Resistance and Arab media reaction

The most impor­tant thing is that Iraqi Resis­tance group “Jihad and Reform” reacted on the Iraqi jour­nal­ist act say­ing: “This is the ref­er­en­dum [on the Secu­rity Agree­ment] you asked for, you saw it with your own eyes”.

While we admire this coura­geous act and we promise him that his courage will be writ­ten with gold in the his­tory pages, we hold the Gov­ern­ment of the Green Zone, the occu­pa­tion admin­is­tra­tion the full respon­si­bil­ity in main­tain­ing the life of the hero and warn them of tor­tur­ing him.

We also call upon all Arab and inter­na­tional orga­ni­za­tions inter­ested in human rights spe­cial­ized in defend­ing the free­doms and rights of jour­nal­ists to work stand beside the hero jour­nal­ist and demand­ing his release.

To over­come the sur­prise and shock of the Amer­i­cans to see their God being humil­i­ated, news agen­cies started to accuse Al-Zaidi of being “left” and “on drugs”, another says that he is a “com­mu­nist” very closw to the Sadrists [com­mu­nist close to the Islim­ists?] no won­der if we soon hear that he is “Al-Qaeda”.

Novosti says that Iraqis wish to be in his place to throw their shoes on Bush.

Fatee­hon reported that Mowafiq Al-Runai is lead­ing the inter­ro­ga­tion with Al-Zaidi but the jour­nal­ist is a ter­ri­ble con­di­tion and bleed­ing after the Maliki’s body­guards smashed his glasses in his face. [The video shows that the per­son who started to kick Al-Zaidi is “Haidir Majid” the brother of Maliki’s media advi­sor “Yaseen Majid”]

Demon­stra­tion in Bagh­dad — Sadr-City and in Fal­lu­jah for the sup­port of Al-Zaidi, ear­lier reported that 50 Iraqi lawyers want to defend Al-Zaidi but later the Iraqi Lawyers Union and the Arab Lawyers expressed their sup­port for the jour­nal­ist and asked to trans­fer his trial out­side Iraq to guar­an­tee a hon­est trial.

Ruba Al-Husari on Syria of Tomorrow:

Peo­ple go to Hajj to throw stones on the devil to be close to God, throw­ing shoes on George Bush works the same.

Iraqi writer Ali Al-Sudani says:

This is my idea, I was the first who sug­gest this six months ago.

Atwan on Al-Quds Al-Arabi: “

Although it is unpro­fes­sional jour­nal­ism but we under­stand it from an Iraqi jour­nal­ist.

Khalid Sagiyah in Al-Akhbar:

Syr­ian Al-Watan:

A scene reflects the pride and dig­nity Iraqis, shows what Bush eight years rules means.

Barhooma on Jor­dan­ian Al-Ghad:

If stones were the weapon of the Pales­tin­ian Intifada, then shoes are the weapon of the oppressed peo­ple around the globe. The Amer­i­can already threw their shoes on Bush by elect­ing Obama.

George Hajoj Syria of Tomorrow:

Peo­ple tried every­thing with Bush but the man lacks the com­mon sense, the Iraqi jour­nal­ist thought “lets try to cor­rect him with the shoes”.

“Dogs” from Haroun Al-Rashid to Muntad­hir al-Zeidi

By the way:

Cen­turies ago the haroun Al-Rashid, the Caliphate in Bagh­dad addressed “Nikfor” the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Roman Emperor with ” From Haroun Al-Rashid the Mus­lim caliphate to “Nikfor” the Roman dog… our answer is what you see and not what you hear”. His­tory repeats itself with Bush is the “West­ern dog”.