4/6/2023 0 Comments Miro semberac![]() The answer to this question is rather clear. Yet, what is the standard of taking things too far? The moment of using convicted war criminals as poster boys, or that the joyful music is accompanied by lyrics that essentialize ethnicity in the most direct of all ways? If ‘Remove Kebab’ is to be considered as an instance of dark humor (after all, the Hitler jokes are still around), does it hint to anything substantial about the Yugoslav conflicts, beyond the Ustashas – Chetnicks (Serbs) – Turks trichotomy?Ī variation of the ‘Remove Kebab’ meme. His response was somewhat emblematic of the many alike occurrences in which I dared to question the humor of my nationalist respondents: “Tarrant had clearly taken it too far”. The tragic event in Christchurch prompted me to contact Tomas and ask about his two cents on the song that he once so eagerly sang. Knowing that ‘Remove Kebab’, a meme long considered a humorous way of depicting the ‘culture wars’, particularly gaining prominence in the refugee crisis, has exited the online domain, becoming a motivation for mass murders, was disturbing yet not an entirely surprising finding. The song became particularly notorious after Brandon Tarrant, the Christchurch shooter played it on his way to the killing spree in 2019.įrom the ‘God is a Serb/Remove Kebab’ music video: Novislav Đajić (accordion) and Nenad Tintor (trumpet). Đajić was later sentenced to 5 years in prison for killing and torturing 14 people (there were accounts on 27) victims in two villages in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war. The actual music video of the ‘Karadžić song’ features three soldiers: the singer, Željko Grmuša the trumpet player, Nenad Tintor and an accordion player, Novislav Đajić. As a meme, ‘Remove Kebab’ is most often used as a nativist sneer aimed at migrants, but even the local Muslim communities. The music video of this song created the base for a variety of anti-Muslim memes, particularly popular in far-right online circles, although virtually unknown in the former Yugoslav countries. ![]() The ‘Remove Kebab’ (also known as ‘God is a Serb’) song is an output of the war propaganda depicting Karadžić as a person at the helm of the defense of the Serb people against the ‘invaders’ – ‘Ustashas’ (Croats) and ‘Turks’ (Muslims from Bosnia and Herzegovina). Known in the nationalist online circles as ‘Remove Kebab’, the song Tomas was singing praises Radovan Karadžić, Bosnian-Serb leader during the wars of the 1990s and a convicted war criminal. A member of radical right’s Kotlebists – The People’s Party – Our Slovakia (Slovak: Kotlebovci – Ľudová strana – Naše Slovensko, ĽSNS), infamous for glorifying World War Two collaborationist leader Jozef Tiso and his staunch anti-Roma rhetoric, Tomas does not speak a word of Serbian. “Karadžiću, vodi Srbe svoje vodi Srbe svojeee…” sang Tomas joyfully as we were entering the bus in a working-class suburb of Bratislava. ![]()
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