Throwing a shoe is offensive ` ` regardless of the religious practices , '' professor says . ` ` The bottom half is a shoe is offensive , '' says CNN Iraq producer Mohammed Tawfeeq . Some Iraqis celebrated when a reporter threw his shoe at President Bush in 2003 . For example , in the King James Version of the Old Testament , Psalm 60:8 says : `` Moab is my washpot ; over Edom will I cast out my shoe : Philistia , triumph thou because of me . '' Isaiah 60:8 offers evidence that throwing is an ancient insult .
Throwing a shoe is offensive ` ` regardless of the religious practices , '' professor says . ` ` The bottom half is a shoe is offensive , '' says CNN Iraq producer Mohammed Tawfeeq . Some Iraqis celebrated when a reporter threw his shoe at President Bush in 2003 . Isaiah 60:8 offers evidence that throwing is an ancient insult .