A Darker Shade of Black

There's a certain British rock group that had a monster hit back in 1967.

Their Latin-derived name almost sounds like...

BOKO HARAM...

A world away from the British rock group are these Islam fanatics.

And yet...is it possible to find a matching lyrical soundtrack? The PALE faces sang a song with these lines:

Black-skinned warrior, Zulu Queen
Sold for a silver dollar, shipped across the sea...
Used like a hole in the ground
Branded her skin like she didn't feel a thing
Crying without a sound

Sounds like a match for some pictures and videos from Nigeria.

Then again...the PALE faces may have sung some lines that Nigerians emigrating to the U.K. might not enjoy:

Poor mohammed at the keyhole
Sit him by the kitchen door
Slop his food all around the table
Let him lick it off the floor

Put mohammed in the cellar
Keep him there 'til half past ten
Ties some bacon to his beard
Let the rats out on him there

Fortunately, fans of "Star Trek" and "Dr. Who" and progrock seem assured that "parallel universes" never cross.

Unfortunately, witch doctors and Islamic fanatics and immigration officials don't share such scientific reasoning, and culture-clashes do appear to be on the rise. There is so much intolerance now, with some countries in the Middle East and Africa practicing ethnic cleansing and wanting everyone to be of one particular tribe and one particular brand of one particular religion. When these crazies emigrate they drag along their primitive beliefs and murderous ideas and inflict them on the host nation that foolishly took them in.

Is there such a thing as a prophet?

It might be Jesus? Moses? Mohammed? Or some British Jew named Keith?

He wrote these lines:

Black men and white men and Arabs and Jews
Causing congestion and filling the queues
Fighting for freedom the truth and the word
Fighting the war for the end of the world

What was the name of his group? Hmmmm....

It sure as hell wasn't BOKO HARAM.

1967 the Summer of Love, that's when his group began to spread the messages of his lyrics.

But the messages today?

2013 the Summer of Hate.