Saudi Arabian singer Abdallah Al Shahani was reportedly arrested for dabbing during a music festival in the city of Ta’if. The move is banned in the conservative Middle Eastern country and considered highly controversial due to its perceived ties to drug culture.
Footage of Al Shahani’s dab exploded over social media and prompted an apology from the offender who tweeted, “I apologize to our respected government and to my audience for unintentionally and spontaneously making the dance move at Taif festival. Please accept my apology.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8M9JBy_EY0
The Saudi Interior Ministry’s National Commission for Combating Drugs recently banned the move because they consider it to refer to marijuana use. A poster published by the ministry warn “people about the dangers of this [move] on the youth and society, and is warning against imitating it.”
Believed to have originated in Atlanta’s Hip Hop scene, dabbing, where a person ducks their head toward their bent elbow, took American culture by storm (and continues, despite running its course). Everyone from 95-year-old actress Betty White, to Migos, to politicians Hillary Clinton and Paul Ryan, to countless athletes have all been “guilty” of performing the move.
Watch the dab at the heart of the controversy above.
great.. now let’s hope it gets banned in the US and Europe as well and anybody caught doing it will be sent to prison
Uh oh oh oh Retard Alert.
Mohammed smoked fat dabs
Real talk u shouldn’t joke about that or other people’s religion and who they refer to as GOD if u were over there in they country I bet u wouldn’t make that comment they’d kill yo ass
They’d kill you for not believing. Islam is fucked up, fuck Allah.
Meanwhile DABBING IS ILLEGAL, we got misinformed idiots and rappers like Talib Kweli mad at Israel… IDIOTS! Open your eyes people… the mid-east is jacked up, but Israel is not to blame.. its these psychos.
stop spreading your islamophobic zionist propaganda and demonizing muslims when those with open eyes are fully aware Israel is behind destabilization of the middle-east.
Wait!!!! They don’t smoke weed in Saudi ???? That’s some bullshit!!!!
Saudi Arabia doesn’t fuck around!
It’s a dance move………………………….
It’s a different culture. Different cultures might have negative connotations on signs, the way people are addressed etc. That’s why when traveling internationally one must research the dos and fonts in the respected societies. Like now, we’re you ever to travel to Saudi Arabia, you would know the dab is a no no
Fuck that, what’s gonna be gonna be. That will not stop people from taking drugs