Hassan reaction

It's taken over a week for it to hit but the WWE is back in the mainstream news.

Taped last monday, Muhammad Hassan was involved in an angle where his manager, Davari was in a match with The Undertaker, Hassan's opponent at the upcoming Great American Bash. Following the match, Undertaker was attacked by 5 men in ski-masks, choked out with wire followed by a Hussan Camel Clutch. After the beating, Davari was carried out held over the heads of the 5 men

This has been seen by a lot of people that follow WWE as the introduction of a "terror cell" to back up Hassan, who is looking like he is heading towards Summerslam to challenge Batista for the World Heavyweight Title. Other's like myself just saw it as a heel getting heat on a babyface heading towards a PPV match. No big deal, happens at least twice a month

Then on thursday morning, Bombs detonneted in London

All of a sudden, this is seen as a terrible idea and maybe something that should be deleated from airing later on that night. For reasons that is not known, neither WWE, UPN or The Score decided to delete it, instead opting to run a Parental Guidence crawl in each half of the show (For the record, SKY sports, The WWE broadcaster in England, did remove the angle)

The media has began lambasting WWE for doing this angle, most of them not meanting that it was taped 3 days before the London Bombings, check out some of the articles here. UPN has asked that Hassan not appear on this weeks edition of SMACKDOWN!. An interview taped last night that may appear on this weekend's edition of Velocity and can be seen here is all the reaction that the wwe show on it's own programs this week.

What I don't understand, and I think what the irony of this entire situation is, all of this reaction, the jump to the terrorism conclusion and the vitrol that the WWE crowds are showing as seen in that interview clip, is excatly what the character is talking about.

When Hassan first appeared, he was supposed to be a face. It was the people that made him a heel. And what was the reason? No one knows, they just knows that the crowd started booing the vingetes that appeared on RAW, knowing nothing about this character, other then the fact that he was arab-american. So this is used in the character, and other then the whole "I've never been beaten on RAW" thing, He's pretty much been right with what he's been saying. I think the media and the online wrestling fans are proving the entire point of this character, and don't know they are being worked.

If it was JBL and the cabinet that did this beat down, the exact same movements and senario, would this be in the New York Post?