Tuesday, September 18, 2007
The local Muslim American Society has been pushing the Boston Palestine Film Festival (and seeking donations), with events taking place, in addition to other locations around the city, at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts where they'll be showing a puff-piece on Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled. Are you an MFA contributor? Congratulations, you helped pay for it. There is a petition against the MFA's participation, here.
Separate but related, our friend Zaki is back. Remember, he's the guy recruiting for MAS Youth with promises of "I swear Palestine will be back to us very soon, INSHALLAH!" Well he's hankering to start a Dabke dance troupe here in Boston:
I thought that bold part was interesting (my emphasis), so I decided to watch the video. After all, what sort of political training do you need to do dance? Turns out we've got Zaki in a chair spending almost 15 minutes explaining the political purpose of Palestinian dance, how he met Mazin Qumsiyeh, how the big problem is American funding for Israel, how Americans misunderstand the "resistance..." Dabke, used for a political purpose can change all that. Apparently we have to wait for parts 2 and 3 of the Dabke intro to actually get to any dancing.
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