{"id":4527,"date":"2008-09-23T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2008-09-23T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T06:22:00","slug":"watch-out-mickey-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/watch-out-mickey-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Out, Mickey Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the WTF news of the week<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Sheikh Muhammad Munajid claimed the mouse is “one of Satan’s soldiers” and makes everything it touches impure.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To kill a cartoon mouse, of course, you have to be a cartoon yourself. Is Mr Munajid the man for the job?<\/p>\n

(Link via separate emails from Prabhu<\/a>, Shyam and Vivek<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the WTF news of the week<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Sheikh Muhammad Munajid claimed the mouse is “one of Satan’s soldiers” and makes everything it touches impure.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

According to a translation prepared by the Middle East Media Research Institute, an American press monitoring service, he said: “The mouse is one of Satan’s soldiers and is steered by him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To kill a cartoon mouse, of course, you have to be a cartoon yourself. Is Mr Munajid the man for the job?<\/p>\n

(Link via separate emails from Prabhu<\/a>, Shyam and Vivek.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nWatch Out, Mickey Mouse - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/watch-out-mickey-mouse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watch Out, Mickey Mouse - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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. 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