ll show you a bunny……….etc.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 2:24amCalling one a “worn out shoe”… is alike saying… ‘you have no ethics, violate cultural law, and you are impure’ (re. the Shoe in the Book of Ruth taken off to indicate an Illegal Property exchange between Tribes)!
Report Post »heartitorleaveit
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 1:48amOur good friend sirhansirhan has challenged us to provide proof that Islam is the religion of the antichrist! Here ya go….. Qur’an 22:52
Report Post »“Satan Cast a False Qur‘an Revelation on the Messenger of Allah’s Tongue.” And it‘s the same reason Qur’an 22:52 claims: “Every Messenger or Prophet before you recited the message Satan cast into his recitation.”
The founders of Islam said: Ishaq:166 “Then Allah annulled what Satan had cast, and established his verses by telling him that he was like other prophets and messengers.’” Muhammad’s lord revealed: “Every Messenger or Prophet before you recited the message Satan cast into his recitation. Allah abrogates what Satan casts. Then Allah established his verses. Allah is Knower, Wise.” [Qur'an 22:52]…… One lie has been refuted with another. The 22nd surah would not be revealed for another decade. In fact, it was one of the final Medina surahs. But by reciting it, Muhammad destroyed his only alibi – denial. Now that the Qur’an has verified the Satanic Verses, Muslims cannot whisk them under the carpet without impugning Allah‘s credibility along with Muhammad’s.
Satan (made from the jinn) made part of the Qur’an, it in your own writings! If you deny this due to abbrigation, then you admit that the Qur’an is NOT THE PERFECT WORD OF GOD!
Any more proof needed? Why do you c.a.i.r. sirhan? We all would think you would find another source for your news of the world, but you always seem to b
psadie
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 1:41amAnother reason to get out of the Mid-East NOW. They can keep their oil we have plenty for the next 100 years.
Report Post »pwcarr11
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 1:40amGod help them… wait.. Ala Help them… wait… Man, just get the US out of the Middle East.
Report Post »wbalzley
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 1:40amHey I just had a great idea: POLITICAL DEATHMATCH!
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 9:15amYou bring up a good point ..I like to see us start giving nicknames to these guys.
Report Post »(Ahmed “the shoe”) or something like that. How about the way the (WWE) World Wrestling Entertainment does their nicknames . They can even take a page from “The Mafia” .These stories gets so muddied up with all these Middle East 32 character names , it gives me a headache trying to read through them .
wbalzley
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 1:35amPOLL: Which is worse: This, or reality TV?
Report Post »You decide…
snooop1e
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 1:14amMore proof that Islam is a religion of peace
Report Post »quiet little lamb
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 1:45amthat was not about Islam. That caller made a faux pas. Never mention Syrian underwear on the air.
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 8:27amHow are the Crusaders, Mujahadeen- which his Father led, and the Jews not about islam again?
Report Post »Robert2534
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 1:08amThis is hysterical. More of what the world needs – the full expression of unrestrained animus leading to an all out donnybrook.
Report Post »PCistheDevil
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 1:17amEasy, Obama is working overtime to win over these people. Lets not make things harder on him… Screw it, lets impeach Barry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yK1c5F1gy4
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:57amUsually i don’t jest on here, but here goes…. I have a hole in one of my shoes, i wonder how they would translate that.
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:55amNow that was great TV. It’s fun to watch these 7th century idiots display their culture and show the rest of the world what a bunch of backward animals we are trying to deal with. Please bring us more…NOT
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:55amThat was a sort of pleasant surprise to see them go at each other for a change of venue at least
Report Post »heartitorleaveit
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:52amsirhans brothers
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:49amIs it okay if I use this story space to say that if I was ever going to get married, Star Parker would be my choice. I love my girl!
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:41amI knew they didn‘t like Christians but it seems they don’t like each other also.
Who do they like? Right, members of the tribe.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:41amROTFL
Oh my that’s some seriously funny stuff. And these idiots actually think the “civilized” world should acknowledge their pathetic existence? Not happening, no sir.
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:59amSorry my post replicated yours to some degree. I didn’t read any posts until after posting. It was so funny I couldn’t wait to post
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 1:15amFor all I know I was stealing YOUR thoughts. The good news is that we know that GMTA! Proud to call a partner!
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:40amSpringer lives!
Report Post »tbl10
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:29amSuch a peaceful group of people. These people know one thing and one thing only, how to kill each other.
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:29amWith ANY luck and if we’d just leave them all to their own devices, these animals would just kill each others’ off if the US would just get the hell outta the way for once. Why do we feel compelled (our so called leaders, not US per se) to save these people or anyone for that matter from their own selves?
I just don‘t understand it when there’s so many God loving people out here who need our help at home and in our few left allied nations, instead of always trying to buy our enemies who always hate us no matter what we do. To hell with them, and the sooner we cut em all loose the better.
The paying off of Arab dictators and tyrants hasn’t worked out now that that batch of killers are all gone now mostly, so let Al Queda and the MOOZIE brotherhood starve em all to death. After all, that’s what THEY want (as we see their voting patterns in Gaza and now Egypt)
Voila, problem solved as long as Middle Eastern foreigners are kept off our airliners and soil for a decade or so while they sort it out over there.
We need an immigration ban to thin the herd over here anyhow of non Americans, people who’s cultures refuse to Americanize like ALL OUR ANCESTORS PROUDLY DID. MULTI CULTURALISM has been as big a failure as the great Oblamo Experiment of the New Millennium, that we KNOW.
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 1:03amAmen
Report Post »wbalzley
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 1:37amWhy do we even bother? One word: OIL…
Report Post »Slipstick
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 8:09amImmigration ban? What good would THAT do?
Report Post »All it takes to get into the Despised Home of The Great Satan is to walk across our southern border…
blaaaaackwoman
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:28amMr. Bad Lip Reader isn’t doing the translation is he? Those guys should turn to professional wresting. I always liked the Iron Shiek.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:26amOur Rinos here are worn-out shoes
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