This could work out in our favor

[nativetexan]

I highly encourage PETA to publicly criticize this..

PETA Critiques Hamas TV for Animal Abuse


IAN DEITCH Associated Press Writer (AP) - 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.
The sketch drew PETA's attention after it was picked up by Palestinian Media Watch, an Israeli watchdog group that monitors Palestinian media outlets for bias against Israel, and posted on YouTube.
Mersereau said animal abuse should not be ignored even in places where violence against humans is common. Israeli troops regularly clash in Gaza with Palestinian militants who fire rockets at Israeli towns. Six Palestinians, four of them armed militants, were killed in fighting on Tuesday.
"Teaching people to respect the most defenseless of animals helps people respect each other," Mersereau said.
The Hamas children's show has been criticized in the past. Until June, it featured a character in a Mickey Mouse suit named Farfour, who preached against Israel and the U.S. until an episode portrayed him being beaten to death by an actor playing an Israeli agent.
The character drew condemnations from Israel and from Walt Disney.
Hamas, an Islamic group with close ties to Iran, has ruled the Gaza Strip since June, when the group's militants defeated the rival Fatah movement in five days of fighting.

[nativetexan]

whoops. i meant to post this in "politics"

[markyj987]

Since all PETA cares about is "animal rights," I guess this is not surprising. However, it is another display of their warped sense of reality and what truly is important. It goes along the lines of how they picket and protest and call for stiff prison sentences for someone that abuses an animal---though this may be right, they don't care about the child that's abused--or the woman that's raped by some thug.

Perhaps that's an unfair criticism because, I suppose, it wouldn't be fair to criticize the NRA for not protesting lead paint...lol. Then again, I never claimed to be fair--only to be right.

[wtnhunt]

Really honestly have to say that nothing with peta surprises me anymore. Pretty well seems that ignorance is a pattern that is followed from the top down.

[buckee]

The blind leading the blind