Following are excerpts
from a debate on the Jordanian JoSat TV channel on the crisis in Syria,
including Muhammad As'ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi, a Palestinian-Jordanian
politician of the Umma movement, and
Mahmoud Al-Bastanjani, a member of the
Jordanian Ba'th Party. The debate aired on November 29, 2011 and was
posted on the Internet.
Voice of caller
Najib 'Attiya: Hello.
Interviewer: Welcome,
brother Najib. Go ahead.
Najib 'Attiya:
Good evening.
Interviewer: To
you too. Go ahead.
Najib 'Attiya:
Sir, you are screaming so much that we can't understand a thing you
say. I ask brother Al-Tamimi to calm down a little. He seems to be yet
another victim of Al-Jazeera TV and Al-Arabiya TV. Nobody can deny the
pan-Arab role played by Syria.
[...]
I challenge brother Al-Tamimi
to check out his underwear. It has "made in Syria" written
on it. The Qatari foreign minister should check out the band holding
his kefiyah. It has "made in Syria" written on it.
Syria is our country. Syria is the Levant. From Syria, we fought the
Crusaders and the Mongols...
Muhammad
As'ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi: The sectarian Alawite regime that is destroying
Syria fought the Crusaders?! This regime fought the Tatars and the Mongols?!
This is the regime that surrendered the Golan Heights in 1967. This
is the regime that perpetrated the Hama massacre, and is massacring
the Syrian people...
Interviewer: Brother
Najib, thank you...
Muhammad
As'ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi: Man, have you lost your mind? You've lost
your mind.
Interviewer: Brother
Najib, thank you for your call. You've made your point clear.
Muhammad
As'ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi: People have lost their mind...
Interviewer: I
will let you respond... Brother Mahmoud, go ahead.
Mahmoud Al-Bastanjani:
First of all, let me apologize to my viewers for stooping so low as
to accept the invitation to this show, the level of which...
Interviewer: C'mon,
that's enough...
[...]
Mahmoud Al-Bastanjani:
A few years ago, a certain religious cleric died in Amman, or in Jordan
[alluding to Al-Tamimi's father, Sheik
As'ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi]. He passed away in a village in occupied
Palestine. He died on Saturday...
Muhammad
As'ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi: Man, you are such scum... Listening to
such scum makes me nauseated... He is the kind of scum that has destroyed
this nation. You belong in a garbage bin, man. You are a piece of scum,
man.
Interviewer: I
beg you, brother Muhammad...
Muhammad
As'ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi: You are such a lowlife scum. You idiot!
Interviewer: Brother
Muhammad, this is unacceptable...
Muhammad
As'ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi: You are a collaborator with the regimes,
a collaborator with the sectarianists... He is defending the people
who are slaughtering children...
Mahmoud Al-Bastanjani:
It is beneath me to sit next to someone like you...
Muhammad
As'ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi: Man, you are a piece of scum...
Mahmoud Al-Bastanjani:
When that sheik died, the Israeli enemy opened the border on the Sabbath,
and received his followers... I challenge anyone, official or otherwise,
to deny what I'm saying here. They opened the bridge on the Sabbath,
so that his followers could enter Palestine without permits to pay their
condolences.
Muhammad
As'ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi: Who was that man? You spy, who was that
man?
Interviewer: Brothers,
I beg you...
Muhammad
As'ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi: I want this lowlife to say the name of
that man.
Interviewer: By
Allah, stop cursing.
Muhammad
As'ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi: Man, say who it was. My father died in
Amman, and millions attended his funeral. My father was not allowed
in Jerusalem since 1967. My father was Sheik As'ad Bayoudh, the imam
of the mujahideen. Man, you are a lowlife. The largest number
of people in Jordanian history acme to pay their respects to my father
in Amman. All the honorable people in the Arab world paid their condolences.
Interviewer: Brother
Muhammad, please...
Muhammad
As'ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi: He was buried in Sahhab... You are a lowlife...
Mahmoud Al-Bastanjani:
He was born a lowlife, raised as a lowlife, lived as a lowlife, and
will die as a lowlife. His birth was despicable, his upbringing was
despicable, his life is despicable, and his death will be despicable.
Interviewer: Just
one minute... By God...
Muhammad
As'ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi: This is a spy...
Interviewer: Never
mind, never mind. Just one moment...
Muhammad
As'ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi: Man, you are a lowlife piece of scum...
You are a worn-out shoe...
Mahmoud Al-Bastanjani:
A worn-out shoe?! I'll show you a worn-out shoe!
The two get up and
start fighting, and the TV crew enter to break them up