We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kids’ Book of Freedom
September 1st, 2011Come on kids, let’s go for a ride on the triceratops and then we’ll go buy us some frozen pizzas at CostCo. Later on, if yer’ real good, you’ll get to hear the one about how the Navy SEALs killed Bin Laden again.
Gee, thanks, Dad!
Via: Guardian:
A colouring book about the events of 9/11, complete with pictures of the burning twin towers and the execution of a cowering Osama bin Laden for children to fill in, has provoked outrage among American Muslims.
We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kids’ Book of Freedom has just been released by the Missouri-based publisher Really Big Coloring Books, which says it is “designed to be a tool that parents can use to help teach children about the facts surrounding 9/11”. Showing scenes from 9/11 for children to colour in and telling the story of the attacks and the subsequent hunt for Osama bin Laden, “the book was created with honesty, integrity, reverence, respect and does not shy away from the truth”, according to its publisher, which says that it has sold out of its first print run of 10,000 copies.
One page of the $6.99 book, which has been given a PG rating, shows Bin Laden hiding behind a hijab-wearing woman as he is shot by a Navy SEAL. “Being the elusive character that he was, and after hiding out with his terrorist buddies in Pakistan and Afghanistan, American soldiers finally locate the terrorist leader Osama bin Laden,” runs the text accompanying the picture. “Children, the truth is, these terrorist acts were done by freedom-hating radical Islamic Muslim extremists. These crazy people hate the American way of life because we are FREE and our society is FREE.”
As has long since been proven, no to mention self-evident, the most effective to program minds is when they are still most malleable. Young and formative.
So, what shall we call this latest insult to our collective human intelligence?
Covert Crayon Conditioning?
really? “islamic muslim??” and they’re “radical extremists” too.
[insert blasphemous expletive]
Ten years later and still many unanswered questions relating to the facts from witnesses and cell phone camera evidence.
By further reinforcing “their” story in childrens books, future generations will believe what they read are the true facts – but we know better.
We can only hope that true accounts from many experts available on the Internet are not erased in the facsist future we see unfolding before us.
Learn to hate the enemy. Looks like we intend to be at war with the Arab world for at least another generation. Wasn’t it Rumsfeld or one of those Neocons who said we’d be in the Middle East for a hundred years?
I remember when HAMAS had a Mickey Mouse type character on a kid’s show talking about Jihad, and the Anglo world was up in arms. How is this any different? Or when Bugs Bunny used to gun down goofy talking, buck-toothed caricatures of Japanese people?