{"id":17504,"date":"2012-08-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/17504\/the-moqdad-family-twitter-parody-account"},"modified":"2023-08-30T08:16:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T08:16:03","slug":"the-moqdad-family-twitter-parody-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/17504\/the-moqdad-family-twitter-parody-account\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moqdad Family Twitter Parody Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven\u2019t heard, the Moqdad family said on Wednesday that its \u201cmilitary wing\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowlebanon.com\/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=427940\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">abducted<\/a> more than 20 Free Syrian Army members and a Turkish national after relative Hassan al-Moqdad was kidnapped in Syria. The family said they&#8217;d release the kidnapped individuals in exchange for Hassan&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p>  On Thursday, the Moqdad\u2019s stepped up their vengeance game and said the unidentified Turkish national would be the first \u201cvictim\u201d if Hassan is not released.<\/p>\n<p>  It didn&#8217;t take long for someone (shamefully awesome) to capitalize on the outrageously tragic scenario and create a Twitter parody account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoqDaddy\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">@MoqDaddy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  Here\u2019s a few of our favorite Tweets so far:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>We will offer Julian Assange asylum if Ecuador refuses his request. Let the British government try to get him from Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Moqdad Clan(@MoqDaddy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoqDaddy\/status\/236066793586823168\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-16T11:48:04+00:00\">August 16, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-in-reply-to=\"235804191459799041\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/malakyz\"><s>@<\/s><b>malakyz<\/b><\/a> we like Jaafars.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Moqdad Clan(@MoqDaddy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoqDaddy\/status\/235805045772386304\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-15T18:27:58+00:00\">August 15, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>KFC got in touch. They want to launch a &#8216;military wings special&#8217;. We&#8217;re discussing terms.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Moqdad Clan(@MoqDaddy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoqDaddy\/status\/235801152162242560\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-15T18:12:30+00:00\">August 15, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-in-reply-to=\"236043989147590657\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/crimsonbeirut\"><s>@<\/s><b>crimsonbeirut<\/b><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oh_bergine\"><s>@<\/s><b>oh_bergine<\/b><\/a> hello ladies. Do you have foreign passports?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Moqdad Clan(@MoqDaddy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoqDaddy\/status\/236045482827317248\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-16T10:23:23+00:00\">August 16, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>We would like to stress that we don&#8217;t endorse the term &#8216;Mokdadistan&#8217;. That makes us sound like some kind of terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Moqdad Clan(@MoqDaddy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoqDaddy\/status\/236019346969874433\" data-datetime=\"2012-08-16T08:39:32+00:00\">August 16, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>  Pro-tip, peeps: when holding people hostage and threatening to kill them in an act of revoltingly violent retribution, don\u2019t forget to put on your favorite designer Calvin Klein t-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>  Stay classy, masked gunmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven\u2019t heard, the Moqdad family said on Wednesday that its \u201cmilitary wing\u201d abducted more than 20 Free Syrian Army members and a Turkish national after relative Hassan al-Moqdad was kidnapped in 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