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I had the tv turned on tonight and while channel-flipping, I came across a news report that made me stop. It was discussing something about King Abdullah II and then on the screen came his lovely wife Queen Rania decked out in anything but your standard Islamic garb: she was fully dolled-up in Western dress, and looked ready to walk down a red carpet runway at a Hollywood premiere.
And then I saw why.
‘Ben and Izzy’ Cartoon Promotes Tolerance
First Jordanian Export Cartoon‘Ben and Izzy,’ Promotes Tolerance Between East and West:
AMMAN, Jordan May 5, 2006 (AP)– A Jordanian media firm hopes its new TV cartoon series can achieve what politicians have failed to do so far: bridge the cultural divide between East and West.
It sounds like a tall order, but the Rubicon firm named after the river Caesar crossed to establish the Roman Empire is armed with an equally mighty motto: “to embark on a mission from which one cannot turn back.”
Even more important is that the cartoon, called “Ben and Izzy” and aimed at 8 to 11 year olds, has royal backing from Jordan’s media savvy rulers, King Abdullah II and Queen Rania, who have made it their goal to promote tolerance.
Rania will showcase Jordan’s first TV cartoon export in New York on May 8 at a black-tie dinner she’s hosting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. American media ‘royalty,’ like Barbara Walters and Katie Couric, are expected to be on hand.
“Ben and Izzy has all the right ingredients,” Rania told The Associated Press. “It uses the fun medium of a children’s cartoon, promotes important intercultural understanding and educates our children as well.”
“It’s all about partnership. This isn’t about East telling West, or West telling East, but rather East and West putting their heads together and figuring out what’s best for us both,” she added.Randa Ayoubi, Rubicon’s 43-year-old director, said she believed its innovative program featuring the sometimes rocky relationship between two 11-year-old boys one American, one Arab will appeal to youngsters and adults alike in her native Amman, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and beyond.
“First and foremost, it’s entertainment. But it’s also educational in that it contains a message of tolerance, acceptance, and coexistence,” Ayoubi said, adding that this is especially important in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war.
Promotional materials call Ben, the American, “energetic, but self-centered and needs-to win competitive,” while Jordanian Izzy is “studious but a little too serious, superior, even devious.”
The materials state that although they have different points of view, Ben and Izzy soon learn “that as a team, they can outsmart almost anyone.”
Tolerance? Hardly. Just like Queen Rania is intentionally being hoisted out as a lure on a hook to dazzle Westerners, this cartoon is a way for the Muslim world to further weedle its way into our mainstream life in the United States. Then, when they’ve got our full attention, the message will change. The show will ramp it up from entertainment value first and move into the realm of dhimmifying our young people. A perfect weapon in this war, to dull the brains of our next generation of leaders so that they can hate Western America even more and prop up the “glory” of the Muslim world. But it will be subtle, ever so subtle.
There are millions of dollars behind this production and some of the supporters are Palestinians. That’s right, that little nation without a border that has Hamas as its new ruling class.
And sadly, the show is being helped along by some American creative talents.
Queen Rania states that this is about finding what’s “best” for both East and West. Well, I’m going to tell you. What’s best is for this show to never see airtime in the United States. What’s best is for every attempt by Muslims to spread this cult even more, to be stopped dead in its tracks. But, even if this show gets airtime, you as parents still have some control. I hope you lock it out. I hope you condemn it and I hope you refuse to support any of its sponsors.
There is no need for the Muslim world to preach tolerance to the United States and the West. What insanity! It is the Muslim world that needs to learn tolerance! And history! And the Constitution and the Bill of Rights while they are at it. It is the Muslim world that lives immersed in the worst of lies and now they want to spread this taint by using our own television sets to poison the minds of our children!
This goes too far, I say. While butchers kill U.S. men and women in uniform because they will NEVER allow peace while an infidel walks the planet Earth, nevermind that we are in Iraq now — that didn’t stop 9/11, did it? No, there can be no peace with this evil. It disgusts me. Everyday I have to read more and more vileness coming from it, more and more bad news, and this just takes the cake.
Like sugary syrup this cartoon is being brought out to us and we are supposed to lap it up gleefully and smile and accept the pat on the head and watch. “Now, just sit back like good little Dhimmis and learn why the Muslim culture is superior to yours. Accept Islam and go to Paradise. It’s all so simple. Just look around at your European America — you are villains. You should not be proud of yourselves. It has taken a Muslim collective of creators to finally bring you wisdom in the form of a cartoon. See? Your children LOVE it! They understand that there is nothing to fear from Islam.”
Islam: coming soon to a TV in your house. I wonder if it will air before or after the After School Special?
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Nice post right on the button!