they called you a hurricane thunderclap

Protestors waving Libyan flags gather in front of the White House in Washington.

Egyptian protesters taped a flag on the front doors of the Libyan Embassy in Cairo on Sunday.

in the arabic culture, showing someone the bottom of your shoe/throwing a shoe/”shoeing” someone is the worst possible insult you can give someone. just so y’all know the significance of the shoe.

Demonstrators call for the ouster of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in front of the Libyan embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday Feb. 20, 2011. The crackdown of anti-government protests in Libya continued Sunday as, according to witnesses Libyan forces fired machine-guns at mourners marching in a funeral for anti-government protesters in the eastern city of Benghazi.