Noted on the AP wire, via Forbes this morning: [1]
JERUSALEM – An animal rights group on Wednesday criticized a program on a Hamas-run television station in which a man swings cats by their tails and throws stones at lions in a zoo to teach children not to abuse animals.
The segment on the children’s program “Tomorrow’s Pioneers” features one of the show’s characters, a man in a bee costume named Nahoul. It’s followed by a warning from the show’s young host that children should not imitate Nahoul’s behavior.
“They say this is supposed to be educational on how not to treat animals, but it is common knowledge that children will mimic the behavior they see,” said Martin Mersereau, spokesman for Norfolk, Va.-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
The station, Al-Aqsa TV, issued no immediate public statement on the criticism.
They are probably still laughing yet, is what the whole thing is. And yes, I know that the sphere has been all over this one, previously. What they haven’t been all over is the reaction of PETA…. the fools hadn’t opened their mouths, yet.
That Hamas has been abusing humans for years, apparently doesn’t bother PETA at all. IN PETA’s view where they cross the line is when they start abusing animals.
Priorities. They tell us quite a bit about the mentality of the people were dealing with.