Mickey Mouse: Jihad and Fatwa

The relationship between Muslim Fundamentalists and Mickey Mouse gets stranger and stranger. From Guysen International News:

A sheik from Saudi Arabia, a former diplomat posted in Washington, has put out a fatwa on Mickey Mouse, calling him the new enemy of Islam. "Mickey Mouse is a soldier of Satan, and everything he touches becomes impure," said Sheik Muhammad al-Munajid. (Guysen.International.News)

"According to sharia law, the mouse is a repugnant and corrupting animal," he said during a show broadcast by Al-Majd television.

Interestingly, there is some similarity between the views of Muslim Fundmentalists and Baptist Fundmentalists regarding Disney. Baptists were raging against Disney's corrupting influence (I kid you not) some 11 years before this Saudi sheik jumped on the bandwagon. From Religious Tolerance.org:

The [Southern Baptist Convention] annual convention in Dallas TX was held from 1997-JUN-17 to 19. The American Family Association, a Mississippi pro-family conservative Christian group led by Rev. Donald Wildmon, mailed out over 25,000 anti-Disney information packets to SBC congregations in advance of the convention. 4 Rev. Richard Land, president of the SBC Christian Life Commission, addressed the convention messengers (delegates), saying "Disney is going to find out just how many regiments and just how many divisions of godly people Southern Baptists have." Referring to negotiations over the previous year between the SBC and Disney, Land reported "On good days, the Disney corporation ignored us. On bad days, they contemptuously gave us the back of their hands." [We assume that he did not intended his remark to be taken literally]. The 12,000 delegates voted overwhelmingly in favor of implementing the boycott that had been threatened in the previous year.

So once again we find religious extremism is idiotic whether it is Muslim or Christian...and often they look a lot alike. Or are these religious visionaries just seeing the dark side of Disney most of us blind ourselves to:

(Evil Mickey image from here

But one thing I wonder about the Saudi sheik's fatwa is whether it also applies to the Hamas ripoff on Mickey Mouse, the Hamas spokesmouse Farfur, designed to teach young children about jihad.

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