2004
The song is a rap/dancehall song that is underpinned by the much-used Diwali Riddim. The video has recently been posted on the British website run by the Islamic extremist Mohammad al-Massari, the UK-based Saudi Arabian dissident who has lived in Britain since 1994. Al-Massari claims that the video has been selling in large quantities at mosques to the younger generation and is in heavy demand overseas. In 2004 al-Massari told the Guardian newspaper that he did not know a single young Muslim who has not either seen or got the video.
Al-Massari also stated that "It is selling everywhere. Everyone I meet at the mosque is asking for it." Al-Massari's Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Rights in Saudi Arabia - a group which came to Britain in 1994 to publicise injustices in the desert kingdom - also distributes the four-minute video on its website.
The rapper fronting the video calls himself Sheikh Terra and the Soul Salah Crew - a take on the rap group So Solid Crew. Salah is Arabic for "prayer". On the video Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, Tony Blair, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, Ariel Sharon and Nick Griffin are main Dirty Kuffars. The video attacks Muslim political leaders like former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as traitors to Islam. The video also featured Hamza Yusuf with the caption stating that he was one of the "Scholars for Dollars".
It was stated by the Daily Times of Pakistan that "Al Qaeda’s newest weapon against the West is a violent English-language rap tune..."
The British National Party has stated that "More than a tiny minority of young British Muslims turned the 'Dirty Kuffar' rap video into a cult."
On 10 November 2004, former Jihadist Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, reviewed the song for Frontpage Magazine.
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