Once upon a time in Greeley, Colorado a young man visiting a church sponsored dance was appalled at the lax and careless attitude taken by the religious leaders of his American hosts. As a visiting student at Colorado State University, the nominally observant Muslim wrote of his shock and disdain when a local minister turned down the lights and played, Baby, It’s Cold Out There, by the great Frank Loesser. He described his 1949 experience in this way:
“It is difficult to differentiate between a church and any other place that is set up for entertainment, or what they call in their language, ‘fun,’ ”
“The room convulsed with the feverish music from the gramophone. Dancing naked legs filled the hall, arms draped around the waists, chests met chests, lips met lips . . .”
“Jazz is his preferred music, and it is created by Negroes to satisfy their love of noise and to whet their sexual desires.”
Sayyid Qtub returned home to Cairo only to see his Egyptian nationalism and revulsion at Western, and particularly American, culture evolve into a strident and virulent form of deadly zealotry. Plunged into the political turmoil of his native country and its instability, Qtub became the intellectual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. His disciple, Ayman Zawahiri, is well-known to us today as a leading terrorist in the world and cohort of Osama bin Laden. Sayyid Qtub’s writings became the foundation for the pan-Islamic rage of terror of which al Qaeda is its best known proponent today.
The brilliant critic, political commentator and author, Mark Steyn, had this acerbic comment about Qtub’s inheritors.
I’m a reasonable chap, and I’d be willing to meet the Islamists halfway on a lot of the peripheral stuff like burqas for women, nuking the Zionists, beheading the sodomites and whatnot. But you’ll have to pry “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” from my cold dead hands and my dancing naked legs. A world without Frank Loesser and “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” would be very cold indeed.
Yes, apparently, it was the fault of Frank Loesser, a songwriter, playright, Broadway and Hollywood producer that unleashed upon the West the radical Islamic reign of terror we wage war against today around the world. I bet you you never knew.
Here are several versions of this timeless and beautiful song. Enjoy these versions as you contemplate the Clash of Civilizations:
The evocative and talented Joan Osborne with Bo Bice or the magnificent Ray Charles and Betty Carter. Unfortunately, they have taken down the video of the incredible version of Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald performing this song.
HatTip: Powerline
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So Frank Loesser is the dirty rat bastard that gave us blowback! I knew jazz musicians were not to be trusted.
Silly me. And here I was thinking it was The Beatles 1968 song “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road” that started the boulder careening down the mountain destined to bring down civilization. That’s what I get for thinking.
This topic is covered in much greater detail in Dore Gold’s book Hatreds Kingdom. I strongly recommend reading it. It will trace the roots of radical Wahabi Islam back to the 1740s, and then explain how it unites with groups like the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s through the 1970s. Radical Islam has murdered far more Muslims than any other group. We are just its latest victims.
Dave Brubeck is the devil!
Wonder what he would think of Ozzy???
Yet in their eyes and the eyes of lefty moonbats America is to blame.
Can you imagine their reaction the Janet Jackson’s ugly boob at the Superbowl!!!
Gotta LOVE dat Bo Bice!!!!
After years of therapy I still can’t get the image if that railroad spike through the apex out of my head. (shudder) Need more couch time, I suspect.
I would have thought it would have been Elvis’ gyrating hips!
Does anyone have any idea why I cannot get the YouTube links to work from LST? I have NoScript on in Firefox. I can get to the page, but the video can’t be pulled up and I get a “you need to load the latest Flash player” message. Even though I tell NoScript to allow it, I still can’t access the video. aaarrrggghh!
#10 tedtam
Try this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QDy4VemsOM&feature=related
Interesting. They both wear the same ear rings. (Wonder if they’re both the same bra size)
TexPat - a very minor correction, if I may -
The school in Greeley is not Colorado State University (my alma mater). It is now called University of Northern Colorado but in 1949, the year this nutjob Qtub was there, it was called Colorado State College of Education.
Incidentally, I also studied for a year in Greeley, but when I was a student it was called Colorado State College.
Confusing? Catch this, it’s opened in 1890 as the Colorado State Normal School and then in 1911 the school’s name was changed to Colorado State Teachers College. It wasn’t until 1970 that the name was changed to the current University of Northern Colorado.
#13 SB
Thanks for the correction. Most teacher’s colleges at one time were called “normal colleges”. I just assumed the writers I quoted had done their homework, but I assumed wrong.
I come from a long line of “Normal School” graduates, starting with my great-great grandmother. Funny thing, very few people in my family geneology are what you would call normal…
Narferious, maybe - but not normal…
#15 SB
Both grandmothers, four aunts and five cousins are teachers - from elementary to university graduate school level. Plenty of schoolhouse folks in my family.