A musical tribute to the so-called “flotilla martyrs,†written and performed by cyber jihadist Asadullah Alshishani, is making the rounds of the Muslim Internet.
Entitled "When the Jew’s Blood Reds my Knife, then my Life is Free from Strife" the nasheed — an Islamic-oriented song traditionally sung a cappella, or accompanied only by a frame drum — is sung in a complete monotone, with an electronic music bed in the "techno" style. Sung in American English without an accent, it is a stunning example of anti-Semitism. (See full text below.)
English lyrics are posted on an Islamist website, accompanied by a prayer for the terrorist "martyrs" of the flotilla who died after they attacked the Israeli SEALs who boarded the Mavi Marmara last week. The prayer also includes curses for the Israelis.
According to "Views from the Occident" blogger Christopher Anzalone, the singer’s name translates as Lion of God, The Chechen. Anzalone, a graduate student in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Indiana University, specializes in researching Islam and "jihadism". He revealed in a report written earlier this year that he had tracked down the jihadi singer’s location "based on his IP address" to a village located near a major U.S. city less than seven hours from Bloomington, Indiana. Anzalone remarked with some irony that the location was "a place not famed for being ‘Ard al-Jihad wa’l Ribat,’ a land of struggle and guardianship."
Alshishani apparently also recorded a similar "tune" in praise of Osama Bin Laden recently, repeating the refrain, "Amir of the Ansaar, How beautiful you are! You fight AmeriKKKa, and terrorize the Jews…Osama bin Laden, O, how I love you! You sold your soul for Jannah, to Allah you are true."
A listener who reviewed the tune on a separate site on the Internet commented:
"Ostensibly intended as a recruitment tool, these misguided attempts at accessible propaganda are so uniformly awful… you can’t help but laugh, or be left in shivers. Sporting eerie appropriations of gangster rap tropes (gunshots-as-ambience, violent braggadocio), footage of marches and infamous mujahadeen, and a truly bush-league Auto-tune, I’m left with the image of the sad sacks sitting solitary, whispering lyrics into a janky Packard Bell, tweaking levels, uploading to YouTube."