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Farfur: couldn't do his homework because the Jews destroyed his house
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| By israelinsider staff May 22, 2007 |
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Talk about a mousey response.
The Walt Disney Co., known and feared for enforcing any infringement on its brands and characters, didn't make a squeak as Hamas television employed a Mickey Mouse look-alike to preach Islamic domination to children because the company felt it would be ineffective, Disney CEO Robert Iger said Monday, according to an AP report.
Iger said he and other executives pondered ways to react to the Hamas kids' show featuring a man in a Mickey costume, railing against Israel, the United States and Jews.
"We didn't mobilize our forces and seek to either have the clip taken down or to make any broad public statement about it," Iger told a gathering of the Society of Business Editors and Writers at the Disneyland Hotel.
"We were appalled by the use of our character to disseminate that kind of message," he said. "I think anytime any group seeks to exploit children in that manner, it's despicable."
Still, Iger said it didn't seem to make any sense for Disney to make a public statement: "I just didn't think it would have any effect," he said. 'I think it should have been obvious how the company felt about the subject."
"You and I are laying the foundation for a world led by Islamists," Farfour squeaked on a recent episode of the show, 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."
Farfour complained that he was copying the homework of another child because "the Jews destroyed his home," homework and all.
The Palestinian Authority said it was going to remove the show after complaints from other sources, but last week the show went on as usual. |
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