Last year Palestinian children were introduced to Farfur, a Muslim abomination of Mickey Mouse that swore to annihilate the Jews. He was the hit character on the Hamas children’s show “Tomorrow’s Pioneers”. It was covered briefly on my site here.
The obvious child indoctrination sparked worldwide condemnation. Many called for an end to Farfur, but Hamas remained defiant and refused to pull the show. They instead turned Farfur into a martyr on his last episode when an Israeli soldier took him out during interrogation. Think I’m kidding? You can watch Farfur’s Academy Award winning performance here.
Farfur’s successor was Nahul the Bee, but his reign was short lived. Nahul died a just a week ago when the “Israeli siege of Gaza” prevented him from reaching the hospital to get urgent medical care. There’s no need to mourn this great loss though because Assud the psycho Jew-eating Bugs Bunny look-alike is here to make things right!
It times like these when I often wonder how Muslims can be outraged over the Mohammed caricatures when crap like this is being served to Muslim children in their very own homes. Enjoy the show!
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February 14th, 2008 at 5:29 am
I don’t speak Arabic, but I’d try to get an independent translation on this before passing judgement. The translations of Palestinian TV abominations that we get in the English-speaking world tend to be extremely inaccurate.
February 14th, 2008 at 7:40 am
The peddling this crap to kids is quite reprehensible, but I don’t think it comes off quite as disturbing, if you consider the reality in Gaza and West Bank. In their own way, these videos try to make sense of the mindless violence and insecurity that is frequently present in the lives of the children there. I don’t think that these videos so much indoctrinate children than they reflect existing sentiments arising from the conditions.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Gasmonso,
When you ask yourself why you should continue maitaining Religious Freaks,
that’s why.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
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February 14th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Pseudonym, you are quite right about being leery of mistranslation. A fine example would be Rolls Royce, which, when attempting to sell their “Silver Mist” model, translated it into German as “Silber Mist.” “Silber” does indeed translate as “silver,” but “mist” translates as “shit” in German . . . no wonder the “silver shit” car didn’t sell well in Germany.
Mistranslation can really hurt. Intentional mistranslation can be quite insidious. So, are there any arabic speakers out there who would be willing to offer a translation for us on this particular piece, so we can be sure we’re all on the same page when discussing what was actually said? It would be greatly appreciated . . .
February 14th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
I highly doubt this was mistranslated enough to change the essential intent of the video. Given that…
If anyone wants to know how sick the muslim mind is, these videos are sparkling examples of the insanity therein! :)
Islam will be wadded up and thrown in the trash, where it belongs, some day…. Allah willing. Hahah
February 14th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Righto, Im off outside to set fire to some burning effigies of Mohammed (LOL!) with my sign saying ‘death to all those who insult reason’ and burn down my local mosque.
I’ll let you all know how it goes…
February 14th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Michael, I do agree that this video is probably translated well enough to get the gist . . . but one thing that struck me as odd was the whole phone-in session where the rabbit goes off on rabbits as being cowardly and insists on being called “lion.” I mean, what? They only had a rabbit costume at the shop? They couldn’t make a lion costume? Or was that supposed to be ironic? If it wasn’t; then the show’s writers are being unintentionally ironic, regardless.
If the translations are essentially correct, then I must deplore them. Telling 5-year-olds to be martyrs is nothing short of pure unadulterated evil. And the act of getting kids into the act has been well-documented in the Middle East and Africa, so it wouldn’t be all that surprising . . . even though it is totally reprehensible.
February 15th, 2008 at 12:52 am
I agree with Kurt. If that’s what it really means, then it’s reprehensible.
However, I did ask two people independently who speak Arabic about the pseudo-Mickey video, and they said much the same thing: That the translations were subtly wrong that they did change the meaning.
They still thought what pseudo-Mickey was saying was evil, but in the clips I showed them, pseudo-Mickey wasn’t encouraging them to be martyrs. He was encouraging them to group up afraid, and in many respects, that’s a more subtle trap.
February 15th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Ah, here we go.
Do take that with a grain of salt. The translation they suggest is consistent with what my Arabic-speaking friends told me, but my friends were quick to point out that what pseudo-Mickey was actually doing was encouraging the kids to be afraid of Big Bad Israel, rather than encouraging them to kill them, and that’s also a very bad thing to be teaching kids.
But it’s still nowhere near what MEMRI’s translation said it was.
Given that the rabbit clip was also translated by MEMRI, I would really be happier with an independent translation.
February 15th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Oh no, not the old “Mistranslation from Arabic” thing! How many times have we heard that crap?
Arabic really is the most amazing language, anything that does not suit the peaceful Islam myth must be a mistranslation. All the world’s lingusistic experts are entirely unable to translate the subtleties of Arabic although the peaceful meaning is naturally entirely clear to a Muslim Pakistani peasant farmer who does not speak any.
As for trying to make sense of the mindless violence and insecurity, perhaps the kids may be trying to make sense of it, but the adults feeding this to their kids is what creates and perpetuates it. Palestine is a self inflicted and a self perpetuated problem. The most idiotic thing is that we in the West continue to prop them up.
February 16th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
I hear you, xoggoth. It is no secret that Hamas is a vile organization; they support suicide bombers! My point was merely that poor translation helps no one, and I was asking if there was anyone who might offer an alternative. Since the sole alternative offered was “fear Israel” rather than “destroy Israel,” I see no real difference. Fear leads to nothing good. Teaching children to fear only fosters more violence. And, I notice, so far no one has stated that “we must be martyrs” was mistranslated, which *does* advocate violence, and as such must be condemned. I still wonder why there seem to be no tailors or seamstresses who could make a lion costume . . . I guess there *were* only rabbit outfits left at the costume shop. And, as a side note, I noticed Chilly Willy, Winnie the Pooh, and other copyrighted characters in the panels on the back walls. Why isn’t there a lawsuit over that? Are the big bad corporations afraid of a tiny TV station in Palestine? Or did the Show get the proper fees and licensing for them worked out? In which case, someone was asleep at the corporate wheel anyway . . .
February 17th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Well, actually…
Arabic is an increadibly difficult language. Though officially one language, it varies quite a lot from country to country, and with different time periods. Most languages do this, but arabic has little change in words, but lot’s of change in meaning. And because it’s very difficult to find when and were a text was written, it’s difficult to translate.
Add to that the fact that written arabic has dozens of different forms, and some letters are little more then an apostrophe, you can imagine it’s difficult.
Of course, you’ll be hard pressed to translate “Crush Kill and Destroy” with “Peace love and happyness
More likely, they don’t give a rats ass about it. It might even be ‘fair use’, though I haven’t a clue if that counts for international law.
February 17th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
I’d be very wary of taking ANYTHING that comes out of MEMRI with anything less than a whole fistful of salt. Its a jewish organisation with more than a point to prove, particularly in this case.
February 19th, 2008 at 12:36 am
xoggoth: I don’t think that anyone (here, anyway) is saying that Hamas isn’t a very scary group of people. The point here is that the stuff that Hamas does say is disturbing enough without having to make up stuff they don’t say.
I think it’s telling that we’re willing to believe without thinking about it that Hamas would really make a bad Mickey Mouse clone who told kids to shoot Jews. It suggests a) that we’re pretty gullible, and b) Hamas really is almost that bad.
It’s kind of like when you hear a story of Britney Spears doing something crazy. It hardly matters if it’s true or not, since it might as well be true.
You’ve got to remember that Hamas are primarily politicians, and they’re not completely stupid. Even if they believed it, they would never publically broadcast someone telling kids to shoot Jews, for the same reason that Huckabee would never actually say in public that he doesn’t agree with evolution. It would be political suicide to do so.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
does nobody care what the jews have done? the forcefully took the land of the palestinians. and they think theyre in the right just because it was 50 eyars ago. one day you just wait, the land will be in the hand of the muslims again. theyve killed so many innocent people and have support of so many countries..
may god forgive everyone of their sins and judge us with his mercy and not with his fairness on the day of judgement, for surely he is the all-knowing, the all-powerful…
February 25th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
“does nobody care what the jews have done?”
Yep, but that doesn’t justify advocating violence to children as a response.
“you just wait, the land will be in the hand of the muslims again.”
I don’t care who controls that land. It’s inconsequential to my life. Personally, I think it should go to the Hindus or some other mythos that doesn’t consider it to be ‘holy’.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
“one day you just wait, the land will be in the hand of the muslims again.”
No, hopefully you’ll all just kill each other off so we don’t have to worry about it.
February 25th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I personally think it should go to the Canaanites. I mean come on, they got dibs, right?
February 25th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Any of them still around, or were they exterminated by the Jews? That is what their God commanded them to do, right?
February 25th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
irishthunder, please tell me, what made you leave islam? i am curious?
true islam will be victorious in the end
@sid
i personaly think that u can be pious and be a non-muslim. i think piety comes from firm belief in god, for surely that is the very fundemental thing in islam. but you will be judged according to your knowledge. if you were unaware of muhammed (s) prophecy then you will be treated differently from someone who does. my lord is the best of judges. i feel so proud knowing afer i die there is another place i will go.
we must use the prophets as examples. surely muhammed was sinless, even i comit sins and i must beg my all merciful lord for forgivness and i must repent. religion is a complicated thing, but id be guided than wonder confused and just critisising. what most ppl are doing is labelling islam fromwhat they see in the media. true islam is not killing of innocent ppl for ur information mr/mrs irishthunder. infact the imams of the shia were opressed for doing the right thing. ali ibn abi talib’s calipha was stolen but still he sets such a great example for mankind.
athiests please, check out this link, its a debate between two theists. prof.hasanain rajabali and michael corey and dan barker and richard carrier :)
http://www.shiasource.com/community/community_events/1/
may god have mercy upon us all, on the day of judgement may the prophet and the imams be a shafi3 for us and let us be forgived for the sins which we comit.
February 25th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
We must look at the whole picture. what happens if i told you that Allah will not be willing. They say he is of peace, yet say and do something that even you don’t agree.
Allah will not be willing, even muslim boy does not understand or the people on this tv show fail to understand the power of G-d.
I must tell you people, please turn from your ways and stop the killing your own people.
They have different cultures in Arab countries but what is the key, what is the key of the worship muslim boy?! who is the one you worship too?!
do you not all worship Allah, yet you kill(blow-up) the people that Allah loves?!
Allah willing?! i am not a assud but a believer in the Truth in His WORD!
Muslim boy, will you be in paradise for sure? i can show you and the love that is in his son will be in your heart for the sinners we are.
February 25th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
First off I was never officially considered muslim, but after I realized christianity wasn’t for me I read the quran and visited a mosque to get more information. From my perspective I saw that islam was very similar to christianity, in the sense of having to abandon reasoning skills and the scientific method to follow it. Along with that, islam seemed to be very condescending to “infidels”, even the mullah I met with.
As far as the link, I’ve seen far more informative and spirited debates(look for ones with Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens).
February 25th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
@muslim boy
I am curious, why would atheists be interested of the debate between theists about who has the biggest skycrane?
February 28th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Hey guys,
Just saw that you’re debating the accuracy of the translation and wanted to add my 2 cents:
The translation is quite accurate, and if I remember correctly the translation of the moslem mickey mouse was accurate as well.
Muslim Boy:
Please remind me where it says in the quran that someone who does not know about islam will be judged according to his knowledge? The ayah I recall goes something like this “Alla’s religion is the Islam therefore the (good) deeds of those who follow other religions will not be accepted and they will have lost”. Go read your religion instead of posting your own version of Islam here.
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:01 pm
in the name of allah, the all merciful, the compasionate
arnoub,
why do you think i am a terrorist? the fact that i believe israel have occupied islamic land unfairly makes me a terrorist?
i hate to admit it, but just like any other religion or society for that matter, there are many corrupt muslims who are more than just extremists.
i am going to stop posting on this website because peopel are so ignorant as to stereotype as well as label me without justification.
1) i respect and value every individual regardless of religion or faith.
2) i believe in allah as my one and only all-powerful and all-merciful God and creator
3)i believe in muhammed as the final messenger and prophet of allah (swt)
4) i follow the sunnah of muhammed and believe the holy quran is the word of allah. the holy quran has many verses that can be interpreted differently and theerfroe there is confusion as to what the ayas actually mean..
5) i believe in ali ibn abi talib as the rightful caliph and therefore am of his hsia. anyonwone willing to tell me why they believe he isnt go ahead because the evidence comes from the sunni books as well as ours.
i have my own opinions. i use islam as a way of life and a guidline but that does not stop me making concious decisionsa nd opinions.
@ agony
we meet again my good freind :)
you are a clever guy if i remember from our previous debates. for someone to make an islamic judgement there are four main sources to do so:
1) al-aql- the mind/brain
we must use our brains to use logic and rational.
2) sunnat muhammed- hadith can be used as well. however, it is not sufficient to simply state a hadith without acknowleding the narrator. many hadiths were lies and many weer from an untrusworthy narrator and were altered along the chain of narration
3) the holy quran, the word of allah. but the holy quran covers only the main aspects. for examplr, it is not stated in the quran how many times we must pray. it is said that prayer is a timed ordinace for the believrs but not how often we must pray for example.
4) ijma3, other scholers and peopel who have studied religion come together and discuss. they are another source.
as for the shia, we follow the 12 imams as role models. as they are the desendents of muhammed they were capable of interpreting the quran correctly at the time.
may god bless you all…. i might stop posting here for a short while, becasue i got exams coming up and need to do some work…
ill be bak soon thou :)