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Iraq shoe toss at Bush goes viral

Photo: Karim Kadim / Associated Press. Via Danger Room, who has more.

The shoe-tossing video has already been watched over 5 million times on YouTube.

Sadly, it appears the shoe thrower has been tortured while in custody.

Sign the petition to free him and have him treated humanely.

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Iraqi journalist throws shoes at Bush. More.

From a post in MarxMail by Shane Mage

As I learned in Morocco 50 years ago, in an Islamic culture to put one’s shoe in one’s hand is a severely threatening gesture and to throw it is a gesture expressing unmitigated contempt. If there is a Western term for this sort of thing, [...]