23 September, 2008

Watch Out, Mickey Mouse

Here’s the WTF news of the week:

Sheikh Muhammad Munajid claimed the mouse is “one of Satan’s soldiers” and makes everything it touches impure.

But he warned that depictions of the creature in cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, and Disney’s Mickey Mouse, had taught children that it was in fact loveable.

The cleric, a former diplomat at the Saudi embassy in Washington DC, said that under Sharia, both household mice and their cartoon counterparts must be killed.

To kill a cartoon mouse, of course, you have to be a cartoon yourself. Is Mr Munajid the man for the job?

(Link via separate emails from Prabhu, Shyam and Vivek.)