"Achmed the Dead Terrorist" banned in South Africa

Oct 2, 2008
Robert Spencer

Wait a minute. Aren't we supposed to believe that Muslims condemn and abhor terrorism? At least until someone mocks an Islamic terrorist. Then suddenly one has offended all Muslims. But if they really condemn terrorism, wouldn't they find Achmed the Dead Terrorist inoffensive and maybe even helpful?

Funnyman ventriloquist Jeff Dunham is fuming after a ringtone advertisement based on his popular comedy skit, "Achmed the Dead Terrorist," was scrubbed from South African TV because it mocks Islam.

The ringtone was taken from a puppet routine performed by Dunham, a native Texan, in a TV special on Comedy Central. A 10-minute clip of the comedian's routine that was posted on YouTube has been viewed more than 66 million times since April.

... South Africa's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that a GloMobile ringtone commercial featuring Dunham and his puppet was offensive to Muslims...

ASA officials said a South African man, Moegamat Khan, had filed a complaint that the commercial was offensive to the Islamic religion and created an impression that all Muslims were terrorists.

Videos: Farm murders in South Africa

May 18, 2007




They've passed through stage 3 of genocide, dehumanisation, and are onto stage 5 - polarisation.

Sky News report on racist farm murders in South Africa



If you dont like the crime in South Africa...

Afrikaners need to help build new communities

11 Aug 2008
Johann Rossouw

Thabo Mbeki in an infamous speech in 1999 wiped Nelson Mandela's "rainbow nation" off the table when he bitterly and somewhat simplistically claimed SA to be "two nations", one rich and white, the other poor and black. These days, claims that "the whites must go" are heard more and more.

In a radio debate on the BBC World Service in October last year, when I criticised the government, a black civil society activist told me in front of a global audience to "go back to Europe if you don't like it here"...

... the Zimbabwe crisis and the hatred unleashed there against black as well as white opponents of Mugabe does not install confidence in South Africans uncertain about their country's future.

The current piece of proposed legislation that would give the SA government to disown any property if it is in "the public interest" certainly feeds into fears brought about by Zimbabwe.

And so, at last, it seems that even for those Afrikaners that were prepared to sacrifice for a new South Africa, the betrayal of this dream by the current political elite has become a bridge too far. And a new Great Trek has started.

Looks like 'sorry' doesn't work over there.