Thursday, November 3, 2005
Iran sure does have an odd view of the concept of "children's programming."
Muezzin: Allah Akbar.
Muslims pray in the mosque, while Israeli soldiers advance towards a Palestinian village, where some children are playing. Soldiers break into houses, open fire on the villagers, and throw tear-gas grenades, while children resist with sling-shots and stones. Some villagers are dragged away, beaten, captured, and mistreated. Barbed wire goes up around the village.
A small boy, seeing the soldiers' grenades, has an idea: the grenades resemble eggplants. He gathers a group of children, who pick eggplants, and hang them on their belts. They charge at the soldiers, hurling the eggplants at them, and the soldiers throw down their guns and flee.
The villagers hold the soldiers at gunpoint, and the children raise the captured guns in victory.
Villagers: Allah Akbar.
I think you can learn a lot about a society by what they feel it's important to teach their kids.
Update: Good lord. I missed this one from yesterday. Much, much worse. I keep imagining my five-year-old sitting fixed on this in front of the television. Diseased minds created this. Sick, sick, sick.
