It’s Your Game to Lose, America

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way

As soon as the Shareef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare

As soon as the Shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed

In 1982 The Clash released their hit “Rock the Casbah”, the third track on their album Combat Rock; it’s a song which thumbs its nose at the Islamic dictatorships which were taking over the Middle East and...