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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Yeah, Walmart are gonna stock that, guys!
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Actually I'm pretty sure I picked up my copy at K-Mart (ghetto Wal-Mart). The only ones who give a **** about Slayer anymore are metalheads. Everyone else either doesn't know or doesn't care.
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The problem I have with “Jihad” is that it's a cartoon. It's obviously written for shock value and shock value alone. Tom Arya even said he expected an American backlash, and was seemingly nonplussed and surprised when none materialised. Ironically, the only ones who got upset were the muslims, while the Christians were more worried about protecting the honour of their god. But everything that's written in the lyric seems to be taken from any documentary on National Geographic or from muslim extremist websites. There's no new insight here, and Slayer are definitely not identifying with Al Quadea. Unlike Steve Earle when he wrote “John Walker's Blues”, they're not trying to get inside the heads of the terrorists and see what made them tick. They're just expressing a version of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. They hate the US Government and so do Al Quadea, so, you know, fuck yeah!
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Dude, it's just another anti-religious song. It's not identifying with terrorists, it's attacking them. And I'm pretty sure most people were over 9/11 by then. We were into Iraq and we didn't know why and the country was just kind of tired of the whole thing. I don't know about New Yorkers, but I imagine most of the rest of the country had moved on.