TSA fires Houston rapper who sings of rape, murder, mass attacks
HOUSTON - Bassam Khalaf was paid to help keep U.S. air travel safe as a baggage screener. His alter ego, the “Arabic Assassin,” rapped about flying a plane into a building.
The Transportation Security Administration could not reconcile the two and fired him last week, saying his free speech rights as an aspiring rap singer did not extend to a right to check luggage at Houston Intercontinental Airport.
“I was one of the ones screening the bags thoroughly,” Khalaf said Friday. “I wouldn’t let a bomb get on a plane.”
He also was the self-proclaimed Arabic Assassin, who didn’t do songs about love but preferred to sing about killing, raping and blowing things up.
From one of his songs: “My name is Bassam, a one-man band, I came from sand, affiliated with the Taliban.”
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thanks to J m HofMarN for this one right there...
"He also was the self-proclaimed Arabic Assassin, who didn’t do songs about love but preferred to sing about killing, raping and blowing things up."
as opposed to good old wholesome american rap which is primarily about killing, rape, and drugs.
hmmm....
i wonder if 50cent's career in rap cost him his job as a heroin dealer?