Muntazer az-Zaidi has achieved more for the Arab world by simply throwing his shoes at Bush than all the Arafats, Abbases, Malikis, Abdullahs and Mubaraks combined. He’s enlisted more worldwide sympathy and understanding for the Arabs than all the Muqtada as-Sadrs, al-Zawahiris and al-Sistanis combined. And let nobody tell you he’s an islamist or a even a religious shia. He’s a leftist secular Iraqi. What am I saying, he’s a full-blooded anarchist. I salute him and so should you.
Come on… from a westerners’ point of view all you can say he’s the biggest stand-up comedian of the last decade… .