Video: Jordanian MP pulls a gun on critic during TV debate

You wouldn’t even get that on Vincent Browne…

07/07/12 12,636 Views 48 Comments

AS TV DEBATES go, they don’t get more heated than this.

Earlier this year we brought you the video of the Golden Dawn spokesperson in Greece striking his female opponent live on television. We thought it didn’t get more extreme than that when it came to TV debates.

We were wrong.

In this TV debate on Jordanian TV, MP Mohammed Shawabka is debating a political activist Mansour Sayf al-Din Murad as the pair discuss attitudes surrounding the current uprising in Syria.

As the Times of Israel reports the debate gradually becomes more heated with each of the men accusing each other of various crimes and wrongdoing before al-Din Murad stands up, sits down again, takes off his shoe and throws it at his opponent.

Then it escalated further:

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Barry Doyle 07/07/12 #

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If Ireland was like that, we’d all be watching the Oireachtas report..!!

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Shayno ZO 07/07/12 #

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A taste of what to expect if Vincent B ever gets Enda Kenny on the show.. I’d pay to see that.

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- Derek Mooney 07/07/12 #
  
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  Might be interesting if they both had guns, Gunfight at the banal coral…
  
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thomas walsh 07/07/12 #

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I wonder if that happened on The Frontline how Pat Kenny would react?!

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- the bionic rats 07/07/12 #
  
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  ewow!!
  
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- Sheila Byrne 07/07/12 #
  
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  @Thomas Walsh
  
  Start crying, wet his pants and run off the set!
  
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- Bernadette Dunne 08/07/12 #
  
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  My thoughts exactly Ah sure Pat would either pass out or run like hell and write a book on it
  
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- Roddie Cleere 08/07/12 #
  
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  He’d outrun Usain Bolt no bother
  
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Ed Walsh 07/07/12 #

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It’s all fun and games til’ someone throws a shoe.

And follows it up with the production of a gleaming silver handgun!!

If only Enda Kenny would show (or shoe, even) such passion!

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Brian Walsh 07/07/12 #

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Fair play to the presenter/referee, if someone pulled a gun on me I’d run the other way, leaving a nasty mess behind me.

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Paul Lanigan 07/07/12 #

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I once delivered a training class in Jordan. As a warm up exercise I asked participants to share one thing about themselves that they reckoned nobody else knew about them. One guy confessed that he had an AK47 in his wardrobe. Different world. Well worth visiting though.

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john g mcgrath 07/07/12 #

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Vouched or unvouched expense

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Paddy Morton 07/07/12 #

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Even Mary Loo never resorted to that.

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- Ger McDunphy 07/07/12 #
  
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  Yet.
  
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connor graham 07/07/12 #

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When you see this behaviour you understand why there will never be peace in the middle east, too much hate , aggression and access to guns will always mean trouble

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- Old Nokia Charger 07/07/12 #
  
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  Too much imperialist intrigue too.
  
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Matthew Gleeson 07/07/12 #

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fair play to the other lads

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ciaran burke 07/07/12 #

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Spot on Connor. Mad shower over there. Kids are bred to hate. Much like the north used to be.

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fotocrat™ 07/07/12 #

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Anyone has any translation of what was being said???

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- Paddy Murphy 07/07/12 #
  
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  My Jordanian is a bit rusty but it went something like this:
  You shut up!
  No, You shut up!
  You shut up!
  No! You shut up!
  Lads lads lads calm down,
  SHUT UP!
  NO, YOU SHUT UP!
  No need for this carry on lads!
  HEY YOU HOW’S ABOUT I HOP THIS SHOE OFF YOUR HEAD!
  TRY IT MATE!
  lads lads please calm down
  MISSED ME WITH YOUR SHOE MATE! IS THAT THE BEST YOU’VE GOT?
  NO I’VE GOT THIS GUN IN MY SOCK!
  S*HIT
  BUDDY! LETS TALK
  lads please we’re live on TV
  S*IT!!!! OK I’LL PUT MY GUN AWAY
  *Cough looser
  
  Its skips to the weather then.
  
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- Dec Byrne 07/07/12 #
  
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  Sky news website has it
  
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- Old Nokia Charger 07/07/12 #
  
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  Jordanian? Arabic you mean.
  
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- Paddy Murphy 07/07/12 #
  
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  no I mean Jordanian
  
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- Old Nokia Charger 07/07/12 #
  
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  Ignorance.
  
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- Paddy Murphy 07/07/12 #
  
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  Mate its defiantly Jordanian cause i cant speak arabic for s*it
  
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- Seán Ó Briain 07/07/12 #
  
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  Jordanian Arabic is a dialect of Arabic. A sub-dialect of Levantine Arabic rather.
  
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- Old Nokia Charger 07/07/12 #
  
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  @ sean
  
  I see you have been reading Wikipedia.
  
  There’s no such thing as Jordanian.
  
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- Paddy Murphy 07/07/12 #
  
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  yeah there is
  
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- Sheila Byrne 07/07/12 #
  
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  @ Paddy Murphy
  
  Brilliant! I needed that laugh. ;)
  
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- Eimear Smith 07/07/12 #
  
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  Go on Paddy!! They should have you translating Leader’s Questions in the Dail! 
  
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- Eamonn Connaghan 07/07/12 #
  
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  Paddy, your Translation was spot on. Your Jordanian isn’t that rusty after all.
  
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- Seán Ó Briain 07/07/12 #
  
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  Old Nokia Charger, stop cribbing you whiny boot. I said Jordanian Arabic.
  
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- Old Nokia Charger 08/07/12 #
  
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  @ Sean
  
  You’re right. I was being a smartarse. I’ll try not to be right quite so much in future. :)
  
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Old Nokia Charger 07/07/12 #

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On the Late Late someone approached Pat Kenny calling me an insufferable arsehole and a piece of Sh*t. He responded with, “thank you very much”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiIsIE8iT28

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Old Nokia Charger 07/07/12 #

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What triggered that?

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Sheila Byrne 07/07/12 #

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Translation doesn’t matter. Two ‘grown men’, one a bigger bully than the other and resorts to the usual. Violence, worse still a gun. Savages. No respect for life, didn’t even care that he was on live TV. Bully boys.

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Michael Campbell 08/07/12 #

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The Arabs are great shoe throwers maybe we can make it an Olympic event.I hope the shoes are Halal

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Gordon Bernard 07/07/12 #

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Gun should equal GONE!

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Ross Bowe 07/07/12 #

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It says in the title that the MP pulls his gun on the other guy but then in the body of the article it says the critic stands up and throws his shoe yet this is also the same guy who pulls out the gun

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Eugene Farrell 09/07/12 #

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Can RTE not organise a head to head debate between some of our political ‘elite’….. I’d pay my TV licence if they used it to buy a few guns…..and to top it off, the ratings would go through the roof….

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Richard Lennon 07/07/12 #

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When I was in the Army as an undercover observer. We only produced our gun in a life threating situation and I served all over the world with the U.S.

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- Old Nokia Charger 07/07/12 #
  
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  When I was Spiderman I’d only use my special powers in limited circumstances too.
  
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- Ru Ni Digs 07/07/12 #
  
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  This one time,at band camp…
  
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- Nun on Yokes 07/07/12 #
  
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  I caught a fish “this big” with my dad, who is batman.
  
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- Brian Walsh 07/07/12 #
  
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  Old Nokia, that reply was priceless.
  
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- trevor flanagan 07/07/12 #
  
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  Yawn……
  
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- John Mulligan 07/07/12 #
  
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  When I was in the FCA we only produced our guns on a Sunday.
  
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- Roddie Cleere 08/07/12 #
  
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  Don’t u mean hurleys John ?
  
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