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[scue]

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Originally Posted by scue

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YouTube - Hamas steals Mickey Mouse

Hamas 'Mickey Mouse' wants Islam takeover


By DIAA HADID, Associated Press Writer

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas militants have enlisted the iconic Mickey Mouse to broadcast their message of Islamic dominion and armed resistance to their most impressionable audience — little kids.

A giant black-and-white rodent — named "Farfour," or "butterfly," but unmistakably a Mickey ripoff — does his high-pitched preaching against the U.S. and
Israel on a children's show run each Friday on Al-Aqsa TV, a station run by Hamas. The militant group, sworn to Israel's destruction, shares power in the Palestinian government.

"You and I are laying the foundation for a world led by Islamists," Farfour squeaked on a recent episode of the show, which is titled, "Tomorrow's Pioneers."

"We will return the Islamic community to its former greatness, and liberate Jerusalem, God willing, liberate
Iraq, God willing, and liberate all the countries of the Muslims invaded by the murderers."

Children call in to the show, many singing Hamas anthems about fighting Israel.

Israel has long complained that the Palestinian airwaves are filled with incitement.

An Israeli organization that monitors Palestinian media, Palestinian Media Watch, said the Mickey Mouse lookalike takes "every opportunity to indoctrinate young viewers with teachings of Islamic supremacy, hatred of Israel and the U.S., and support of 'resistance,' the Palestinian euphemism for terror."

The television station would not comment.

A spokeswoman from Walt Disney Co.'s headquarters in Burbank, Calif., did not immediately return messages asking for comment about the use of a Disney-like character.

Yehia Moussa, a Hamas leader in the movement's
Gaza Strip base, denied inciting children against Jews. "Our problem is not with the Jews. Our problem is with the (Israeli) occupation and the occupiers," Moussa said.

Israeli officials denounced the program. David Baker, an official in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office, said, "There is nothing comic about inciting young generations of Palestinians to hate Israelis."

Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev called the program "outrageous" and charged that the Palestinians have not carried out their commitments to stop incitement of hatred toward Israel. "Children are taught that killing Jews is a good thing," he said. "Children are taught to hate Jews and to hate nonbelievers."

In strife-ridden Gaza, however, dreams of Islamic dominion and animosity toward the U.S. and Israel are widespread.

A Gaza-based psychologist said the program proved that the culture of glorifying violence had penetrated Palestinian society.

"It's the fault of both (Israel and the Palestinians)," said Samir Zakkout, from the Gaza Community Mental Health Program. "If Palestinians had peace, children wouldn't learn violence."

Children have been traumatized by bloodshed in the course of Israeli attacks and Palestinian infighting, he said.

"There's been a collapse of values," he said. "If I can kill my enemy, I can kill my brother."

Basem Abu Sumaya, head of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corp., said such programming was inappropriate.

"I don't think it's professional or even humane to use children in such harsh political programs," Abu Sumaya said. "Children's nationalist spirit must be developed differently."

The Palestinian Broadcasting Corp. is controlled by Hamas' political rival, the
Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas..

Hamas loyalists launched the Al Aqsa satellite channel last year. Bearded young men read the news, often offering live news broadcasts. Islamic music is layered over footage of masked militants firing rockets into Israel. But the channel also broadcasts talk shows, programs about the disabled and cartoons.

Hamas loyalists also run at least five news Web sites, one newspaper — launched just last week — and a radio station.

[Felix]

I saw a few clips of that the other day, pretty messed up.

But co-incidently the day after I saw the clips I read in the newspaper (I think it was the Calgary Sun, I forget what city I was in at the time) that the show has been removed from the air in what ever country it was playing. Which I think is a good thing.

But it's still kinda F*d up when you think of little kids watching that stuff and believing it...

[Felix]

Militant 'Mickey Mouse' Pulled Off Air



Hamas militants have suspended a TV program that featured a Mickey Mouse lookalike urging Palestinian children to fight Israel and work for global Islamic domination, the Palestinian information minister said Wednesday.

Information Minister Mustafa Barghouti said the character _ a giant black-and-white rodent with a high-pitched voice _ represented a 'mistaken approach' to the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation.

He said that the program was pulled from Hamas-affiliated Al Aqsa TV at his ministry's request and 'placed under review.'

The character, named 'Farfour,' or 'butterfly,' but unmistakably a copy of the Disney character, preached against the U.S. and Israel each Friday on the show called 'Tomorrow's Pioneers.'

'You and I are laying the foundation for a world led by Islamists,' Farfour squeaked on a recent episode. 'We will return the Islamic community to its former greatness, and liberate Jerusalem, God willing, liberate Iraq, God willing, and liberate all the countries of the Muslims invaded by the murderers.'

Children called in to the show, many singing Hamas anthems about fighting Israel.

A spokeswoman for Burbank, Calif.-based Walt Disney Co. did not return phone calls seeking comment, and the Gaza TV station had no comment.

The program was opposed by the Palestinian Broadcasting Corp., which is controlled by the Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a Hamas rival that shares power with the militants in the Palestinian government.

Barghouti is an independent aligned with neither Hamas nor Fatah.

Loyalists of Hamas, which is sworn to the destruction of Israel, launched the Al Aqsa satellite channel last year. Bearded young men read the news and Islamic music is layered over footage of masked militants firing rockets into Israel. The channel also broadcasts talk shows, programs about the disabled and cartoons.

Hamas loyalists also run at least five news Web sites, a newspaper and a radio station.

[esoter1c]

When a tape appeared showing a “Mickey Mouse” like character speaking Arabic and bashing Israel and the United States on a satellite station run by Hamas, it immediately made international headlines. The video in Arabic was thrust upon the mainstream American media when it was “translated” by an Israeli propaganda site called MEMRI, The Middle East Research Institute, which frequently finds the worst in Arabic television and translates it into English to feed anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hatred.
The MEMRI translation was immediately challenged as inaccurate by reporters fluent in Arabic who recognized obvious, common translation errors, and although it still got play it was dropped from CNN and other reputable news sites. (View the blog by expert Arabic translator and National Arab American Journalist Association board member Ali Alarabi?)
The controversy has moved from the “content” to the “political gamesmanship” that exists in the American media, gamesmanship fueled by partisan groups like MEMRI, which was founded by former Israeli Defense Force intelligence agent Yigal Carmon, a former commander of Israeli forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Despite MEMRI’s errors in translation – or intentional lying — the actions on the video still crosses a moral and ethical line. The show drags young children head-first into the brutal Arab-Israeli conflict, encouraging them to prepare to fight to defend their homelands, rather than seeking to protect them from the conflict.
Just the fact of even encouraging children, as the program did, to prepare to die at the hands of the oppressors, to defend themselves and take up arms against those who attack you, goes way beyond what is appropriate for little children. That includes little children who are forced to live under a brutal military siege imposed by Israel in the Gaza Strip.
The producers of the Hamas TV show never claimed the mouse character was “Mickey Mouse” at all. The characterization came from the MEMRI and the news media. In fact, it was just a person dressed in a mouse costume who clearly crossed the line pushing children into unethical behavior, regardless of their situation.
But the people at MEMRI are never satisfied with lame news interpretations that fail to serve their biased political agenda. MEMRI has a reputation for always exaggerating Arabic translations to make their hateful case. MEMRI frequently distorts Arabic phrases in order to convey a more sinister interpretation that would serves extremist Israeli supporters who oppose any peace or compromise with the Palestinians.
MEMRI either mistakenly or, more likely, intentionally distorted phrases in the translation of the Hamas television show, arguing that the “little children” were being told to “kill the Jews.”
There is a difference in saying that “I will be attacked and killed by someone,” and “I will attack and kill someone,” the mistaken interpretation of a key Arabic phrase that became the basis for MEMRI’s hate propaganda and the erroneous claim that the mouse is saying “kill the Jews.”
Many Arabs like myself object to Hamas and its ideology of hatred and the use of terrorism and violence to prevent peace and compromise with Israel. But I don’t need to exaggerate the story in order to paint all Arabs and all Palestinians as being hateful when they are not.
But that moral line is not what MEMRI and its media accomplices in the mainstream media hope to convey. They want to portray it as being even more sinister.
Once it became known that MEMRI had exaggerated the translation and even mistakenly or more likely deceitfully changed word and phrase meanings to suit their partisan political agenda, CNN, one of the mainstream media stations that broadcast the original report, dropped the story. When CNN dropped the story, Carmon appeared on the TV show of a notorious anti-Arab and anti-Muslim basher, Glenn Beck, who hosts a show on CNN Headline News. (Watch the interview?)
You may recall Beck from his notorious hate speech incidents including the one where he demanded that the first American Muslim congressman in American history “Prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.”
Beck is worse than Don Imus, who spent most of his time bashing Arabs and Muslims but was never criticized or fired until he crossed the line and bashed a more powerful constituency, African Americans.
Beck asked CNN News to loan him the tape, which he could have gotten from MEMRI. CNN declined citing the problems in the translation but Beck complained “The Arab Desk at CNN” refused his request.
Is the “Arab Desk” like the “Jew Desk?” Imagine if Beck had complained about the “Jew Desk” at CNN or any other media. We’d be rid of him ASAP.
But it’s okay to bash Arabs and Muslims. It’s okay to distort translations of Arabic. It’s okay, apparently, to close one’s eyes to the hate-speech in the Israeli press and by Israeli politicians. And it is okay, apparently, to be deceitful as long as the targets of slander are Arabs or Muslims.
Beck claims to have “many Arab and Muslim friends.” He often invites Arab and Muslim guests to appear on his show and uses their appearance as a shield against the criticism.
Some Arab and Muslim guests appear with Beck knowing his vicious track record, but chose to feed their for media coverage against the morality of rejecting of racism and self-hatred.
In racistly denouncing the “Arab desk” at CNN, Beck was referring to Octavia Nasser, the CNN host who happens to be Arab and also fluent in Arabic. MEMRI and Beck both challenged Nasser’s contention MEMRI’s translations were inaccurate, with Beck suggesting some Arab conspiracy behind killing the story. I’d put my money with Nasser, a proven journalist professional who knows Arabic better than MEMRI or Beck.
MEMRI only translates Middle East reports from the Arab press and speeches by Arab world officials. It never translates the hate-speech common in the Hebrew language media or in speeches by Israeli officials like the racist Knesset member Avigdor Lieberman.
Not surprisingly, MEMRI has been endorsed by some of the world’s leading anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate-mongers. They include rightwing fanatic Natan Sharansky, publisher of the New Republic Martin Peretz, Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer, American Enterprise Institute President Chris Demuth, FOX News host Brit Hume, and now, CNN’s Don Imus look-a-like, Glenn Beck.
(Ray Hanania is an Award winning columnist, author and standup comedian. A blogger for MidEastYouth.com Hanania can be reached at Award-winning Arab American journalist, standup comedian comedy, author, defining moderate Palestinian Arab voice.)
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