Mickey Mouse: Hamas supporter
p2pnet.net news:- Hamas militants have borrowed a page from the Walt Disney Marketing to Kids book.
Instead of using Mickey Mouse to get children to get their parents to buy ‘product,’ Hamas is using him to, “broadcast their message of Islamic dominion and armed resistance to their most impressionable audience – little kids,” says Associated Press.
A giant black-and-white rodent named Farfour, or ‘butterfly,’ “does his high-pitched preaching against the U.S. and Israel on a children’s show run each Friday on Al-Aqsa TV, a station run by Hamas,” says the story.
“The militant group, sworn to Israel’s destruction, shares power in the Palestinian government.”
Will Disney sue Hamas for copyright infringement? Don’t bother to stay tuned.
Also See:
Associated Press – Hamas ‘Mickey Mouse’ Wants Islam Takeover, May 9, 2007
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May 9th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
I am not sure how mush press this recieved in the US and Canada, but here in Japan, the news programs were buzzing with images of a stated owned amusement park in China, outside of Beijing, where the park’s motto was “Why go to a Disney land far away, when you can come here”.
What makes this new interesting, is that they were flaunting Dinesy’s Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Shrek, Rodger Rabbit, WB’s Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, Sanrio’s Kitty (from Hello Kitty), as well as the Japanese comic book/animation charactor Doraemon.
Park officials commented that these were not copyright infringements, because they were taken from classical childrens stories (huh?), and had no relation to Disney, WB and other rights holders.
Interestingly enigh, when the Minnie charactor was asked who she was, she abligingly took off the head (LOL) and he (!) said that he was Minnie.
It appears that this had been going on for some time, but after getting so much negative press last week, the park officials has removed the infringing characters, destroyed they Snow White statue (a sad site to see… that was one of the few characters that they seriously could have said that they had the right to use), and painted over the Donald Duck and Mickey images on the rides.
Just my two cents…
May 11th, 2007 at 3:39 am
Now that is just f***’n sick!!!