He looks like Mickey Mouse and sounds like Mickey Mouse, but what he's saying is hardly the fairytale stuff of Disney.
A Mickey Mouse look-alike named Farfur is teaching Palestinian children the ABCs of terror on Hamas' official television station, Al-Aqsa TV.
On the weekly program "Tomorrow's Pioneers," Farfur and a young girl name Saraa' tell children to pray five times each day and drink their milk, while urging the children to "resist" the "oppressive invading Zionist occupation."
Instead of being entertained, theyre being indoctrinated, Itamar Marcus, the director of Palestinian Media Watch, told FOX News.
Marcus says that "resist" is a Palestinian euphemism for terror.
"Their message is of hatred toward Jews, hatred toward Israel, hatred to America as well," Marcus said. "They make fun of Condoleezza Rice, they make fun of Bush."
Excerpts from episodes that aired last month show the squeaky voiced mouse egging on children with nationalistic fervor.
"We, tomorrows pioneers, will restore to this nation its glory, and we will liberate Al-Aqsa, with Allahs will, and we will liberate Iraq, with Allahs will, and we will liberate the Muslim countries, invaded by murderers, Farfur says in one episode that aired in April.
The message seems to be working. Poems and songs submitted by young viewers contain violent imagery. "Rafah sings Oh, oh," one caller says as Farfur mimes carrying a rifle. "Its answer is an AK-47."
Unfortunately, this really shouldn't be news; I've personally seen excerpts from an Iranian children's channel (produced by the Iranian government,) in which the main character, a typical main character of children's shows, and typically intended to be someone the children look up to, dies in the final episode by jumping off a cliff with bombs strapped to him, onto an Isreali convoy. And this was at least 6 months ago.
Also, somewhat related, and not a Fox article for those of us that can't look further than the URL. Bombs found built inside new Iraqi school
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- American soldiers discovered a girls school being built north of Baghdad had become an explosives-rigged "death trap," the U.S. military said Thursday.
The plot at the Huda Girls' school in Tarmiya was a "sophisticated and premeditated attempt to inflict massive casualties on our most innocent victims," military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said.
The military suspects the plot was the work of al Qaeda, because of its nature and sophistication, Caldwell said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
The plot was uncovered Saturday, when troopers in the Salaheddin province found detonating wire across the street from the school. They picked up the wire and followed its trail, which led to the school. Once inside, they found an explosive-filled propane tank buried beneath the floor. There were artillery shells built into the ceiling and floor, and another propane tank was found, the military said.
The wire was concealed with mortar and concrete, and the propane tanks had been covered with brick and hidden underneath the floor, according to a military statement. Soldiers were able to clear the building.
"It was truly just an incredibly ugly, dirty kind of vicious killing that would have gone on here," Caldwell said.
Iraqi contractors were responsible for building the school, which was intended to bring in hundreds of girls.
"Given the care and work put into emplacing this IED, it is likely it had been planned for a long time" and it is thought that "the IED was not intended to be set off until the building was occupied," the military said.
Authorities intend to question the Iraqis involved in the school's construction.
All of this is just sick. What the hell is the point of bombing a girl's school? I can understand, if I can't exactly sympathize or forgive, bombing a US Army convoy. At least that could be considered a military target (the fact that they often carry food or other supplies to Iraqis is not an issue.), but what kind of sick, sick bastard plants bombs in the construction of a new school? The people raised on the cartoons in the first link?
The same sick bastards who turned their terrorism on other muslims, and were losing influence before 9-11 and Bush's exploitation of it. It's the usual for them.
This isn't particularly surprising, considering the source. Of course Disney and WB produced some racist wartime propaganda of their own, perhaps under coercion, in that war that's popular because it had an enemy everybody could justifiably hate. We've evolved beyond that culture, but it would be a good idea to remember that it existed, and ignore those who would like to do the same thing.
...We don't have an enemy everybody could justifiably hate?
Woah, this is news to me. I coulda sworn otherwise.
That's just the stuff of fictional novels and stories (unless you count diseases as a person which no one wants).
Welcome to the real world, SX. The box opened ages ago: do you still have it (hope, that is)?
Hope? What the hell is that?
I thought hope was forfeited by the time you turned fifteen. o_o
...We don't have an enemy everybody could justifiably hate? Woah, this is news to me. I coulda sworn otherwise.
What is this, 2003?
So, is 2 years the cutoff line to forgive the slaughter of 3000+ innocent Americans?
Huh. Didn't get that memo.
Anyway, it isn't like that's over and done with. You want a more recent reason, what about that Fort Dix plot that was busted...oh, three days ago at max? Why the hell isn't that bigger news than it is?
Also, more on this topic, Hamas pulled the show for "review," to see if this is the right way to preach death to children. (I am aware how opinionated that last statement was.)
Well, I have to say it's a good thing they pulled it, even if it's not for all the right reasons. It's a step in the right direction, and hopefully, with people watching them and the government opposed to the show, it won't come back on the air.
And yes, people are allowed to hope at any age. So quit with the sarcasm. :p
So, is 2 years the cutoff line to forgive the slaughter of 3000+ innocent Americans?
It's the cutoff line for "holy crap just get over it already. Jesus."
I mean it's not like your fun adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan haven't already made up for it twentyfold.
How many wars has the US won in two years or less?
And dude, it's not about "making up" the casualties or getting even, or whatever.
Well we won the quasi war in less than two years. We also won the second Barbary War, the mexican american war,Spanish-American war, world war 1, and the gulf war. Maybe the invasion of grenada and panama too. That is about eight out of 18.
America didn't enter WWI until it was well under way. So that one technically doesn't count, as more parties were involved than just America vs. Insert Opponent Here.
Well then we won seven wars then.
