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In America, "Harlem Shake" may be the top pop single. In Egypt and Tunisia, there's some serious Harlem shaking going on. And it's causing leaders to tremble as it becomes a potent symbol of protest, revolt and defiance.
Take the kids in the video at a school in Tunisia. They danced en masse to the song and posted their exploits on YouTube. That prompted a quarter of a million hits and reports of an investigation by the country's minister of education and that prompted a backlash. Video after video after video of Tunisians proudly doing the Harlem shake in defiance.
More from CNN: What the Shake has to do with Harlem
And then there's Egypt, where the authorities went further and the backlash was worse. Four pharmaceutical students were arrested for doing this Harlem shake in front of the pyramids, and that set off a big reaction. Late in the week in Cairo, there was a mass shake in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters to protest.
Now, who says America's popular culture exports have no value?
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Hopefully it will shake all of the countries that don't allow freedom of expression. Shake Shake Shake.
Yet i cant express i dont like gays or the ideas they have ithout being called all sorts of names and a monger.
Let's make this very plain and simple: You have the freedom of expression. You are free to express your feelings about anything in the world. However, you're not the only person who gets this right! I, too, have the freedom of expression. So, if you say that you don't like gay people, and I respond by calling you an ignorant bigot, we are both exercising our rights
. You have the right to express yourself; not the right to be free of criticism.
you can express that, it'll just make you look like a butt hurt loser. something you're hidin'? shake shake shake
You just expressed it. And though you may look like an azs for doing so, nobody is going to arrest you for it.
Just because you are free to express your prejudices does not mean it is smart to do so. Others are just as free to respond. I suggest you keep your hateful views to yourself if you can not handle the criticism.
Gays are gross, immoral, unnatural and in every possible way bad for society and a bad for children to be around. 95% of people feel this same way, gay is a mental health disorder and should be fixed – not encouraged!!! Society is falling apart and some people think it's OK and we should just embrace this people like there's nothing wrong with them.
Please keep your hate speech in church where it is protected.
You have the right. I am gay and don't care, it doesn't bother me, maybe I am just a strong willed person and don't feel the need to point out displeasure at everything other people say, which usually makes others look like their whining or makes them feel like they are righteous individuals in their own mind.
Stay strong my friends.
You have the freedom to express whatever thoughts you have HOWEVER, everyone else ALSO has the freedom to express their displeasure at your bigoted thoiughts.
Based on the fact that you just expressed what you said you cannot express, you are either very stupid, or a liar, or both.
Retwqaas, you can say you don’t like gays just as we can say that we don’t like your opinion. Freedom of expression goes both ways dummy.
Eric, can you back up any of that hate speech? You say that they are gross, to you, that is fine, but it doesn’t make them bad for society or for children to be around. Can you provide anything that backs up that statement? The vast majority of child abusers identify themselves has being straight. The American Medical Association and the American Mental Health Association would disagree with you calling it a mental disorder. In fact the one and only study that said that it might be able to be cured has since recanted it and apologized for all of the damage that has been done to people who subjected to praying the gay away and other mock therapies. Tell me how society is falling apart and show me how the gays are responsible for it. I double dog dare you!
you are allowed to freely express that you hate gays. but the rest of the population is allowed to freely call you names. and i'm freely allowed to troll the interwebz
Sorry, point is the government can't tell you that you can't say something. Other people (i.e., non-bigots) are not constrained in what they say, they can point out that you're a neaderthal all day. (remember, freedom of speech doesn't just apply to you).
@ lawless4u is @ Keep it real being a biggotted, prejudice religionist by assuming the this sub human igoes to church (i.e. Christian)
@ all of you dog piling this "sub human" – why are you not dog piling Keep it Real on this issue as well. I am deeply offended by the assumption the "sub human" goes to church (i.e. Christian) – remember bigotry goes both ways.
Save us from your self righteousness and stop all hatred. by the way, sorry to offend and "sub humans" that may have read this on a blog mistaken for ligitimate news.
I am glad that Christian is deeply offended. Now he can see how we gays feel when some people come in the name of Christ saying we are less than and deserving less rights, etc. We have been deeply offended as a community for decades. I have been called names even before I knew I got aware I was gay (I was however attracted since childhood just not aware). So this name calling and sensitivities go both ways.
Stop worrying so much about your dog and your picket fences and worry more about your neighbors, friends and fellows. I don't know what God wants but I am sure what God does not want and that is HATE. Peace to you all.
Freedom of speech, is not freedom of other peoples reactions to that speech.
YEA WHAT GRIFF SAID!!!!
What do you mong? Fish? You saying you're a fishmonger who is afraid he'll catch a little something "extra" in your net?
There is nothing wrong with you not liking gays. What is wrong is the way you express your dislike, and your thinking that your disliking gays is reason enough to deprive them of their civil righhts.
Must be super appealing to fish, I bet ya got real "fish appeal"... $5 says retwqaas is a fish him or herself!
You're joking, right?
I like all people. I don't judge. Even if doesn't agree with my beliefs, I figure it's between God and them. It relieves one of all the negative energy spent not liking someone. As long as they good law abiding citizens who do not infringe upon my rights, let people be the people they are. We are not all made in one mold. That's what makes our world interesting and diverse.
You sound cute. Maybe we should hang out, I am a power bottom.
Sounds to me like you're ready for the latest edition of "Hand job for dummies" (victim version)
Griff, it works both ways, I think you're an ignorant bigot too.
Gays were born that way(not that some of it would choose it either). They are no different than a child born without an arm, or mentally challenged, or conjoined twins. Something happens in utero at conception, it happens in animals too. We help children with other afflictions they are born with. You need to use common sense, things go wrong sometimes that are not planned. Some people are born to be more prone to other health issues. God loves all of his children, no matter their faith or no faith. No matter their affliction in life. He loves us for not judging and for accepting each others differences. I think a loving God would frown on brothers and sisters hating someone because they are different or are born with a genetic flaw. Gays have to learn to accept that flaw and love themselves, good parents and friends help them fac
Griff – great point
Your one sentence drew so much criticism and hatred from others, wouldn't it be better if you weren't allowed to say that? That's exactly why many countries don't allow freedom of speech.
Syed, that's ridiculous.
Griff, there is an old saying, better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to open ones mouth and remove all doubt. No one here has any doubt about you.
^^^Exactly what Griff said!
Right, let's be smug in our :freedom of expression" while we're patted down and probed by the TSA, barred from lawful assembly to protest, have our information collected and sold, have our privacy eroded and be intimidated by daily government "shows of force" vis the DHS. Right, America the great liberator. Everyday we sound more and more like North Korea.
And that's just a tiny selection of the stuff we used to say was what communism was about
You do realize that freedom of speech is just so you can blow off steam and then go home, rather than gather in some basement fomenting the overthrow of a tyrannical government? Marx said religion was the opiate of the masses, here in Amerika the first ammendment is the opiate of the masses.
Yeah right! And now big brother will come to arrest and kill you...just like North Korea.
Yeah! Don't you dare protest Scott Walker...he will shut you down. Koch brothers right behind him...I guess big money is just as dangerous as big government!
@ A, you guys lost the recall election, and it was fair, so don't complain about it
Americans! keep enjoying being lied to and fed illogical virtues by your government and media [read pagan powers] that worship ancient egyptian idols (youtube the "Bhohemian grove" and see why your leaders won't answer questions about it)
Your angry responses to the guy who mentioned freedom to say he hates gays explains why Arabs would respond angrily to whatever the stupid harlem shake is. Some American leaders (controlled by Israeli zioist masters) will keep you busy doing and glorifying the most stupid and vain things. It's freedom of speech if it hurts someone else. It's hate speech if it doesn't agree with you – how convenient!
Sorry, the Egyptian GOVERNMENT responded angrily, the people told them to shove it (good for them). Our gov't does not do that. Personal reaction is protected. Seems some people do not understand our 1st Amendment.
Dance, people of the world!
The Spirit of Elvis Presley is alive & well !
I hope the authorities in Egypt crack down on this foolishness. People died in the Arab Spring for real reform, not so that students could be caught up in western filth. The MB needs to step in and solve this issue.
Says the Dictatorship of the Mosque.
And I hope you get arrested just for being an a$$hat on the internet for no aparent reason.
People died in the Arab spring with the hopes of being free. They died with the hope of reform and democracy. They didn't give their lives so that others could endure more oppression, especially from the likes of you.
Yet they sure like "Western" tourist income, and Western Foreign aide and Western jet fighters and Western Internet. Hypocite!
People died so they don't have to listen to the likes you tell others what is right and wrong. You better get used to it, Western culture and freedom are both very contagious.
Yeah Do Rostum... The middle east justice should behead you for being STUPID.
They are just having fun, not breaking the law. Chill.
The MB believe having fun should be against the law.
As other nation's freedom of expression increases, ours disappear thanks for Dictator Obama
Please illustrate....
What a dope you are, Jeff. Nobody's taking away any of your freedoms, except that you are no longer free to say a black man will never be president. Stop listening to Rush and eating your own dogfood. Imagine being dumb enough to think a black guy from Chi-town is going to be anti-gun.
Just look at all the freedoms Obama has removed. Like, for example...
Give me some time...
Hmmmmm....
Oh well, can't think of anything. Carry on!
i think this is overblown. CNN wants to make this a big deal, like how every other story has to be about gays (Anderson cooper, etc.). They stick something so much into your face that it becomes the talk of the town and then you're not as bothered by it.
This will go away on its own if they stop covering it, like the emo girls, against which CNN claimed Iraq was taking action. It's just a bunch of kids playing. They'll stop as soon as the beer intoxication loses its effect. Relax everyone!
This kind of behavior (Harlem Shake) is the epitome of society's dumbing down... Not a measure of freedom or more importantly, intelligence.
Our forefathers got drunk, dressed up as indians, then somehow ended up on a boat and proceeded to throw its cargo overboard. Jus' sayin...
Yeah, because intelligent people never engage in goofy behavior. They are always on task and deadpan serious.
I say to you, go to YouTube and watch "Rock the Casbah." Our music and culture are a direct assault on the restrictions of Muslim culture. They use the authority of Allah Himself to preach against Western music, and guess what? Honey badger don't care. We make it, and they see it, and they make a choice about whether it's good or not. Sharia don't like it? Rock the Casbah.
If a crazy music movement causes these kids to open their minds to the ideals of freedom, then who are any of us to say it should not happen?
Once again the reporter was wrong. The kids were arrested because they were in their UNDERWEAR in front of the pyramids. NOT because they were shaking. If he had been accurate (and not trying to simply add drama) he would have stated that all over CAIRO they are doing this and even the police and military have videos on YOUTUBE. So this guy making Egypt look like a third world country is a pampas ass.
Hey, that's a really good point. CNN never seems to quite get the news right.
That is an interesting article. To bad all the following responses are all about some person's views on gays , really weird. I mean what the hell?
For some reason, that's what it always comes down to. Very strange. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8772014
freedom of expression is a paradox
only to the uptight.
yeah.. shaking baby,,,
http://celanaselebriti.blogspot.com/2013/03/kim-kardashian-hot-wallpaper.html
Only we can show those backward arabs how to be free!
Go America!
"CON LOS TERRORISTAS!"
I like that "con los terroristas", lol.
Che, pibe! Viva la revolución!
It was actually started in Australia, not America.
lol the song is American. It was started in America.
The Harlem Shake started in New York in the early 80's It had a different name then. Australia?? Really??
Americans are the ones who are backwards – they stick their things into the back sides to enjoy contact with someone elses excrement. People who do that are cool and are glorified. How free is speech criticizing such backward and disgusting activity? How free is reading and preaching the bible, such verses that are against such backwardness. You know you can't win an argument in this area, but you have power and more guns.
anyone who says gays are not cool should be put in jail for their whole lives
Arabs have been sticking it in people's backside for ever. It is your form of birth control for thousands of years.
What you DONT know it, it does go on amongst them, just behind closed doors,because they will be arrested or hanged(Iran) if someone finds out just as incest happens there. People here do not marry they own relatives as what goes on there because of the chance of problems with their children if they do so. Gays were born that way(not that some of it would choose it either). They are no different than a child born without an arm, or mentally challenged, or conjoined twins. Something happens in utero at conception, it happens in animals too. We help children with other afflictions they are born with. You need to use common sense, things go wrong sometimes that are not planned. Some people are born to be more prone to other health issues. God loves all of his children, no matter their faith or no faith. No matter their affliction in life. He loves us for not judging and for accepting each others differences. I think a loving God would frown on brothers and sisters hating someone because they are different or are born with a genetic flaw. Gays have to learn to accept that flaw and love themselves, good parents and friends help them face judgmental people like you.
There are no personal restrictions on criticizing gays or quoting the bible in public. There are restrictions on quoting the bible or other religious texts on gov't time though.
It has to do with the Internet which is changing the world and the monopoly on power.
rightospeak
It has to do with the Internet which is changing the world and the monopoly on power.
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I must disagree. The internet is nothing more than a tool – a powerful tool but a tool nonetheless – and to which I think you give it far more credit than it merits. It is the idea being communicated, not the means by which it was communicated – does it invalidate how powerful it is or that it is pivotal in reaching out to so many? No, that is true. But first you must have an idea that people believe in. The right to express ourselves, as your namesake implies, is so fundamentally simple we understand it intuitively – but I think you have to give the people that push that envelope more credit than the technology.
Mark, Mark--It has to do with the internet-you disagree with that asnd then yhou agree with it-It has EVERYTHING to do with the internet-there have been notable and brilliant ideas since mane exited his cave-but he could only share with the guy next to him-ease of communication has changed the world-–hopefuly the best of ideas can be shared -but not only shared -but acted on-a brilliant idea that never gets expressed or acted on is just as thought-dead
disagree..it is far far more important than a tool of protests. The internet allows curious minds to learn about other ideas..this instills curiosity, opens minds and fights brainwashing, and nationalistic upbringing. It is this exposure to information and ideas that changes cultures and empowers people to think independently... this is what caused the Arab spring..this is what is causing these protests and this is what will empower previously ignorant populations to understand just how oppressed they really are.
Mark, an idea will go nowhere with out a means to communicate it. The Internet is a huge media tool that covers the world and spreads ideas instantaneously.
Mark, you do not know what you are talking about with all due respect.
I get the feeling that your just saying a bunch of stuff to feel important.
This is the truth:
The idea of freedom has been around forever.
The means to communicate the idea has been around forever. albeit slowly and in more or less a one to one relationship between communicators.
The internet IS the tool that is making all of this possible because it brings multiplicity and speed to the communication of a message. It eliminates the barriers of time, distance and language. it is instantaneous .. and this allows for it to be used to organize and coordinate the message. This is new.
You have a very simplistic grasp on what is happening, I suggest you THINK about it a bit more before you speak.
You are splitting hairs and playing with semantics. The Internet is the most important conduit for information dissemination that has ever been invented. You can't understate its importance.
Correction: You can't overstate its importance.
seems the rightospeak is RIGHT and you are a complex stoopidolostmindoamigoyaeyo
"The Medium is the Message." – Some famous Canadian. anyways. The internet is a tool not to be relied on. much the same with Bank accounts, and other computer databases.
Without the Internet, this "shake" will likely not have been seen/heard/learned in North Africa and thereabouts....nor would the rest of the world be seeing North Africans dance to it....nor would North African govts care. Like "Gangnam Style"....no youtube video, no fame....just ordinary song that wouldn't have gotten airplay beyond Seoul (and a month or two at that).
I don't get it. I guess I am out of touch.
Oh, it is a song.
The current fad is duplicating the video using your friends as actors. They are freaking out because they can't keep it out of their country, along with every other cool thing we make. America in your face once again, world.
Shake Shake Shake Tunisa!
Shake shake shake, SHAKE your Burka! Shake your Burka!!!
This activity is blasphemy . Anyone acting like a filthy Infidel should be punished . A good whipping should make this issue go away . If it doens't heads will role , literally .
Don't you have a vest to strap to your body or a woman to stone???
You are a fool and a troll. Go away, nobody cares what you have to say.
I see what you did there.
It might be helpful if you explained just why you consider this blasphemy?
100 lashes to the buttocks... in public.
it is only blasphemy to those who believe in your idiot religion...
Religious knuckleheads just don't get that the rest of us don't give a flying $%^& about their stupid rules and regulations. The only reason any of the oppression based religions are still here is due to thier willingness to use violence to coerce the non-believers into falling into lock step line – nothing at all to do with "truth". Believe or die – Christ's motto? Sure was for the enforcers of his church for the last 2000 years. I prey that every single person who has ever killed another in the name of God/Jesus/Allah etc is, or will be, swimming in the lake of fire for all of eternity. Every single one!
So if someone murders and it's not in the name of God/Jesus/Allah then you're ok with that?
"Mohamiss Shafique-Kaddir
This activity is blasphemy . Anyone acting like a filthy Infidel should be punished . A good whipping should make this issue go away . If it doens't heads will role , literally ."
What a low life comment. Who died and left your kind in control of the world? Crawl back into your cave and chew on a couple of dry bones.
If this guy's a real Arab, I am a real Alien.
I was waiting for someone with intelligence to pick up on that.
If you look at the mirror you will se Uranus
It is so difficult to tell a Poe from a Troll. If you are a troll, then here is some news for you: Enough of us don't care about your fake god that your monopoly on power is going away. It is coming along quite nicely in the west and is now creeping into the theocratic hell hole that you call home.
Heaven forbid people dance and have a good time.
"Heaven forbid people dance and have a good time." That's Southern Baptist, right? Footloose, etc? Can't do it standing up because someone might look in the window and think you're dancing?
Well I certainly wasn't trying to quote a movie etc. Just can't understand why people get so bent out of shape by people getting together and having fun.
The majority of the videos the people that are doing th Harlem Shake are doing it wrong. No wonder these folks are scared.LOL!. It's actually a cute fun dance.
Armed Forces Eliminate Terrorists and Destroy their Hideouts in Idleb Countryside
Armed Forces units destroyed several gatherings of terrorists in al-Qinya, Zarzour, al-Kastan and Meshmeshan in Jisr al-Shughour countryside in Idleb province along with the terrorists, munitions and equipment inside them.
Another unit destroyed three cars equipped with heavy machineguns in the villages of Tal Salmo, al-Hamidiye and Oum Jerin and eliminated terrorists in Qeminas, al-Nayrab, Bannesh, Sraqeb, Sahl al-Rouj and Maartamsrin.
Yet another unit inflicted heavy losses upon terrorists in the town of Hish and the areas around Ma'aret al-Nu'man, killing and injuring a number of them.
Armed Forces Eliminate Terrorists from Jabhet al-Nusra in Deir Ezzor
An Armed Forces unit clashed with seven terrorists from Jabhet al-Nusra who attempted to sneak into the city of Deir Ezzor on Monday night through the graveyards in the city's southern side, eliminating the seven of them, one of which was identified as Abdelaziz Fawwaz al-Abed.
Also on Monday night, another Armed Forces unit clashed with a terrorist group which attempted to attack a military point in the 7 KM area in Deir Ezzor countryside, eliminating a number of terrorists inclduign Mus'ab Jamal al-Zeidan.
Army Unit Clashes with Terrorists in al-Sheikh Miskin
A unit of the armed forces today clashed with an armed terrorist group in al-Sheikh Miskin town in Daraa countryside, killing several of terrorists and injuring many others.
An official source told SANA that among the killed terrorists were Ala al-Muhr, Hafez Abdul-hamid and Muhanad Kasem Abu Salou.
.... and your point is????
Didn't this thread start out about a dance? Where di you get that stuff from a 'dance' thread?
Hooray. Little Markie has learned how to cut and paste. He has come of age.
You're all farking nuts if you think this is in the least bit going to change anything. All i read here was a pro-america piece with very little substance. USA! USA! USA!
Sorry, we got out of line there a little thinking anything could change you. Go back to being ignorant wife beating cowards.
Gee Whiz. Looks to me as if a bunch of dictators have their knickers in a twist about how useless Sharia has been at keeping American pop tunes and American ideas out of their subjects' lives. I bet they all know who Lady Gaga is, too, and have opinions about Rihanna getting back together with what's his name. Sharia don't like it? Rock the Casbah!
You're just jelly because you're a stick in the mud. SHAKE. Shake shake shake!
Cordis Die!
y wonder how they would react if they knew that it says "WITH THE TERRORIST!!!"?
Time to send in Ren McCormick!
Hey, who would have thought that a harmless dance on youtube can create a protest movement – not opposed to it but USES it?
In other news . . . .
Harlem, New York is cringing. >.<'
Yes !!! I am loving it.....:) lol
this is the same as America, people were arrested for dancing at the Jefferson memorial, they are just following our lead.
Very Cool
Let this obnoxious meme die. just like The Gangnam Style craze, American pop-culture has become a parody of itself. Time to take it out back and shoot it.
Someone will take up your suggestion as the next craze, perhaps the NRA will adopt your message.
Can't say I'll ever do the Harlem Shake but if it brings happiness to someone then "Shake, Rattle and Roll!" God gave us life to live for only a brief time. Why waste it?
The disco craze era songs that mention shaking body parts predate this latest craze by a few decades and caused no such concerns then. The internet has now taken hold on the youth of the world and the Pandora's Box is now open. What will pop out is anyone's guess.
This is just as stupid as "Planking", "Owling", "Tebowing" or "Faith Hilling" and hopefully sooner than later, people will realize how incredibly stupid it truly is and will it fade into the Interweb history books to be mocked and ridiculed for generations to come.
wow...have drink and relax...
No Call Me Maybe'ing?
Ask your doctor if 'bitter life' is right for you!
Yes, you are right, it's a fad like owling or planking or streaking or packing phone booths and swallowing goldfish, Gramps. And it will be over, just like they were, and we will make fun of them. The difference is that this is happening in countries where America is supposedly not very popular, and enraging dictators into arresting people for doing silly stuff.
Next up the Cairo shuffle
I always hated that movie.
This is so stupid.
There's nothing like a good peaceful protest! The particular fad of the time will pass, but the idea of freedom of expression will remain.
ANYTHING BLACK PEOPLE DOES BECOME A WORLD SENSATION
yeah, crap for the crap-seeking world...
Yeah but according to Liberal the whole world hates us and our culture. Word of advise travel out of the state and you'll see how much, in fact, they like us. Especially the poor they love the US and our culture. Take it from someone who has travel the world and doesn't waste time with the cry me a river type but with motivated people who go out and make things happen for themselves.
English was obviously not your first language. Where are you from again?
I though this Shake dance thing was dumb.. but if it's upsetting to the middle east i'm now all for it.
The Harlem Shake is so yesterday. We've moved onto GALLON SMASHING.
reminds me of why babtists don't dance...
Do your balls bounce when you dance?
One time while vacationing in the middle east I saw a muslim by the side of the road with his arm all the way up a camel's butt. "Car trouble?" I asked.
Did you hear about the guy who went into an auto parts store and said to the clerk, "Can I get a new gas cap for a Yugo?"
The clerk thought for a second and said, "That seems like a fair trade."
Come on, shaking is preferable to killing any day. If these people are in protest then maybe someone should listen, rather than trying to suppress. Power to the people.
I guess they dont like there children acting like monkies jumping off trees. This stupid stuff represents the worst in American culture. but its ok,, keep thinking its harmless as our kids jump backward socially and Intellectually. It will be ok....
Yep, just like Elvis shaking his hips ruined the entire 1950s. Get a clue, man. Our current silly fad has jumped right over the wall into their purdah gardens, and they can't stop it with their disapproval any more than you can. The Beatles did more to break up the USSR than any military action.
I thought sheikh's came from these countries?
Brillian play on words!
I'm embarassed enough seeing Americans doing it.
It's time to shake off this mindless oppression in this world. SHAKE ON, PEOPLE!!!
The bad news is that "con los terroristas" means "I'm with the terrorists"......... The world will know peace when everyone on the planet does the Harlem shake at the same time.
So starts the war on dance...
Harlem Shake those islamists into submission! If you fear dancing you probably aren't fit to rule.
Sharia don't like it.
I like the Miami HEAT version, but if it promotes freedom, I'm all for it!
The only thing one can learn from American culture, is how to be gay, & how to be a racist!!!
Well, you certainly learned it well, frootloop.
Shake your groove thing! Don't let the false profits of Islam make the religion worse. God created dancing as an expression of joy and Islam is an affront to not recognize the good Lord's work.
I don't know about "Harlem Shake", but I like what girl missy poo was doing at :44.
The only thing one can learn from American culture, is how to be gay, & how to be a racist!!!
Everything else they lie about!
This is a joke – NO ONE who posts an ANTI leftist liberal democrat point of view is QUICKLY -DELETED-!
CNN = Communinst News Network
THEY CONTROL your input.
This will be deleted -
I am the guy who deletes your posts. I just don't like you. No, seriously, you are probably getting keyword-blocked. Google CLBUTTIC and get the info.
CNN PLEASE fix your story. This Harlem Shake started in BRITAIN, NOT the USA.
Per wikipedia:
The Harlem shake, originally called the albee, is a dance introduced in 1981 by a Harlem resident named "Al B".
Ummm... The Harlem Shake started in Australia, not America.
Wrong! It was invented by Massai warriors in Kenya!
I am afraid of the Harlem Shake
Then refrain from doing it
Religion, lol... I cant believe people still believe in that baloney....
Harlem Shake now that's real !
Screw guns, bombs, and violence. Shake, shake, shake!
Oh come on! What's the big deal. This dance has been going on in variations since ancient times ( the 60's). In was
rooted in free form Hippie Dancing. Carry on, world.
The big deal is how they can't keep our pop culture out of their country. Guns and tanks and riot gas can't keep you from smoking grass. They hate us, they preach against us, they ban us and block us, and their kids still karaoke to Lady Gaga. We win again!
Im ashamed to be a American. We failed our youth. They are lost.
Yeah, they said the same thing about Rudy Vallee and silent movies and the end of Prohibition and Elvis's pelvis and the Beatles and mini-skirts and the pill. Hey, why don't you just shut up? You can't even spell "berserker."
The exact reason I stood up and spoke out against the current practices in Islam...God never required us to stop being individuals and enjoying life. Their man-made rules did. So proud of you all...keep shaking it up. Islam needs cleaning up badly.
It's just a joke, copying a stupid video using whoever's handy. They are angry because they can't keep the world out of their countries, but you can't tell people not to laugh and sing.
Just send that latina mother over there. She'll end all that harlem shaking!
how about every time we get upset we just do this instead of fighting?
This is the kind of silly iPhone stuff that started the Arab Spring
I long for the days when islam and mohamed the false prophet has no more stronghold on people's minds and allah has no hold on their souls.
shake the sheik...shake till you shake out the Islamists!
Rock the Casbah! Sharia don't like it.
America has the highest prisioner population of the entire world. Numbers and percentage of the population.
so let me get this right... if you dance the shake, you get arrested...if you murder a bunch of people, allah gives you 72 virgins?? hmmm............
Technically, if you DIE IN BATTLE, BRAVELY FACING THE ENEMY, you get 72 virgins and a free pass on your sins. Most mainstream Muslims think suicide vests are a coward's way of pretending to be brave, and assume you go straight to hell.
Has the issue of what Paradise is like AFTER all the virgins have been deflowered been addressed anywhere? Is it still Paradise?
Then you are stuck with 72 wives and the real hell begins
I just don't get how this became the Harlem Shake. This is not the real Harlem Shake smfh!
Awesome!
Good for the students being arrested !
Shame on them for making a mockery of one of the great wonders of the world. (great pyramids)
I wish that happened here, for every retard doing the harlem shake to be arrested- i would be a happy man .
you miss the entire point...its NOT about the pyramids. it's about FREEDOM!
I can see why you Muslims hate it. It's free and insolent and you can't even slow it down. The pyramids have witnessed every kind of foolishness imaginable as the slow centuries passed; pretending that people dancing nearby is "mockery" just shows how superficial you are.
I'm not a muslim, I'm a white Canadian
When are people going to realize that Tunisians and Egyptians are AFRICANS, not ARABS!
Meh, they're all brown and angry, so what's the difference really?
Islam...where dancing gets you arrested but mass murder gets you 72 virgins!
I don't understand why they were making such a big deal about them dancing..."An act of defiance?" To me it just looked like young kids enjoying themselves...jeez
Any agent of a government who fears its citizens... probably has good reason to.
II heard they were worried because they thought it was called "The Harem Shake".
SHAKE ON!
Sheik Yerbout
Yerbouti
Djibouti works too
It has NO VALUE and is basically STUPID! Glad I am in the USA where free speech is available to all. I do really think it has no value at all and is plain stupid!
If your government is frightened by an internet meme, it probably means they don't have legitimacy to govern in the first place...and they know it.
Of course they don't want that in their country ...... then they will degrade to same disgusting level as Harlem is.
"Now, who says America's popular culture exports have no value?"
ehh.... the Harlem Shake began in Australia, not America.
This is just more evidence that the power of religion is declining. After thousands of years of religious oppression, the spread of knowledge and enlightenment is reducing religion's vice grip on humanity, leading the world towards a better, more free, and more tolerant future. To all the priests, imams, rabbis, religious bigots, and theocratic dictators: we are no longer your monkeys. With the advent of the Internet, you can no longer keep the human spirit chained or knowledge restrained; everyone now has access to the most profound, inspirational, and humbling discoveries of mankind. For the sake of both religious fanatics and the people they oppress, I hope religion continues its slow death.
Then whose monkey are you?
– BRILLIANT! not brillian-
Arab leaders hate the Harlem Shake because they just spent the last 20 years learning The Macarena and now they have to start over
See any women in those videos?? No, they'd be killed for dancing!!!!!!! Hahahahahahah
Harlem shake is the epitome of a dumbed down society...
Of course, the protest has to come in the form of something absolutely ridiculous.
All the good ones do
What amazes me about CNN is how the afre happy to serve up drivel like this whilst failing to inform the US public of the global story that links directly, the Pentagon to Iraqi torture centers. No wonder the US public have a misguided notion about their standing in the world.
I saw an episode of "The Simpsons" on Bravo. Homer was naked and they blurred out his ass crack. Another example of our freedoms being eroded.
ALL GAYS ARE JUST UNCONTROLLABLE NARCISSISTS. THEY EVEN JOKE ABOUT IT. THEY'RE GONNA DO WHAT THE F- THEY WANT TO AND F- YOU IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT.
Interesting you picked the name of a flaming gay guy for your screed
Fundamentalists of all religions fear anything that has not been done for a thousand or so years. The pope resigns, and people wring their hands over the color of his shoes and what to call him. People wiggle their hips and their leaders tremble with fear and arrest people. Girls wear clothing that does not cover them from head to foot and they are beaten. And in this country, if you don't say that everything good that happens is gods work, you are an outcast in many places. They are all the same, and sad.
Money is the only truly free speech in this country anymore. It buys politicians and elections, it floods the media with its messages while blocking out the ability of the common individual to be heard, it buys entry into the meetings and halls of power, it rents or purchases venues for meetings and air time while citizens without it are shunted to fenced in "free speech zones" that are out of sight and out of mind. It magnifies the voice of corporate CEOs over that of their workers and that of individual voters. It buys "experts" that agree with its views and slants their research and the reporting of their findings. It perverts the justice system by buying teams of lawyers and dragging on lawsuits until the opposition folds due to lack of funds and exhaustion. On those rare occasions when it loses a suit, it delays implementation of sentences and penalties through endless appeals. Its influence is pervasive and silences the majority.
Fight for your right to partay!
Good on 'em.
I guess Zakaria is a bigger joke than I previously thought.
Conservatives are always scared that some new thing will come along and knock them down a notch, so they have to try and put their thumb on people. You shouldn't do this, can't do that. Lame
given the only words in the video say "with the terrorists" it's interesting what those people might think all the US citizens are dancing to..........
Arab rulers don't fear harlem shake, Muslims simply don't need this garbage. Its not part of our culture. Stop making things WE the people don't like ..into rulers problems.
Is anybody surprised by this? Those co'ckroaches in the middle east get upset over the time of day.
Shake on middle easterners!!!!!
Awesome! Shake Shake Shake and let those looser dictators that worry only about their pockets tremble in fear!
Arab world doesn't like America's liberalism, they don't like our conservatism, they don't like our culture, they don't like the way Americans behave. Well, they don't really need a reason to hate America. They hate us because we are a country with free speech, land of opportunity, our liberals have same rights as religious rights (up to some extent), we are a land of abundance, they despise that we are a majority Christian nation.
I don't know about the "majority" christian.
Now you do.
I think it is rather evident that the youth in the middle east country's want more freedom to express themselves. Next thing you know they will be walking around putting daisy's in the ends of assault rifles.
You just sifted through many lines of nonsense about a story which is itself nonsense. YAY!
The Harlem shake is about as harmless as a high five. Is that also on the 'feared list' in Arab countries? Why is soccer acceptable and the Harlem shake not?
Crying 'Wolf' usually always comes back to bite.
"Late in the week in Cairo, there was a mass shake in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters to protest."
That just made my whole day!
Just don't bring back the bunny hop and song.
Fundies will be fundies.
It is the Zeitgeist of freedom
Lesson ........ Don't mess with our music! Didn't you fools learn that in the 60's?
Only hot girls in bikini should be allowed to do the Harlem shake.
How dare the Tunisian educational system get mad at school kids for doing the Harlem Shack in the classroom. It is the American culture to send our kids to school to do the Harlem Shack! Maybe we can make it a class right after Math.
Youtube "kids get in trouble for doing the harlem shack"
The first hit is an American school!
Doesn't CNN ever get tired of lying about and demonizing Islam and Muslims?
When the authorities try to ban dancing, they are just begging for a Kevin Bacon movie to be made.
The "Harlem Shake" is satanic. The further Western civilization deteriorates, the greater the need for Sharia-like laws. calnewlanministries.com
coming from a tool who uses a fake name YOU are a joke just like the pedophile who created islam for access to children
At least they are protesting peacefully and not killing anyone. Arab leaders please give the youth a break and allow them to express themselves or they might just go back to b l o w i n g each other up.
It's quite obvious that democracy will never take hold in these countries because the leaders are not having any of it . . . at least not for their people.
I hope they shake on Zakaria's face
Allah likes when people relax and have a good time. Time for the uptight religious nuts and Arab tyrants to get lost....
Western media invade Islamic world is bad for Muslim children. Through Sharia can real values be imparted. The USA is home to Satan, and he wishes to corrupt. This sickness will not last as Muslim children wish for its own traditional music.
The Harlem Shake is nothing but simulated copulation and panders to the lowest common denominator. It is inimical to civilized society, lacks both originality and taste and is morally reprehensible. Islam, on the other hand, is far superior both intellectually and morally to the other two of the so called great monotheistic religions.
Dear Mr. Zakaria, first of all, credit goes to the first Harlem Shake youtube video uploaded by Australians. You are/were always accurate, and so we request that you acknowledge that the trend was started by the ozzies and not americans. Second of all, Mr. Zakaria, It is not always about America. if anything, none of the american values exported contributed to the Arab spring which as a matter of fact was only to a certain extent successful in the repression Arab regimes and not in Arab bribery regimes (where any protest was not even entertained). The arab spring was spurred by the will of people to live freely (not only an american value by the way) only to be shut down a bit later (oh where was America in that?) – where are American values in what's happening today in Syria. You bring zero value in trying to give credit in the first place to American values (with all our due respect).
I'm tired of these mother f**@$#! sheiks on these mother f@#%!#@ plains!!!
The 'Harlem Shake' video craze is not american export.
It started in Australia.
Check your facts. Australia is not America.
Funny thing about freedom people tend to do what they want with it.
It's happening. The Middle East is going to join the modern world. Say good by to burkas, good by to bras.
Religon is not about God and spirituality.
Religion is about control of populations and using God's name in vain to do it.
Sheik Sheik Sheik yo booty, brothers!
Hungry Hungry Hippos! Somebody please put some peanut butter on my head!
That's American influence in all it's glory. People used to look up to America for their defiance in the face of injustice: now America poisons the world with a culture that prompts stupidity and moral decline. I wish if a couple of the groups that have preformed this shake maybe could have taken 30 minutes of their time to protest the government not coming up with a budget and a 13% cut in social and educational programs No that would be to lame, extreme and just being a stick in the mud.
Personally, I fail to see the value in it, but if they want to do it, I also can't see the harm in creative expression, so long as no one is hurt by it. It is what it is, young people being young... nothing wrong with that.
Boy I hope they don't do that shaky thing if front of the Capital!!!!!
is actually an Australian export. Song might be a USAian song but is the stunt that gave fame to the song and what people are re-creating.
America used to export viable, physical goods. Now we export idiocy.
"Four pharmaceutical students were arrested for doing this Harlem shake in front of the pyramids"
What a country full of obtuse people, arresting someone for dancing in front of a ruin. Kill the heretics, make them BOW, YIELD, KNEEL BEFORE ZOD, ERR UMM GOD.
2013 and religious zealots and dictators still rule in way too many places. Humans are a failed species.
Had the same thing in the 70's long hair, loud music, expressions of peace and love then, get out if don't like the country. Change is marvelous to watch
There are Sheikhs in Harlem, now?
As David Bowie sang, "LET'S DANCE .PUT ON YOUR RED SHOES AND DANCE THE BLUES
The only thing left to "seal the deal" is Obama breaking out in a short shake....
The sad part is that NONE OF THESE VIDEOS are showing people actually doing the Harlem Shake. Thrusting your hips from front to back IS NOT the Harlem Shake! Go watch some older HiHop videos from the early 90's and you'll see the original Harlem Shake.
At least do it right people. But glad you're having, however wrong you are...
The meme is to copy one particular video as closely as possible, scene by scene. Next, we're going to teach them to streak!
Any dissent in the Muslim world is a good thing!
That stupid dance! What a bunch of followers you guys are.
Look, It's the African ant eater ritual!
But at the end of the day "Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come." It's time that the people of the Muslim world wake up from history.
This is the reason why we keep seeing such unrest in the countries where the Arab Spring occurred.
The problem is the population in these countries knows this is what they fought for, but since so little has actually changed they are still restless. Compared to the changes that occurred in Eastern Europe these changes are going to be monumental. They are going to change Muslim society to the point where you will not be able to tell apart a picture of the youth in a Muslim city from the youth in American one. No longer will the populace believe their leader when they tell them that their reason for their hardship is due soley to the oppression of the Palestinians in some far off land.
Uh you all did that already, remember, and look what you got. Keep doing it and it will get worse. You all voted in the Muslim Brotherhood. Scary how those in the west saw the bad idea in that while those in Egypt did not.
I am so proud of the Tunisians.
They are not separate from the rest of the world.
They express their feelings with the Harlem Shake – how emancipated.
All power to the people of Tunisia.
CNN do your research... the end comment about "American cultural export"?
Though the music is US, the original meme was generated by Australians
Shake and dance your bootay off! Show em how it's done!
Sheikh Harlemi Al-Sheikh YaMoney, the oil minister of Saudi Arabia, wants all sheikhs in the country to learn the Harlem Sheikh.
Sheikh Yerbouti
Everybody!!! Shake shake shake:)
THANK YOU for ending the video and stopping instead of playing something I didn't ask for!
Also, interesting story. Getting arrested or even investigated for having fun with video memes is a far cry from being criticized for doing so.
Cordis Die my brothers!
I thought this dance started in Austrsila, not America.
Arabs are so backward.
Oh Allah make it stop.
Our government doesnt tell protestors to "shove it"???? Perhaps you didnt see the cops sweeping streets of Occupy activist with clubs and pepper spray.
Occupy?
So what were they protesting?
Was their message clear and consice as to what their demands were?
If these things were not clear then this is where the Occupy movement fell apart. You can blame the authorities for taking a hard handed approach as much as you want, but American's know this lack of a central message is where the Occupy message fell apart. The movement was not lost at the hands of clubs or pepper spray, but instead a lack of interest by everyone, which eventually included the protesters.
As we notice in your comment, all you even mention is the term "Occupy": Once "Occupy Wall Street" became the "Occupy Movement" – (per Wikipedia – The Occupy movement is an international protest movement against social and economic inequality). All we noticed were a bunch of lazy people who were hoping to get something for nothing.
So if you are trying to save the trees, you need to make sure that most of the people that are with you are not handcuffing themselves to lamp posts!
That one girl was shaking it so hard that she almost experienced a burka malfunction. If you look really hard you can make out the bridge of her nose. If the ayatollah's get wind of these she will be stoned for sure.
This isn't freedom of expression this is just simply acting stupid and childish. There are other ways to protest your feelings than embarrassing yourself. In the past there were many respectable reformers and speakers and honorable people. Things were done with maturity and seriousness, but the world has really grown immature and out of control. You can barely find a traditional society anymore with simple values, the world is eroding. I feel sorry for the generations of kids that must grow up in this kind of world. No class. Do you want to act like people or animals? I think we know the answer already. God help us.
I see your point, but you have to remember that in the Arab world there society is so repressive from any form of expression: dancing, western music and modest clothing, that these spontaneous outbursts might be fairly effective in terms of a protest against the repressive and backward idealogies of Islam.
I do see your point. But you have to remember that in the Arab world their society is so repressive that any form of expression: dancing, western music and dressing provocatively, would be considered a protest. Since the Harlem Shake incorporates all of these elements, even these isolated spontaneous outbursts might be fairly effective in terms of a protest against the repressive and backward idealogies where these people live.
The headline says the North Korean's cut the phone line to the hotline. I thought they only had 1 phone in NK.
If NK were a capitalist country the people working for the North Korea Bell would all be out a job.
Muhammad is Shaking in his grave right now! Shake! Shake! Shake!
Sharia don't like it? Rock the Casbah.
@maryam up there aways -- I am gay, I am not flawed. Thanks anyway.
It's amazing that people would get arrested for dancing. I mean, seriously????
Yeah, and The Mighty Wurlitzer plays on. These people are pawns of the CIA.
HBar your CIA comment is ludacris, but I believe there must be something that you really fear in these protests, otherwise you would not lash out with another inane conspiracy theory such as this. Is it possible that modernity is begining to effect the Arab world? Where women will be allowed to have the same rights as men: education, driving, working and not having to cover their faces in public. This is just the beginning: the winds of change are going to start whipping through the Arab World and no one is going to be able to stop that train from finally reaching Mecca.
Hey HBar, the C.I.A. is under your bed. Go look.
LOLOLOLOLOL
HARLEM SHAKING WITH MY FRIENDS
None of these people are doing the Harlem Shake. They are merely duplicating a mocking of the Harlem Shake and insulting the culture of Harlem.