So three points on the Arabic Assassin story.
1) Clearly, this guy isn’t all that bright if he thinks that as a Palestinian-American his rapping about terrorism isn’t going to raise any red flags. Oh, and he’s a baggage screener, too? In the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston? Yeah, no red flags at all. (That being said, what exactly is an intercontinental airport?)
2) He does have a point that he’s not the first to write crazy lyrics for shock-value:
Khalaf said his terrorist-themed rhymes are more about marketing. He called his songs art and pointed to other rappers who have rhymed about terrorism. He specifically cites Eminem’s song, “My Dad’s Gone Crazy,” which discusses blowing everything on the map up except Afghanistan and says: “There’s no tower too high, no plane that I can’t learn how to fly.”
3) But then again, he calls himself “Arabic”. I hate to break it to you, buddy, but Arabic is a language, not an ethnic group. You are Arab (and for Rich’s sake, “not Persian”), not Arabic.
Arab is a noun for a person, and is used as an adjective, as in “Arab country.” Arabic is the name of the language and generally is not used as an adjective. Arabian is an adjective that refers to Saudi Arabia, the Arabian Peninsula, or as in Arabian horse.
