# Arabs and shoes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arabs-and-shoes/167584>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 9, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arabs-and-shoes/167584 "2003-04-09T17:09:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arabs-and-shoes/167584/21 "2003-04-12T18:56:40Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Satisfying Andy Licious \*  
> Here’s a bit more about shoes as an insult in Arab culture.  
> At the At the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad, Saddam put in a mosaic of the first president Bush, on the floor, so that it would be walked on.
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> But now U.S. forces tore it up – and replaced it with an image of Saddam.  
> _Sic sandal tyranus._

I’ve seen TV pictures of people looting Tariq Aziz’s house in Baghdad recently. The pictures clearly showed a floor mozaic of someone’s portrait with its face chipped away, and I had assumed it was of Saddam Hussain.

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**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arabs-and-shoes/167584/22 "2003-04-13T03:01:56Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Early Out \*  
> \*\*People have been stoned to death for better puns than that! 😃 \*\*

Oh sure, but if I’m stoned, the puns get worse.

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