I was thinking of seeing Ratatouille this weekend with the kids but this might be good too. In the last episode of a weekly children’s show featuring “Farfour,” a Mickey Mouse look-alike, the large rodent was beaten to death by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour’s land. Farfour’s dying gasps included calling the Israeli a “terrorist.”
The mouse that roared made worldwide headlines for preaching Islamic domination and armed struggle to youngsters was broadcast yesterday. “Farfour was martyred while defending his land,” said Sara, the teen presenter. He was killed “by the killers of children,” she added.
The kids should be fine after seeing something like this but I think I’ll stick to Ratatouille.
July 2, 2007 at 12:21 pm
“No to war! War is not always inevitable. It is always a defeat for humanity; international law, honest dialogue, solidarity between states, the noble exercise of diplomacy: These are methods worthy of individuals and nations in resolving their differences. I say this as I think of those who still place their trust in nuclear weapons and of the all-too-numerous conflicts which continue to hold hostage our brothers and sisters in humanity. … And what are we to say of the threat of war which could strike the people of Iraq, the land of the prophets, a people already sorely tried by more than 12 years of embargo? … War is never just another means that one can choose to employ for settling differences between nations.”
– Pope John Paul II, Jan. 13(2003)
July 5, 2007 at 2:41 am
I think we’re all in agreement on that.