quote:Hazim Sharawi, whose stage name is Uncle Hazim, is a quiet, doe-eyed young man who has an easy way with children and will soon preside over a children's television show here on which he'll cavort with men in larger-than-life, fake-fur animal suits on the Gaza Strip's newest television station, Al Aksa TV.
But Captain Kangaroo this is not. The station, named for Islam's third holiest site, is owned by Hamas, the people who helped make suicide bombing a household term.
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As he describes it, his television show, which begins in a few weeks, will teach children the basics of militant Palestinian politics - the disputed status of Jerusalem, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and the Palestinian refugees' demand for a right to return to the lands they lost to Israel in the 1948 war - without showing the violence that Hamas's pursuit of those goals entails.
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Mr. Sharawi will not take visitors to see him do his radio broadcast because the studio's location is a heavily guarded secret. In 2004, an Israeli Apache helicopter fired three rockets into the station's previous studio not long after Mr. Sharawi and his colleagues had fled.
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The show, which will be broadcast on Friday mornings, the beginning of the Muslim weekend, will be preceded by an hour of cartoons, including a serialized life of the Prophet Muhammad, and that universal send-up of deadly conflict, Tom & Jerry.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
quote:The show, which will be broadcast on Friday mornings, the beginning of the Muslim weekend, will be preceded by an hour of cartoons, including a serialized life of the Prophet Muhammad...
*blink* What? They're going to do a cartoon about Mohammed? *double blink*
How do they intend to do that without showing his picture?
Posted by St. Yogi (Member # 5974) on :
They could just blur him out Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
It could be done exclusively in 1st person perspective. Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:You've got to be taught to hate and fear You've got to be taught from year to year It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear You've got to be carefully taught
You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade You've got to be carefully taught
You've got to be taught before it's too late Before you are six or seven or eight To hate all the people your relatives hate You've got to be carefully taught You've got to be carefully taught
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Yeah, that'd be less offensive. *laugh*
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Someone who was born in 1948 would be 58 by now... which means pretty much anyone who was an adult at that time is dead.
How many refugees could their possibly be who actually lived in the area at the time?
If that doesn't matter, can I get my people to suicide bomb instead of run casinos? Maybe we can get back the land our ancestors lost.
Pix
Posted by Zan (Member # 4888) on :
quote: It could be done exclusively in 1st person perspective.
Sort of like Doom 3? I heard that did great at the box office.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Someone should open a competing TV station with opposing views. You know, a Non-Prophet TV station.
Pix
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
The musical South Pacific - one of the character's fiance (or maybe just girlfriend) finds out that his previous wife was Polynesian, making his kids half Polynesian, and she reacts poorly. He then sings this song.
Edit: There was a question about where the song came from when I wrote this.
Posted by Kasie H (Member # 2120) on :
Sorry Dag -- I went to edit and somehow managed to delete. I can attest there was actually a question Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
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Posted by Jacare Sorridente (Member # 1906) on :
Why would anyone be upset by this? It is diverse viewpoints that make our society strong. In This great melting pot of a world we have room for terrorists AND George Bush.
In fact, to further proselyte our viewpoint of inclusion, I think that we should call terrorists "Other-cultured", and we should refer to suicide bombings as a "firm expression of a different viewpoint".
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
Actually, Lt. Cable (the tenor) sings it. He and Nellie are bemoaning both her trouble with her sweetheart's past and Cable's inability to look past his Polynesian lover's race.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
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