Mickey Must Die!
While Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert remain favorites, I have a problem with them. They are too intelligent. When one is looking for dumb stuff, you know the kind that is sensitive to the needs of the Lowest Common Denominator, it is far more rewarding to turn to self-proclaimed Religious custodians. My favorite has been televangelist Pat Robertson who among other things had this to say about the feminist movement:
(T)he feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Nice going there preacher but I think I've found a strong contender. The Saudi cleric Sheikh Muhammad Al-Munajid had this to say about women in Olympics:
How come modern sports - especially women's sports - involve the exposure of private parts? It is well known that the Olympics - both in the past and the upcoming games... the world's worst display of women's clothing is the women's Olympics. No exposure of women's private parts on a global scale could make Satan happier than Olympic games that include women's sports.
Wrestling involves the exposure of women's private parts. Even the promotion of the competitions is done by scantily clad women. This is done at the beginning of the match, in the middle, and at the end, or so I hear... the matches are promoted by half-naked women.
What possible grudge do these guys have against women? Okay so women have been systematically biased against by all male chauvinistic societies and these guys are only extreme versions of that bias. But what does the good Sheikh Muhammad Al-Munajid have against poor Mickey Mouse? We all grew up with Mickey and even though he's caged under Disney's copyright laws we still love him. This strange, fully clad man wants Mickey to die because he is a mouse and under Sharia's Islamic interpretation, mice and vermin must be killed!
This obviously hurt the feelings of many kids and adults across the world and soon Sheikh Al-Munajid became a feared name in the West. In what can only be described as a foot in mouth disease, he came back on TV trying to pacify his worldwide audience. His explanation which is far more ridiculous than the original call to kill Mickey is best left for him to say in his own words.
And I thought I'd seen it all with the UFO on India TV.
