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"Hadji Girl" video upsets CAIR
2006-06-13
June 13, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - On June 12, the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR] a Saudi funded Islamist pressure group kicked off an email campaign designed gin-up anti-military sentiment at a time when their allies in the American press are conducting their own campaign of character assassination against U.S. Marines involved in a firefight in Haditha, Iraq. The CAIR email states:

"'MARINES' CHEER SONG ABOUT KILLING IRAQI CIVILIANS
Song's lyrics: 'I blew those little f**kers to eternity'

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/12/06) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the Pentagon and Congress to investigate a music video posted on the Internet that seems to show U.S. Marines cheering a song that glorifies the killing of Iraqi civilians.

CAIR said the four-minute video, called "hadji girl," purports to be a "marine in iraq singing a song about hadji." (A "Hajji" is a person who has made the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, but the term has often been used as a pejorative by U.S. troops in Iraq.) The song, posted online in March, tells of a U.S. Marine's encounter with an Iraqi woman. It has been viewed by almost 50,000 people.

The song's lyrics include: "I grabbed her little sister and put her in front of me. As the bullets began to fly, the blood sprayed from between her eyes, and then I laughed maniacally. . .I blew those little f**kers to eternity . . .They should have known they were f**king with the Marines." Members of the audience, not shown in the video, laughed and cheered wildly for these lyrics.

We have not been able to determine if the singer in the video is indeed a Marine, regardless CAIR seriously and intentionally misrepresents the song as a celebration of gratuitous violence against Iraqi civilians.

"Hadji Girl" is a ballad about a Marine firefight in Iraq.

In the heat of battle a young girl appears out of nowhere and invites this Marine to meet her family. She is leading him into an ambush but he doesn't know it. When the two of them arrive at her home, the girl's father and brother open fire, the Marine hits the ground and the girl is killed by her brother and father's gunfire - "threw open the door and I hit the floor 'cause her brother and father shot her." The girl's father and brother are still intent on killing the Marine so he grabs the girl's sister and the brother and father then proceed to gun her down also in their haste to kill the Marine.

The Marine then "locks and loads" stating he "blew those little fuckers to eternity."

So the song is about a young woman luring a Marine into an ambush where she and her sister are killed by her jihadi father and brother, who in turn are killed with great justification by the Marine. It's quite clear that what CAIR is attempting to do here is create another Muslim cartoon incident which is not surprising, because CAIR is no stranger to controversy.
Posted by:Steve

#13  My only objection is to the suggestion that a US Marine would use an innocent civilian as a human shield. There are countless stories of Marines and GIs shielding civilians, so it seems highly unlikely.

On the plus side, CAIR is annoyed. Which is nice.
Posted by: Tibor   2006-06-13 23:13  

#12  That's a hoot! Vaguely reminds me of a ditty from ancient times... Saigon Mamasan, was it? Waaaay too fuzzy, now.
Posted by: flyover   2006-06-13 22:38  

#11  When you are an intellectual, everything is derogatory.
Posted by: Fordesque   2006-06-13 22:13  

#10  "Hadji" used to be a deragatory reference to Jonny Quest's little Hindu friend, and what *that* implies.

Huh? "Hadji" was his name -- or, at least that was what they always called him. It was never derogatory in the show.
Posted by: Angie Schultz   2006-06-13 20:54  

#9  Nothing wrong with the Song. Well within all 1st Amendment rights.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-06-13 20:14  

#8  "Hadji" used to be a deragatory reference to Jonny Quest's little Hindu friend, and what *that* implies.

Hadji; one who has taken the hadj to mecca.
Posted by: Mark E.   2006-06-13 18:27  

#7  The original was taken down, but the internet was made to get around censorship.
Hadji Girl

Also Lyrics here
Posted by: ed   2006-06-13 18:03  

#6  Anyone have a link to the video?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-06-13 17:11  

#5  "Hadji" used to be a deragatory reference to Jonny Quest's little Hindu friend, and what *that* implies.

I knew of a guy who wanted to break up with his clingy, neurotic girlfriend, so he started to call her "Hadji". That finally did it.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-06-13 16:52  

#4  If you're taking part in killing marines you're cilivians?

Posted by: anonymous2u   2006-06-13 16:10  

#3  Council on American Islamic Relations - I keep seeing these infiltraitors showing up in the news. Being from the south, I can tell you that MAYBE 2% of the people I work with or know are aware of these people. More people need to know that we have been invaded by a foriegn propaganda machine. I fear for my sons, who will eventually have to confront these people on our own soil.
Posted by: DESNC   2006-06-13 15:24  

#2  I don't really CAIR.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-06-13 15:01  

#1  I had a dream that CAIR was successfully blacklisting me and I found out. In the dream I responded by letting contracts on all the top folks in CAIR then won the lotto.

It was a good dream.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-06-13 14:58  

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