quoted 5 lines If he supported terrorism against soldiers who are occupying land> > > If he supported terrorism against soldiers who are occupying land
>> > that's one
>> > thing but if he supported killing of innocent people he is an asshole
>> > who
> > > deserved to die.
Well, despite the fact that you just won my Stupidest Statement Of
The Year contest, i thought i'd do a little ctrl-c & v with this bit
of an article... not as a relpy per se, just as info for those who
are going to label him as an anti-semite...(i hope this doesn't come
through as html....)
The Manchester native began recording in 1983, citing the previous
year's invasion of Lebanon by Israeli forces as his inspiration.
Despite his pro-Palestinian focus, Jones was not an Arab, nor was he
a Muslim. But his anger at the pro-Israel bias of Western media
outlets spawned the artwork and slogans which surrounded his
incredibly large musical output with controversy. Titles like 'Fatah
Guerrilla', 'Hebron Massacre', 'The Rape of Palestine' and 'Vote
Hezbollah' viscerally cemented the Muslimgauze aesthetic.
While obviously not the first or last musician to use taboo as a
springboard into inspiration, Jones' particular choice of motif was
and is sometimes viewed - like many anti-Israel sentiments - as
automatically and unequivocally anti-Semitic. While there is
obviously a tremendous amount of difference between these two
attitudes, they have been virtually joined together for the last 50
years. Though Muslimgauze artwork and liner notes have sometimes
vigorously displayed support for the Arab struggles in the Middle
East, Afghanistan and Chechnya, among others, there are no signs of
any actual religious bigotry to be found.
In the small number of interviews he gave, anger and bitterness -
covering everything from politics to album sales - comes through most
harshly, along with a seemingly simplistic view of Middle Eastern
politics. This small amount of public persona we have seen contrasts
very sharply with the portrait painted by those who knew him.
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