Pakistan's big anti-terrorism pop music video is finally getting attention in the US. As this blog reported in March, a Pakistani Brit composed a "We are the World"-style song, in Urdu, against Islamist terrorism. The biggest pop singers in Pakistan got together and performed it, and the song became #1 in the country. Now it's been released in the UK.
This week, Fox News discovered the music video. Correspondent Greg Palkot reports from London: "Waseem Mahmood and his two sons, Khurrum and Khaiyyam, have made this statement via a song and music video. It is called 'Yeh Hum Naheen,' Urdu for 'This is Not Us.' [For the video of Palkot's report, click here.]
"The lyrics say it all: 'This story that is being spread in our names is a lie. … The name by which you know us we are not.'
"Taking a page right out of the hugely successful all-star relief song 'We are the World,' the song is performed by top young singers in Pakistan.
"Juxtaposed among the shots of the singers are ugly scenes and headlines about terrorism as well as heart-warming scenes of Pakistanis singing along … with passion."
Yeh Hum Naheen isn't some CAIR-style propaganda operation designed to divert us infidels away from the subject away from Islamist terrorism. It's a privately-sponsored production designed to rally young Muslims to marginalize the extremists. (That's probably why CAIR and its ilk have ignored it.)
And it's becoming a formidable musical movement, according to the official website.
"According to video creator Waseem, extremists here have criticized the song, saying it should target governments they claim are responsible for the terror," Palkot reports, "not the terrorists. But that's the very twisted logic the song is trying to knock down."
The Mahmood family has only just begun to fight. According to Fox: "The next priority is an Arabic version of the song. Then an English version. Then a 'Live Aid'-style concert. And a few other interesting projects they don’t want to talk about yet."
In March, PoliticalWarfare.org posted a link to the original 'Yeh Hum Naheen' video in Urdu. Here's a new link to the UK-released version subtitled in English.
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