Vague News: Cultural Symbolism in Stoning the Devil
This past Sunday, Dec.14, 2008 while in Baghdad, President Bush had a pair of shoes thrown at him by an Iraqi journalist which symbolically represents the supreme insult in Iraqi culture. Hitting someone with a shoe means that the target is even lower than the shoe, which is always on the ground and dirty.
Iraqi Journalist Hurls Shoes at Bush
After the shoe thrower was escorted away by security forces, President Bush responded to questions from the press jokingly stating... "All I can report is it is a size 10."
It should not be a surprise to anyone that many Muslin's consider the President of the United States symbolic of Satan. What may be a surprise to many is the fact that the actual "stoning of the devil" ritual occurred on Monday, Dec. 8, 2008 by hundreds of thousands of Muslims during their annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
Muslim Pilgrims Symbolically Stone Satan During Annual Hajj Ritual
Symbolically, one might question whether there is an eerie correlation between the shoe throwing incident and the "stoning of the devil" ritual. As that it may be, the shoe throwing journalist is symbolic of the multitude of people that participated in the symbolic stoning of the Devil and subsequently the Shoe-Hurling Iraqi Becomes a Folk Hero
A day after an Iraqi television journalist threw his shoes at President Bush at a news conference in Baghdad on Sunday, his act of defiance toward the American commander-in-chief reverberated throughout ...
BTW, the latest gossip on this story is that someone offered to pay $10 million dollars to purchase those shoes.
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