We all saw it, the whole world watched the scene of president Bush avoiding the pair of shoes being played over and over on TV. Soon after the incident,  hundreds of jokes and email messages and animated Gifs about it in the Arab world and all over the world. 

So Why it's important?

It's a fact that Bush (like any other president) had experienced similar conditions even in the U.S in some states he visited, people threw tomatoes and spoiled eggs at him sometime, freedom of speech :)

During the next few days thousands of protesters in Iraq demanded the release of the local TV reporter Muntadar Al-Zaidi and some even called him a hero.

This might have shown how much the Iraqis are fed up with U.S policies in Iraq and in the middle east. A fan page was created on facebook with about 15,000 fans/supporters of Montada Al-Zaidi.

Large numbers of  Iraqis and Arabs supports Montadar and think he's a hero, and demands his release from the Iraqi government. While others see that this act wasn't appropriate for this was a press conference and not a fight in the street, and he could have expressed his opinion in another way.

Muntadar's supporters and arab journalists and human right watchers fear that he will be tortoured in prison which in common in Iraq.