WTF
07/03/2007
Death to Farfur, Hamas TV's Answer to Mickey Mouse
Ah, Farfur, you squeaky-voiced, incendiary, singing, dancing promoter of violence to children, we hardly knew ye. Good.
This week, Tomorrow's Pioneers, a children's program on Palestinian Hamas station Al-Aqsa TV, featured Mickey-Mouse-like Farfur getting "martyred" by Israel. Farfur has been making international headlines for a few months now, with his cheerful lessons about worldwide Islamic rule and his call-in segments where kids chat about annihilating the Jews and sing about using AK-47s as he dances along.
But just in case the kids watching had ANY doubts left about which side they were supposed to be on, there's this kicker of a final episode, in which Farfur takes a beating for not giving up his land to Israel, and then his cute-as-a-button young cohost, Saraa, sweetly informs us that Farfur has taken the long dirt nap for the cause. Charming.
Incidentally, wiki reports there's been controversy about how accurately the show's been translated by the Middle East Research Institute. However, I can't help but notice nobody's challenged the authenticity of the AK-47 song. Good riddance, Farfur.
