Comment · Fri, December 7, 2012
If the President of the US were to get assassinated in today's age, how would America react compared to when Kennedy was assassinated?
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doyouknowhowmany · 89 points
In context, it's a pretty hefty political statement. In the Arab world, the sole of the shoe is considered unclean. Showing someone the sole of your shoe is insulting.
To have hit him with the shoe would have been a grave insult.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
In the Arab world, the sole of the shoe is considered unclean.
That's because it is.
I don't want anyone throwing shoes at me either. But why is it considered more of an insult than say, shitting in your hand and throwing it? I hear that's considered an insult in the chimpanzee culture.