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Shihad too close to Jihad for NZ band
11 January 2002

New Zealand rock band Shihad is changing its name because of its similarity to jihad - the Islamic term for holy war - fearing a backlash as they try to make their mark in America.
Osama bin Laden has called a jihad against the United States following the September 11 attacks.

A new name is yet to be decided on.

Shihad drummer Tom Larkin said the decision was a tough one to make given the 13 years they had spent under the banner.

It had been devastating to consider the implications of changing their name, he said.

\"We\'ve just spent four months in the US and every news item talks of the \'Jihad against America\'.

\"As far as 99.9 percent of Americans are concerned \'jihad\' means \'fundamentalist terrorist war against all Americans\'.

\"We wouldn\'t get played on radio, we wouldn\'t get tours and what would be the point?\"

The name Shihad comes from the misspelling of the word jihad the band lifted from the novel Dune.

The group aims to have the new name in place before playing the Australasian Big Day Out tour, which starts in Auckland next Friday.

Man, that sucks, then theres EyeTV who were formally the Nixons until some American band came along with the same name...
And do you remember a News item about a small cafe/resturant/bar/something called Oscars (after the owners cat Oscar), who was forced to change their name after legal action by the Acadamy in the states. Fuckers.

Fucken Americans! Its a different word you morons!

There was actually the suggestion from the american media that the next lord of the rings movie should not be called \"the two towers\" ...when will the madness end?

Smiley it was in a movie theater tho, in devonport. Now no one can pronounce what its called (paradigm) Some fucking lawyer called the oscars people and got the rights to sue the owner. Lawyers suck.

Dont get me started on the americans - fucking funny to have the word arse silenced on a song thats all about drugs.

\"Para-Dime\"

most often pronounced para-dig-im by people trying to work it out.

Gezzz, that bloody word - paradigm - is forever used in management or Comp Sci course. \"The new programming paradigm\" etc. Hmmm.

I thought that Shihad thing was long ago anyway. I rememeber hearing about that when Shihad were on Ground Zero like years ago I\'m sure....

The whole American tragedy was exactly that - an awful trgaedy but not being able to seperate that from a rock band from NZ called Shihad is typical american arrogance. bah

Its not arrogance twinkle, I think its understandable that they want to avoid traumatising people further by reminding them of Sept 11. Although it seems like they actually want to try and blot out the memory completely by erasing all references to it, which isn't wise.

Certainly sucks for Shihad but then, I always did think it was a bit of a try-hard, disenfranchised-yoof name...

Is this serious, or is this jsut a media laugh? It sounds so absurd it ought to be a joke.

hmmm for real????

hmmm for real????

No its real alright Oli. Just when you thought the Americans couldn't get any crazier...

Wow only in American huh!!!

So did Shihad announce their new name at the BDO like they were rumoured to?

not that eye saw

Absolute bullshit really, farkin hell what next?!

no they havent, some legal holdup or sumthing

Nah they were meant to release it @ the Sydney BDO...

we got told @ this BDO their name was to be "remote" if u look closely at their stuff it all has "remote" written on it too, but appreantly that's not true...

Well we'll soon find out i suppose