Hamas Targets Kids With Islamist Mickey Mouse

Posted on May 8, 2007

The Palestinian militant group Hamas has created its own version of Mickey Mouse, known as “Farfour,” to indoctrinate the next generation with such life lessons as “laying the foundation for a world led by Islamists.”  TV show host Farfour has outraged Israel and rival faction Fatah, but the Walt Disney Co. has yet to comment.

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AP via Yahoo!:

A giant black-and-white rodent—named “Farfour,” or “butterfly,” but unmistakably a rip-off of the Disney character—does his high-pitched preaching against the U.S. and Israel on a children’s show 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 called “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.”

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